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Topic: Ufologists

	Mutual UFO Network
		Ufologists are busy collecting data associated with anomalous events, interfacing with research institutions and government agencies, dealing with the most varied populations of humans possible, lacking sufficient funding and support, and usually doing this as an unpaid second job.
		All this is very frustrating to the ufologists that conduct extensive investigations, record every little detail of a UFO incident, assemble statistics, maintain vast databases, and probably most of all, respect the good and honest witnesses who report their UFO incidents.
		At the same time these ufologists are unable to tap into any of this technology while investigating UFO cases and so they must be content with eyewitness testimony, trace effects, photographs and videotapes as their documentation of UFO events.
	www.mufon.com /znews_stress.html (4754 words)

	Exo-Comment
		The methodologies used by 'Ufologists' in general has been to rigorously use their professional training to work through UFO reports, photographic evidence, FOIA documents, witness testimonies, archival records, etc., to reach some agreement as to what can be known with reasonable certainty regarding UFO related evidence and the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH).
		Ufologists view their research as consistent with natural scientific standards which they aggressively defend against the skepticism and dismissive attitudes thrown towards them by the scientific community in general.
		Ufologists would instead focus on the credentials and empirical evidence that can be validated which in the case of controversial whistleblowers is often not possible.
	www.exopolitics.org /Exo-Comment-24.htm (1642 words)

	The Bible UFO Connection - UFOs and the Media - Six Unexplained Encounters
		Asked to pick the most credible UFO photos ever taken, ufologists select the simple fl-and-white snapshots taken by Paul Trent, a farmer in McMinnville, Ore. The photos allegedly confirm a sighting that occurred on May 11, 1950, when an inverted pieplate flying machine was seen by Trent, his father-in-law and his wife.
		The photo caused a stir among ufologists because it resembled a UFO reported by pilots during their landing approach to the Teheran airport earlier in the year.
		When ufologists and skeptics can't find strings, shadows or signs that a UFO photo is faked, they question the credibility of the photographer and witnesses.
	www.bibleufo.com /media98.htm (2574 words)

	The Truth About UFOlogy and Debunking
		UFOlogists should be the first to debunk a UFO case and accept it.
		When these solutions are discovered/proposed, we discover that UFOlogists will not be willing to accept them because it rocks the boat in their compilation of unexplained cases.
		Jerry may be correct in that UFOlogists do the best debunking but when it comes to a classic case (and in many minor cases) it does not "stay debunked".
	members.aol.com /tprinty/debunk.html (1862 words)

	"The Failure of the 'Science' of UFOlogy" by James Oberg
		Ufologists assert the existence of some extraordinary stimulus behind a small fraction of the tens of thousands of UFO reports on fil e.
		The burden of proof, which customarily lies with the claimants of supernormality (or, in a criminal trial, of the guilt of the accused, who is "innocent until proven guilty"), has been shifted to the skeptics, who are in the case of UFOs required to disprove the eviden ce.
		Perhaps self-styled ufologists will establish truly scientific standards of evidence, will accept the burden of proof, will produce "falsifiable" theories, and will seek to formulate their science on positive rather than negative logic.
	www.debunker.com /texts/ObergCuttySark.html (2502 words)

	The Lure of the Edge: CHAPTER THREE
		Ufologists with scientific backgrounds such as Hynek, Vallee, James McDonald, and others would gladly have complied but for the fact that they were almost always denied the opportunity to publish in refereed journals because their subject matter was considered to lie outside the realm of legitimate science.
		Some ufologists tried valiantly to shift the scientific debate away from the ETH and focus it simply on the question of whether there were anomalous aerial objects that could be usefully studied by science.
		He suggested that ufologists harness that interest by promoting grassroots lobbying efforts in government and by generating more truly scholarly articles for publication in professional journals, by which scientists' interest could be piqued through "'evidence of evidence,' credibly, soberly presented" (15).
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9018/9018.ch03.html (17130 words)

	Anomalous ground holes appear in the Russian province - PRAVDA.Ru
		Ufologists also proposed the ground hole appeared as a result of a rare inexplicable natural phenomenon.
		Ufologists tried to find the pit, but they could not find the mysterious pit - numerous trees and bushes have grown in the field.
		These holes, ufologists believe, are of the terrestrial origin, although it is hard to explain why the walls of the pits are perfectly smooth and even.
	english.pravda.ru /science/19/94/378/13614_aliens.html (822 words)

	The failure of the 'science' of ufology, by James Oberg - UFO Evidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ufologists regale themselves with anecdotes about Galileo, Giordano Bruno, Louis Pasteur and Charles Darwin, and often appear to contend that contemporary rejection of ·ufology is practically a canonization of their field as a future science.
		Ufologists assert the existence of some extraordinary stimulus behind a small fraction of the tens of thousands of UFO reports on file.
		The burden of proof, which customarily lies with the claimants of supernormality (or, in a criminal trial, of the guilt of the accused, who is "innocent until proven guilty"), has been shifted to the skeptics, who are in the case of UFOs required to disprove the evidence.
	www.ufoevidence.org /documents/doc1019.htm (2988 words)

	UFO Area The Varginha Extraterrestrial Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But before such an event, the ufologists working there intend to finish their investigation which lasts 4 months already and which points at the army as the party responsible for the CAPTURING AND HIDING of at least 1 of the 2 aliens who are supposed to have been seen in Varginha.
		The ufologists insist that an alien would have been captured by 4 firemen at 10:30 a.m., on January 20th near a wood which is located a few meters from the place where the girls would have seen their ET and about 5 hours before Liliane, Valquiria and Katia had the fright of their lives.
		However, ufologists all over the world have come to the consensus that there is a widespread tendency for countries where these events take place to hide them from the public.
	www.ufoarea.com /crashes_varginha.html (2140 words)

	UFOs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For whatever reasons, UFOlogists have grouped together elements of the tradional UFO phonomena with those of government conspiracies, abduction, and even cattle mutilation.
		The UFOlogists, of course, assume that the data has something to do with a great romantic cover up, and chose to ignore the obvious mentions of "sources and methods".
		NSA was not trying to keep the UFOlogist out of "the know", in fact it seems quite to the contrary.
	members.macconnect.com /users/q/quellish/ufoz/UFOz.html (545 words)

	RRRGroup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This means specialization by ufologists, a group without credentialed specialists I’m afraid, and because of that has caused the UFO enigma to go undefined since they first appeared, even into the technological age in which we find ourselves.
		Sure, some ufologists have taken UFOs to heart, making a career or life-altering commitment to the things, but that is neurotic; not an escape from reality but an escape into a reality – one that is evanescent but real to those so inclined to believe.
		And ufologists endlessly debate minutiae that ahs nothing to do with the UFO phenomenon’s essence, as is shown by the ongoing colloquy between James Smith and Lan Fleming inside UFO UpDates, about a shuttle flash that each man is trying to prove or disprove as a UFO.
	rrrgroup.blogspot.com (10126 words)

	UFOs Are not Something to Be Joked of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A wall of distrust was built between on the one side ufologists and on the other side the »established society«.
		And that there are official institutions who will not talk to Ufologists at all (and that was the reason that the matter was taken from the agenda in the EU).
		Through this mistrust and prejudices against “the established's” views and opinions Ufologists themselves have had their part in creating a gap, which has held the two sides apart.
	www.sufoi.dk /artik-sn/new14-01.htm (575 words)

	re: unidentified flying objects
		It is a testament to American ufologists' determination and stubbornness that the same cases, for the most part, are rehashed year in and year out.
		For all the disagreements regarding methodology, approach, knowledge, and content, one underlying fact remains the same: UFOs exist, in one form or another, and every ufologist, whether she considers herself a conventional document researcher, an exopolitician, or a proponent of cosmic consciousness, is seeking a similar fundamental truth: the nature of UFO existence.
		If ufologists can begin to challenge the ingrained impressions and assumptions of people today, especially young people, then at least some of those people will re-align their intellectual priorities to include ufology as a viable research project.
	ofsaucers.blogspot.com (4640 words)

	UFO Hoaxes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		UFOlogists often rely on the excuse that the Trent's were not smart enough or had no reason to produce such a hoax.
		The Canadian UFOlogists were amazed at how Oechsler seemed to know his way around and then managed to find the location of the video shoot while they decided to go to a restaurant to get a bite to eat.
		In March of 2002, UFOlogist Jim Hickman received a digital photograph of what appeared to be a triangular formation of lights with a bright red UFO nearby.
	members.aol.com /timprinty/myhomepage/hoax.html (10763 words)

	Varginha, Brazil ET Experience (More Details)
		But, the consensus among ufologists of all over the planet that there's clearly a world process of cover up and disinformation about facts of that type, being known the incontestable evidences of such a procedure, whose reasons are obvious and inumerous.
		After six months of research, being that the Varginha Case is still under research, the ufologist got 15 important testimonies taped in audio and video, and seven being of civilians and eight from military people who reported many details and the several steps of the facts that occured in Varginha.
		Brazilian military secretly, informed the ufologists that the north american military were tracking these objects through satellites and informed the Brazilian Government of the great UFO concentration in the South of Minas Gerais.
	home.pacbell.net /joerit/docs2/brazil/varginha.htm (6378 words)

	UFOs (unidentified flying objects)
		Another common tactic of UFOlogists is to claim that the skeptic cannot prove that what was seen was not an alien craft.
		Many UFOlogists think that if eyewitnesses such as Whitley Strieber, Betty and Barney Hill, or other alleged alien abductees are not insane or evil, then they cannot be deluded and are to be trusted with giving accurate accounts of alien abduction.
		However, there is no evidence for this other than a general distrust of the government and the fact that many government officials have lied, distorted the truth and been mistaken when reporting to the general public.
	skepdic.com /ufos_ets.html (1667 words)

	Published Report on the Varginha Case - IstoE Magazine, Brazil
		Ufologist for more then two decades, he estimates that only 1% of the descriptions of sightings of space ships are true.
		The ufologists support that one creature would have been captured by four men of the Fire brigade of Varginha at 10h30 of 20th of January, in the neighbourhood of a wood, only three blocks away from the empty plot of land in which the girls would have seen an alien only five hours later.
		Put in a wooden box covered by a white fabric, the ET, say the ufologists, was immediately taken by a military truck to the Escola de Sargento das Armas (ESA), to the town of Tres Coracoes, 25 kilometers away from Varginha.
	www.v-j-enterprises.com /varginh2.html (1992 words)

	DRAFT C U F O N Standards and Code of Conduct
		UFOlogists should acknowledge that honest error is a natural part of life, that it is not unethical to be honestly wrong.
		Each UFOlogist, as member of the "UFO community," shares responsibility for the welfare of that community because conduct reflects not only on the reputations of individual UFOlogists and their organizations, but also on the image and credibility of UFOlogy as perceived by colleagues, the scientific establishment and the public.
		UFOlogists should, to the best of their ability, make certain of the nature and degree of confidentiality desired or required before interviews or other information gathering begins.
	www.cufon.org /standards/draftcode.htm (2335 words)

	Stress Management For Ufologists
		Debunkers: I have heard it said that the most frustrating and least useful aspect of ufology is the machinations of the debunkers.
		Employers/employment: In the dark ages of ufology, some thirty to forty years ago, ufologists were afraid to tell their employers about their interest in the subject for fear of retribution or loss of employment.
		Government Cover-up: A 1997 public opinion poll showed that 82% of Americans believe the government is hiding evidence of intelligent life in space and a 1996 poll showed that 49% of Americans believe the government is concealing UFO information.
	www.rense.com /general/stress.htm (4764 words)

	Ufologists, those who believe in Ufos
		One of the faults with this argument should be placed firmly on the shoulders of academia, for failing, abysmally in my opinion, to explain the intricacies of this very profound war of words.
		Ufologist in the past, have been led to believe, the only reason science does not believe their account of ufology, is because no tangible evidence exists.
		Therefore a much more honest expression is delivered, not that many people listen when it is. The amount of ufologists, those who believe in ufos, who have read work of universal theorem, is limited: And it does you credit in reading this.
	members.madasafish.com /~newtheories/Beyond_Light_Speed_1.html (700 words)

	ufo - UFOS at close sight: UFOs in the Press, Popular Mechanics article
		I, along with several ufologists and scientists, also do not share all the ideas presented in the article (the Washington sightings of 1952 are not explainable in terms of "temperature inversion.") Neverthless, this mainstream magazine article is a document of interest in UFO litterature.
		On August 13, 1956, British radar had picked up blips similar to a jet aircraft's—only it was moving at speeds up to 9000 mph.
		Ufologists sometimes say skeptics are people who haven't had a "close encounter." Josef Allen Hynek, who coined the phrase "close encounter," might agree.
	ufologie.net /htm/the603.htm (1703 words)

	Survey of Ufologists and their Beliefs
		In order to learn what beliefs UFOlogists hold about paranormal phenomena--particularly parapsychological phenomena--and to determine whether a relationship exists between witnessing UFO events and belief in psychic abilities, I conducted a small survey of attendees of the 1983 MUFON Symposium, held in Pasadena, California.
		If we assume that the sample of UFOlogists is truely representative of a larger population, than we can disregard for the moment the inappropriateness of applying statistical tests to the results of a "convenience" sample.
		The results on whether UFOlogists who report having seen a UFO differ in their beliefs from UFOlogists who have never had a UFO sighting are not definitive.
	j_kidd.tripod.com /b/14.html (1518 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When challenged recently by UFOlogist Antonio Huneeus, Azhazha made a candid admission: "When I gave the lecture, I was a teenager in UFOlogy and was intoxicated by the E.T. hypothesis and did not recognize anything else.
		A fabricated "radio conversation" in which the astronauts exclaim surprise at seeing alien spaceships in a crater near their landing site later appeared in another tabloid; it was patently bogus, too, based on grossly misused space jargon.
		The more serious Western UFOlogists, for instance, are particularly embarrassed by their colleagues' naive, unbounded enthusiasm for the 1967 "crescents" and the subsequent so-called Gindilis Report, with Soviet thermonuclear weapons tests masquerading as true UFOs.
	www.qtm.net /~geibdan/soviet_s.txt (2666 words)

	FarShores UFO News Story: Brazilian Ufologists Record Intense UFO Activity In State Of Pernambuco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He told Dulce and the Ufologist that he saw a thing similar to a plate go down on a rock in the Serra da Rosa.
		For the Ufologist, the rupestres[?] of the 13 paredões rocky paintings of the city do not escape examination.
		At the place known as Pedra da Lua [Rock of the Moon] portrays a being similar to a man with slightly bent arms and a body that appears as if it is being floated.
	www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/ufobraz.htm (761 words)

	Russian UFOlogists Targeted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Russian information agency "Novosti" has reported that UFOlogists have been threatened by telephone, by huge numbers of defamatory leaflets, and by offensive graffiti tagged on their homes and office buildings.
		In October 1995, scientist and UFOlogist A. Zolotov was murdered in Tver.
		Viktor Petrovich Kostrikin, a UFOlogist well-known in Russia and abroad, was savagely beaten and his apartment on Bogdan Khmelnitsky Avenue was ransacked.
	www.parascope.com /nb/russnufo.htm (496 words)

	salute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There are about three hundred active ufologists in Brazil, ranging from the youngest and least experienced to those with unbelievable numbers of thoroughly investigated cases.
		The diploma itself was signed by three of the country’s leading ufologists, Mário himself, Rafeal and Revista UFO editor A. Gevaerd.
		He sent the labels to as many ufologists as he could reach and included self-addressed, stamped envelopes along with a letter explaining what he was doing.
	www.bobpratt.org /salute.html (1782 words)

	This Island Earth Pt 1 - FT 134 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ufologists tend to think they are way ahead of the plodding astronomers in their thinking about extraterrestrial civilizations.
		Peter Brookesmith begins a three-part examination of the ufological belief in the existence of those alien worlds and finds that it is the ufologists who have not kept up to date with the latest discoveries.
		According to Swords, "The ETH is a natural concept to occur to anyone seriously looking at the UFO phenomenon." As one reads through his brief but influential essay, one realizes that by "a natural concept", Swords means that, as conclusions go, the ETH is an easy one to jump to.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/134_brooketh1.shtml (3929 words)

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