Joseph Burkes MD 2018
It is curious that Drs. Carl Sagan and Michio Kaku were champions in the anti-nuclear weapons struggle during the Cold War and were also outspoken on the topic of UFOs. As an activist during the 1980s in Nobel Prize winning “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War”, I very much appreciated their contributions to the cause of nuclear disarmament. Both Dr. Sagan and Dr. Kaku, thanks to generous media coverage, became sort of unofficial spokesmen for professional science. Unfortunately, Dr. Sagan in my opinion refused to fairly look at UFO data while at the same time popularized the slogan “Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.”
The correct pronouncement in my view should be, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary investigations!” Dr. Kaku has indeed called for such investigations but has never organized one that I am aware of. The Sagan quote in the mime below is somewhat ironic. This is because of his refusal to fairly evaluate UAP evidence while simultaneously posing as an honest skeptic. Thus, the above meme should be applied to his errors and to those of all professional science for that matter. They are “believers” because they continue to deny evidence for the reality and importance of flying saucers.
Without the support of academic science, UFO enthusiasts with extremely limited means have organized their own inquiries into this mystery. The scientific method, however, may not be the best vehicle for investigating flying saucers. In hard science, the focus is on objective phenomenon that can be studied in a controlled setting where detailed observations are made. The advanced intelligences associated with the saucers clearly don’t fall into the “objective” category.
As in the Skinwalker Ranch investigation sponsored by Robert Bigelow, “they”, whoever they may turn out to be, were able to defeat almost every attempt to study them in a controlled setting. Nevertheless, for reasons that we can only guess at, the phenomenon repeatedly stages multiple witnessed encounters for a variety of contactee groups such as the Peruvian based Rahma network and others that facilitate HICE, Human Initiated Contact Events (aka CE-5s). In my judgment, the response of the Executive Branch of the US government has been to mount a massive long-standing counterintelligence operation aimed at both the intelligences responsible for the phenomenon, contact experiencers and flying saucer researchers. Such operations have likely had only limited success. This is because, according to noted UFO researcher Dr. Jacques Vallee the mysterious agents responsible for the phenomenon appear to be able to “manipulate spacetime.”
In a fashion similar to counterintelligence operations of governments, UFO investigators out of necessity are employing methods that are more akin to police investigations than a hard-scientific approach. If the drip, drip, drip series of leaks about UFOs from the military-intelligence-industrial complex continue, over time they will constitute a kind of “confirmation” of the reality of UFOs. Billionaire aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow has opined that confirmation is all that is required at this time, and some kind of official disclosure can occur later in the future. I can only try to imagine what will be emotional impact of such disclosures on a scientific establishment that for generations has been in a state of denial about “wonders in the sky.”
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