Ufology: Stuck in a Retro-Stasis

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Most of you reading this know that this blog and others are “reminiscing” about old UFO sightings, some obscure or unknown and, of course, the iconic sightings or events: Roswell, Levelland, Socorro, Rendlesham, et cetera.

I’ve mentioned this many times here: UFO buffs encased in nostalgia and the earlier sensational flying saucer era that is now all but a fond memory for UFO old-timers.

But the regression to Roswell and Socorro, et al. is a sop to the fact that flying saucers no longer exist and UFOs or UAP (or IAP) and the old UFO cases involve dysfunction of the dopamine system in the brain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excited_delirium

We UFO buffs, some of us, get enlivened by the flying saucer sightings of our youth or the sightings that spurred us to come to ufological writings in the first place.

For a few, those who pooh-pooh the constant regurgitation of the old, classic UFO cases, even they are energized by the onslaught of online and printed copy about the cases that make them sick.

The stimulus of peeve that old cases showing up all the time in UFO venues brings is a kind of reward, one that tells pooh-poohers that they are above the nonsense that engulfs the rest of us who remain regressed by sightings that no longer matter.

Old-timer CDA understands this and notes the irrelevancy of Roswell or Socorro, et cetera – sightings that keep being shredded here and at Kevin Randle’s blog, among others.

CDA insists that nothing of significance happened in 1947 and 1964 and if it did, someone would have spilled the beans by now, but since no one has, the sightings are blasé stories with little to keep them being flogged as they are.

But UFO buffs – some rational, some not – keep old cases on the ufological front-burner.

This is going on right now with the 1964 Socorro sighting by Police Officer Lonnie Zamora in his hometown and brought up by many in the UFO community when it is a case that should be put to rest, as CDA indicates. Why?

The Zamora observation proves nothing, and has no denouement in the offing.

Did Officer Zamora see an extraterrestrial craft? Or an exotic balloon that stymied his intellect and vison? Did he spot a military prototype that he nor no one would recognize in 1964? Or was Officer Zamora gulled by a college prank?

How can we prove any of these things? Are they worthy of being pursued, now in 2017, no matter which one turns out to be the explanation?

We are wasting our time and lives struggling to explain the 1964 observation. No matter which explanation may be true, and we are far from any explanation at all, how does it affect us and the UFO phenomenon (phenomena!) today?

It doesn’t affect us.

It is archaeological and that’s it. Interesting as a fossilized event, appropriate for UFO partisans of ufological history.

It’s time to move on, to other interests, such as what reality are we immersed in? Or what will we have for breakfast tomorrow morning?

RR