Ufology’s aristocracy…..there isn’t any!

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When you examine various cultural or societal groups, you’ll come across the crème de la crème within those groups, the best of the best – those who’ve achieved, by various estimations, accolades, honors, or recognition.

But look at the list of ufologists and UFO “notables” and there are none – none! – who may be seen as a part of an aristocracy, even one defined, haphazardly, by UFO enthusiasts and followers of the UFO phenomenon.

Every – and I mean every! – UFO practitioner, researcher, writer, advocate, et cetera is considered a kind of buffoon, no matter how seriously they practice their supposed discipline.

Even the usually prestigious Jacques Vallee is not considered the summum bonum of ufology by those involved with the UFO topic, as recent adverse acclimations about him indicate.

Now I respect a few UFO practitioners, as you know (Nick Redfern, Kevin Randle, Jose Caravaca, et al.) and past notables (Donald Keyhoe, Rich Hall, Lucius Farish, et al.) but even they (sorry, fellows) do not make an aristocracy. They are or have been great lights among the UFO communities they inhabit or inhabited, but they are not aristocrats in the real definition of the word and societal meaning.

It’s not just that the UFO topic is unworthy of a standing which would provide aristocratic ambiance – it may be – but it’s because the topic is flush with intemperate and buffoonish participants, and always has been.

And those mentioned and not mentioned have not been able to take ufology or UFOs into the realms that other activities have achieved: the arts (writing, music composition, painting, photography, et cetera), science, politics, religion, philosophy, et cetera).

By continuing to laud person of questionable achievement(s), and I use the term loosely here, such a John Keel, removes any chance of ufology or the UFO topic becoming respectable.

But even digging deeply into the iconic dredges of UFO lore leaves one barren of an aristocratic upper layer.

There are no participants who qualify for the sobriquet aristocratic.

And among today’s practitioners those qualifying are even less than endowable.

This isn’t shameful, just a realization that aristocracy is something above the norm and ufology hasn’t created anyone with the qualifications for the term.

RR