A 1960 UFO "event" recalled in 1978 (Provided by Paul Dean)

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A July 1961 UFO "landing"? (provided by Paul Dean)

Copyright 2018, Paul Dean

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The vast severity of ufology

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Are UFOs a serious issue? Were flying saucers (ever) a serious issue?

The questions are moot, arguable, surely.

But I think we all agree that some ufologists (UFO buffs) are serious, even overly serious when it comes to the UFO phenomenon.

In the flying saucer heyday, we who followed the stories – flying saucers weren’t a phenomenon yet – were giddy with excitement whenever a flying disk story showed up on or in the news.

And as the “things” migrated to those who grabbed them as a forward to fame or notoriety, thinking they had something that would guarantee them a place in the societal sun, the “things” became a phenomenon, too silly for science but just right for pseudo-science: ufology.

I discovered recently almost 2000 comments provided for this blog but missed by me as they didn’t come to me as a blog notifications from Google but, rather, were listed at the inner sanctum of the blog under the listing “awaiting moderation,” something I hadn’t ever heeded.

I was about to go back and approve the comments, knowing that their appearance for a posting a year or more too late was senseless.

However, I did note that almost all of the comments were festooned with a serious air, some belligerent, especially during the Roswell slides fiasco.

So, I deferred to my need to be somewhat au courant and have left the comments to wither in the bowels of this blog.

But, while scanning the missives, I noticed that the comments weren’t sassy or snarky just seriously severe in their import, the writers trying to appear pompously intelligent or righteously indignant.

Some were corrective of my spiels, some were outraged at other UFO enthusiasts, and some were just maddeningly incomprehensible.

Jump to today…

I’m finding a few UFO old-timers, long in the UFO tooth not necessarily old in age, showing up here and elsewhere, full of p*ss and vinegar as my ol’ man used to say.

This congregation of hoary ufologists are seething with frustration. They have no idea what UFOs are, although they’ve been trying to determine that for the best part of their lives, and they have not received the accolades that they thought a UFO theory or possible explanation might bring them.

Again, these are not just old people; it includes a raft of 50 year-old persons, a few seething with contempt at the attention some get, attention that eludes them, even though they’ve paid the ufological rent for a long time.

The enigmatic phenomenon (as it now is called by almost all UFO fanatics) remains out of reach, and any fame that it brought to the flying saucer avant garde is part of the UFO mythology.

No one will become famous today from asserting their UFO beliefs or theories, and UFO blustering is seen by sensible, sane persons as sociopathic.

Taking UFOs seriously is a mad addiction not unlike those adhered to and coveted in the past: astrology, séances, fairy lore, gods descending from the heavens, nazism, and a number of others than you can name better than I.

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