Black holes, from another Universe, detected

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Struggling to bring credibility to the UFO phenomenon

Time/Life Books’ Mysteries of the Unknown: Inside the World of the Strange and Unexplained has…

on page 256 two accounts of early (ancient) UFO reports, one from Titus Livius Patavinus [the Romann historian Livy] who wrote in his Books From the Foundation of the City that in 214 B.C. “Phantom ships had been seen gleaming in the sky” and another from Plutarch [the Greek historian] who wrote “of the sky bursting and a ‘flame-like body’ falling as a Roman army was preparing to engage in battle. The object [was] the color of molten silver and witnessed by the Romans and their enemies.”

Here are two skeletal reports by eminent (as scholars would have it) historians of the past.

They are paltry but what academics might find while perusing the works of Livy or Plutarch, and both hardly enticing for further thought or study.

But this is where academicians could be introduced to the UFO phenomenon, the same reports ignored in the sensationalized Time/Life oeuvre or recounted in a book by a UFO advocate, even one as respected as Jacques Vallee or J. Allen Hynek.

The mention of two strange craft by notable historians, whose other writings are cherished by scholars, albeit with academic caution, should grab the attention of anyone with a modicum of curiosity, even if they prefer to write off Plutarch’s “molten silver object” as a bizarre fixture of nature or Livy’s “phantom ships” as a kind of mirage.

But this doesn’t seem to happen.

As I noted in a private message to Kevin Randle, my academic pals, in a group that uses another blog of mine and social media, just hate that I keep mentioning Roswell, even as a scold for the UFO community.

They also disdain UFOs generally and the ETH particularly.

And when I show them references to UFOs or odd things seen in the skies, from credible sources, they pooh-pooh the accounts as piffle or botched observations.

Even when I showed them the two items from the Time/Life book, they, all of them, discounted the notices because they appear in a Time/Life book.

So, it’s tough to get a valid, academic discussion going about UFOs, and thus we who want to look at he phenomenon seriously are saddled with what passes for insight and creative intellectual pursuit of the topic by the proletarian mass that makes up the UFO community.

This isn’t an insult; it’s the reality.

RR