Abject Researchability
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I’d like to read more from a few here and I’d like to see a
real effort to confront ideas from others, like Nick and José, and anyone else
who’d like to insert a thoughtful offering but don’t want the aggravation of
setting up a blog or web-site in order to get their occasional views out into
the public arena.
Despite the mild slur that Malcolm Robinson, the author of The Dechmont Woods UFO Incident (about the 1979 Robert
Taylor event), is a bad writer, I have to laud Mr. Robinson for his extensive
research of the case right after it happened and up to now.
Mr. Robinson is, what I’d call, a true UFO researcher,
despite his overuse of Wikipedia and the internet. His unraveling of details
and the alleged “attack” upon Mr. Taylor is exemplary, and includes a long-time
relationship with Mr. Taylor right up to Mr. Taylor’s death in 2007.
Other true UFO researchers, I know, include Kevin Randle,
Nick Redfern, Erica Lukes, José Caravaca, and many others, too many to name,
but among the visitors here, except for those named, few can be said to be
“researchers.”
Looking up a few items, on the internet, now and then is not
research. And providing links to Wikipedia to make arguments is flippant
didacticism, not research.
Doing true research is laborious, and often ignored, mostly
because UFO buffs regularly look for the quick fix, the easy way into and out
of UFO explanations and speculations.
That’s what I see in comments here and at other blogs and
web-sites.
Trying to research the Nedelcovic offerings of the Vilas
Boas and Scoriton cases were labor-intensive for me, in the pre-computer era.
If it weren’t for Lucius Farish’s help and encouragement I couldn’t have
mustered the small effort I expended to see how accurate (or not) Nedelcovic’s
assertions were.
After that effort was eschewed by ufologist, except for Nick
Redfern, I gave up pursuing, even after information was readily available via
the web, UFO items seriously, providing mealy material throughout the
RRRGroup’s blogging and internet milieux.
This slovenly approach has satisfied a few UFO mavens and
turned off many others, even those who don’t appreciate true UFO research
itself.
Thus, here, I can count on commentary that is, more often
than not, more slipshod than anything I write, information off-topic or outside
he realm of anything proffered from me or such serious personages as Nick
Redfern and José Caravaca.
Kevin Randle’s splendid recasting of UFO material is also
slummed by his followers who prefer to be sycophantic than edified or
enlightening when they comment at his blog.
This is true of other UFO researchers, whose efforts are
slighted when they provide interesting UFO material or academic renderings
about UFOs or the paranormal; Bryan Sentes’ Skunkworks blog or Eric Wargo’s
nightshirt web-site are examples.
What’s interesting is how the Facebook UFO crowd gets much
feedback at the social media venue.
Of course the feedback is usually and
mostly puerile but it satisfies UFOers there.
In the Robinson book about the Robert Taylor affair one will
see serious investigation of that incident, by true researchers, even those who
offer inane explanations.
2020 could be good year to get serious about UFOs and end
the damn mystery’s intrusion into our lives.
RR
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Saturday, January 04, 2020
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