UFO Conjectures

Friday, February 14, 2020

Sapiens: A necessary read for everyone, ufologists, academics, and hoo-hahs

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A rather adulatory profile by Ian Parker about Yuval Noah Harari, who wrote the spec- tacular best seller Sapiens, appears in the February 17/24, 2020 issue of The New Yor- ker: The Really Big Picture [Page 48 ff.]

The article took me to my copy of Harari’s book and Ian Par- ker’s article clarified for me many issues in the observa- tions about the Aboriginal culture/society that almost brought Bryan Sentes and me to discussive blows on Face- book.

I won’t go into the details; they are rancid, but I will allow that you might look at the Parker account online at newyorker.com or re-read your copy of Sapiens, if you have it.

Both will put our common reality in perspective, without disrupting your neurological synapses, and will enlighten your thinking about UFOs, life, and everything else that seems to matter.

I’ll be inserting some excerpted material as we go along here, just to make sure that you understand the value of what Harari and Parker proffer.

RR

Popular Mechanics: Inside the Pentagon's Secret UFO Program

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a30916275/
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UFOs: Hunkering down into irrelevancy or oblivion

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My (often) pal, academic Bryan Sentes and I had a “heated” dis- cussion on Facebook yesterday [2/13/20].

I exasperate him with my cock-eyed views, but I still contend that he likes to zero in on one aspect of a matter and hope to clarify the whole matter by milking that one angle, which is often esoteric to the point of irrelevancy. (I won’t elaborate.)

This is how it is in the UFO world.

Some UFO fanatics have a favorite UFO sighting or event and that one incident often consumes them to the point where their interest in the phenomenon becomes irrelevant; they are so absorbed by their pet sighting, they miss the forest for the trees.
Why Nick Redfern is so popular is that he takes into account every- thing that he finds pertinent to the UFO mystery, and I mean everything.

Kevin Randle is doing the same, now that Roswell has released its hold on him.

Socorro held me in its grasp but I think I’ve pretty much moved on to other UFO matters, even to where I’m throwing everything into the UFO soup.

One former visitor here extolled common sense when dealing with UFOs, but where does that take us? That’s the lazy person’s out. It releases them from really thinking about the enigma seriously.
Usurping time to review, over and over again, the so-called “alien autopsy” or Rendlesham’s AF prank on Brits or Kecksburg’s fallen satellite is folly but some UFO buffs, who should know better, don’t understand their obsession(s).

In Bryan Sentes mind, a small matter does matter, and in UFO research a small matter (or detail) may provide that essential clue that resolves the mystery.

Rosewell has been milked dry, but we all know that. Arnold’s 1947 flying saucer sighting is as dry as a cactus weed but still draws commentary, some here even by Dr.Dee who’s trying to get my pal José Caravaca to alter his interesting Distortion Theory because of it.
Erica Lukes is absorbed by Skinwalker Ranch and Robert Bigelow, but that scrutiny has merit. Something’s going on there.

Chris O’Brien and his “research team” are checking out UFOs over Colorado with equipment to determine their essence I think. That has merit too, but Colorado? Where marijuana is now legal, and I suppose things flying above have become common to potheads. Fortunately Chris knows how to separate the wheat from the toke.
Curt Collins ferrets out relevant issues from past and current UFO events but he’s one of the few who does that successfully. Others I know just keep spitting out the same old, same old canards and “information” that we all know better than our spouses Valentine’s desires.

There comes a time to fish or cut bait, but that only for the UFO sideliners.

Those mentioned here, and a few not, should keep at it. The UFO phenomenon is worth the effort.

(And I’ll try to provide something I think is relevant. My book publisher wants a book, but I’m too old and too tired to come up with one, but I’ll offer, upcoming, something almost unique that will stir some of the UFO masses to commentary or vomit; either way, stand by.)

RR