A "scientific" approach to UFO study; maybe, mybe not.

Preston Dennett posted this on one of the Facebook UFO sites -- UFO News. It offers the organization that Bryan Sentes and Bill Murphy insist I pay attention to, as it offers what I seem to be looking for: a credible, scientific approach to the UFO phenomenon.

I've inputted material from the group a few times here and applaud their effort(s) to assign rigorous, scientific attention to UFOs.

But that path has taken them not very far toward a UFO solution.

UFOs are, I keep stressing, a very special. unique mystery and getting at its essence or nature takes a "new think" approach to determine what they are.

The Travel Channel, Wednesday night [6/10/20] presented several runs of its UFO series, UFOs: The Lost Evidence, airing the Betty/Barney Hill account, the Pascagoula event, and the Rendlesham incidents.

Those UFO accounts lie outside scientific scrutiny, not paranormal in nature an activity that bespeaks something totally foreign to UFO researchers, no matter how scientific they think they are.

SCU can't help here. Philosophy neither, nor logic, as one wag suggests.

A new, brilliant approach is needed, one that eludes me but surely might be attempted by a UFO newbie, already extant or about to be, who'll grow up to think anew and not be excited by the halo of science that SCU offers or pretends to, or any other discipline, especially those in the tired academic world.

RR

The failure of the ancients to describe UFOs (and other things) ?

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If I write or tell you a purple cow dropped from the sky and milk spilt from its teats and killed the grass it had fallen on, that’s what I want to attest to.

Maybe I’m exaggerating or just crazy but my account is what I’m trying to convey.

That you say or think I’ve misinterpreted an event and you proclaim I mistook a spacecraft from another world doesn’t mean anything.

What I wrote or said is what I’m conveying, nothing more, nothing less, and it seems I’m hallucinating or insane.

Some of us continue to laud the mental capabilities of our forebears, those who came long before us and provided written (or oral) descriptions of their realities or life, some even providing fictional stories that rival those that came much later.

Yet, the Ancient Astronaut fanatics keep insisting that our early relatives couldn’t understand odd things seen in the sky and, thus, resorted to referring to those things as chariots or birds or dragons or flying carpets, et cetera, et cetera.

But those of us familiar with ancient texts and general writings find early scribes able to define, specifically, all kinds of things that intruded on their lives, even some private and sensual human aspects of the body or life that were unseen or generally hidden from view or experience: genitalia, flora and fauna from afar, weapons and domiciles of the gods, among other “unknown” but accurately described artifacts, many imaginary, of course.

For instance, Ezekiel’s deranged observation of God’s alleged chariot is touted as the observation of an extraterrestrial craft but described in bizarre fashion as an odd chariot with a mystical overlay.

Most scholars see Ezekiel’s “symbolic” presentation as a protracted metaphor, one that I see as psychopathic rather than ‘normal” for Ezekiel’s audience and time.

The whole gist of Ezekiel’s account in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament is about the supposed sinful transgressions by the Hebrews, as the writer, Ezekiel sees it.

(Note the plethoral use of the phrase “Son of Man” Ezekiel uses as a reference to himself, the very same reference that Jesus/Christ proclaimed as his identity. It’s a defense mechanism used to show hearers or readers that the persons proclaiming to be a “son of man” are not asserting anything more than that; they are not proclaiming to be a son of God or anything more than a human being, a son of man.)

Ezekiel’s “vision” is just that, a dream or hallucinatory episode, caused by the heat of the sun or something he ingested, which he (Ezekiel) used to make some radical points about his fellow Jews and their lapses in the face of God.

Ezekiel didn’t see a spaceship or mistook his vision for a four-headed contraption with bizarre accoutrements.

And Homer’s Trojan Horse wasn’t a concoction by extraterrestrials to ruse the inhabitants of Troy.

And Gilgamesh wasn’t given weapons from ETs to slay his enemies nor did Don Quixote fly to the moon.

Writers wrote and write what they want to impart. They do not mistakenly interpret objects or scenes in their writings. They tell us what they want us to read or know.

The AA people are putting their gloss on past writings, and doing so by being more mad than Ezekiel or other imaginative early writers they use to foster their nonsense on an illiterate audience.

RR

Radio bursts, in a 157 day cycle, from outer space

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/311520-astronomers-identify-157-day-cycle-in-ultra-powerful-radio-bursts-from-space?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=whatsnewnow&utm_medium=title

Malcolm Robinson included a link -- not this one -- about these radio bursts, for his Facebook followers.

I asked what those sending the bursts -- if something or someone is transmitting them -- are telling us or trying to?

What would 157 per day repeating signals mean?

And how long ago did the bursts start; that is, when was the origin of the "signals"?

Is it a natural phenomenon? (I think the sounds are natural, from a currently unknown source.)

And radio again....a primitive method of communication.

The Brad Pitt movie, Ad Astra, that aired on HBO this past week- end had future astronauts and their space agency sending mes- sages and signals via lasers. This, or something like quantum par- ticles, are a better pick for communication....quantum particles offering immediate interaction by its nature of non-locality.

RR