UFO Conjectures

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Avi Loeb’s bias

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I like Avi Loeb. He sticks his neck out to study the iffy (from a social standpoint) UFO phenomenon, much as John Mack did with his interest in the alleged ET abductions accounts.
 
That’s not easy for an academic. It generally is a career-killer. But there it is.
 
If I have a problem with Dr. Loeb it’s his leaning toward the extraterrestrial angle for UFOs; this from a guy who should know better from his expertise and schooling in astronomy and vast knowledge of the cosmos, with its forbidding ingredients for ET visitations.
 
Looking to grab a technically enhanced photo of a UFO, in space is the goal. This implies something ET-like it seems to me.
 
Everyone is looking for that one snapshot that tells us UFOs are spaceships, meaning that a photo showing something Earthian isn’t really a UFO, just an exotic aircraft causing a need for another photo “proving” the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
 
Jacques Vallee remains relevant, despite his recent stumble [Trinity] because he sees the UFO enigma for what it really seems to be: spurts of another reality, one superimposing itself on this planet and its sentient beings.

Avi Loeb photo from Scientific American magazine
 
RR

posted by RRRGroup at Sunday, February 20, 2022

3 Comments:

  • Impartiality is always a proclaimed basis behind these studies. It sounds like you think they're already starting off on the wrong foot.

    Elizondo's presence is somewhat understandable, though whether or not it's benign is questionable. Michael Shermer brings zero expertise to the table; it's likely a PR attempt at even-handedness.

    Can we expect that whatever data this group generates will be overshadowed by missteps and controversy? If so, hopefully it won't derail the next group, or the group after that.

    By Blogger Ron, at Sunday, February 20, 2022  

  • "Jacques Vallee... sees the UFO enigma for what it really seems to be: spurts of another reality, one superimposing itself on this planet and its sentient beings."

    There it is.

    By Blogger Bryan Daum, at Monday, February 21, 2022  

  • Loeb is a little goofy.

    He wants, on his Harvard university web page, he states he wants to have a megapixel image of the UAP. "For example, a megapixel image of the surface of a human-scale UAP object at a distance of a mile will allow to distinguish the label: “Made in Country X” from the potential alternative “Made by ETC Y” on a nearby exoplanet in our galaxy."

    If I thought he was just being cute, its one thing. But he has been on podcast interviews and repeated this. Various article have him repeating it.

    So he naively think this would answer the question. No. It won't.

    Someone give me a list of what data that could do this. Skeptics will always be skeptical. In this case, I feel no amount of data collection is going to be enough.

    Loeb ignores all past instrumented UFO research and claims his will be the first.

    Loeb claims the Earth atmosphere is opaque to IR beyond 10km. I always thought DOD monitors rocket launches using IR. NOAA monitors IR from weather satellites.

    Loeb invites a diverse crew for his big tent research. Is it helpful to have Seth Shostak as a team member? Michael Shermer? Nick Pope?

    By Blogger Moonman, at Thursday, March 03, 2022  

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