A typical FB UFO posting

How can one deal with such input, ignore it, condemn it, believe it?

RR

The ignored phenomenon: UFOs (flying saucers/disks)

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While the inherent madness of humanity and, in particular, the overt pathology of UFO enthu- siasts, long-time associates of mine, remain my interest and fascination, it’s obvious that the things of concern – UFOs – are set aside for reasons that elude me.
 
Computer gamers, medical researchers, archaeologists, astronomers, mountain climbers, match book collectors – you name it – all pursue their in- terests (hobbies) with a cogent zeal. They try to conquer the elements of their interests without compromise.
 
But in the UFO community, the enthusiasts, fans (or fanatics, if you will) engage the alleged point of their enthusiasm with a willy-nilly attention span, or mitigated zeal.
 
Zero in on the UFO conversation. It’s saturated with input from those who only have a passing interest in the topic – news media, which loves any exotic story, persons that like anything esoteric to seem unusual and interesting to their friends, and mostly input from persons who’d like to appear recondite about something unusual.
 
But in the whirlwind of UFO hysteria nowadays, the phenomenon has been set aside for the adornments that becloud it.
 
Notice the attention paid to where UFOs are said to be seen, every outlet and person feigning interest in UFOs eager to tell readers and listeners the places where UFOs seem to show up in large numbers.
 
But what does that tell us? My buddy Bill Murphy, providing his Friday [7/1] links offered a raft of sites where the phenomenon (or something perceived as such) has surged in observations, supposedly.

Yet, what does it tell us? That UFOs are being perceived in droves or ETs are visiting this Earth and, some areas of it, in inordinate numbers?
 
The information is not information. It’s useless filler, feigning im- portance, but not really being important.
 
The other side-track is the brouhaha between Luis Elizondo and the U.S. Pentagon (military), the DoD saying he wasn’t really a cog in the AATIP program and he insisting he was.
 
Does this help us get at the root of the UFO phenomenon? Not one bit.
 
It’s a side-bar of interest for those who like such internecine squabbles, It makes for copy but really has nothing to do with the phenomenon. But even long-time UFOers are fascinated by the tit-for-tat.
 
So, here we are: me concentrating on the current (and long-time) madness (pathology) that intrudes on the phenomenon’s presence and others pretending to research it, while only standing by, gulping down the foolishness of those who think they are helping study the essence of a profound phenomenon but are only abetting the half-baked activity known as ufology.
 
RR