Casting a net – for UFOs…or?

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That new Enigma thing, just like Cifone’s UAP group and Avi Loeb’s Galileo Project along with a gazillion Facebook UFO/UAP groups are trying to gather participants for, I’m not sure……reactions to UFO events/sightings? UFO reports? Camaraderie? What?
 
A “live” UFO presentation popped up on YouTube Wednesday [7/13] afternoon, showcasing some relatively unknown UFO sightings from early on in the UFO era along with a few almost current incidents, the Phoenix Lights getting a serious nod.
 
Many long-time UFO entertainers and ufological readers introduced the sightings under review.
 
It was then that I realized these guys weren’t about understanding or explaining the UFO phenomenon. They were story-tellers, seek- ing the UFO lime-light as rancid as that has become.
 
This goes to the groups named above. The founders of the groups or associations are not about finding out what UFOs are; they’re about being in the tawdry UAP spotlight, even as putrid as that may be.
 
What are any of us doing, about or with the UFO phenomenon? We’re all only reacting.
 
Me. You. Authors. TV hosts. Documentarians. All of us.
 
We’re not doing anything meaningful. We’re pretending to be doing something. The use of the word “researcher” in UFO circles is a pitiful canard.
 
So, let’s try to come up with something substantial, finally. Don’t just react to my blatherings. Give a creative account of what UFOs may be.
 
As my old, vapid college professors you say, Compare and contrast. But do it with intelligent fervor.

Quit just reacting. Leave a mark on the UFO continuum. Please.
 
RR

Curt Collins noted this at UFO UpDates (on Facebook) -- Lance Moody makes the point

https://fortune.com/2022/07/13/enigma-labs-uap-unidentified-aerial-phenomenon-startup/

RR

The Travel Channel

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Last night [7/12], the Travel Channel ran several of its UFO Witness series and UFOs: The Lost Evidence programs.
 
A UFO Witness segment about ancient aliens in the (U.S.) Dakotas was a typical ancient alien thing but a later segment, comparing the 2004 Nimitz TicTac encounter (retold by the Princeton’s senior radar operator Kevin Day) and the 1973 Coyne helicopter incident in Ohio provided details from both that have not been generally detailed or known.
 
And a Lost Evidence presentation offered some details about the usually discounted idea of Nazi development of UFO-like aircraft during WWII that were intriguing, if true (and the provided docu- mentation was interesting).
 
A brief segment about a TicTac-like thingie flying out of a gully next to a mountain – the video provided here a while back – with Bruce Maccabee (looking old) and Kevin Day from the Nimitz incident got short shrift, both Maccabee and Day saying the thing looked like the TicTac UFO, but that was about it.
 
Trying to tie the Coyne helicopter object and the thing flying fast from the mountain video capture with the TicTac object was a stretch but still interesting, even though the viewing took us no- where really.
 
The problem lies in the presentations, meant to evoke mystery and entertainment, as the History Channel has learned to do and other offbeat media operations have succeeded in doing also.
 
Such television offerings are glib and rather superficial, although often containing a snippet or two that deserve follow-up.
 
For me, the shows were a respite from the John Greenewald/Tony Bragalia brouhaha that seems to have gotten out-of-hand: Tony Bragalia poking John and John poking back.
 
That matter is better left to their respective internet venues. I don’t really get the gist of their contentions.
 
RR