Has a slightly known UFO skeptic folded his tent and skulked away?

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Tim Printy is a skillful amateur astronomer and a fellow who has dismissed many UFO sightings and cases over the years.
 
When I received my first copies of Skeptical Inquirer (sorry) I noticed that Tim was listed as one of the magazine's contributing Fellows.
 
But the new May/June issue doesn’t have him listed.
 
Shostak, Dawkins, Oberg, Druyan are there but no Printy.
 
Has he dropped out or given up his skeptical mode – because UFOs are now proven to exist (even though renamed UAP) – and is he okay?
 
I’ve had my tiffs with Tim but he’s a good guy basically, so if anyone knows something, leave a comment.
 
RR

UFO archives and the loss of “being”

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The April 24/May 1, 2023 duo-issue of New Yorker magazine provides unintended insight to archival research and a person’s eventual loss of “existence.”
 
A letter to New Yorker’s editor(s) from Matthew Connelly. Professor of History at Columbia University res- ponding to an earlier article by Jill Lepore (also a college teacher) who wrote “Data-Driven” in the April 3^rd issue:
 
Professor Connelly writes:
 
“Traditional archival research is becoming increasingly inadequate for the challenge of exploring the zetta-byte or more of audio, video, and textual information accumulating … All of it is perishable, and can saved and shared only if scholars join wirh archivists and data scientists in developing new ways of preserving and studying the past. Historians who rage against algorithms are deluding themselves.” [Page 3]
 
Then the Art listings, about an exhibition, “Of Mythic Worlds” is this:
 
‘The identities of some artists are lost to the ages …” [Page 6]
 
And on Page 32 in a piece titled Security Breach is this:
 
“In 1895, a police officer in Manhattan who had once worked for a telephone company, and whose name has been lost to history … “
 
Such examples of lost names and persons appear regularly in the culturally iconic magazine.
 
I’m tying such acknowledgments to the idea that persons eventually become even lost to memory, not just life.
 
Then there is the suggestion by Professor Connelly that archival materials, not saved digitally, will also be lost to memory and existence, as was the suggestion of Walter M. Miller in his brilliant dystopian sci-fi novel A Canticle for Leibowitz.
 
Not to know that in the intelligent zeitgeist for some, life becomes meaningless, eventually, lost not just to being but to memory also, and archival efforts are silly as they are now being proposed and saved, eventually lost to existence and the events and names in them also destroyed by time and the destructive elements of a past technology.
 
So, don’t belabor this page or me with a solicitation for archiving and the assumed salutary effort being exercised to create them.
 
It's futile and senseless.
 
RR

Billy Cox has that Blahhh feeling

 https://lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/that-blahhh-feeling

Data collection, observation, photos, or discourse will not tell us what UFOs are or where they come from

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Carter M left this comment earlier here:
 
"RR, Why DO you go on nearly every day about UFOs if it's all a joke, a deception or delusion?"
 
If I’ve left the impression that UFOs are “a joke, a deception or delusion,” I have lost any calling I had as a writer or sane person.
 
What I have indicated is that some UFO persons (witnesses and enthusiasts) are deceptive or delusional, not the phenomenon.
 
And my emphasis on the psychological aspects of ufology or the circus that the phenomenon has created has to do with my psychological education and interest.
 
After all, I have to get something out of my long-time UFO interest.
 
What I have tried to make clear is that observation of UFOs, data collection (no matter how sophisticated), discussions of the phe- nomenon, conferences about it, archival searches of old (iconic) UFO sightings, and all the peripheral activity UFOs have created and continue to create – even in its UAP designation -- will not disclose what UFOs are, or their source.
 
Those who think UFOs display advanced aircraft, of course may be correct. But that doesn’t mean that UFOs come from an imagined alien (extraterrestrial) species, and the historical reports, ostensibly of UFOs, tell us that the phenomenon is not a new creation of some Earthian military or government.
 
Only a “captured” (shot down or crashed) UFO will give away its “secret.”
 
No scrutiny of radar returns or infrared and/or electro-magnetic renderings will tell us what a UFO may be. That activity is “pretend research.”
 
And thinking continued readings and exegeses of old, archived flying saucer reports or stories will unlock some hidden clue telling us what UFOs are is a romantic notion without sensible cogitation.
 
So, Carter M, Dominick, and a few others, get with your usually brilliant thinking and scrap the silly notions you have about what UFOs are or may be.
 
The phenomenon remains beyond explanation – as real as it may be or as scrutinized as it has been.

UFOs are beyond human ken, and will continue to be so, if lateral, insipid suggestions remain the gist of discussions here or anywhere else in the vast, ignorant UFO community.
 
RR