Jan Aldrich [Project 1947] notes another pending UFO archive

 

Jan Aldrich, long-time noted UFO buff, announced that another UFO archive has received funding and will be established out West. (I didn't pay a lot of attention to the notice - forgive me.)

You know I like old UFO accounts, particularly those that haven't received much attention, but my interest is stoked by the unusual of things -- music, sci-fi stories, stamps, history, psychology, etc.

I am not inclined to see much value in placing so much effort in collecting old UFO reports. We, in the UFO community, have surely moved on from the curious aspects of the phenomenon, waiting for a denouement from governments or a person who has firm, feel/see evidence.

The old tales may have clues as to what UFOs may be but that's it, clues, nothing more.

Most of the juicy accounts have been worked to death, speculated upon to the detriment of such accounts, made hoary by all the minutiae UFO people have collected over the years, some of it useless by sloppy detail gathering, some interesting but not enough to prove anything, and some made up by persons hoping to cash in on the UFO interest of any moment.

As for archives, will anyone, today, travel to the Western U.S. to read an old account? Why?

We all (well, most of us) accept UFOs as real and now want to get our hands and senses ready to see one, captured or clearly pictured, maybe with an occupant or AI device to explain their source and purpose.

To sit in a mildewed place, reading old UFO stuff is silly, and not likely to happen for most UFO stalwarts. (UFO people like podcasts, videos,  verbal barrages, not tomes they have to read.)

Nope. My pal, Aldrich, like the indomitable Isaac Koi, and other archivist-enthused, are wasting their short time on Earth hoarding old UFO materials. It's a lackluster form of nonsense parading as effort that will produce, actually, nothing.

RR