Will Ufology Pressure the Scientific Community for Recognition?
Steve Bass
August 10, 2008
Why would anyone wish to be an investigator? The very term "investigator" means you are not going to be very popular and you are going to be nosing into things that don't want to be known. The days of romanticism has past. Courageous detectives ignoring the beautiful girl on their arm while following dangerous criminals and dodging bullets are now a thing of yester-year. Folks today romanticize about becoming pop stars, music celebrities, but usually not anything that takes incredible amounts of work. You can tell I´m a cynical father of a teen-ager, huh?
Becoming a UFO investigator means that you are already involved in a heatedly debated field. UFO investigators normally start off as Ufologists, experts in various fields who apply that specialized knowledge to the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, commonly referred to as UFO´s. They are usually trying to understand something that has happened to them in the past or have naturally inquisitive minds drawn to subjects not easily grappled with. Investigators branch into the fieldwork so necessary for the study of Ufology.
Ufology today has strong comparisons to days of alchemy´s transformation into science. Alchemists seldom applied anything related to the scientific method, and Ufology has uniquely inherent difficulties with the method´s implementation.
In the early days of Ufology, mainstream science derided any notion of scientific exploration or deliberation in a field that lacked the ability for employment of the scientific method. Proponents of the study of UFO´s know that something anomalous is happening in the skies, on the ground, and under the oceans of our world. The occurrences themselves are provable through many measures, but their mysterious nature seems constantly beyond Mankind´s every reach. The very existence of UFO´s is a slap in the face of an egotistical scientific community that has grown to love itself more than the exploration of the unknown. One day our race will venture beyond the moon already knowing everything there is to know. Why, then, venture?
In the spirit of Galileo, DaVinci, and Einstein, Ufologists accept that Mankind does not understand everything in the universe. Much of our knowledge is primitive at best, and as with all primitive knowledge, it is sometimes due for renovation. By admitting the need for the occasional renovation, the scientific community feels as though they would have to face Ufology and eat crow. The scientific community of old used to execute heretical researchers, while the new scientific community tries to execute these protagonists' professional careers. What so many do not understand is that this approach keeps Ufologists honest in their work. Not that any would facilitate untruths, but the pressure for proof encourages relentless and exhaustive research to substantiate an unbelievable variant from what we know in our reality.
UFO investigators, therefore, hold a primary position in the study of UFO´s. They strive through field work and witness interviews to gather immense amounts of seemingly unrelated data for Ufologists to generate a big picture that responds to an application of the scientific method. Admittedly Ufologists feel like the blind man investigating the proverbial elephant, but Ufologists do not avoid the scientific method. Instead, they have a special regard for it. In observing and exploring a field where laws and axioms are played loosely at best, Ufologists strive to understand the unknown and display the courage necessary to stand in the face of scorn. Can the scientific community at large say the same?
Becoming a UFO investigator means that you are already involved in a heatedly debated field. UFO investigators normally start off as Ufologists, experts in various fields who apply that specialized knowledge to the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, commonly referred to as UFO´s. They are usually trying to understand something that has happened to them in the past or have naturally inquisitive minds drawn to subjects not easily grappled with. Investigators branch into the fieldwork so necessary for the study of Ufology.
Ufology today has strong comparisons to days of alchemy´s transformation into science. Alchemists seldom applied anything related to the scientific method, and Ufology has uniquely inherent difficulties with the method´s implementation.
In the early days of Ufology, mainstream science derided any notion of scientific exploration or deliberation in a field that lacked the ability for employment of the scientific method. Proponents of the study of UFO´s know that something anomalous is happening in the skies, on the ground, and under the oceans of our world. The occurrences themselves are provable through many measures, but their mysterious nature seems constantly beyond Mankind´s every reach. The very existence of UFO´s is a slap in the face of an egotistical scientific community that has grown to love itself more than the exploration of the unknown. One day our race will venture beyond the moon already knowing everything there is to know. Why, then, venture?
In the spirit of Galileo, DaVinci, and Einstein, Ufologists accept that Mankind does not understand everything in the universe. Much of our knowledge is primitive at best, and as with all primitive knowledge, it is sometimes due for renovation. By admitting the need for the occasional renovation, the scientific community feels as though they would have to face Ufology and eat crow. The scientific community of old used to execute heretical researchers, while the new scientific community tries to execute these protagonists' professional careers. What so many do not understand is that this approach keeps Ufologists honest in their work. Not that any would facilitate untruths, but the pressure for proof encourages relentless and exhaustive research to substantiate an unbelievable variant from what we know in our reality.
UFO investigators, therefore, hold a primary position in the study of UFO´s. They strive through field work and witness interviews to gather immense amounts of seemingly unrelated data for Ufologists to generate a big picture that responds to an application of the scientific method. Admittedly Ufologists feel like the blind man investigating the proverbial elephant, but Ufologists do not avoid the scientific method. Instead, they have a special regard for it. In observing and exploring a field where laws and axioms are played loosely at best, Ufologists strive to understand the unknown and display the courage necessary to stand in the face of scorn. Can the scientific community at large say the same?