Whenever I turn on the TV I see loads of documentaries by loons like David Icke and Bob Lazar who believe that UFOs are piloted by little green men, but are there actually any serious scientists who believe this?

Has any “real” scientist ever published a serious paper in a science journal supporting the belief that UFOs are alien spacecraft? Or even given a speech in support of the idea?

If so, I’d really like to know which issues. I’d even like to know if any of the have published a serious peer reviewed paper against the idea.
Less of the bickering please. I’m not interested in whose right and whose wrong, only in knowing which EDUCATED people have given serious thought to the matter, either for it or against it. Surely some astronomer has written a paper on why it’s impossible or some aerospace engineer has written one saying that it is possible?

I can’t believe that such a popular topic in fiction doesn’t peak the interest/annoyance of at least some scientists.

So far Sagan is the best candidate. Can anybody give me some examples of his work?

For those of you who might believe in UFO’s, in your opinion, what is the best piece of evidence that UFOs exist? Photographic or Video. Not eyewittness testimony only.

Also, what is the best UFO website. I have scanned a few websites, but the ones I look at seem to still promote videos that have already been proved as hoaxes or a natural event. I’m looking for a site that keeps current with legitimate sightings but only a serious website. I hate having to read articles about silly things people put up as jokes.

but, no aliens? Why don’t they want to make themselves known?

Okay, I know some of you will joke about this, but I don’t ask myself the question anymore whether ufo’s are real or not. I know they just are and now am curious about their technology.
So I’m almost certain that they don’t use jet engines and they can reach speeds far higher than anything we can build.
How about elektro magnetism? And what could their fuel be, or do they have any at all? And how the hell do they survive those G-forces?

 

A 2001 survey of 183 college students at a regional university in North Carolina found that nearly one in four reported having a unidentified flying object (UFO)-like experience or anomalous light sighting of some kind (Dewan 2006). This finding was relatively comparable to similar studies undertaken over the past several decades.1 Additional follow-up interviews were conducted with students willing to discuss their experiences further and with other individuals reporting similar experiences from around the country. Because such tantalizing data necessitate a more holistic approach to analysis, the use of folklore theory, the experience-centered approach of David Hufford, and insights from cognitive anthropology suggest that UFO accounts may be understood more fruitfully to be based on real, unusual experiences that instigate a complex interaction between the event, existing cultural traditions, and mental schemas. Accounts of anomalous light experiences are best categorized as a particular type of personal experience narrative, the memorate. A detailed case study of interviews conducted with three members of a single family illustrates the integration of these three theoretical perspectives in the analysis of narratives, concluding that personal experiences play a major role in the development and maintenance of the UFO phenomenon.

Whereas much of the past research focused on the study of anomalous lights as a whole, my study particularly emphasizes aerial anomalies generally included within the realm of the UFO phenomenon, in part because of its exceptional growth and popularity in American culture during the past fifty years. The UFO domain has grown to include, for example, animal mutilations, crop circles, mysterious figures known commonly as “men in black” (or MIB), alien abductions, and speculations concerning varying degrees of government conspiracy. For the purposes of this article, UFOs themselves are placed within the more straightforward category of anomalous lights while concurrently understood to exist as part of a broader social movement.

Culture, Perception, and Anomalous Experience

Although the interaction of belief and experience is certainly complex, the incorporation of cognitive anthropology enriches a folkloric analysis of this issue. In doing so, the extent to which culture holds dominion over individual perceptions of experience must be addressed. A central issue involved in the study of extraordinary experiences relates to the question of how they are perceived, reported, and interpreted in a cultural sense. Cognitive anthropology maintains that recollections of past memories are not mental copies of stored originals. Rather, they are schematized, mental reconstructions of past events that are reassembled in particular circumstances for particular purposes . As Robert Schrauf has found, the cognitive analysis of autobiographical memories reveals several key elements: “[R]ecollection of the personal past is (1) essentially a reconstruction of the past, (2) prompted by a person’s affective states and ongoing beliefs and goals, and (3) constituted by the sociocultural world of the rememberer”

During an experience, a process of revision in light of the person’s beliefs and expectations occurs immediately, if not simultaneously with the experience. Once the memory is encoded, subsequent recalling acts as a reconstruction that involves the affective (emotional) states and social circumstances (e.g., campfire story) of the rememberer. Furthermore, sociocultural factors shape one’s expectations about reality, and what one remembers directly depends on one’s expectations. Although Schrauf’s study examines autobiographical memory across a long span of time and is not directly applied to single, specific memories of events, the ability to apply this approach to specific memories appears to be implied. There is also no discussion in Schrauf’s work of whether different types of experiences are recalled differently. For example, how is the recall of a particularly traumatic or exciting event fundamentally different from a more mundane, yet equally significant, memory? Linda Garro has argued that individuals tend to remember specific events that have some emotional impact on them. Despite this fact, whether one is recalling an encounter with Bigfoot in Yosemite National Park or Mr. Miller in the town grocery store, it remains understood that both memories are, in reality, social reconstructions.

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