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For decades, the reports on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and encounters with aliens (in the third phase, of course) have provoked the investigation of amateurs to these matters, in the science also called ufología (of UFO, in English Unidentified Flying Objects), and governments, as well as popular interest in news media. However, scientists have received these sightings with skepticism, often despising ufology as a pseudoscience and believers in UFOs and extraterrestrials as irrational and even as sick.
On the contrary, believers doubt the accuracy and certainty of official science when it comes to the observations they witness. All this is signed by Greg Eghigian of the Pennsylvania State University in the United States, Which proposes a study on the historical sources of distrust between ufologists and scientists. He concludes that the scientists 'doubts about UFOs and aliens are not due to UFO scholars' ignorance of what science knows but rather to the fact that practices in science and ufology do not coincide at all. No matter who is a scientist and who is ufologist, then, whoever it is, doing science or not doing it depends on the methods used.
It all began, according to experts, in 1946 and 1947 with the signaling of rockets and disks in the sky, unidentified, that began 70 years of proclamations of the existence of UFOs, extraterrestrials and ancient, very old astronauts, who visited us instead In time (rock paintings, Nazca or the astronaut of Mayan relief). Thus began ufology, the science that studies UFOs. And in this, we are, decades later, with an avalanche of news, books, documentaries and programs of radio and television centered on the UFOs and the extraterrestrials.
Eghigian relates the beginning of sightings and contacts with the Cold War. The dates coincide as everything began in the forties, both UFOs, and the Cold War. It was in June 1947 that a civilian pilot, Kenneth Arnold, saw nine strange ships flying in the skies of Washington state, in the western United States. By its description, the press baptized them like "flying saucers", although its profile was more like a semicircle with a central spot. They are the first UFOs for historians. But perhaps it helps us to understand what happened in the United States and why it became very widespread news that had happened in the north of Europe the previous year.
Between May and November 1946, thousands of Swedes, Norwegians, Finns and Germans reported sightings of rocket or circular ships, often with bright lights, flying at high speed through the skies of northern Europe. Some experts believed that these sightings were a product of the nerves of European citizens in those years when enmity began with the Soviet Union and what would be called the Cold War. Other experts, however, believed that, indeed, they were Soviet missiles. No one mentioned the aliens. Still. Nerves had to travel to the United States. It was in this atmosphere of fear that, perhaps, defined as UFOs, for the first time, the nine bright ships that Kenneth Arnold saw in June 1947.
And all this was diluted in the nineties when the Soviet Union disappears. As an example, Eghigian reviews the number of UFO articles published in 25 US newspapers between 1985 and 2014. Until the mid-1990s there were between 60 and 160 articles a year. But, as of 1998, they fall below 40, that is, less than two articles per newspaper and year. Cold War and UFOs disappear. Or almost disappear because, according to National Geographic, 36% of Americans believe that UFOs exist, and 77% say there is credible evidence that aliens have visited our planet.
However, scientists not only do not believe in UFOs and extraterrestrials but stigmatize them and consider them, from the official science focus, as taboos to be avoided and ignored. This, in turn, feeds ufologists' accusation to scientists as narrow-minded, and ultimately as members of an organization that not only rejects but conspires to conceal important and valuable information from the public. And scientists accuse ufologists of being not scientists but rather believers who are not supported by valid evidence but only in their faith, blind faith, and uncritical faith.
However, there is no denying that there is a science of ufology. It is curious that official science, which rejects UFOs and aliens, accepts ufology and its practitioners as an interesting object of study. Thus, sociologists study public attitudes toward UFOs, or the social values of believers in aliens, or the social and economic background surrounding groups of ufologists.
Or psychologists follow ufologists in their dating with UFOs, with the special interest in those who claim to have been abducted. Also, cultural anthropologists are interested in what might be called UFO religions. And social scientists and experts in folklore review the messages that have left the aliens to witness sightings with the message that they transmit them to humanity and, again, With the special interest in the abductees. And, in the end, culture experts and psychologists are interested in how UFO beliefs carry conspiracy theories very easily and very often.
As I said, all these studies reflect that the mistrust between science and ufology has more to do with how things are done in one and another group than in who are scientists or ufologist. Doubts about the veracity of UFO sightings and aliens have always existed in the scientific community. The way they are obtained and narrated is very different from how, in science, knowledge is accumulated and accumulated. An insurmountable obstacle is the lack of undoubted material evidence on the presence of UFOs and aliens. Thus, ufologists' materials remain of more interest to anthropologists, sociologists or psychologists than to, for example, astronomers, physicists, or biologists. After a long history of successes and disappointments, science has come to the conclusion that what is based only on witnesses and believers is,
On the other hand, and we come back to the said, the scientists do not doubt the sincerity of the believers in the UFOs and extraterrestrials, rather they do of the authenticity of what they count. It happened, and serves as an example, with the abduction epidemic of a few years ago, which ultimately referred to victims of sexual attacks that tried to hide what they had suffered.
In conclusion, the onset of sightings of UFOs and aliens seems to be related to the onset of the Cold War and widespread fear in Western society. But, on the other hand, science and ufology are not understood, not by the object of study of ufologists, but, rather, by their way of working and, consequently, by the lack of reliable evidence of the existence of UFOs and Aliens It is not what they study nor the people who do it, but are the working methods they use. And, in addition, ufology itself has become an interesting subject of study for scientists from various disciplines. This is, finally, the science of ufology.
On the contrary, believers doubt the accuracy and certainty of official science when it comes to the observations they witness. All this is signed by Greg Eghigian of the Pennsylvania State University in the United States, Which proposes a study on the historical sources of distrust between ufologists and scientists. He concludes that the scientists 'doubts about UFOs and aliens are not due to UFO scholars' ignorance of what science knows but rather to the fact that practices in science and ufology do not coincide at all. No matter who is a scientist and who is ufologist, then, whoever it is, doing science or not doing it depends on the methods used.
Science of ufology
It all began, according to experts, in 1946 and 1947 with the signaling of rockets and disks in the sky, unidentified, that began 70 years of proclamations of the existence of UFOs, extraterrestrials and ancient, very old astronauts, who visited us instead In time (rock paintings, Nazca or the astronaut of Mayan relief). Thus began ufology, the science that studies UFOs. And in this, we are, decades later, with an avalanche of news, books, documentaries and programs of radio and television centered on the UFOs and the extraterrestrials.
Eghigian relates the beginning of sightings and contacts with the Cold War. The dates coincide as everything began in the forties, both UFOs, and the Cold War. It was in June 1947 that a civilian pilot, Kenneth Arnold, saw nine strange ships flying in the skies of Washington state, in the western United States. By its description, the press baptized them like "flying saucers", although its profile was more like a semicircle with a central spot. They are the first UFOs for historians. But perhaps it helps us to understand what happened in the United States and why it became very widespread news that had happened in the north of Europe the previous year.
Between May and November 1946, thousands of Swedes, Norwegians, Finns and Germans reported sightings of rocket or circular ships, often with bright lights, flying at high speed through the skies of northern Europe. Some experts believed that these sightings were a product of the nerves of European citizens in those years when enmity began with the Soviet Union and what would be called the Cold War. Other experts, however, believed that, indeed, they were Soviet missiles. No one mentioned the aliens. Still. Nerves had to travel to the United States. It was in this atmosphere of fear that, perhaps, defined as UFOs, for the first time, the nine bright ships that Kenneth Arnold saw in June 1947.
The science of ufology
And all this was diluted in the nineties when the Soviet Union disappears. As an example, Eghigian reviews the number of UFO articles published in 25 US newspapers between 1985 and 2014. Until the mid-1990s there were between 60 and 160 articles a year. But, as of 1998, they fall below 40, that is, less than two articles per newspaper and year. Cold War and UFOs disappear. Or almost disappear because, according to National Geographic, 36% of Americans believe that UFOs exist, and 77% say there is credible evidence that aliens have visited our planet.
However, scientists not only do not believe in UFOs and extraterrestrials but stigmatize them and consider them, from the official science focus, as taboos to be avoided and ignored. This, in turn, feeds ufologists' accusation to scientists as narrow-minded, and ultimately as members of an organization that not only rejects but conspires to conceal important and valuable information from the public. And scientists accuse ufologists of being not scientists but rather believers who are not supported by valid evidence but only in their faith, blind faith, and uncritical faith.
However, there is no denying that there is a science of ufology. It is curious that official science, which rejects UFOs and aliens, accepts ufology and its practitioners as an interesting object of study. Thus, sociologists study public attitudes toward UFOs, or the social values of believers in aliens, or the social and economic background surrounding groups of ufologists.
Or psychologists follow ufologists in their dating with UFOs, with the special interest in those who claim to have been abducted. Also, cultural anthropologists are interested in what might be called UFO religions. And social scientists and experts in folklore review the messages that have left the aliens to witness sightings with the message that they transmit them to humanity and, again, With the special interest in the abductees. And, in the end, culture experts and psychologists are interested in how UFO beliefs carry conspiracy theories very easily and very often.
As I said, all these studies reflect that the mistrust between science and ufology has more to do with how things are done in one and another group than in who are scientists or ufologist. Doubts about the veracity of UFO sightings and aliens have always existed in the scientific community. The way they are obtained and narrated is very different from how, in science, knowledge is accumulated and accumulated. An insurmountable obstacle is the lack of undoubted material evidence on the presence of UFOs and aliens. Thus, ufologists' materials remain of more interest to anthropologists, sociologists or psychologists than to, for example, astronomers, physicists, or biologists. After a long history of successes and disappointments, science has come to the conclusion that what is based only on witnesses and believers is,
On the other hand, and we come back to the said, the scientists do not doubt the sincerity of the believers in the UFOs and extraterrestrials, rather they do of the authenticity of what they count. It happened, and serves as an example, with the abduction epidemic of a few years ago, which ultimately referred to victims of sexual attacks that tried to hide what they had suffered.
In conclusion, the onset of sightings of UFOs and aliens seems to be related to the onset of the Cold War and widespread fear in Western society. But, on the other hand, science and ufology are not understood, not by the object of study of ufologists, but, rather, by their way of working and, consequently, by the lack of reliable evidence of the existence of UFOs and Aliens It is not what they study nor the people who do it, but are the working methods they use. And, in addition, ufology itself has become an interesting subject of study for scientists from various disciplines. This is, finally, the science of ufology.
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