Monday June 30

June 30th, 2008 Posted in June 2008

A against the current: "The comments of UFO should be treated more seriously"
An interview with David Clarke by Nick Jackson for The Independent.
David Clarke presents conferences dealing with journalism at the University of Sheffield Hallam, Great Britain.

"We joke about UFO's, because of the" lunatic fringe ", which is attracted by the subject and the media fail to seriously address the phenomenon. But it is a serious subject. The lack of respect from the media is reflected in popular culture. Therefore, if you are looking to fund a study based on academic criteria, it is best avoided as it relates to the UFO because it would be professional suicide. I myself tried to finance a study in this area, but it is a taboo subject. Nobody is interested, because of the image that is returned. It is a shame, because there is an abundance of interesting material that we could have, but it is far too contemporary. However it is perfectly acceptable for historians studying witchcraft in the Middle Ages, but these UFO phenomena do not offer enough back, and these people that could be addressed in their testimonies collected are definitely too close. When you begin to discuss a possible research on the subject of UFO's, people immediately ask you what your motivations. "

"If you look at the discussions reported by the media after the publication of government documents on UFOs, you can not escape the question: would we be visited by aliens? It is always there. There are many more to deal with the material that was published as interested to know whether or not aliens. There are two or three hundred reports of UFO events that come each year on the office of the Ministry of Defense, and it represents only a fraction of the observed phenomena. If you extrapolate globally, it represents hundreds of thousands of comments every year.

There were always people who came to find the astronomer Carl Sagan after lectures to ask: "Do you believe?" The question always surprised. It is not asking: "What evidence do we have?" But, "Do you believe?" For many it is a matter of faith, and UFOs can become a substitute for religion. What they want above all is that share of mysrère, they are not seeking the solution. In 1956, an American sociologist joined a sect saucers, who predicted the end of the world. Of course nothing came of this, but instead to turn away from this cult, participants have strengthened their belief system.

Therefore, sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists might have an impressive amount of data to study. The Ministry of Defense came to the conclusion that there are UFOs, but it does not necessarily spacecraft. So there are reports of natural phenomena that we can not compendre, and it should be a subject of study for meteorologists and atmospheric physicists. This is really damaging if no one spends seriously. "