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  • I should make it clear I'm neither a "believer" nor a "debunker"--I'm an agnostic, but very curious about the actual nature of the ufo/uap perplex.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • I'm not too concerned about how others may perceive my efforts and intentions in the uap research community, such as it is.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • As such, it is both dangerous and destructive to the real scientific efforts to truly and empirically investigate various genuine ufo/uap phenomena.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • If some ufo or uap incidents are human-technology based manifestations, for various psyop, training, security-testing, and _other_ purposes, then it's likely such laser-based, infra-red, holographic, and other electromagnetic imaging and simulation technology has already existed for quite some time, and has likely been used for various purposes already.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • Yes, I am an infomaniac ref. serious info on the uap/ufo subject, and I wanted to hear your presentation, among others, from NFS.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • Vallee, who I know and have discussed these matters of mutual interest with periodically, generally keep my investigatory focus on uap/ufo phenomena fairly low-key.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • Vallee has also made note of the fact that the "random" _frequency_ (and location) patterns of ufo/uap phenomena over time being witnessed or detected by technological means (if not both in very many cases), might suggest a kind of Skinnerian random reinforcement schedule of stimuli, which, in B.F.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • Sorry for the length of this response, but your post touched on issues that are at the center of my long-term interest in ufo/uap phenomena, and, IMHO, is the most important aspect of it, and I felt the need to get these speculative musings out there and "off my chest."

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • And it's not actually an uap or ufo, but military/intelligence agency covert technology, useful for potential defensive, offensive, and psyops purposes.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • An insidious way to defocus efforts to concentrate on scientifically investigating and attempting to solve the real riddles of ufo/uap phenomena, by either intentional or inadvertent muddying of the waters.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • In the early summer of 2021, two heterodox theories hit the mass media at the same time: the ‘lab leak’ theory for the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic; and revelations that many US military pilots had seen unidentified aerial phenomena, given the new moniker UAP to distance them a bit from the unmistakably fringy UFO (unidentified flying object).

    The different lives of fringe and strange scientific ideas | Aeon Essays Michael D Gordin 2023

  • NASA has waded into the contentious world of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), more commonly known as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs.

    UFO sightings: how NASA can bring science to the debate Alexandra Witze 2023

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