Here's a good sensible post by a scientist and author who once saw a UFO himself on seeing UFOs. Brane Space, authored by "Copernicus," is the name of the blog. In his piece The Mugging of Stanton Friedman, Copernicus reviews Friedman's appearance on the Larry King UFO program we're all ranting about, and shares his dismay at the shameful behavior of the "skeptics" Shostak and Nye.I like what he says here about Vallee on Sagan and the UFO phenomena itself in regards to science:Vallee himself has also taken Sagan to task in this case, for proposing a scientific process: getting extraordinary evidence first, before forming a hypothesis on the basis of existing investigations and doing an extraordinary investigation. Nowhere else in science, or its possible objects of inquiry, are we expected to start with extraordinary evidence (which usually isn't available yet) then go to the process.MORE BRANE SPACECopernicus has written two other posts (as far as I can tell) concerning UFOs for his blog: Further Speculations on the Nature of UFOs, and A Perspective on the UFO. I only skimmed both articles, but I can't wait to get back to them. The first seems to be a scientifically thoughtful piece on Vallee's theory (others share this theory as well, it's akin to what Jung said about UFOs, etc.) on UFOS as mental projections, the latter on the reality of UFOs -- which does not equate the reality of aliens.
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