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Letters to the Editor 9 9 Letters to the Editor Dear Rob: prominent self-glorification is. WEIRD NEWS Few blogs and web-sites take the After all the attention that the recent sighting of phenomenon seriously – we’ve noted some that Did You Give Me Last Year's Candy! a so-called UFO, I would like to reply to those do in our blog listings on the right of your who believe in the following that I have monitor screen – but one has to concede that Valentine's buyers beware! While more entitled, The Psychopathology of Ufology. they do entertain, which is primarily what flying than $1 Billion bucks worth of chocolate will be saucers, UFOs, and ufologists have done since sold on the most romantic day of the year, it The Psychopathology of Ufology 1947. may not be as sweet as you think. An Ufologists who make appearances on investigative report by CBS News found that Ufologists aren’t seeking the truth about television assume an air of seriousness, but a many stores might very well be stocking the UFOs; they’re just seeking attention. twinkle in their eye or a quirk in their smile shelves with Valentine's Day candy from 2007! With the plethora of web-sites and blogs (Stanton Friedman is a good example) gives So how do you know if you're getting the fresh, vying for that attention, the UFO phenomenon away the frivolousness of ufology. UFOs just good stuff? Well, be sure to check the expiration has become an embarrassment of vanity for can’t be taken seriously, and ufologists know date on the box. And you can follow the advice those who pursue the things to enhance their this nowadays, so they play-act at being somber of Brian Buckley of Manhattan's Institute of own egos or self-loathing. and quasi-scientific. Culinary Education. Regarding chocolate he Displaying everything UFO-related This psychopathology isn’t harmful says, "It's something that should be glorious. It won’t ever get to the heart of the UFO mystery. however. It’s a fantasy that makes life bearable should have a luster to it. It should crack slightly The panoply of flying saucer detritus merely for many who would otherwise be mired in a when you bite it." CBS reporters bought six showcases how discombobulated the UFO truly humdrum existence. bags of Valentine's Day treats at stores around community is, with an obvious lacuna in serious UFOs make their lives palatable, New York City. Of those six bags, five were research. providing escape from anonymity or existential inedible. From the finest of truffles to candy Nuts took over the flying saucer ennui. bought in bulk, most of these products were visitations in the late 40s and early 50s, and Maybe that’s the clue to what UFOs expired and showed signs of improper storage, their progeny remains ensconced in the really are: a mechanism of the gods to assuage like melting and reshaping. Some of the extrapolated phenomenon (or phenomena, if the boredom that life presents to the great chocolates had white dots or streaks, called a you will) today. unwashed masses. "bloom," which means the chocolate is stale. A No matter how serious some ufologists Whatever the UFO reality, the one thing luscious looking giant Hershey kiss was also pretend to be, their façade belies a need to be one can say about the phenomenon is that it has purchased that had its own secret admirers notable about something, and UFOs are the created a social construct that isn’t beneficial to inside -- an infestation of worms. While modus for their self-fulfillment. mankind’s evolution but surely makes for a fun chocolate has about a year's shelf life, many UFOs don’t mean anything to them; it’s time among the meshuggahs who have made the stores don't enforce expiration dates, so it's up to the modicum of fame or notoriety that they seek phenomenon their “raison d’etre.” you. (CBS News) (and need). WATCH & LISTEN TO THE ‘X’ ZONE A scrutiny of web-site or blog content Samuel Orze III WATCH & LISTEN TO THE ‘X’ ZONE WWW.XZONETV.COM proves how cavalier UFO research is, and how Shediac, New Brunswick, Canada. WWW.XZONETV.COM