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9 Unidentified Flying Objects 9 Unidentified Flying Objects Unidentified Flying people cannot rationally explain, then you are Cattle Mutilation Cattle Mutilation Unidentified Flying Objects seeing a UFO. Witnesses to such sightings often “A Realistic View” “A Realistic View” Objects claim that what they saw could not be explained “A Realistic View” by the known laws of physics. They claim to Continued From Page 8 “A Realistic View” Continued From Page 8 have witnessed a violation of a law of nature, i.e., a miracle. Dan Aykroyd, for example, Of course, inquiring minds want to "…nothing has come from the study of UFOs in claims he saw "high altitude, glowing know why beings with the intelligence and the past 21 years that has added to scientific magnesium discs traveling at 20,000 miles power to travel billions of miles to our planet knowledge...further extensive study of UFOs (32,190 km) an hour at 100,000 feet (30,480 would spend their time mutilating cows, probably cannot be justified in the expectation meters). ... wing to wing, edge to edge."* How experimenting on otherwise unremarkable that science will be advanced thereby." he determined the composition of the "discs" or people, or carving up wheat fields. They need -Edward U. Condon calculated their speeds and distances is anyone's cow blood and glands for food and experiments. guess. They are harvesting enzymes and are working A UFO is an unidentified flying object What Hynek considers to be "all on a genetic engineering project that will blend that has been identified as a possible or actual available evidence" may be much less than what the Gray race (the aliens) with a Nordic race so alien spacecraft. Such objects include meteors, a skeptic would require. For example, the they can interface with humans better. They are disintegrating satellites, flocks of birds, aircraft, evidence appealed to by UFOlogists consists of altering cow DNA to create some sort of lights, weather balloons, and just about anything (1) the testimony of people who claim to have artificial life form. They are carving up wheat moving within the visible band of seen aliens and/or alien spacecraft; (2) facts fields with ever more elaborate designs to electromagnetism. So far, however, nothing has about the type of people who give the impress upon us how intelligent they are. Why been positively identified as an alien spacecraft testimony; (3) the lack of contrary testimony or would they come here and behave so in a way required by common sense and physical evidence that would either explain the preposterously? They're aliens and are beyond science. That is, there has been no recurring sighting by conventional means (weather our comprehension. Nothing is preposterous for identical UFO experience and there is no balloon, prank, meteor shower, reflection of beings who are beyond our comprehension. [] . [] physical evidence in support of either a UFO light, etc.) or discredit the reliability of the flyby or landing. eyewitness; and, (4) alleged weaknesses in the There are as many photographs of UFOs arguments of skeptics against the UFOlogists. as there are of the Loch Ness Monster, and they The last item is irrelevant to the issue, yet it are of equal quality: blurs and forgeries. Oddly, plays a disproportionately large role in the advent of inexpensive video cameras has UFOlogy. corresponded to a decrease in UFO sightings.* Attacking an opponent's arguments or Other physical evidence, such as alleged debris motives, instead of presenting positive evidence from alien crashes, or burn marks on the ground in defense of one's own view is common among from alien landings, or implants in noses or defenders of the claim that UFOs are alien brains of alien abductees, have turned out to be spacecraft. Of course, there is nothing wrong quite terrestrial, including forgeries. The main with attacking an opponent's argument and reasons for believing in UFOs are the exposing weaknesses and faults thereby. But questionable interpretations of visual refutation is no substitute for support. It is experiences, the testimony of many people, the simply faulty logic to assume that because an inability to distinguish science fiction from opponent's reasons are flawed, one's own science, the willingness to trust incompetent reasons are valid. One's own reasons may be men telling fantastic stories, the ability to just as flawed as an opponent's, or even more distrust all contrary sources as being part of an flawed. evil conspiracy to withhold the truth, and a Another common tactic of UFOlogists is desire for contact with the world above. Belief to claim that the skeptic cannot prove that what in aliens and UFOs is akin to belief in was seen was not an alien craft. One is supposed supernatural beings. As Paul Kurtz says: to infer from this fact that the perception UFOlogy is the mythology of the space probably was of an alien craft. This kind of age. Rather than angels ... we now have ... reasoning is known as the argumentum ad extraterrestrials. It is the product of the creative ignorantiam. A claim does not become true or imagination. It serves a poetic and existential reasonable if a contrary claim cannot be proved function. It seeks to give man deeper roots and to be true. With arguments for UFOs there are bearings in the universe. It is an expression of two distinct moves here. One is to claim that no our hunger for mystery...our hope for logical explanation is possible because some transcendental meaning. The gods of Mt. scientist, pilot, Air Force Colonel, or Ph.D. Olympus have been transformed into space cannot think of one. The other is to point to the voyagers, transporting us by our dreams to lack of contrary evidence: no counter-testimony other realms. of other eyewitnesses, no proof that there were Dr. J. Allen Hynek, astronomer, not aliens or alien spacecraft. Here, too, there is foremost proponent of UFOs, and the one who a logical error. The fact that some genius cannot came up with the expression "close encounters come up with an explanation for something is of the third kind," defines a UFO as: irrelevant to deciding whether the correct [T]he reported perception of an object explanation should be couched in terms of or light seen in the sky or upon land the visitors from outer space. The choice is not appearance, trajectory, and general dynamic either (A) we know this conventional and luminescent behavior of which do not explanation is correct or (B) we must conclude suggest a logical, conventional explanation and that aliens have visited us. which is not only mystifying to the original UFOs Continued on Page 11 percipients but remains unidentified after close UFOs Continued on Page 11 scrutiny of all available evidence by persons who are technically capable of making a common sense identification, if one is possible. 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