Research Blog #3 - Research Question and 3 Scholarly Sources

 After researching my previous blog post topics, I got some confusions on the field of study of those “ufologists”. Some coverup the fact, some debunk the truth, while some have said we have no progress on finding evidence of extraterrestrial intelligent life. What, after all, is the current status of the scientific ufo study? 


  • Do “ufologists” actually have a “field” of study, and what would it be? 

  • How would they conclude with the future of human beings after confirming the success of contacting extraterrestrial life? 

  • Would it be a Judgement Day of the whole race of human beings? 











Work Cited


   LEMARCHAND, G. “M.A.G. Michaud, Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears About Encountering Extraterrestrials, Copernicus Books, New York (2007) (xiii+460 Pp., $27.50, ISBN:0-387-28598-9).” Space Policy, vol. 23, no. 3, 2007, pp. 188–90, doi:10.1016/j.spacepol.2007.06.003.



 “Not of This Earth: UFO Studies.” Logos (Moscow, Russia), vol. 29, no. 5, 2019, pp. 229–54, doi:10.22394/0869-5377-2019-5-229-252.



   Rutledge, Harley D. Project Identification: the First Scientific Field Study of Ufo Phenomena. Financial Times Pren Hall, 1982.

 

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