Scouting the Territory

 The main idea of the topic, "what impact does UFO have on our society" hasn't changed. At first, my opinion only remain at the level of government's pressure on the public, but it evolves to some perspectives such as the existence of extraterrestrials lead the assumption of more high civilizations outside the solar system (https://www.wired.com/story/what-scientists-can-learn-from-alien-hunters/) and some potential cultural impact of UFOs contact.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_cultural_impact_of_extraterrestrial_contact). 



Key terms like "UFO culture" and "Impact of UFO Technology" I put into google comes out some websites like "what happens next if we find proof of space aliens". But all the articles were talking about due to the restriction of current technology on finding the exact proof on extraterrestrials, there are no assumptions of the next step of human beings. But there is an article talking about "what scientists can learn from alien hunters". It's an article about how scientists and organizations resulted in conflict (didn't quite understand the article) and became a mess. 

https://www.wired.com/story/what-scientists-can-learn-from-alien-hunters/

A book I found in google scholar, Contact with Alien Civilizations, would be really helpful on the topics of the beliefs (or religion) in UFO, our understanding of those technology and science, questions should we continue to search. There are also some controversial topics such as the danger and fear that the contact with UFOs would bring to the government and public and would the day of discovery be the Judgment Day? 




Contact with Alien Civilizations

https://books.google.com/books?hl=zh-CN&lr=&id=tdAFlJnH648C&oi=fnd&pg=PR4&dq=what+the+implications+for+science+might+be+if+we+could+understand+UFO+technology%3F&ots=uFbOqT8-cI&sig=k_BqEkkPHIQdiDTFxFmcWZtQkh4#v=onepage&q&f=false



 

Comments

  1. Michael GoellerFebruary 8, 2021 at 11:44 PM

    Thanks for pointing me to the "What Scientists Can Learn from Alien Hunters" article, which usefully explained the problem I noted with a recent book by an astronomer that claims that an object that moved swiftly through our solar system might have been (as the subtitle to his book states) "the first sign of intelligent life beyond earth" -- as though all of the many UFO observations don't count. The problem, as your article discusses, is that the various fields that study outer space just do not speak to each other. See my comments on our blog:
    https://unexplained201.blogspot.com/2021/02/remembering-oumuamua.html

    Maybe the problem of government coverups and debunking is really a problem of "boundary-work," where everyone is declaring UFOs as a taboo subject within their domains, thus delegitimizing the entire UFO subject. The question you might pursue is, "who studies UFOs, then, in a scientific way?" Do "ufologists" actually have a "field" of study? If so, where does it reside and how has it come about?

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