It is said by many people, even some reputable scientists, that in the last few years there has been a significant shift in what can be called ufology. They say that we no longer wonder if all that footage of purported UFOs is real or not, and instead the question is now whether they are an actual threat to us or not, whether they are human-made or extraterrestrial. As in, there is no question anymore whether the footage is about actual physics-defying aircraft.
There indeed has been a radical shift in ufology. But not that kind of shift.
The radical shift is that now even many reputable scientists have been successfully fooled into believing nonsense. Where previously the vast majority of scientists just dismissed all those UFO claims as mere speculation based on unreliable eyewitness testimony and blurry videos with no actual believable tangible evidence, now more and more reputable scientists have become convinced that those things are real flying physics-defying devices. More and more of these scientists, some who even are quite famous, are talking about it, going to talk shows about it, and completely seriously talking about it as if it were real.
I think it's really sad when this delusion is infecting even reputable scientists. That's because they have credibility and authority, and thus they will drag tons of people into the same delusion. People who wouldn't have otherwise.
Note how in every single piece of video evidence that they have, without fail, the purported "UFO" always, always, lacks any possible visual detail. It's always a small blurry blob, or a blurry bokeh effect. There isn't a single video or photograph (which these scientists are basing their beliefs on) where any sort of clear detail can be seen. (If there was, they would certainly be parading it around, and it would be printed in the front page of all newspapers and TV news broadcasts would talk about nothing but that.)
Do you know why it's always just a small blurry blob that completely lacks any discernible detail?
Because when such a thing can be seen in detail it reveals what it actually is, and it becomes blatantly obvious that it's just completely mundane (like a weather balloon, a bird, the heat exhaust of another fighter jet, a passenger plane, a stain in the cockpit window, a cloud, or any of the myriads of other completely mundane things that it can be.)
All these people, including these scientists, analyzing these videos and photos are doing nothing but speculating and making assumptions based on a tiny blurry blob, with zero knowledge of what it actually is. They assume things like distance, speed, size, direction of movement and so on and so forth... based on nothing but a tiny blurry blob that has zero detail. And they generally fail to take into account other aspects that can affect the visuals of the video footage (such as the parallax effect caused by a rotating camera that's tracking a distant object from a fast-moving fighter jet). And they make completely wild very specific assertions, such as that the object is going underwater, based solely on blurry grainy low-resolution infrared footage that shows extremely little detail, and where they have no idea what the altitude of the blurry blob is (assuming it even is flying in the air at all). Just because the blurry blob at points blends with the background they assume that it "went underwater".
Scientists, especially physicists, should know better than this. But apparently they don't, and I think that's really sad.
But as the great James Randi used to recount many times, scientists are perhaps the easiest to fool into believing cheap tricks because, ironically, their education has made them "narrow-minded" and they can't see beyond their expertise.
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