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The Estimate of the Situation.

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Greetings. The Estimate of the Situation. "Sign's [Project] pro-extraterrestrial faction, including its director, Capt. Robert R. Sneider, was convinced it had the proof it was seeking, and by fall it had prepared a Top Secret Estimate of the Situation and sent it up the chain of command. At the Pentagon it ignited a fierce controversy. No copy of the document has surfaced, but one Air Force officer who saw it later, Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, said it recounted the DC-3 encounter and other reports by credible observers and declared that the evidence pointed to interplanetary visitation.  When the Estimate got to him, the Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, rejected it on the grounds that it had not proven its case. In a few months it was declassified and all copies were ordered burned, though some are said to have been kept secretly.  For years the Air Force would deny that any such report ever existed." Quote from Jerome Clark's "The UFO Book: Encyc...

The Events at Exeter, New Hampshire.

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Greetings. The Exeter, New Hampshire events from the 3rd of September in 1965 were a highly publicized series of UFO sightings that occurred approximately 8 kilometers south of Exeter in the neighboring town of Kensington. Although multiple independent sightings had been made in the area by numerous witnesses in the weeks leading up to the incident in question, it was the events that transpired on September 3rd which eventually became the most well-known, involving a local teenager and two law enforcement officers. On September 3rd, at approximately 2:00am local time, 18-year-old Norman Muscarello was hitchhiking to his home in Exeter along New Hampshire Route 150. Muscarello, a recent high school graduate, was a few short weeks away from leaving for service in the United States Navy. He had been visiting his girlfriend at her parents' home in nearby Amesbury, Massachusetts, a small community several kilometers southeast of Exeter. Since he had recently sold his automobile, Muscare...

Ufological Cannibalism: An Objective Reality, or Just Erroneously Believed?

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Greetings. There is a belief in UFO circles that the field eats its own, that people of some notoriety interact with each other in a belligerent and counter-productive manner, but is this a proven reality, or just a mistaken axiom that has been passed down as the years have gone by?   An essential part of the scientific method is the objective examinination of other's work, research, and proposed theories, all for the purpose of weeding out invalid conclusions and foundationless hypotheses, ideas that don't hold up after independent scrutinization. Such labors are not seen as negative in nature, but are in fact a highly productive series of routines that the scientific research community has embraced and endorsed for decades.  In the UFO subculture, the sitch is distinctly different. People who are well-known in the UFO hippodrome tend to not question the points of view of their ufological peers, choosing a "love and light" approach, void of the sort of endeavors unde...