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Bill Murphy, at The Anomalist, posted this link and comment Friday [8/2/19] about MJ Banias’ book UFO People:
David Halperin attempts to understand a set of experiences in MJ Banias, “The UFO People” – The Case of Amy. This is a complicated story with a brave protagonist and no easy answers. It also features Banias’ challenging “guiding principle” that “the UFO as object is fundamentally less important than the interpretation and the individual who experienced the phenomenon.” [Italics mine]
That comment I’ve highlighted is madness – utter madness!
When you go to the zoo to see a giraffe, do you concentrate on the other people looking at the giraffe? Do you go to the Indy 500 to study the crowd also there? Do you go to the ballet to see the dancers or to view the other ballet fans?
You get it. It’s not the observers or visitors that are under review when one attends a concert or a UFO sightings. That would be nutty.
Yet, my pal, MJ insists, getting a shore-up from Vallee and others, that it’s the UFO observer who matters, not the UFO.
That kind of thinking borders on the insane.
It’s the UFO that we should be studying. Yes, observing people is fun and worthy of study by sociologists and/or psychologists. But for ufologists, it’s the UFO and only the UFO that should matter.
I know I keep harping on this, but I’ve run into trouble with an academic pal of mine because I insist that it’s the UFO we should be trying to explain, not the behavior of the UFO witness.
MJ is on the wrong track,. If he doesn’t amend his folly, he’ll end up as a ufological footnote or the punchline of a bad UFO joke.
RR
http://ufocon.blogspot.com – The UFO Iconoclast(s)
Source:
https://ufocon.blogspot.com/2019/08/crazy-talk.html
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