And
UFOs ?...
UFO sightings,
these alleged observation of bright or colored "balloons", triangles and other
cigars disturbe sometimes our environment.
We
have not to "believe" in UFO or extraterrestrials as we believe in God but try to
understand the phenomenon and what really saw alleged witnesses.
Whatever
is your opinion about UFO's we have to recognize that there is a pending
problem for some decades that we
cannot fully explain; the socio-psychological explanation does not
resolve all problems. The few percents of unsolved observations justify
that scientists continue to investigate objectively this very special field, sometime
extraordinary to say the least.
Because
the first work of a scientist is not to imagine theoretical explanations
- as e.g. speaking immediately in terms of extraterrestrials - but
rather to put all in place to collect physical data and readable
pictures of the phenomenon. Then, after collecting a sufficient amount of data he could at last
develop hypothesis and explicative models.
It
is good to know geologists
and physicians for example have found some correlations between
earthquakes and some "UFO" sightings. Elsewhere, during the
Belgian UFO flop, while witnesses observed an UFO from the ground,
airborne radars locked on a unidentified target which confirmed, after
analysis the presence of a material object in the air a few miles away.
What for a material, what kind of object ? Nobody knows...
We
are no more in the XIXth
century when the witness of a meteorite falling was considered as a
fool... and isolated from his community. Today we have tools and
sophisticated instrumentation to analyze what happened.
All
these kind of data have a high scientific value and such researches have
to be continue with more support from the authorities, universities or
political. Today an European organization support such research.
Unfortunately,
scientists cannot access easily to the Hubble Space Telescope or
satellites like Landsat or Spot satellites to check evidences of UFO
presence but an international organization should. Therefore we have to
support such initiatives in order they convince authorities there is
something to do in the field.
But
we have to solve another dilemma too. We currently have the tools to study
the phenomenon but authorities refuse to give them to scientists because
they cannot provide results. But how can we proof something if we
haven't tools to study it ?... We turn in circle ! At last a few political
begin to understand the nonsense of such an attitude.
In
all these fields of environmental study any amateur observation
quite a few complete - I mean completed with analysis, pictures,
recordings, etc - or visually confirmed by other witnesses can still help the
professional community to understand what happened.
Usually
such sightings are first reported to the police office whose reports are
sent to national astronomy observatories, space centers or universities
physics departments for analysis.
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