An article on the British Channel 4 News website claims that UFO sightings are in the decline in recent years, and according to its headline - UFO researchers should do some soul searching. We disagree.
Perhaps it is the fact the UFO videos and photos are so common nowadays that makes it hard for us not take the fact of UFO existence for granted, and makes the business of Ufology more mainstream and trivial.
Yearly UFO Sighting Stats by MUFON
But this is only relevant whether you don't have your facts right. Channel 4 News is telling us that UFO sightings are on the decline, but also that there were no major UFO cases in the past two decades. Oh really?
How about the Chicago O'hare International Airport UFO incident in 2006? Or is thePhoenix Lights (1997) not a major case by Channel 4 standards? The Cometa Report from 1999 is probably the most serious UFO investigation ever made, with shocking conclusions, and The Belgian UFO wave was 23 years ago, more then two decades, but still an incredibly important UFO case. And these are just off the tip of a hat.
But let us ignore realty and assume that no major UFO sighting accord in recent years, does that take away anything out of the level of seriousness that older UFO cases should be addressed today? Is the Roswell Incident any less relevant than it was 20 years ago? I think not, The same essential questions still hover over it and other cases, and the demands for government disclosure to the general public by Ufologists are still of the same importance to our way of life, and our civil rights that they were in the past.
We shouldn't never give up, we are giving this UFO question, and humanity at large, a good service by helping the phenomena find its place as a mainstream issue, and by that allowing serious questions about government secrecy, public deception and our place in the universe to rise above the surface.
How about the Chicago O'hare International Airport UFO incident in 2006? Or is thePhoenix Lights (1997) not a major case by Channel 4 standards? The Cometa Report from 1999 is probably the most serious UFO investigation ever made, with shocking conclusions, and The Belgian UFO wave was 23 years ago, more then two decades, but still an incredibly important UFO case. And these are just off the tip of a hat.
But let us ignore realty and assume that no major UFO sighting accord in recent years, does that take away anything out of the level of seriousness that older UFO cases should be addressed today? Is the Roswell Incident any less relevant than it was 20 years ago? I think not, The same essential questions still hover over it and other cases, and the demands for government disclosure to the general public by Ufologists are still of the same importance to our way of life, and our civil rights that they were in the past.
We shouldn't never give up, we are giving this UFO question, and humanity at large, a good service by helping the phenomena find its place as a mainstream issue, and by that allowing serious questions about government secrecy, public deception and our place in the universe to rise above the surface.
