The Importance of UFO Waves
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Joseph W. Ritrovato - MUFON UFO Journal
In his book UFOs and Outer Space Mysteries, UFO skeptic James E. Oberg proposes a hypothetical test case to demonstrate that there is probably nothing of significance to the UFO phenomena. His idea is based on the possibility that if among the total number of UFO reports there were a real core of “truly extraordinary stimuli” and you could somehow have one year where these genuine anomalies were to disappear from the scene, something very interesting would happen. In his estimation the number of supposedly “true UFOs” would remain at virtually the same level as they would in a typical year when the genuine article (suggesting there is no such thing) is not excluded. Predictably, his reasoning advocates that these “Unknowns” are nothing more than misidentifications of “perfectly mundane” events. It is his belief that there will always be a residue of reports that can not be explained after the fact due to unreliability of witnesses. He also implies that only a lack of complete information stands in the way of identifying the experience as something not out of the ordinary.
