Why Do UFOs in General Get More Hate Than Other “Paranormal” Fields?


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I think just about anyone can agree that the paranormal is interesting, believe in it or not. Ghosts, cryptids, vampires, zombies, myths, legends, they’ve all captivated the human imagination since the dawn of time. Some, like the Kraken or the unicorn, are now widely believed to be misidentifications of real animals: the giant squid and rhino. Others, like the ghost hunting Warren Family and countless early 20th century mystics, have been soundly proven to be hoax’s.

I’ve been interested in UFOs for a good while now, and one thing I’ve noticed is a stark difference in the treatment of ufology from other fields: people are fucking mean. Point out that there is a lot happening in the UFO sphere and they call you a quack, tell you you’re gullible, question your intelligence/sanity, and laugh at you. Compare Ufology to cryptozoology or ghost hunting and you don’t see the same ridicule.

If you were to ask me what is more likely: that there is a giant dinosaur fish living in a lake in Scotland that no one can find despite decades of research, or that the universe is full of life and some of that life is intelligent enough to travel the stars, I would unequivocally say that a universe with intelligent life is far more likely. No one chastises the folks who go to Loch Ness and spend thousands of dollars mapping every square inch of the place on LiDAR or DNA testing every random decaying thing that washes up on the hopes they randomly find a dead monster.

If you were to ask me what is more likely: that when we die some energy sticks around banging on doors in the middle of the night, or that aliens visited ancient civilizations inspiring myths about cosmic beings descending from the heavens and inspiring humanity to build megalithic structures, I would say neither sound particularly likely, but I would also say that the pyramids are humungous feats of engineering. A single brick from Stonehenge would be a feat to move with today’s technology, and it was built thousands of years ago. Don’t even get me started on the Nazca Lines, many of which aren’t even visible to the naked eye from ground level, or the unbelievable stonework of Machu Pichu. I would say that there is more evidence to suggest ancient people were fascinated with the stars and that they could have been inspired by what they saw in the skies than there is to suggest the ghost of someone’s dead uncle knocked over a vase in the middle of the night.

I’m not saying other fields within the paranormal deserve to be ridiculed. If you want to go out into the woods of southern Ohio and try your hand at capturing a Bigfoot, I’m not going to stop you, or laugh at you, or tell you you’re crazy. Tell me what you find. If you want to go into a “haunted” prison with different scientific instruments and search for energy signals, knock yourself out. Just because I don’t think you’re going to find anything doesn’t mean I have the right to bully you.

There are currently thousands of photos and videos of “UFOs”. There are whistleblowers who served in high government offices, sightings reported around the world by hundreds of people, radar data, and even supposed physical bodies shown to the Mexican and Peruvian governments, yet journalists like Ross Coulthart are mockingly given “awards” for the most outrageous and preposterous stories. People like Neil DeGrasse Tyson go on TV explaining why they refused to go see the Nazca bodies due to the fact they “wont show them to real scientists or distribute any samples”. Just the other day, a microbiologist at a lab in California posted to r/alienbodies that they in fact did receive samples but that they are considered a joke and not going to be studied.

Imagine what we would know if that stigma wasn’t there. Imagine if, rather than calling on the University of Ica to send samples to Oxford, if Oxford called Ica and requested samples themselves. We would know definitively in no time whether they are a hoax or not. We could point to that instead of relying on letters from random doctors, Russian YouTubers, and Reddit “trust me bros”. Imagine if we gave physicists the radar data from the Nimitz incident. We would know definitively in no time if the tic tac was a balloon, or a drone, or an alien spacecraft.

Whatever your belief in those particular cases are, we deserve better answers and don’t deserve ridicule for demanding it.

If you’re in the US, call your representative and tell them to pass the UAPDA23 with both amendments.

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