I recently read an article in "UFO Magazine’"s March issue, “Watch Out, The Bellevue Commissars Are Coming”, by Colin Bennett. Bennett also writes for "The New Fortean Times". His article slams the Mutual UFO Network, which he refers to as “factual analysis” investigators whose scientific investigations are too narrow when you are dealing with another form of the metaphysical , which Mr. Bennett seems to believe, is the one and simple explanation for UFOs.
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MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) is the largest UFO investigation organization of UFOs. MUFON is a non profit organization. Many of the “field investigators” are volunteer’s part time. Their mission statement reflects this lofty goal:
“The scientific study of UFOs for the benefit of humanity.”
Mr. Bennett’s’ belief that UFOs are just an another mystical event seem very dogmatic and reminds me of the catholic church in it’s earlier days. Of course some Christian groups believe E T are demons or angels and can be just as dogmatic. I was for a long time just as dogmatic about a technology explanation but I had to admit some of the wee documented cases made no sense. One case gave me an idea but I’ve present first in my next post.
UFO media matters will provide logical, alternative, common sense answers to the most bazaar of UFO cases in – The UFO Religion Part II –
Now to the Rush Limbaugh of the UFO world.
Bennett charges that MUFON suppresses some of the more metaphysical and bizarre reports by credible witnesses of UFO experiences . Why, because Bennett claims, these cases would not reinforce MUFON’s views. In Part 2 I present a case that is as bazaar as you going to get. It was investigated by MUFON in 1964 I believe it can be explained logically.
The attack spin-and-blame game Mr. Bennett plays in the article does nothing but help continue to polarize the different factions and groups within the UFO community. His frustrations and attacks against MUFONS’ dependence on scientific methodology and technology are both disingenuous and downright misleading. He’s a good writer, but great writers convey a sense of profound truth, which was sadly lacking in Mr. Bennett’s article.
Mr. Bennett rants how philosopher Thomas Aquinas would weep at MUFON’s investigators, and the:
“Locust clouds of lower class - middle class professional’s who descend upon the UFO experience…with their facts and figures”.
Leave it up to the supposed fellow “spiritual” travelers to bring up “class” first. Makes you wonder, what Jesus would think?
I say Bennett’s exaggerations are not even based in reality. Especially when he rants:
“the idea of four hundred well trained and earnest field investigators wielding notebooks and forensic science kits on a single strange experience of a poor human being is a daunting prospect. This is as awesome a scare as a threat of becoming interrogated by congeries of grocers of Kafkaesque librarians, all asking questions full of common-sense practicality about documents, categories; and file codes and types of cheese.”
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