{"id":239,"date":"2025-03-09T13:47:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/is-anyone-else-tired-of-the-uap-personalities-displacing-actual-researchers\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T13:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:47:55","slug":"is-anyone-else-tired-of-the-uap-personalities-displacing-actual-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/is-anyone-else-tired-of-the-uap-personalities-displacing-actual-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Is anyone else tired of the UAP &#8220;Personalities&#8221; displacing actual researchers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is anyone else frustrated by the rise of UAP &#8220;personalities&#8221; overshadowing genuine researchers? I&#8217;ve been reflecting on how the conversation around this topic has shifted from serious case investigations and attempts at peer review to a focus on competing claims and debates over who&#8217;s credible or just a charlatan.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Lue Elizondo remarked that UFOlogy needed to come to an end. With the absence of respected researchers like Stanton Friedman, J. Allen Hynek, and James McDonald, can we truly say UFOlogy is alive? It seems to have morphed into something resembling reality TV.<\/p>\n<p>I recently came across an old issue of Astronomy magazine from the 1970s featuring a debate between Carl Sagan and Stanton Friedman about the Betty Hill starmap. That discussion was far more engaging and insightful than what we&#8217;re witnessing today with the back-and-forth between Sheehan, Coulhart, Greer, Elizondo, and Greenwald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nIs anyone else frustrated by the rise of UAP &#8220;personalities&#8221; overshadowing genuine researchers? I&#8217;ve been reflecting on how the conversation around this topic has shifted from serious case investigations and attempts at peer review to a focus on competing claims and debates over who&#8217;s credible or just a charlatan. In 2017, Lue Elizondo remarked that&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/is-anyone-else-tired-of-the-uap-personalities-displacing-actual-researchers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Is anyone else tired of the UAP &#8220;Personalities&#8221; displacing actual researchers?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}