{"id":6483,"date":"2025-03-25T15:35:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/is-anyone-else-tired-of-the-uap-personalities-displacing-actual-researchers-4\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:35:49","slug":"is-anyone-else-tired-of-the-uap-personalities-displacing-actual-researchers-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/is-anyone-else-tired-of-the-uap-personalities-displacing-actual-researchers-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Is anyone else tired of the UAP “Personalities” displacing actual researchers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is anyone else frustrated by the way UAP “personalities” are overshadowing genuine researchers? It seems like the conversation has shifted from studying cases and engaging in some form of peer review to just a spectacle of debates over whose outrageous claims to believe or who might be a charlatan.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Lue Elizondo remarked that UFOlogy needed to die. With the absence of serious researchers like Stanton Friedman, J. Allen Hynek, and James McDonald, is UFOlogy effectively gone and replaced by something akin to reality TV drama?<\/p>\n

I recently came across a 1970s issue of Astronomy magazine featuring a debate between Carl Sagan and Stanton Friedman about the Betty Hill starmap. That discussion was far more fascinating and intellectually engaging than the current squabbles between Sheehan, Coulhart, Greer, Elizondo, and Greenwald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nIs anyone else frustrated by the way UAP “personalities” are overshadowing genuine researchers? It seems like the conversation has shifted from studying cases and engaging in some form of peer review to just a spectacle of debates over whose outrageous claims to believe or who might be a charlatan. In 2017, Lue Elizondo remarked that…\n<\/div>\n
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