Here's why the public perception of both UFOs and those who report them matter.
Studies of those who report seeing UFOs show little evidence of psychopathology or attention seeking.on the warm, red desert sand, gazing up at the stars in the crystal-clear night, I watched satellites in low Earth orbit swiftly transit above me—objects that looked like stars but weren’t—following predictable, straight trajectories unlike the flash of meteors and decidedly faster than the ultraslow movement of stars with the Earth’s rotation.
Had I just seen a UFO? Was it man-made, some kind of unknown natural phenomena, or… something not of this world?Studies of people who report seeing unidentified flying objects or unidentified aerial phenomena show that very few such individuals exhibit psychopathology or are simply trying to grabor sell their stories for financial gain.
But, as the recent congressional testimony of military pilots who recorded encounters with UFOs shows, optical illusions can’t account for all of the sightings. The history of science shows that, before the fact, the biggest breakthroughs seem outright nuts. For instance, those who theorized continental drift, the asteroid extinction of dinosaurs, the fact that bacteria cause ulcers, or that mass and energy warp space-time were considered fringe whackos until their important theories were ultimately proven correct.
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