For the Rational Ufologist, the UFO Phenomenon is an
unsolved mystery, and because of this, Rational Ufology investigates the
social, psychological and political impact of this phenomenon.
Paradoxically, that 5 % of Unidentified Flying Objects
that remain unidentified has a secondary importance.
The priority is given to the hypothesis about the origin
and behavior of the UFO phenomenon, and also to the rational and logical
interpretation of the mythology and pseudo-sciences created by the different
interpretations of the enigma.
Contactees, self-proclaimed experts, mystics and
improvised prophets give different ideas and versions of the phenomenon, but
Rational Ufology demands evidences.
The interpretation of the UFO Phenomenon by the
irrational ufologists is confused, contradictory and fallacious. There is talk,
but no facts, and in many cases, we find a dishonest manipulation of hypothesis
and pseudo events given as facts.
The Rational Ufologist is eclectic, but is also pragmatic
and realist. He recognizes that the culture industry perpetually cheats its
consumers with promises. The promissory note with its plots and staging, is
endlessly prolonged; the promise is illusory: all that actually confirms is
that the real point will never be
reached, that the diner must be satisfied with the menu.”
In the rhetoric of
the Cosmic Gurus we see this phenomenon in action. Nonsense replaces the real
world and balloons are transformed into big ET spacecrafts. Contactees give us
New Age talk as Extraterrestrial messages, ex rock musicians become Aliens and lawyers
time travelers.
However all this
must be considered and analyzed in Ufology. We must recognize the distorted impact
of the UFO phenomenon in our society.
WE should understand the UFO subculture as spectacle, as
the promise of a bad defined solution. The whole manipulation of the disclosure
activism is not directed towards a solution of the UFO enigma.
The important
thing for these activists is to sell their statements and conspiratorial
delusions.
The society of the
spectacle is also the world of the simulacrum. The picture is more important
than the real thing, and even worst, contactees, and self proclaimed UFO experts
try to make us believe that their rhetoric is the real thing.
That is why they deny Science but instead give us fairy
tales as facts and fictions as real events.
