If a social network could help to measure what is going
on among people interested in UFOs, Facebook is of great help.
Since I opened my FB page, day after day I am witness of
the creation of a new organization, of meeting groups, new magazines, new web
pages and radio programs referred to UFOs in Argentina.
On the one hand, it surprises the enthusiasm of those
people engaged in such activities, like if Argentina were a privileged place in
the world supposedly visited by “extraterrestrial spaceships” (because in the
vast majority of the people dealing with the subject there, that is the idea
behind their interest).
For me, (with some honorable exceptions of people I know
very well since long time ago) they are mostly newcomers who evidently do not
know almost anything about the 65 years history of UFOs and UFOLOGY, and there
is a marked absence of good criteria and logical thought, which are substituted
by the wish to believe, and a festival of fantasy and almost craziness.
When we can read that someone who thinks that frequently
is seen “E.T. spaceships” writes: “every time I see one of them I salute them
saying !”, I frankly think that we are in front of a clear
manifestation of a fantasy prone personality, not really a witness. That
behavior is something out of reality.
Like the people that in their lack of knowledge think that they
are seeing “chemtrails” (following the conspiracy idea behind them) when what
they see are just airplane contrails.
More interesting is to verify where they get their
“information”: videos in YouTube and some “saucerian” web pages.
There is also a growing number of individuals that point
their photo or video cameras to any place in the sky, and when they go to see
what they have gotten in their “adventure”, they are rewarded seen in the
screen of their PCs or laptops a little point or line that immediately they
themselves declare as a “UFO” and surely will upload to YouTube and put on
Facebook and web pages, as “Video of a UFO in…” or “UFO photographed in…”.
Reversing what has been the rule for decades among
ufologists, they call “UFO” what it really is a “UFO-report”, not understanding
that the declaration that something is a UFO is coming after a meticulous work
of investigation and study of a given case, but never before.
Worst of all is that no matter the efforts to make them
to analyze, to develop good criteria, to get to know and differentiate a
natural or artificial phenomenon from something “extraordinaire”, it seems that
they are inside a cocoon in which they feel comfortably and they don’t bother
to accept, or even consider the warnings, the clarifications and precisions
coming from people that have dedicated a whole life to the UFO subject.
Moreover, they are totally confused about who is a real,
true and serious investigator, and who is someone that have used the UFO
subject as a merchandise, creating
fraudulent “cases”, forcing witnesses to say what they have not seen,
etc. and making UFOs their way of living, like Mr. F. Z. in Argentina (I don’t
like even to mention his name) , or Mr. Jaime Maussan in Mexico.
And then we have to consider another couple of things
that even unconsciously are playing their role in this apparent outbreak of
“ufo activity” in that country.
On a time of serious economic difficulties, the UFO
subject could help to distract the attention of the real problems that the
Argentinian society faces, or it could be a palliative to the stressful
situations people are living there, and finally, for some of them –surely a
little minority— it could be a way to make money, once again exploiting
commercially the wish to believe of the population.
Otherwise there is t no reason whatsoever for such rush
in Ufology happening there.
The imagination of some people, and the wish to believe
and to think that they have seen “something out of this world” of other people,
are the factors that can explain that strange and almost unique situation,
which, by the way, is not replicated in Chile and Uruguay, border neighbors of
Argentina, neither in Brazil nor elsewhere in the world.
Last but not least, some people speculate with a
catastrophic vision, believing in the myth of the end of the world for December
of this year.
All said, I give my support to IDREC, a group of young people seriously interested
in the UFO phenomenon that tries to get images of things flying very high,
using their night vision video camera in conjunction with a TV set. They need
to perfect their system and they could be useful for a study done on a hot spot
where there could be the recurrent presence of Anomalous Luminous Phenomena.
I would like also to say that the informal meetings of
people to just talk openly about issues related to the UFO subject are a
plausible initiative, and they could be interesting platforms from where to
advance in favor of good investigation, analysis and general study of the
issue. So far, they are not doing Ufology, just chatting.
Lic. Milton W. Hourcade
Note: the opinion contained in this article is personal not the official position of UAPSG-GEFAI
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