By
Milton W.Hourcade
No matter what issue or subject you choose, the truth, at
the end, is only one.
It is hypocritical to pretend that about a same issue
there are many truths, yours, mine, his, her....
Of course, when there is something that demands
investigation and study, unless you take time to develop both activities with
intellectual honesty, seriousness and consecration, you won’t be capable to
reach the truth. Instead, and more possibly, you will adhere nearly
irrationally to pseudo-truths fabricated deliberately by those who want to sell
you their products, (books, CDs, DVDs, trips to some “special” places, etc.).
In other words, you become mislead and misinformed.
The search for the truth implies dedication, a firm
purpose, and a lot of time.
But when you reach it by yourself, when you feel sure
that you came to a point of no return, then you can look retrospective and
discover the different stages you went through.
Dealing with the Unusual Aerial Phenomena (we prefer this
designation that the insufficient and confusing “UFO”) you would be able to
analyze your path to the truth and then you will discover probably three clear
stages:
a) the stage of enthusiasm,
when you for the first time in your life get in touch with the subject. You are
nearly blinded by the many things you are able to read, you are confused, but
you think that you are in the right way. You feel yourself lucky that you can
“understand” what many people ignore. You are the “owner” of a knowledge that
you share with other people that think and feel like you. You become persuaded
that you are dealing with the most extraordinary event in human history: e.g.
the extraterrestrials and that they are among us.
Then you create
an organization, you print a bulletin, you create a web-page you use Facebook, you keep a lot of
e-mail, and maybe have a radio or a TV program.
In the old
times, things were not so easy as they are now:
immediate communication via Internet, Google maps, cellular phones,
GPS...But, we created an organization, we printed our bulletins using
mimeograph, we had radio programs and
also a TV program, we gave public conferences for free, we travel a lot, and we
established the best possible relations with scientists, technicians and the
personnel at the control tower and operations at the International Airport, as
well as with the Air Force.
Without these two supports (the Air Force and the
personnel at the airport) our work couldn’t have been as efficient as it was.
This is a lesson for the newcomers. Unless they are able
to reach that level, their investigation wouldn’t be complete and satisfactory.
b) the stage of reflection. If
you are intellectually honest, if you are sincere with yourself, slowly, step
by step, case after case that you investigate, you discover that the main thing
which makes important the media is that many times they are the first to make
public something that happened somewhere.
But at a second level, when you go to the place where presumably
something strange happened, the first lesson you will get is that regretfully,
the media do not share the same interest that you have. In other words, they
exaggerate, they distort, they twist declarations, details, etc. to make sound
them really strange while you –the investigator—came to know it was not. You face the reality, and the reality allows
you to have an explanation of what happened for the 98.5 to 99% of the cases.
It
is then when you begin to think about the whole subject of the UAP, and you
start to doubt about cases investigated by other people in other countries,
because you don’t know the investigators and their criteria, you don’t know how
much you can trust on what they report.
You
start to realize that unless there is a protocol, a standardized procedure for
the investigation of UAP reports and the study that follows, you can’t accept
“bona fide” the information spread by many sources, be they web pages, videos
uploaded in YouTube, pseudo-documentaries, and mostly touristic and “pour la
gallerie” congresses that allow some people introduced as “stars” to massage
themselves their ego, and become a reinforcement of faith, for all those that
believe what they are going to hear.
You
begin to become skeptical about the cases. You will demand a total opening of
official or private files, and specifically to know how the investigation was
made. Unless you are able to know those parameters, you certainly will apply a
very useful and needed filter to the news that go around the world in reference
to the UAP subject.
You
will be very selective about your sources of information. You will demand all
the time responsibility and a trustable source, i.e. a well known university, a
technological institute or a scientist or technician with good international
reputation.
You
will think about the subject as a whole and you will find yourself throwing
away some hypothesis that along the time have demonstrated to be not useful, or
that definitely do not help to solve the problem, to explain satisfactorily the
UAP issue.
You
stick to your rational position, applying common sense, the Occam’s razor, and
trying to know as much as you can about Astronomy, Astronautics, Aeronautics,
Physics, Psychology, Photography, etc.; because without certain knowledge of
these disciplines, you are a real ignorant about the things that matter most to
have a valid answer to the challenges posed by the UAP.
Parallel
to that, you realize that one important thing you can do, is to educate the
public. The more the people are informed, the less they will report to have
seen UAPs. Instead they will get to know about natural phenomena and
technological developments that could explain a lot of different situations to
which suddenly people could be exposed.
c) the stage of deception You
have arrived possibly to the last stage of your long journey.
It
is when you look around and realize how big the human stupidity is. How easy is
for swindlers and merchants to exploit the ignorance of the vast majority of
the people, included those fanatics, adherents to conspiracy theories,
fantasy-prone personalities, and people that call themselves “investigators”,
and are simply enthusiastic newcomers to the arena.
It
is possible that you won’t be able to understand why those who just started
your journey do not take advise, do not try to learn, and do not consult with
you about a lot of things that you have acquired in your decades of experience.
It
is even possible that those newcomers don’t get in contact with you, that they
will think by themselves that they have a clear idea about the whole UAP issue,
and will call you with disrespect as “skeptical” or accuse you to be serving
some obscure interests or projects.
Forget
those people and forgive them, because “they don’t know what they do”. You fine
tune with those who are at your same stage, you deal increasingly with
scientists, with people using instruments to know intrinsically the real nature
of the UAP.
You
change the way you have done investigation and study for years to a new
approach that demands that you yourself will try to be face to face with the
phenomena; analyze afterwards the data collected, share it with scientists, and
try to reach a conclusion, if it is possible.
If
you do so, you’ll know directly the real nature of the UAP. You are touching
the truth.
d) the stage of a final decision
Things
are not so simple.
Because
you realize that you are learning mostly about the nature of the Anomalous
Luminous Phenomena, but they are not all what has been seen and reported
through the years.
And
when you go back to the history of the whole issue, you realize that there were
times during the decades of the 40’s and 50’s of the former century, when there
were not only manifestations of some kind of energy, but also what could be
called properly “objects”, in other words, aircrafts of a certain kind that
were not airplanes or helicopters, whose flying dynamics, shape, and other
characteristics couldn’t be ascribed to what was generally known.
They
revealed to be the product of another kind of Physics, and the practical
application of an advanced technology not widely spread in the world but
constrained to a small group of people.
And
then if you try to study piece by piece the story of the phenomenon since the
beginning you would find that many times it appears intertwined with politics,
with intelligence agencies, etc. and then, you will feel for the first time
that you have landed on solid ground, that you are touching the truth in its
total and complete dimension.
And
when you reach to this point, it is possible that you will keep silent forever,
you will leave the Unusual Aerial Phenomena or you will take the very serious
risk to reveal all what you were able to know, aware that your own life could
be at stake.
Now,
to take that decision you are alone...
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