Professor Says UFO Studies Should Be Taught At Universities 311
New York anthropology professor Philip Haseley wants young people to get the best education possible, and part of that education, he says, should be about UFOs. Haseley thinks universities should offer classes on UFOs and other unexplained phenomena from space. "[A sighting] happens to millions of people [around the world]. It's about time we looked into this as a worthy area of study. It's important that the whole subject be brought out in the open and investigated," he said. I want to believe the truth is out there in 500 words or less.
Re:Religion Studies (Score:3, Informative)
They would fit. But I would expect a lot of controversy with that approach.
Re:Long past due (Score:3, Informative)
Project Blue Book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Book [wikipedia.org]
The US did research it and did publish what they found. Of course they covered stuff up because the UFOs are classified aviation programs by USAF, CIA, USN and who knows what other TLA.
Re:Anthropology (Score:3, Informative)
A significant question for science (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Bullshit (Score:2, Informative)
Some were proven to be mistaken identity. The "bottom" of the disks always lined up with the pixel orientation of the vid camera, strongly suggesting they were an imaging artifact, perhaps of seagulls in the sun.
Re:Long past due (Score:3, Informative)
Oh please. That thing is clearly a triangular weather balloon viewed from below, like this one [solar-balloons.com].
Re:An opinion that differs from the others (Score:4, Informative)
If you haven't already, Try reading "why people believe weird things [amazon.com]" by michael shermer. Since reading this i'm convinced that there are no such things as ghosts, and that aliens aren't visiting the earth, whereas before i think i just adopted the attitude that the huge body of anecdotal evidence for both of them must indicate something, no smoke without fire, etc.
If you are interested in skepticism in general I can recommend the podcasts skeptoid [skeptoid.com], skepticality [skepticality.com] and the skeptics guide to the universe [theskepticsguide.org]
The betty and barney hill episode [skeptoid.com] of skeptoid is quite enlightening. There are quite a few UFO episodes [skeptoid.com].
The shermer book is essential reading.