In a msg to David Bloomberg on , Paul Andinach of 3:690/650 
writes:
 DB> When I was here, it seemed no progress was ever made in UFOlogy.  I
 DB> was hoping that maybe some things had changed.  But in UFOlogy, it
 DB> seems that almost never happens.  :-(  A well-known skeptic (though I
 DB> can't recall which one) said it best:  For UFOlogy, it will always be
 DB> 1947.
 PA>    The problem with UFOlogy is that everybody's hung up on the aliens. 
 PA> All the arguments we hear about are focussed on whether UFOs are alien 
 PA> spacecraft.
The old, "If it's not Christmas, it must be the 4th of July" problem (used to 
be my origin line, but when I dropped this echo last time, I deleted it and 
haven't gotten around to putting it back).  Some UFO believers point to 
something in the sky and if they figure out it's not an airplane (for 
example), they declare it must be aliens.  I've actually seen the head of 
MUFON do this (with the radar "sighting" in Michigan a couple years back).  
Amazing.
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