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Ufology 2005
By Rosemary Ellen Guiley
FATE :: February 2005

To kick off the new year in one of our favorite subjects, FATE asked six experts in different areas of ufology to share their views on what’s important right now and why. Ufology continues to evolve and expand, and it hits numerous hot buttons: alien agendas, exopolitics, disclosure, contact with nonhuman entities, explorations of nonlocal consciousness, religious considerations, social implications of contact, hard evidence of aliens and craft, and more. Ufology stands at the frontier where science, spirituality, politics, mysticism, and philosophy meet. And the more the public engages in discussion of ideas and evidence, the more difficult it will be for official coverup and denial to exist.

So here are some thought-provoking views to get the 2005 ball rolling! Our experts are, in alphabetical order: Peter B. Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC); Lisa Davis, chair of the annual National UFO Conference (NUFOC); Deborah Lindemann, certified clinical hypnotherapist; Mark Rodeghier, Ph.D., Scientific Director of the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS); John F. Schuessler, international director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON); Rob Swiatek, secretary-treasurer of the Fund for UFO Research, Inc. (FUFOR); and Robert M. Wood, co-chair of the annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference and expert on MJ-12.

FATE: In your opinion or in your field of expertise, what was the most significant case, news or development in ufology in 2004, and why?

Davenport: I can only draw from the arena of UFO information with which I am involved; i.e., the cases that are submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center, and my activities related to that effort. Within that scope of activities, I believe the peculiar sightings near Tinley Park, Illinois, on August 21 and then again on October 31, 2004, were the most mysterious cases that NUFORC has received during 2004.

I do not consider myself predisposed to self-adulation, but if my theory that UFOs can be detected through the use of “passive radar” is correct, the paper I prepared for the MUFON Symposium in July 2004 may be a landmark event in ufology. It marks the end of the U.S. government’s domination of information about when, and how frequently, UFOs are in the near-Earth environment. The UFO community will be able to detect the presence of UFOs, using our own detection system.

Davis: I think the sightings by the Mexican Air Force were most significant. It was a groundbreaking day on May 11, 2004, when the Mexican government released a full report about the Mexican Air Force surveillance aircraft encountering and filming 11 UFOs over the southern part of the state of Campeche. The Mexican DOD’s Secretary of Defense General Clemente Vega Garcia publicly confirmed the event.

There are many reasons I feel this is a significant event in UFO history. My top three are: (1) The Mexican government allowed the footage to be released. (2) The UFOs were witnessed by several officials in the military; therefore the credibility factor here is high. (3) The UFOs were seen under infrared light and not with the naked eye or under normal lighting situations. This has opened the door for the theory that UFOs are in our atmosphere invisible to us. [For details of the Mexican Air Force sighting, see the July 2004 issue of FATE.]

Rodeghier: Events in 2004 continued as they have for some time in ufology. In terms of their impact on the field, no specific case or event in 2004 will likely have lasting influence, although we were all saddened by the death of John Mack. Nothing fundamental has changed about ufology for several years, ever since abductions and Roswell have receded somewhat from the central focus they occupied in the 1990s.

Swiatek: Chatter and website postings dominated the UFO field in 2004, but no significant developments occurred that will live on in UFO history. Of course sightings continued—thousands of them, as recorded by the National UFO Reporting Center. Still, only the recording of unknown lights over Mexico by the crew of an airplane achieved any prominence, and it remains undecided whether a genuine UFO was videotaped or only the flames of distant oil wells ....

Read the rest of this article in the February 2005 issue of FATE

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