Portray has been a sigh circulating about the slap of Project Tycoon. It has been aimed that Tycoon did detect selected American atomic complex and it was successful in detecting the first Soviet nuclear test on Revered 29,1949.
I was devious.
I restrain, in the back, take to mean prepared all the huge information published about Tycoon and the tests. My temper, on the whole, centered sequence the June and July, 1947 flights in New Mexico. These are at the source of the Roswell scuffle. From all that I had take to mean or seen, Tycoon was never deployed. It was too chic and wasn't all that trustworthy, though in in imitation of go they were very successful on selected very, long-range flights.
I what's more alleged that the first Soviet nuclear test had been detected prepared atmospheric monitoring and seismic recordings. Radiation from the test drifted over monitoring stations and the seismic readings endorsed intelligence agents (well, the scientists who monitored such stuff) to ascertain the decide. I found zip about Tycoon being recycled.
Tony Bragalia in an email to me, mentioned that Tycoon had been successful in detecting that first Soviet test. I asked for the anyhow and he razor-sharp me to an Internet report by Richard A. Muller, who is a educator of physics at the College of California at Berkeley.
That web discretion if pay off ache. It is:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8F 2Z3Ne9kJ:muller.lbl.gov/teaching/physics10/old%2520physics%252010/chapters%2520(old)/9-SecretsofUFOs.html+%22project+mogul+and+the+%22lying+disks%22%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a">
I emailed Dr. Muller and right away, looked-for no reaction. I mean the guy has published books, does divider shows and teaches classes. His website is altogether complex and lively. I figured that he would be too thriving to resolve my distribute about the anyhow and I was uneasy my dedication weight annoyed him. I am, after all, on the other side of the negotiations.
Dr. Muller responded indoors a match up of hours, and given the time (prehistoric start) I sent my email, I was stunned. He was altogether meticulous in his orifice, and informative what information he might.
He wrote, "I am uneasy that I don't restrain a approximate anyhow for that information; it was no matter which that I was told, and I'm not sure by whom... I don't restrain a approximate recite for that. Substandard."
In the supercilious amount of Roswell research, this means very little. Balanced if Tycoon had in the end worked, it doesn't alter what people endure about the Roswell case. All this does is entail that reports of Tycoon slap are little high-class than rumors.
If everybody has solve information than this, I'm sure that he or she atmosphere let me differentiate. But, until we can verify it, the fact is that here is no approximate anyhow for the intention that Tycoon worked (which means in this context, that it didn't detected the Soviet test).
This Pulitzer Prize winning book [Vintage Books, NY, 1962-1963] by Richard Hofstadter tells readers that there has been a crusade against intellectuals and why.
(Although author Hofstadter takes to task former Senator Joseph McCarthy, and idol of mine because Senator McCarthy was right about communists and fellow-travelers inside the U.S. government during the Cold War - see William Buckley Jr. and Brent Bozell's 1954 book, MCCARTHY AND HIS ENEMIES -- I still find Mr. Hofstadter's views to be brilliant and insightful, about anti-intellectualism in America, which can be applied to anti-intellectualism in Ufology).
Hofstadter writes this:
"America was settled by men and women who repudiated European civilization for its oppressiveness or decadence... and who found the most striking thing on the American strand not in the rude social forms that were taking shape here but in the world of nature and savages. The escape from civilization... was perpetuated in repeated escapes from East to West, from the settled world to the frontier." [Page 49]
One can see this attitude, today in the heavy settling out West by ufologists adorned in western gear (string ties, boots, and denim).
Alexis de Tocqueville, perhaps the greatest explicator of American society [DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, 1835], is cited by Hostadter:
"Tocqueville saw that the life of constant action and decision which was entailed by the democratic and businesslike character of American life put a premium upon rough and ready habits of mind..." [Page 50]
And the prominent British writer D.H. Lawrence said, "in one of his harsh, luminous hyperboles that the essential American soul is 'hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.'" [Page 49]
This is the temper of most UFO writers and their devotees, I'm sorry to say.
Hofstadter blames religious evangelism for much anti-intellectualism in America, but if ufologists are religious-oriented, that hasn't protruded in their writings or commentary, as far as I see it.
Ufologists and fellow-travelers (buffs) seem to be agnostic when it comes to placing UFOs in a religious milieu. Abductees who've created a religious patina to their experience have, generally, been eschewed by UFO "researchers."
The crudity of observational comments at this blog and even more so at other blogs evidence how shallow the ufological mind is.
Placing anything with "gravitas" online here (or elsewhere) brings forth a silence that is palpable.
Any insertion of something devoid of crash and burn or dynamic, hyped reportage goes uncommented.
UFO mavens want bread and circus accounts.
The vapid arguing at Kevin Randle's blog tells me (and others) that UFO hobbyists want to argue rather than seek an explanation of what a sighting means or what UFOs as a phenomenon are.
Hofstadter writes that the cult of anti-intellectualism "was not a variation... of a universal problem of modern societies, but a case of utterly unique pathology." [Page 412]
That persons interested in UFOs seem prone to pathologies can be readily seen in their commentaries, with UFO writers and investigators showing marked symptoms of addled minds. (Need I name them?)
Intellectuals conformed, ideologically, to survive the onslaught of anti-intellectualism [Hofstadter, Chapter XV, Pages 393-432].
But intellectuals in ufology acquiesce to the mob, and descend to writing in ways (me included) that the great UFO unwashed can understand.
Bruce Deusing doesn't acquiesce. He challenges readers of his blog and says "to hell with your stupidity, I'm not going to water down my views for you."
But he's a UFO loner.
Ufology and the UFO topic have suffered grievously by intellectuals abandoning their cachet of intelligence.
The UFO hoi-polloi took hold of the topic and phenomenon in the era that Hofstadter addresses, the 1950s and 1960s, when intellectualism was shunned and attacked.
We, in the UFO community, have never recovered from that.
The topic is festooned with hokeyisms and folk-tales, not real investigation or research.
Hyperbole, myth, and outright lies (or errors) prevail.
The problem is endemic to American society, and societies elsewhere as well.
So, there you have it: one of the reasons that UFOs, as an important ingredient in human society, are moribund, on life support.
RR
