I hear from some "UFO-believing" circles that with the dismal effect
of the much anticipated but "overwhelmingly disappointing" Peter
Jennings's recent UFO Special, that "UFOLOGY" seems to be going
nowhere or worse yet,  is even dead.

Jennings' Special apparently did not even achieve its goal of
attaining high ratings.   As expected, the insignificant TV Special
disclosed nothing new.   It was the same old rehashing of things we
have seen and heard time and time again in most UFO TV Specials in the
past.   We cannot blame Jennings for this less than mediocre
presentation.   The bottom line is that shallow topics deserves
shallow presentations.   And this is exactly what the viewers got.  
It is rather simply an indication that the general public has never
been interested and never will be interested in the topic of "UFOs"
until it becomes a topic of serious mainstream interest.

Characters such as Art Bell and others seem to continue to maintain
their role and legacy as part of the "fringe" and not mainstream. 
Their only value for TV producers seems to be in the "entertaining"
aspect of such programs.  Thus TV UFO Specials continue to wrap itself
with a "laughter curtain" and there are many who end up playing such a
role wittingly or unwittingly.
Moreover, we must face the reality that the mainstream will never
seriously embrace "Ufology" as a valid discipline.
TV UFO Specials have never succeeded and will never ever succeed in
elevating "UFOs" to a legitimate level or a topic of serious concern.

To me, "ufology" has been dead from the beginning, simply because
"Ufology" is a forced attempt to create a discipline out of an
ambiguous subject matter that has never had any logical, scientific,
unified definition and thus has always been categorized as  "fringe"
or "pseudo science".

If anything at all, it should be categorized as part of "religious
studies" since it is based on a belief system.  "Ufology" remains in
the domain of "beliefs".  The only reality as we understand it to be
is the reality that a segment of the population believes (or have
believed) that they have witnessed what they perceive (or have
perceieved) to be "UFOs".   It is therefore a matter of belief and
conviction and therefore cannot be scrutinized or approached with
empirical methodology.   The reality that some people believe that
they have witnessed what they perceive to be a UFO has little to do
with blanket statements such as "UFOs are real" or "UFOs exist".

We can only accept the fact that people have claimed and believe that
they have witnessed what they perceive to be UFOs.  We are simply left
with this fact.  And it stops here.  The possiblity that we are not
alone in the universe should have little (or even nothing) to do with
whether UFOs exist or not.

If the objective is to find a physical solution to the "UFO
phenomenon"  the bottom line is that we have yet to come up with any
concrete, physical, irrefutable, solid evidence that UFOs are
physical, intelligently maneuvered non-human spacecraft from outside
of this earth with or without its occupants.  Alleged visual evidences
such as alleged photos or alleged video footages are not sufficient.  
First person accounts such as "I was abducted by a grey alien", ad
nauseam, are definitely out of the question.

Everything else is irrevelant and continues to remain so in the domain
of pure speculation.

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