my final word on Phenomecon 2022, in which we first comment on the current state of play of ufological matters
E very now and then it’s advisable to take a step back from one’s affairs and to examine them from afar. To afford oneself the luxury of an estimate of the situation. This contemplative withdraw is the condition of philosophy itself, and given just how universal and necessary this gesture really is, this makes philosophy universal. The philosophical cannot be avoided. It is, indeed, a condition of life itself—at least a life worthy of a human being (and let’s not too easily forget the dimension of the human all-too-human in our ufological endeavors). I am in my own way attempting to shift the conversation in ufology—away from the nonsense, the historical baggage that has attached to the subject since the very beginning of the modern UFO age. As the eloquent and gifted historian of science Greg Eghigian is so well demonstrating in his current online course “Close Encounters”, despite the recent moves by Congress, the DOD, and now NASA—we’ve been here before, haven’t we? From the earli...