On the use of 'UAP' ... and speaking of which: the first-in-a-while academic conference on the subject of UAP Studies
T he notion that ‘UAP’ as a term is of relatively recent provenance is, as many of you likely know, mistaken. In fact, the term goes back to what we like to think of as the very origins of the modern fascination with and interest in the phenomenon of unidentified aerospace anomalies (there’s another acronym to add to our soup bowl…). We can find it used as early as 1949. A day or so ago, I was digging around for more information on the “Oak Ridge” UFO case, very surprisingly cursorily sketched in Hynek’s own excepts from the rich Project Blue Book files. As I get some of my thoughts in order for my interview on Coast-To-Coast AM with George Knapp tonight at 10pm PST (you may be surprised or annoyed at that—and I’ll explain to you dear readers, annoyed and delighted, just why I’ve been invited by Mr. Knapp to do the interview), I’ve been going over some of the more classic UFO cases, sometimes reconsidering them entirely, or reviewing what I had thought I knew about them. Even befo...