ENTAUS

  I owe my (five) readers part two of my review of the annual AAPC organized and sponsored by the SCU; but in the meantime, there are a few things on my mind that I can offer before we get to the last part of that review. And what is right now in my mind is more from the annals of Loebism.  This recent Medium article (of 18 July this year) dealing with the Loeb/‘Oumuamua controversy, which the historian Greg Eghigian altered us to on Facebook, pretty much settles the debate. At least for now: Loeb has offered, as the authors of this piece show, no detailed model of an artificial “light sail” (or something answering to that description) that is consistent with the observational facts – or any convincingly detailed model that proposes that the object was a manufactured artifact rather than a natural space rock. And those observational facts – which aren’t being disputed, crucially – are in fact consistent with the behavior of known natural phenomena, as the authors of this...

E very podcast, tweet, article … every everything UFO or UAP has, of course, been agog with the Grusch bomb since that fateful day last month. One is left wondering: Will this be one of those “do you remember where you were when Kennedy was shot” moments? (The reference is particularly unsettling, of course, since the recent Schumer legislation, in an act of perhaps unwilful entwinement of real-life intrigue with the sensationalist fluff of conspiracist fantasy-mongering, bases itself on that surrounding efforts to declassify and release documents related to the Kennedy Assassination.) The fallout is left hanging around like a White Noise -style miasma following – in this case – the hapless among us who wish to move on to the more fundamental question of evidence . It is not just a fundamental question, without an examination of which we make no progress in the empirical, factual study of UAP qua object of science (a fraught question, to be sure, and one worthy of careful epistemic di...