UFOs are making headlines again, with U.S. intelligence services and NASA announcing they're studying more recent reports of sightings.
"And as has always been the case, the public response has focused on the question of what's going on, a discourse dominated mostly by the believers and the skeptics. But lost in the hype and ruckus is the question of when this all started and how we got to this point," states the course outline.Greg Eghigian is a historian who studies how societies answer the questions and problems associated with modern life through the lenses of science, technology, and medicine.
"But why it is gaining a little more legitimacy than usual is the fact the military and intelligence community is onboard. Over the past few years, they have come forward and basically said these are real sightings, not computer glitches, not misidentification. Real objects are being seen and are being captured by instruments," Eghigian said."We have not heard that kind of thing before in the past.
"The language is actually really fascinating," said Eghigian."When it all started in the 1940s it was 'flying saucers' and then 'UFOs' … and both are deeply flawed as a concept. 'UAP' to me also doesn't solve the problem. By calling it a phenomenon you have broadened it some, allowing it to be really up in the air and loosey-goosey."
The mystery of UFOs, the professor advised, gave birth to sleuths and groups who took it upon themselves to explain the phenomenon. Fueling that detective-like fervor was dismissal of eyewitness reports and the ridicule heaped on observers by skeptics, and that only made devotees question what they were being told.answer they want it to be," said Eghigian.Omnipresent question
Eghigian admitted that sometimes he shares a similar unease expressed by the late and Stephen Hawking about alien encounter and how that might not necessarily serve us and serve our own interests as a species.Close encounters with the New World As human beings trying to grapple with this subject over generations, how has society taken it to today's present level, Eghigian said,"because, ultimately this is part of human history. As I keep saying to people, nobody escapes being a part of the stream of history."
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