Ufos And 15 Minutes Of Fame

Everyone, and we mean everyone, in the UFO community wants (or needs) attention it seems.No one wants to quietly examine the UFO phenomenon; UFO aficionados would rather get a Google listing or some note of recognition from Anomalist.com, Stuart Miller's Alien Worlds News, or anywhere else in the UFO universe.Blogs are intrinsically superficial, and used for notoriety mostly, but even books, films, and television shows - the History channel's "UFO Hunters" is an example - are geared to attention-getting rather than thorough analyses of UFOs.This is also the case with science nowadays, but it has always been so with flying saucers and UFOs.Aside from Donald Keyhoe's purposeful tomes - to get a military admittance of the UFO reality - most books, early on and ever since, have been used to provide or gather some notice for the author; the truth of UFOs damned in the process.If there is a hunkered-down ufologist - one studying the phenomenon seriously and in depth - we don't know who that is, and no one has yet to come forth from a sub rosa incarceration to enlighten the world about the UFO mystery.Jacques Vallee's recent appearance on the Paracast show came and went without any significant notice or new insight.His 15 minutes of fame continues, but is in its last seconds.Because the UFO enigma remains essentially unexplainable, it's no wonder that persons interested in the phenomenon go for self-glorification rather than a drill-down to the core of the mystery. They are frustrated and ego-diminished.Jerry Clark has thrown in the towel, seeking answers to the era of early and formative Christianity.Dick Hall has retired to rumination about the [American] Civil War.Others have resorted to mining the UFO dregs for any clue that may have been missed by those preceding them. (That's futile of course, but it has the appearance, in some quarters, of being productive.)No, ufology and the UFO conundrum are without serious investigators and analyzers. The goal now is to get one's name plastered all over the internet, because that's where immortality lies, or so it seems...