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New look, new approach!

Evgeny J. Sidorov

It is already more than 55 years the UFO phenomenon* is attracting an attention of researchers and scientists. During the whole period it was made many attempts to understand the nature of activity in both official and non-official levels. The huge amount of work has been done in collecting evidences of eye-witnesses, huge data bases have been made, and attempts of phenomenon analysis and classification have been made. Investigations were made by single researchers and by governmental special services, by scientific and military organizations, but the physical source of UFO still remains a mystery…

*In the following article the word phenomenon is been used to describe a rear and unique activity, to which we relate all abnormal (paranormal) activities including UFO.
To establish more efficient cooperation in investigating the UFO phenomenon, researchers were creating organizations and scientific societies, practically forming the new social international movement, which consequently turned into a parascience u f o l o g y. 55 years is a big term for any kind of science, taking in a consideration the intense development of science and technology in XX century. Many sciences in this truly revolutionary century have made a break-though in unknown and have essentially widened the sphere of cognize. So, what is wrong? Why the obvious and physically real UFO phenomenon (there are almost no doubts in objectiveness of existence of phenomenon), all the investigations had not delivered any principally new knowledge or new information, living us at best just a following new photo or video evidence? What is even more, the science at the official level had never dared to decide to include the UFO phenomenon in its sphere of priority interests and never devoted an appropriate place in its scientific programs… What is the main reason or reasons of this peculiar dead end of learning the UFO phenomenon? Why quantity is not converts in quality? Why despite the great achievements of science and modern technologies, the UFO phenomenon still remains out of sight of scientists (it is meant the “particular” attention of science to UFO)? What remains if excluding the hypothetic “the World conspiracy theory” and “secret researches”? Researches of “self-made” organizations and creative work of researchers? And this is the issue, when exceptional scientific and technical, philosophical and methophysical resources are hidden in the phenomenon itself!

Alas! Today we can state, that the main reason of standstill in UFO researches is hidden in… the science itself, in its inertness and heaviness, in the absence of will and ability to look on a phenomenon at least as on an “unknown natural phenomenon”! And I doubt, that enough serious arguments can be found to justify such an attitude of science to the “Mystery of XX century”. Of course, blaming the whole science, the organization of scientific researches of UFO phenomenon, to be more precise, would be incorrect, for the level of research organization crucially differs in variable countries. However, in practice, to include the UFO researches in scientific programs requires not too many efforts, it is enough just to consider, understand and admit the fact of objective reality of UFO phenomenon on appropriate level, and the “UFO-case” can take absolutely different shape. All the other problems in the organization of scientific UFO researches are insignificant in compare to big importance of this objective…

I am not going to analyze the level of organization of scientific UFO researches in different countries, especially to evaluate this process. The separate analysis should be done on this. Principally, this theme is more or less is overviewed constantly by many researchers. Problems exist, and they do have objective and subjective features, as it supposed to be, but…

I would like to draw the attention of researchers on few other aspects of problem of understanding the UFO phenomenon. First of all it is evident that the researches are somehow tent to be more or less stuck on extraterrestrial version. This version is so deeply set in researchers minds, that it replaced elementary logic and common sense and became a serious obstacle on the way of learning the core of the phenomenon. To be honest, this situation is easily explained by simplicity and attractiveness of this version, its ability to be comprehended by average men, by hope of fast technological solution and certainly positive (?) perspective of encounter with long-awaited “Highly developed Extraterrestrial Civilizations” (HEC) and so on.

It is hard to miss the fact of popularity of extraterrestrial or “flying saucer” version in Mass Media. Altogether it has formed dominating idea in public consciousness that UFO is technical vehicles of HEC. We can state, that this idea reflects the Classical Ufological Doctrine, despite this doctrine has never been properly formulated for last 55 years!
But if that would have had some kind of positive result in the way of learning the core of phenomenon – it had not! Just as it was 55 years ago, today is no understanding, no new results.

I should note that generally ufologists are so confident in extraterrestrial theory, that they do not see the irrelevance, absurdity and inappropriate aggressiveness in behavior of “aliens”, with obvious “show” in all their actions and deeds, and also the low reliability of their “vehicles” (accidents!)...

If there is no progress in learning process of the phenomenon, something is wrong! It means, the reasons of standing-still should be sought in ourselves first of all, in chosen methods and ways, and obviously in dominating theory of phenomenon, but not to explain everything with special services activity or with narrow limits of science paradigm…
This is the despair in tries to understand the nature of phenomenon, which is the common reason to be blamed first in the crisis in ufology today. Should be also admitted, that the same system crisis can be found in other parasciences as parapsychology, anomalistics, phantomology which are quite close to ufology in nature of studied matter.
I am daring to presume that reasons of system crisis in ufology and in other parasciences as well are concealed in… “common interests” of these parasciences! Firstly, the structural incompleteness of most (maybe except parapsychology) parasciences, their dissociation and isolated development should be note. Every parascience have chosen its own subject of research, and than every parascience encountered a problem of describing and determining the nature of the phenomenon under investigation within the limits of own regulations and theory. On the stage of establishment of those parasciences, independent development was reasonable, but as they started to penetrate deep into the substance and motive forces their close interconnection became more and more obvious.

Especially today it is becoming obvious the general regulation paranormal activity researches – for the understanding and formulating of the problem, for further progress in learning the physical nature of paranormal activities, the complex approach is required and the analysis of ALL the paranormal activities as for instance: ufological, parapsychological, phantomological including the religious phenomena in their unity (interconnection, interosculation, interinfluence etc.)!

Besides this important principle methodological step, we consider that in further it is inadmissible and wrong to ignore non serious attitude to different religions and religious beliefs, or information which hides in common fundamental regulations. This is crucially important! This step might appear to be painful, but it is necessary to perform, to step over secular stereotypes and prejudice of science…

It does not mean that mystical or religious regulations should be accepted noncritically, in no circumstances! I am talking about the common fundamental basis and main regulations of these beliefs!

It is necessary finally to have an unprejudiced look on basic knowledge and secular traditions of all the religions, on the occult and mystical teachings, which have been formed during thousands of years! On this common knowledge, which lies in their basis! To analyze the huge religious, spiritual and historical experience of humanity in order to the search for the subject of the main reason of forming the identical (or similar) religious views about physically invisible world, which different peoples have! To overview carefully and in complex the amazing phenomena, which are being registered in different places of our planet, from the scientific standpoint. Those are the poltergeist phenomena, atmosphere visions, phenomenon of ghosts and phantoms, super-abilities of human body; this is an incredible and unexplainable abnormal photo and video materials, from mysterious invisible energy sources, which are able to generate the views and pictures on the film and also directly in human mind omitting the receptors… “Devilry”.

Just the complex approach for all the paranormal activities and also including of the religious (spiritual) experience of humanity in scientific knowledge system in our opinion can be the missing methodological principle, which would be able to finally perform the decisive step in the quest for finding the nature and motive power of paranormal activities. Practically I am talking about forming The New Ufological Doctrine, which would reconcile in itself the entire positive experience of human mind through the thousands of years of the development of our civilization.

This is the one approach which in my vision can solve principal problem of system crisis which is spread in all parasciences and even affected the science in case of investigating paranormal activities. This is the one direction in our opinion scientific quest for truth about motive force and nature of paranormal activities including the UFO should be concentrated. We hope, that this point will be noted by many paranormal activity researchers, who are working in diver vanguard directions of modern science!

Ryga, Latvia