Host of Through the Keyhole, Women of Esoterica blogger and wife of UFO historian Richard Dolan, Karyn Dolan, considers young people and UFO research in a special guest article for richardthomas.eu. Here’s an extract:

There are plenty of official statements explaining away the anomalies. The problem is that many of these excuses are far less plausible even than the idea that an object may in fact be unidentifiable. Consider the case of the Phoenix Lights. In 1997, thousands of people witnessed lights in the sky over Arizona, moving slowly in a V-shaped formation. One of the official explanations of this event was that flares had been dropped from conventional aircraft. Witnesses were dumbfounded at the suggestion that they had somehow mistaken flares, which fall at varying speeds, individually rather than in formation, and give off clouds of smoke, for a row of stationary lights on a slow-moving, V-shaped craft which moved horizontally rather than vertically and gave off no smoke at all. Another suggestion put forward to explain the Phoenix Lights, which were visible over a period of about three hours on this occasion, was that city lights were reflecting off the bellies of migrating geese. While geese are indeed known to fly in a V-shaped formation, and do in fact have light-colored feathers on their undersides, this explanation was just as ridiculous as the first.

You can read the full article by Karyn Dolan here.

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One Comment to “Karyn Dolan On Young People & UFO Research”

1. red pill junkie Says:
   June 3rd, 2010 at 9:47 pm

   I believe we have our next generation of researchers. I think we have a generation of thoughtful, intelligent people growing up and watching what’s happening in the world around them. When the time comes, they won’t hesitate to hold our leaders accountable for their statements and their actions concerning what has been called the truth embargo concerning UFOs. If by the time we are ready to retire, we haven’t yet broken open the vault of secrecy on this subject, they’ll be there, ready and willing to take up the task and continue to press on. And that’s what it’s all about.

   Problem is, these potential new researchers come into the field already biased. They are being predisposed by both the pop culture and the media to assume UFOs are extraterrestrial.

   We’ve all been there. when you’re 12, the idea of interplanetary explorers seems like the logical conclusion to the mystery. The UFOs somehow managed to surpass Einstein, and that’s that.

   But then you grow up, and you start to learn about the more bizarre stuff surrounding UFOs, and the answers don’t seem so simple anymore.

   Then again, I welcome the interest of the younger in this field. It’s probable that my personal passion for UFOs is the main cause of my many financial predicaments, but I still consider myself to be enriched by what the mystery has encouraged me to discover.

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