Comments on: A Ufological Trend?

By: drew hempel

drew hempel — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:34:03 +0000

Well it’s kinda the same reason Pascal quit math — the eternal emptiness of space drove him to religion. Let’s stay strong people. haha.

By: strange rob

strange rob — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:43:45 +0000

Ahhh the mythical “good ol’ days” — that’s always the problem or reason…

I agree, things change and modes of obtaining the info changes. Interest is not going to go away until the question of alien’s and ufos are answered beyond the shadow of doubt for the entire world. And even then, I think there would still be considerable interest for some time to come.

By: red pill junkie

red pill junkie — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:46:27 +0000

Internet makes the flow of information easier and instant. Although it has the disadvantage of turning the social exchanges too impersonal and sometimes even plain rude. But maybe the technology could evolve to mend this, when teleconferences become cheaper and bandwiths bigger.

How about using something like “Second Life” to develop a virtual UFO conference?

By: Nick Redfern

Nick Redfern — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:02:35 +0000

It tends to vary wildly. I’ve been at (I think) 4 conferences this year, 3 of which I spoke at.

All of them had well-known speakers; yet attendance varied from about 80 people to about 500.

So it’s definitely difficult to judge how attendance might be.

Certainly, the Laughlin, Nevada UFO Congress, and Ryan Wood’s UFO Crash Retrieval Conference get steady attendance well into the several hundreds at least.

But, as with local groups, I think a lot of people realize they can get the info on line etc without having to pay for airfares or hotels to attend conferences - to an extent, at least.

By: uv777bk

uv777bk — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:48:17 +0000

Hey Nick!

How do the UFO conferences perform? Do they still pull big crowds or have they taken a dive too?

I haven’t been to one since about 1998.