From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac.nul>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:34:15 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:09:23 -0500
Subject: Re: The Death Of Ufology - Maccabee


>From: Norio Hayakawa <Groom51S4.nul>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates.nul>
>Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:32:49 EST
>Subject: The Death Of Ufology


>The Death Of Ufology
>by Norio Hayakawa

>I hear from some UFO-believing circles that with the dismal
>effect of the much anticipated but overwhelmingly disappointing
>Peter Jennings's recent UFO Special, that Ufology seems to be
>going nowhere or worse yet, is even dead.

<snip>

>To me, ufology has been dead from the beginning, simply because
>Ufology is a forced attempt to create a discipline out of an
>ambiguous subject matter that has never had any logical,
>scientific, unified definition and thus has always been
>categorized as fringe or pseudo science.

<snip>

>We can only accept the fact that people have claimed and believe
>that they have witnessed what they perceive to be UFOs. We are
>simply left with this fact. And it stops here. The possiblity
>that we are not alone in the universe should have little (or
>even nothing) to do with whether UFOs exist or not.

Of course, SOME UFO sightings might actually be evidence of
other intelligences coming here.

>If the objective is to find a physical solution to the UFO
>phenomenon the bottom line is that we have yet to come up with
>any concrete, physical, irrefutable, solid evidence that UFOs
>are physical, intelligently maneuvered non-human spacecraft from
>outside of this earth with or without its occupants. Alleged
>visual evidences such as alleged photos or alleged video
>footages are not sufficient. First person accounts such as I was
>abducted by a grey alien, ad nauseam, are definitely out of the
>question.

>Everything else is irrevelant and continues to remain so in the
>domain of pure speculation.

Testimony is not speculation.

If Mr. Hayakawa chooses to ignore excellent testimony from
credible witnesses that is fine for him. Let him go and do
something else. For myself, the testimony, photos, films,
videos, etc. are sufficient to keep me interested for more than
35 years.

I have concluded that there really is something unusual flying
around!!