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Modernity and “the Indigenous”: Cifone asks a question

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In lieu of my own post, today, I refer readers to Mike Cifone’s recent post over at Entaus, a mix of travelogue and academic after-action-report of his experience at the recent Sol Foundation symposium.

What’s most valuable, to me, is his response to Dr. Peter Skafish’s paper (about two-thirds of the way into the post, beginning with the words “And I would end up in a bit of a mess when I made the utterly foolish mistake…”). The reaction to Cifone’s intervention (aside from its substance) is telling, revealing, as I might put it, a “gnostic” side to the whole conversation, a growing, unbridgeable gap between Experiencers (let alone mere believers), for whom the phenomenon must remain essentially esoteric, and, let’s call them, Researchers, for whom, if the phenomenon is to be resolved by science at all, the question is essentially exoteric.

Readers of Cifone’s post will doubtless find tidbits and nuggets of their own….

That doesn’t necessarily mean studying aliens…

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Aside from the Disclosure fever the American government’s most recent, public interest in Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) has fired up, noticeable is bolder curiousity in the phenomenon expressed by members of the scientific community. Two examples are astrobiologists Jacob Haqq Misra and Ravi Kopparapu, recently interviewed by ScienceNews.

Such strictly physical investigations fall outside the purview of Skunkworks (however problematically...). Nevertheless, this recent conversation with Haqq Misra is timely, as he is a member of the editorial board of the most recent, scholarly foray into the field, Limina: the Journal of UAP Studies, whose founder and editor-in-chief is one of our most recent and forceful interlocutors here, Mike Cifone, the author of the no less-philosophically-oriented ufological blog, Entaus.

Since his early interventions here, Cifone and I have pursued a very energetic and dizzying correspondence sub rosa, as it were, a conversation that persuades me of the not inconsiderable promise of this new venture. I encourage readers here, whose interests extend to those outlined in Limina‘s mission statement and focus, to attend and follow this latest attempt to investigate UAP with scientific rigor and scholarly gravity.