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Kodak Moments, Never to Transpire.

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Greetings. Where are all the high quality UFO photographs? In previous decades, UFO investigators were constantly on the search for physical evidence to corroborate witness testimonials. The late Ted Phillips looked for and examined physical trace cases. The late Dr. J. Allen Hynek attempted to collect tangible proof during the course of his field investigations, including during the latter stages of his association with the United States Air Force's Project Blue Book. Historical UFO researchers from Jim and Coral Lorenzen and Dr. James E. McDonald, to modern-day researchers Kevin D. Randle, James Clarkson, and David Marler have continued the investigative exercises, all in an attempt to find physical, tangible, falsifiable evidence of the UFO problem.  Ray Stanford used to say that he carried a loaded camera with him at all times, which was a logical course of action back in the heady days before the advent of cellular technology. Nowadays, by contrast, literally billions of human...

Investigative Scientific "Integrity:" Unethical Behavior in the UFO Subculture.

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Greetings. Investigative scientific integrity. The dogged adherence to a set methodology, a highly professional course of action, or actions, which allow for an unbiased, legitimate, and dispassionate examination of an alleged event, or of an alleged witnesses' testimonial.  Scientific integrity is the condition which results from the strict and unwavering adherence to professional values, practices, and methodologies when conducting scientific activities that ensures clarity, objectivity, and reproducibility, while providing unassailable insulation from bias, fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, inappropriate influence(s,) political interference, and censorship. Quite a mouthful, but an essential one without question.  Investigative integrity, in my humble opinion, involves a far more personal set of ethics, standards, and methodologies. Maintaining one's own investigative integrity involves conducting one's self with honor, honesty, and distinction. It demands that the...