Is the UFO Subculture Senile or Just Morally Corrupt?

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Greetings. Senility? Immorality? Or something deeper and far, far more disturbing. 

Forgetfulness. The UFO subculture has one of the shortest memories of any fringe "community," and has always suffered from that particular malady. People involved in UFO research, former and current members of the Mutual UFO Network, and individuals erroneously labeled as whistleblowers are just a few of the multiple examples of the UFO subculture's inability to remember recent events and claims, or to display some reasonable level of moral fortitude and decisiveness.

MUFON's own John Ventre, pictured above, is a former state director for the states of Delaware, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Despite posting a racist rant on social media a few years ago, and eventually being removed from his positions within the organization, the man is still actively lecturing and participating in MUFON events held in Pennsylvania. You would think that the organization, and its members, would want to have nothing to do with a confirmed racist, but alas....



Jan Harzan, MUFON's former International Director, is a recently convicted sex offender, yet the revolting affair is never talked about, with the resulting silence speaking volumes within the UFO subculture's all encompassing echo chamber. Immediately after Mr. Harzan's arrest and dismissal from his leadership duties, I wrote a few articles about the situation, and conducted a broadcast which focused on Harzan's crimes, yet was unable to share the content on a few UFO themed groups on Facebook. In one particularly troubling example, Daniel Alan Jones, an administrator of the Texas UFO Network Facebook group, declined to publish the content, stating, and I paraphrase, "We don't allow such divisive posts." Talk about no balls. So I suppose we should just be one big happy ufological family and sweep under the rug anything that might shine a negative light on the UFO "field." The UFO subculture's silence is disconcerting to say the very least. Unacceptable. 

Now we have David Charles Grusch. An alleged whistleblower (an inaccurate label,) who made as yet unsubstantiated claims of knowledge about the UFO issue before a Congressional hearing on UAPs (that frigging acronym) back in July of 2023. Has any evidence surfaced? Of course not. Has Mr. Grusch provided any additional information and tangible proof to validate his secondhand claims? Or course not. However, that does not matter to the card-carrying members of the UFO subculture, the true believers. They don't need evidence, they have their faith, and that is good enough for them.

The UFO subculture's behavioral patterns are reflective of the entire history of the enigma; no irrefutable evidence, the avoidance of addressing troubling, occasionally criminal problems, copious amounts of false claims and undelivered promises, and more of the same, year after year, decade after decade. 

If the UFO subculture doesn't learn from its past, self-inflicted mistakes, it is doomed to repeat them. 

Thank you for your time and consideration. 

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