Ufology
A Swedish Air Force officer searches for a "ghost rocket" in Lake Kölmjärv, Norrland, Sweden, in July 1946.
Ufology is the search and research of unidentified flying objects by people who called ufologists. It is considered that term was coined by Edward J. Ruppelt.[1] The scientists have greeted this topic with skepticism, dismissing ufology as pseudoscience.[2]
History
History begun in late 1890s when mystery airships were invented.
Ufology Media
Image of an ostensible UFO taken during the Belgian UFO wave of 1990. It was widely broadcasted in the media at the time, only to be admitted as fake by its author in 2011.
Josef Allen Hynek (left) and Jacques Vallée
References
- ↑ Ruppelt, Edward (2007). The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects. Charleston, South Carolina: BiblioBazaar.
- ↑ Eghigian, Greg (2017-07-01). "Making UFOs make sense: Ufology, science, and the history of their mutual mistrust". Public Understanding of Science. 26 (5): 612–626. doi:10.1177/0963662515617706. ISSN 0963-6625. PMID 26644010. S2CID 37769406.