Some may see little green aliens in their dreams and imagine every memory lapse is down to spending time aboard a UFO, but this is not as common in the UFO community as many think. While there are those who certainly fit the image of a wannabe, fantasy-prone personality or are just plain delusional, the reality is that there are no more escapees from reality in the UFO community than there are in the general population.
In fact, dare we say it, there may be more intelligent thinking people circulating in the UFO community than in our society at large. People with degrees in biology, psychology, engineering, microbiology, oceanography, medicine, astrophysics, archaeology, anthropology, education, just to name a few, are heavily peppered amongst the UFO community. In addition, those who lack formal education are successfully self-educated in many areas of life.
In his book, After Contact : The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Contact, Albert A Harrison PhD states that a study was undertaken on 102 Ufologists who were listed in the Encyclopedia of UFOs and it was found that roughly one third of the group held less than a bachelor’s degree, one third held a bachelor’s or master’s degree, and one third held a doctoral degree. Ufologists were highly educated relative to the general population. “Ufologists who believed in the extraterrestrial origin of UFOs were as likely to hold an advanced degree as those who were skeptical. Thus a weak intellect or lack of schooling does not seem to explain an advocacy for the extraterrestrial hypothesis.”
Furthermore, most who circulate within the UFO community have a strong orientation towards the social concerns of our time such as natural health, the environment, governmental management, social inequality, consumerism, and are quite critical of most large institutions in modern society. Typically they reject narrow analyses and despise media as business. In short they are critical thinkers. They may go a bit overboard sometimes but that enthusiasm is driven by their desire for truth and a better world. So if you imagine that people in the UFO community think Jesus lives in their toaster, think again. And if you plan to attend a UFO meeting anytime soon, plan on expecting the unexpected – you may be very surprised.
In fact, dare we say it, there may be more intelligent thinking people circulating in the UFO community than in our society at large. People with degrees in biology, psychology, engineering, microbiology, oceanography, medicine, astrophysics, archaeology, anthropology, education, just to name a few, are heavily peppered amongst the UFO community. In addition, those who lack formal education are successfully self-educated in many areas of life.
In his book, After Contact : The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Contact, Albert A Harrison PhD states that a study was undertaken on 102 Ufologists who were listed in the Encyclopedia of UFOs and it was found that roughly one third of the group held less than a bachelor’s degree, one third held a bachelor’s or master’s degree, and one third held a doctoral degree. Ufologists were highly educated relative to the general population. “Ufologists who believed in the extraterrestrial origin of UFOs were as likely to hold an advanced degree as those who were skeptical. Thus a weak intellect or lack of schooling does not seem to explain an advocacy for the extraterrestrial hypothesis.”
Furthermore, most who circulate within the UFO community have a strong orientation towards the social concerns of our time such as natural health, the environment, governmental management, social inequality, consumerism, and are quite critical of most large institutions in modern society. Typically they reject narrow analyses and despise media as business. In short they are critical thinkers. They may go a bit overboard sometimes but that enthusiasm is driven by their desire for truth and a better world. So if you imagine that people in the UFO community think Jesus lives in their toaster, think again. And if you plan to attend a UFO meeting anytime soon, plan on expecting the unexpected – you may be very surprised.
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