A previous post mentions raises the issue of scientists being 'afraid' of some things.
This is a little off topic but I recently attended a small seminar led by Russell Targ - of CIA/Psychic Remote Viewer fame. After witnessing several surprizing demonstrations, you leave with the feeling that, not only is this stuff real, but it's NO BIG DEAL in an emotional sense. He said that he went to a conference in Brazil and the reaction was something like "why are you bothering with this? Of course, psychic ability exists, everyone here knows that". He was surprized by the difference in culture, even among the academics. I wonder about UFOs also in regard to this strange "real, not real" situation. Clearly, there are 'higher-ups' in Europe who think that American denials of UFO's are pure BS. The internal Cometa report in France showed this - with suspicions expressed as to why the US keeps fighting against disclosure. Some EU authorities were angry that US officials could glibly dismiss events like the Belgian Triangle incident in the '80s - in which an enormous black triangle floated thru the night skies, witnessed by countless authoritative people, photographed, tracked on radar, and chased away by NATO interceptors who couldn't catch it. An even goofier situation has prevailed in India in which the India Daily matter of factly discusses their military contacts with an ET UFO base located remotely in the Himilayas! You read the newspaper and it reports cricket scores, stock quotes, the latest business news and an editorial on why they should pressure the US on the subject in a very serious, non sensationalistic way. We live in a very strange world..................
