Book Release: The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony (With a Chapter by Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga)
V.J. Ballester-Olmos & Richard W. Heiden (Eds.)
For 76 years, casual observers around the world have reported sightings of aerial phenomena unexplainable to them. More elaborate personal experiences have been reported by others whose testimony speak of close interactions with fantastic flying machines that land, from which strange beings descend, and even kidnap the onlookers. In the absence of compelling physical evidence of the reality of these narrations, how should science study immaterial observations and test these claims? The very standard of reputable witness reliability is at stake here.
The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony is the first major book to comprehensively focus on the discussion and current views on problems and challenges posed by the reliability of UFO testimonies. This is a cross-disciplinary compendium of papers by 60 authors from 14 different countries. They are specialists in social, physical, and biological sciences, including psychology (predominantly) as well as psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, folklore, religion, journalism, engineering, computing, medicine, education, analysts with experience in the critical study of UFO perceivers, and other professionals. This volume shares thematically convergent ideas about the plausibility of alternate explanations for an alleged close-range UFO phenomenon.
The 57 chapters in this book are divided into seven section headings: Case Studies, Psychological Perspectives, On Witness Testimony, Empirical Research, Anthropological Approach, Metrics and Scaling, and Epistemological Issues. There, the subject matter is analyzed from statistical work to clinical assessment, psychometrics, comparative and evaluation inquiry, and other topic perspectives.
Some extracts from the Foreword, written by Dr. Leonard S. Newman, Professor of Psychology at Syracuse University:
"The contributors to this book include some very smart people. There are all sorts of issues to which they could be devoting their intellectual energy, and all sorts of scholarly and research contributions they could make. They don’t have to write thoughtful and rigorous chapters for a book called The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony, but this is what they have done. And so, the work continues, as attested to by the papers in this volume. I’m not sure if there exists any collection of papers on any topic that can claim to comprehensively summarize everything that is currently known about it. But this one comes pretty close."
This 711-page book has been released online in the Academia.edu portal, from where it can be downloaded for free:
Simultaneously, UPIAR Publishing House (Turin, Italy) has published two softcover, A4 format print editions, one in black & white, another in full color (ISBN: 9791281441002). The book can be purchased through this link:
Four outstanding academics have provided praise notes to this volume. This is what they said:
Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Irvine, USA:
"When ordinary citizens claim to have extraterrestrial encounters, such as seeing UFOs or meeting with alien beings, what should we think? Did the alien abduction really happen or was it a hoax? Is someone deliberately lying? Are they false memories? Readers will be enthralled by the fascinating case histories that are presented in The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony*, a volume where sixty experts examine these issues with depth and insight. These cases teach us a great deal about how humans come to believe they have experienced bizarre events that may have never occurred at all."
Steven Jay Lynn, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Binghamton University (SUNY), USA:
"This captivating book will appeal to anyone interested in UFOs (and who isn’t?), the vagaries of memory, eyewitness perception and misperception, critical analysis of puzzling phenomena, and evaluating scientific vs. pseudoscientific claims. This volume ranks in the elite category of essential reading for students, scientists, and the seriously curious among us, and therefore has my highest recommendation. Bravo!"
Henry Otgaar, Ph.D., Professor of Legal Psychology, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and Leuven Catholic University, Belgium:
"Claims of UFO sightings and experiences continue to fascinate us. This book has collected a unique and diverse set of case studies and critical articles on how such experiences unfold and what the authenticity of these claims is. The collection of these different articles is truly groundbreaking and is the first-ever complete assemblage concerning the validity of UFO testimony."
Benjamin E. Zeller, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Religion, Lake Forest College, Illinois, USA:
"In referring to extraterrestrial contact, Carl Sagan said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This fine book seeks to contextualize what such evidence entails. Its contributors analyze UFO sightings and cases both famous and obscure, recent and historical, and quite international in scope. They draw from an impressive range of methodological, academic, and scientific perspectives, and consider such topics as the nature of cognition, memory, types of belief and testimony, psychology, and the rationality of belief. Skeptics, believers, and scholars of ufology will all find this book fascinating!"
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The Objectivity of Witnesses and the Subjectivity of Testemonies
Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga
I had the honor of being one of the select few invited by the distinguished Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, one of the organizers and editors of this impressive scientific-academic book, together with the equally distinguished Richard W. Heiden, to write a paper on the "reliability of the testimony of witnesses of UFOs", a crucial aspect of ufological research, since, in the absence of material evidence of the phenomenon, this is the primary source we deal with, the "raw material", so to speak, to permeate our analyses, even more so for those who not only deals with "second-hand" reports, but gathers them directly from the witnesses themselves, in sometimes harsh and hostile field conditions.
In my contribution entitled "The Objectivity of Witnesses and the Subjectivity of Testimonies", I carried out a critical analysis of the general reference base of the UFO problem, the testimony, seen as a cultural source authentic and indisputable, but which presents serious distortions. One of the main points questioned by me was the exact value of the testimonies, which form the basis of the reports and, therefore, of the UFO phenomenon. I tried to give an adequate scientific treatment to these data and factors relegated to the background by ufologists: the subjective observational parameters, the perceptive aspects, the language and the historical-cultural context of the witness and the psychosociological variables, that is, everything that was disparagingly called "background noise", the "sociological reject" despised in detriment of the "signal".
Consult and keep close at hand, therefore, this, the first major book to comprehensively focus on the discussion and current views on problems and challenges posed by the reliability of UFO testimonies. A cross-disciplinary compendium of papers by 60 authors from 14 different countries.
(large format, 711 pages)
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¿La IA puede hacer contacto con extraterrestres?
Actualmente, no tenemos evidencia de la existencia de vida extraterrestre inteligente y, por lo tanto, no hay posibilidad de que la inteligencia artificial (IA) haga contacto con extraterrestres. Sin embargo, en teoría, la IA podría ser una herramienta útil para ayudar a los humanos a comunicarse con una posible forma de vida extraterrestre inteligente.
Se han desarrollado diversas iniciativas para buscar señales de vida inteligente en el universo, como el programa SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) que utiliza radiotelescopios para detectar señales de radio de origen extraterrestre. En caso de que se detecte una señal de origen extraterrestre, la IA podría ser útil para ayudar a interpretar y traducir la información contenida en la señal.
Sin embargo, es importante tener en cuenta que cualquier posible comunicación con formas de vida extraterrestres sería altamente especulativa y conlleva importantes desafíos científicos, tecnológicos y éticos que deben abordarse cuidadosamente antes de que se realice cualquier intento de comunicación.
Inglés.
Can AI make contact with aliens?
Currently, we have no evidence of the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life, and therefore there is no possibility of artificial intelligence (AI) making contact with aliens. In theory, however, AI could be a useful tool to help humans communicate with a possible intelligent extraterrestrial life form.
Various initiatives have been developed to search for signs of intelligent life in the universe, such as the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program, which uses radio telescopes to detect radio signals of extraterrestrial origin. In the event that a signal of extraterrestrial origin is detected, AI could be useful to help interpret and translate the information contained in the signal.
However, it is important to note that any possible communication with extraterrestrial life forms would be highly speculative and entail significant scientific, technological, and ethical challenges that must be carefully addressed before any attempt at communication is made.
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A Teoria dos Zeroides: Seriam alguns dos OVNIs criaturas vivas ou bioformas?
Antes de tudo, faço questão de deixar bem claro que mesmo que esta teoria venha a ser confirmada, ela não explica o Fenômeno OVNI em sua totalidade, mas só uma ínfima parte dele.
Uma teoria muito pouco discutida na ufologia é a de que os OVNIs possam ser Zeroides, termo genérico para bioformas ou criaturas vivas que habitam os recônditos do espaço.
Assistia aqui no canal, o vídeo em que o ufólogo, criptozoologista e físico nuclear Dr. Franklin Ruehl (1950-2015) fala sobre a Teoria dos Zeroides: https://youtu.be/TmOwSq3UnO4
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