Professor Says UFO Studies Should Be Taught At Universities

New York anthropology professor Philip Haseley wants young people to get the best education possible, and part of that education, he says, should be about UFOs. Haseley thinks universities should offer classes on UFOs and other unexplained phenomena from space. "[A sighting] happens to millions of people [around the world]. It's about time we looked into this as a worthy area of study. It's important that the whole subject be brought out in the open and investigated," he said. I want to believe the truth is out there in 500 words or less.

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Oblig. xkcd

[mibe]

http://xkcd.com/718/

Like ghosts, this is getting harder and harder.

[maillemaker]

Reasonable-quality audio/video recording equipment is becoming nearly ubiquitous, being embedded in cell phones.

Yet the only "footage" that is available is grainy and poor quality.

As the quality and availability of audio/video recording equipment grows, one would expect the quality of "sighting" recordings to increase, but they aren't.

I think that's very telling.

Re:Like ghosts, this is getting harder and harder.

[guruevi]

That's because of the nature of an Unidentified Flying Object. It flies through the sky but is too far away or obscured by other things (weather, buildings) to be identified. UFO's will always remain UFO's no matter whether they be nature-made, man-made or alien-made phenomenon.

Religion Studies

[Hatta]

I took a class in religion studies in college. UFO or other paranormal theories would fit right in there.

UFO is an acronym

[RingDev]

UFO doesn't mean aliens, space visitors, or conspiracies.

It means: Unidentified Flying Object.

If you see a condensation trail high in the sky, you know that there is something creating it, but if it is too high for you to see, it is unidentified. It is flying. It is an object. You have just witnessed a UFO. There is nothing ridiculous about it at all.

If this class focuses on the spotting of things you don't understand, and the process in which you go through to try to discover it's identity, then I'm all for it. A class that pushes students to come up with multiple possible theories and find ways to research them, to prove or exclude them, and to report on their findings.

Seems like an awesome class idea to me.

-Rick

Podunk professor

[ZipprHead]

Podunk professor from community college in remote town close to Canada has crazy ideas and other news at 11.

Seriously this made the front page of /.? This could be on the Onion!

I agree

[GameMaster]

I think this guy is right. There should be a class on this. I even have a name suggestion:

Anthropology 150: The UFO Phenomenon as a Study in Mass Delusion