Dear Reader...

After countless hours of research, quantitative and qualitative, using deductive logic and reasoning, while casting a critical roving eye over the data and carefully extrapolating information; I have a pretty good idea about the UFO phenomena, where it starts, where it ends and everything in the middle.

Subsequently, due to what I've discovered, I will no longer be publicly disseminating information in this area of research; particularly because it relates to areas of  US 'National security' some of which is not declassified; although I'd hazard a guess that other Nation-States already have comparable knowledge, or, have been at some point in history a few years further ahead.

Today, it seems only the citizens of such nations are being kept in the dark; as to why  - is an area of speculation I have no satisfactory answers; with the exception of making comparisons with the religion of Rome and it's influence on history.

If there's a time to write as I please on the matter; I will make such work readily available; but given the 'water already under the bridge', I do not see such time arising in the near future or being allowed to do so; especially in regards to what has already been conjectured differently to the facts, or even withheld entirely. 

How to research Ufology

My passion for UFO research came from witnessing four separate incidences of UFOs with my own eyes, of which I could not explain. My only desire was for the truth of such, not fame or fortune from a 'field' already long infested with rot, pseudo-science and counter-intelligence claims.

I just wanted the truth.

Unfortunately, everyone who is popularized in 'Ufology' is far off the mark; and lacks genuine scholarly introspection;  or, even if they do approach it in a manner befitting, how say an anthropologist would use a 'conceptual tool kit', they are asking the wrong questions, or are overwhelming ignorant of other important historical contributions and it's context.

I hastened to add, if you are interested in a scholarly pursuit of this area, to avoid the circus that is the 'UFO circuit' and what they are peddling, with very few notable exceptions. A separate area of study could be done on the psychology of UFO protagonists and military intelligence's role alone!

To disentangle yourself from that, I would strongly advise a 'nuts and bolts' break down of each individual 'sighting' from antiquity until the present day; looking at the original data and avoiding summaries and commentaries or even 'summaries of commentaries' so prevalent with 'UFO researchers' who are all too quick to offer their own malformed inadequate explanations. 

If I may 'sign-post' further:

Deduction and logic

• Test claims from the primary sources, is an absolute must!!!
• Trace the root of claims in so far as it's possible.
• Hold nothing as infallible, sancrosanct or beyond critical review. 
• A critical understanding of each individual piece of data, can be more important than the sum of the whole, before you extract meaning or develop narratives. 
• Understanding logical fallacies; confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance. 

Mythologies and Fiction

• Be familiar with mythologies - religious, and fictional - and why they were told from different cultures 
• Trace the root of archetypal claims, and understand their influence in different cultures 
• Know of the nuances in mythologies and comparable human challenges in the past.  
• Be familiar with sci-fiction, in books, comics, and later film; anything which pertains to 'aliens', the moon, or other planetary systems, influencing prevailing beliefs and speculation.

Scientific philosophy and history of technology and experimentation

• Have an understanding of scientific philosophy - particular falsification
• Have a broad overview of the history of aerospace technologies and related fields
• An awareness of early biological experimentation claims - e.g. Gordon Gallup's claim.
• A contemporary understanding of 'exotic' propulsion systems.    
• Early technological projects, their aims and those involved.  

Mathematical modelling

• Be able to do vector calculus and other arithmetic for designing simple models. 
• Be able to model such in a 3D program (optional)

Geo-politics; WW2; the Cold war; and military intelligence

• An understanding of geo-politics, the cold war and the role of military intelligence (this area is not to be understated)
• Knowledge of the military industrial complex and in particular it's contracted projects.
• The development of the well documented technologies in WW2 not limited to the German V1 and V2; the Prag-Kibly factory; German manufacturing discrepancies and claims ; and the role of Operation Paperclip; and the development of the atomic bomb.

Psychology and Human perception

• Air crash investigations - 'spacial D' in particular for an overview of human mis-perception.
• Psychology of belief - understanding nuances, what is true to one person may be correct according to their frame of reference. 
• Develop a methodology for grading eye-witness reports which lack corroborating information; otherwise all such claims are equally useless on the face of them in terms of falsification.
• Do not overuse reductionalism in making hasty explanations, (the simplest explanation) but weigh competing claims against one-another.    

 I have found useful,  the follow individuals' research,
(that's not to say I agree with their work or find it to be true.)

• Charles Fort 
• Donald Keyhoe 
• Jacque Vallee 
• Chris Ashworth 
• J. Allen Hynek
• Kevin Randle
• Robert Hastings
• Phillip Klass
• John Mack
• Stan Friedman
• James Moseley
• Victor Marchetti Jr

Thanks and remember the truth is out there!