https://blue.feedland.org/?river=http://data.feedland.org/blue/feeds/JoshuaTan.xml It's just a feed for now Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:49:10 GMT feedland v0.6.43 https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:49:10 GMT http://rpc.rsscloud.io:5337/pleaseNotify Fri, December 13, 2024 7:49 AM EST <p>The current “mystery drone” circus in New Jersey is a documented phenomenon called a “UFO flap”. Interestingly, the first one we have good evidence for happened in the late 19th century when interest in airships was first burgeoning and people began to see them everywhere across the US. Newspapers reported these “sightings” without so much as a hint that they weren’t actually airships or, really, anything at all except for what can normally be seen in the sky. </p> <p>The Elon Musk of the time, Thomas Edison, ended up being blamed for it for reasons that are not exactly clear, so if you look in the newspaper articles from that time you’ll see all these stories about the “Edison Star” which people were convinced was his new invention and the circus got too annoying for him to handle so he had to publish a clear denial and excoriation of the gullibility of the media and public. At the time, there was a bit more respect for expertise, at least within the newspaper publishing world, </p> <p>and that put an end to the breathless stories for the most part, but “mystery airships” continued to be reported around until interest eventually waned by the turn of the century.</p> <p>All this was forgotten when 45 years later some pilot near Mt. Rainier reported sighting unexplained flying things that were probably pelicans. </p> <p>That kicked off a decade of “flying saucer” reports which eventually had to be shut down by a nothingburger of a US Air Force report that showed no real evidence for any sort of unusual flying stuff. </p> <p>A few astronomers involved in that got red pilled in the 1960s and 1970s ala Avi Loeb and started correspondence committees that exist to this day (MUFON, CUFOS, etc).</p> <p>Our current moment of pseudoscientific excitement has its roots in a particularly problematic feature article published by The New York Times in 2017. </p> <p>Bringing on two journalists who should have been more carefully vetted as they are known grifters in the UFO culture, the Times published leaked videos from a DOD true believer of “somethings” tracked in the sky</p> <p>They could have been “drones” (our current moment-favorite word), but could also have been a distant plane or an instrument reading anomaly, or any number of other things that people get confused about and think are unidentified </p> <p>(such things now styled by the propagandists as UAPs because of the negative connotations with the UFO itself adopted as a euphemism for “flying saucer “).</p> <p>This peaked the interest of some more credulous members of Congress and, unfortunately, with this newfound legitimacy, the true believers are seeing a resurgence of their particular bugbear.</p> <p>Oh, and, of course the Chinese Balloons of 2023 didn’t help matters much.</p> <p>That’s the context for the moment we find ourselves in. A lot of people aren’t aware of its long backstory.</p> <p>Interestingly, sociologists of religion tell me that this shares a lot in common with religious revival periods. </p> <p>There are quite a few “UFO religions” that are around from the last time this kind of thing captured the public imagination at scale. Do not be surprised if some new ones are formed from this one.</p> Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:49:10 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=787808 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=787808 The current “mystery drone” circus in New Jersey is a documented phenomenon called a “UFO flap”. Interestingly, the first one we have good evidence for happened in the late 19th century when interest in airships was first burgeoning and people began to see them everywhere across the US. Newspapers reported these “sightings” without so much as a hint that they weren’t actually airships or, really, anything at all except for what can normally be seen in the sky. The Elon Musk of the time, Thomas Edison, ended up being blamed for it for reasons that are not exactly clear, so if you look in the newspaper articles from that time you’ll see all these stories about the “Edison Star” which people were convinced was his new invention and the circus got too annoying for him to handle so he had to publish a clear denial and excoriation of the gullibility of the media and public. At the time, there was a bit more respect for expertise, at least within the newspaper publishing world, and that put an end to the breathless stories for the most part, but “mystery airships” continued to be reported around until interest eventually waned by the turn of the century. All this was forgotten when 45 years later some pilot near Mt. Rainier reported sighting unexplained flying things that were probably pelicans. That kicked off a decade of “flying saucer” reports which eventually had to be shut down by a nothingburger of a US Air Force report that showed no real evidence for any sort of unusual flying stuff. A few astronomers involved in that got red pilled in the 1960s and 1970s ala Avi Loeb and started correspondence committees that exist to this day (MUFON, CUFOS, etc). Our current moment of pseudoscientific excitement has its roots in a particularly problematic feature article published by The New York Times in 2017. Bringing on two journalists who should have been more carefully vetted as they are known grifters in the UFO culture, the Times published leaked videos from a DOD true believer of “somethings” tracked in the sky They could have been “drones” (our current moment-favorite word), but could also have been a distant plane or an instrument reading anomaly, or any number of other things that people get confused about and think are unidentified (such things now styled by the propagandists as UAPs because of the negative connotations with the UFO itself adopted as a euphemism for “flying saucer “). This peaked the interest of some more credulous members of Congress and, unfortunately, with this newfound legitimacy, the true believers are seeing a resurgence of their particular bugbear. Oh, and, of course the Chinese Balloons of 2023 didn’t help matters much. That’s the context for the moment we find ourselves in. A lot of people aren’t aware of its long backstory. Interestingly, sociologists of religion tell me that this shares a lot in common with religious revival periods. There are quite a few “UFO religions” that are around from the last time this kind of thing captured the public imagination at scale. Do not be surprised if some new ones are formed from this one. <p>The current “mystery drone” circus in New Jersey is a documented phenomenon called a “UFO flap”. Interestingly, the first one we have good evidence for happened in the late 19th century when interest in airships was first burgeoning and people began to see them everywhere across the US. Newspapers reported these “sightings” without so much as a hint that they weren’t actually airships or, really, anything at all except for what can normally be seen in the sky.</p> <p>The Elon Musk of the time, Thomas Edison, ended up being blamed for it for reasons that are not exactly clear, so if you look in the newspaper articles from that time you’ll see all these stories about the “Edison Star” which people were convinced was his new invention and the circus got too annoying for him to handle so he had to publish a clear denial and excoriation of the gullibility of the media and public. At the time, there was a bit more respect for expertise, at least within the newspaper publishing world,</p> <p>and that put an end to the breathless stories for the most part, but “mystery airships” continued to be reported around until interest eventually waned by the turn of the century.</p> <p>All this was forgotten when 45 years later some pilot near Mt. Rainier reported sighting unexplained flying things that were probably pelicans.</p> <p>That kicked off a decade of “flying saucer” reports which eventually had to be shut down by a nothingburger of a US Air Force report that showed no real evidence for any sort of unusual flying stuff.</p> <p>A few astronomers involved in that got red pilled in the 1960s and 1970s ala Avi Loeb and started correspondence committees that exist to this day (MUFON, CUFOS, etc).</p> <p>Our current moment of pseudoscientific excitement has its roots in a particularly problematic feature article published by The New York Times in 2017.</p> <p>Bringing on two journalists who should have been more carefully vetted as they are known grifters in the UFO culture, the Times published leaked videos from a DOD true believer of “somethings” tracked in the sky</p> <p>They could have been “drones” (our current moment-favorite word), but could also have been a distant plane or an instrument reading anomaly, or any number of other things that people get confused about and think are unidentified</p> <p>(such things now styled by the propagandists as UAPs because of the negative connotations with the UFO itself adopted as a euphemism for “flying saucer “).</p> <p>This peaked the interest of some more credulous members of Congress and, unfortunately, with this newfound legitimacy, the true believers are seeing a resurgence of their particular bugbear.</p> <p>Oh, and, of course the Chinese Balloons of 2023 didn’t help matters much.</p> <p>That’s the context for the moment we find ourselves in. A lot of people aren’t aware of its long backstory.</p> <p>Interestingly, sociologists of religion tell me that this shares a lot in common with religious revival periods.</p> <p>There are quite a few “UFO religions” that are around from the last time this kind of thing captured the public imagination at scale. Do not be surprised if some new ones are formed from this one.</p> Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:45:37 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=787807 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=787807 The current “mystery drone” circus in New Jersey is a documented phenomenon called a “UFO flap”. Interestingly, the first one we have good evidence for happened in the late 19th century when interest in airships was first burgeoning and people began to see them everywhere across the US. Newspapers reported these “sightings” without so much as a hint that they weren’t actually airships or, really, anything at all except for what can normally be seen in the sky. The Elon Musk of the time, Thomas Edison, ended up being blamed for it for reasons that are not exactly clear, so if you look in the newspaper articles from that time you’ll see all these stories about the “Edison Star” which people were convinced was his new invention and the circus got too annoying for him to handle so he had to publish a clear denial and excoriation of the gullibility of the media and public. At the time, there was a bit more respect for expertise, at least within the newspaper publishing world, and that put an end to the breathless stories for the most part, but “mystery airships” continued to be reported around until interest eventually waned by the turn of the century. All this was forgotten when 45 years later some pilot near Mt. Rainier reported sighting unexplained flying things that were probably pelicans. That kicked off a decade of “flying saucer” reports which eventually had to be shut down by a nothingburger of a US Air Force report that showed no real evidence for any sort of unusual flying stuff. A few astronomers involved in that got red pilled in the 1960s and 1970s ala Avi Loeb and started correspondence committees that exist to this day (MUFON, CUFOS, etc). Our current moment of pseudoscientific excitement has its roots in a particularly problematic feature article published by The New York Times in 2017. Bringing on two journalists who should have been more carefully vetted as they are known grifters in the UFO culture, the Times published leaked videos from a DOD true believer of “somethings” tracked in the sky They could have been “drones” (our current moment-favorite word), but could also have been a distant plane or an instrument reading anomaly, or any number of other things that people get confused about and think are unidentified (such things now styled by the propagandists as UAPs because of the negative connotations with the UFO itself adopted as a euphemism for “flying saucer “). This peaked the interest of some more credulous members of Congress and, unfortunately, with this newfound legitimacy, the true believers are seeing a resurgence of their particular bugbear. Oh, and, of course the Chinese Balloons of 2023 didn’t help matters much. That’s the context for the moment we find ourselves in. A lot of people aren’t aware of its long backstory. Interestingly, sociologists of religion tell me that this shares a lot in common with religious revival periods. There are quite a few “UFO religions” that are around from the last time this kind of thing captured the public imagination at scale. Do not be surprised if some new ones are formed from this one. <p>The current “mystery drone” circus in New Jersey is a documented phenomenon called a “UFO flap”. Interestingly, the first one we have good evidence for happened in the late 19th century when interest in airships was first burgeoning and people began to see them everywhere across the US. Newspapers reported these “sightings” without so much as a hint that they weren’t actually airships or, really, anything at all except for what can normally be seen in the sky.</p> <p>The Elon Musk of the time, Thomas Edison, ended up being blamed for it for reasons that are not exactly clear, so if you look in the newspaper articles from that time you’ll see all these stories about the “Edison Star” which people were convinced was his new invention and the circus got too annoying for him to handle so he had to publish a clear denial and excoriation of the gullibility of the media and public. At the time, there was a bit more respect for expertise, at least within the newspaper publishing world,</p> <p>and that put an end to the breathless stories for the most part, but “mystery airships” continued to be reported around until interest eventually waned by the turn of the century.</p> <p>All this was forgotten when 45 years later some pilot near Mt. Rainier reported sighting unexplained flying things that were probably pelicans.</p> <p>That kicked off a decade of “flying saucer” reports which eventually had to be shut down by a nothingburger of a US Air Force report that showed no real evidence for any sort of unusual flying stuff.</p> <p>A few astronomers involved in that got red pilled in the 1960s and 1970s ala Avi Loeb and started correspondence committees that exist to this day (MUFON, CUFOS, etc).</p> <p>Our current moment of pseudoscientific excitement has its roots in a particularly problematic feature article published by The New York Times in 2017.</p> <p>Bringing on two journalists who should have been more carefully vetted as they are known grifters in the UFO culture, the Times published leaked videos from a DOD true believer of “somethings” tracked in the sky</p> <p>They could have been “drones” (our current moment-favorite word), but could also have been a distant plane or an instrument reading anomaly, or any number of other things that people get confused about and think are unidentified</p> <p>(such things now styled by the propagandists as UAPs because of the negative connotations with the UFO itself adopted as a euphemism for “flying saucer “).</p> <p>This peaked the interest of some more credulous members of Congress and, unfortunately, with this newfound legitimacy, the true believers are seeing a resurgence of their particular bugbear.</p> <p>Oh, and, of course the Chinese Balloons of 2023 didn’t help matters much.</p> <p>That’s the context for the moment we find ourselves in. A lot of people aren’t aware of its long backstory.</p> <p>Interestingly, sociologists of religion tell me that this shares a lot in common with religious revival periods.</p> <p>There are quite a few “UFO religions” that are around from the last time this kind of thing captured the public imagination at scale. Do not be surprised if some new ones are formed from this one.</p> Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:44:31 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=787806 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=787806 The current “mystery drone” circus in New Jersey is a documented phenomenon called a “UFO flap”. Interestingly, the first one we have good evidence for happened in the late 19th century when interest in airships was first burgeoning and people began to see them everywhere across the US. Newspapers reported these “sightings” without so much as a hint that they weren’t actually airships or, really, anything at all except for what can normally be seen in the sky. The Elon Musk of the time, Thomas Edison, ended up being blamed for it for reasons that are not exactly clear, so if you look in the newspaper articles from that time you’ll see all these stories about the “Edison Star” which people were convinced was his new invention and the circus got too annoying for him to handle so he had to publish a clear denial and excoriation of the gullibility of the media and public. At the time, there was a bit more respect for expertise, at least within the newspaper publishing world, and that put an end to the breathless stories for the most part, but “mystery airships” continued to be reported around until interest eventually waned by the turn of the century. All this was forgotten when 45 years later some pilot near Mt. Rainier reported sighting unexplained flying things that were probably pelicans. That kicked off a decade of “flying saucer” reports which eventually had to be shut down by a nothingburger of a US Air Force report that showed no real evidence for any sort of unusual flying stuff. A few astronomers involved in that got red pilled in the 1960s and 1970s ala Avi Loeb and started correspondence committees that exist to this day (MUFON, CUFOS, etc). Our current moment of pseudoscientific excitement has its roots in a particularly problematic feature article published by The New York Times in 2017. Bringing on two journalists who should have been more carefully vetted as they are known grifters in the UFO culture, the Times published leaked videos from a DOD true believer of “somethings” tracked in the sky They could have been “drones” (our current moment-favorite word), but could also have been a distant plane or an instrument reading anomaly, or any number of other things that people get confused about and think are unidentified (such things now styled by the propagandists as UAPs because of the negative connotations with the UFO itself adopted as a euphemism for “flying saucer “). This peaked the interest of some more credulous members of Congress and, unfortunately, with this newfound legitimacy, the true believers are seeing a resurgence of their particular bugbear. Oh, and, of course the Chinese Balloons of 2023 didn’t help matters much. That’s the context for the moment we find ourselves in. A lot of people aren’t aware of its long backstory. Interestingly, sociologists of religion tell me that this shares a lot in common with religious revival periods. There are quite a few “UFO religions” that are around from the last time this kind of thing captured the public imagination at scale. Do not be surprised if some new ones are formed from this one. <p>The current “mystery drone” circus in New Jersey is a documented phenomenon called a “UFO flap”. Interestingly, the first one we have good evidence for happened in the late 19th century when interest in airships was first burgeoning and people began to see them everywhere across the US. Newspapers reported these “sightings” without so much as a hint that they weren’t actually airships or, really, anything at all except for what can normally be seen in the sky.</p> <p>The Elon Musk of the time, Thomas Edison, ended up being blamed for it for reasons that are not exactly clear, so if you look in the newspaper articles from that time you’ll see all these stories about the “Edison Star” which people were convinced was his new invention and the circus got too annoying for him to handle so he had to publish a clear denial and excoriation of the gullibility of the media and public. At the time, there was a bit more respect for expertise, at least within the newspaper publishing world,</p> <p>and that put an end to the breathless stories for the most part, but “mystery airships” continued to be reported around until interest eventually waned by the turn of the century.</p> <p>All this was forgotten when 45 years later some pilot near Mt. Rainier reported sighting unexplained flying things that were probably pelicans.</p> <p>That kicked off a decade of “flying saucer” reports which eventually had to be shut down by a nothingburger of a US Air Force report that showed no real evidence for any sort of unusual flying stuff.</p> <p>A few astronomers involved in that got red pilled in the 1960s and 1970s ala Avi Loeb and started correspondence committees that exist to this day (MUFON, CUFOS, etc).</p> <p>Our current moment of pseudoscientific excitement has its roots in a particularly problematic feature article published by The New York Times in 2017.</p> <p>Bringing on two journalists who should have been more carefully vetted as they are known grifters in the UFO culture, the Times published leaked videos from a DOD true believer of “somethings” tracked in the sky</p> <p>They could have been “drones” (our current moment-favorite word), but could also have been a distant plane or an instrument reading anomaly, or any number of other things that people get confused about and think are unidentified</p> <p>(such things now styled by the propagandists as UAPs because of the negative connotations with the UFO itself adopted as a euphemism for “flying saucer “).</p> <p>This peaked the interest of some more credulous members of Congress and, unfortunately, with this newfound legitimacy, the true believers are seeing a resurgence of their particular bugbear.</p> <p>Oh, and, of course the Chinese Balloons of 2023 didn’t help matters much.</p> <p>That’s the context for the moment we find ourselves in. A lot of people aren’t aware of its long backstory.</p> <p>Interestingly, sociologists of religion tell me that this shares a lot in common with religious revival periods.</p> <p>There are quite a few “UFO religions” that are around from the last time this kind of thing captured the public imagination at scale. Do not be surprised if some new ones are formed from this one.</p> Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:42:21 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=787805 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=787805 The current “mystery drone” circus in New Jersey is a documented phenomenon called a “UFO flap”. Interestingly, the first one we have good evidence for happened in the late 19th century when interest in airships was first burgeoning and people began to see them everywhere across the US. Newspapers reported these “sightings” without so much as a hint that they weren’t actually airships or, really, anything at all except for what can normally be seen in the sky. The Elon Musk of the time, Thomas Edison, ended up being blamed for it for reasons that are not exactly clear, so if you look in the newspaper articles from that time you’ll see all these stories about the “Edison Star” which people were convinced was his new invention and the circus got too annoying for him to handle so he had to publish a clear denial and excoriation of the gullibility of the media and public. At the time, there was a bit more respect for expertise, at least within the newspaper publishing world, and that put an end to the breathless stories for the most part, but “mystery airships” continued to be reported around until interest eventually waned by the turn of the century. All this was forgotten when 45 years later some pilot near Mt. Rainier reported sighting unexplained flying things that were probably pelicans. That kicked off a decade of “flying saucer” reports which eventually had to be shut down by a nothingburger of a US Air Force report that showed no real evidence for any sort of unusual flying stuff. A few astronomers involved in that got red pilled in the 1960s and 1970s ala Avi Loeb and started correspondence committees that exist to this day (MUFON, CUFOS, etc). Our current moment of pseudoscientific excitement has its roots in a particularly problematic feature article published by The New York Times in 2017. Bringing on two journalists who should have been more carefully vetted as they are known grifters in the UFO culture, the Times published leaked videos from a DOD true believer of “somethings” tracked in the sky They could have been “drones” (our current moment-favorite word), but could also have been a distant plane or an instrument reading anomaly, or any number of other things that people get confused about and think are unidentified (such things now styled by the propagandists as UAPs because of the negative connotations with the UFO itself adopted as a euphemism for “flying saucer “). This peaked the interest of some more credulous members of Congress and, unfortunately, with this newfound legitimacy, the true believers are seeing a resurgence of their particular bugbear. Oh, and, of course the Chinese Balloons of 2023 didn’t help matters much. That’s the context for the moment we find ourselves in. A lot of people aren’t aware of its long backstory. Interestingly, sociologists of religion tell me that this shares a lot in common with religious revival periods. There are quite a few “UFO religions” that are around from the last time this kind of thing captured the public imagination at scale. Do not be surprised if some new ones are formed from this one.