One of the subcultures characteristics is its very limited
space of influence. Subculture is defined as a cultural group within a larger
culture, often having beliefs or interests at variance with those of the larger
culture.
In the UFO subculture, these limitations are disguised by
the leaders of the group and the UFO industry and the UFO paradigm is presented
as a problem that attracts the attention of all the society, including the
government.
The indifference of the media, the government and the scientific
establishment is presented as a complex conspiracy of silence.
But since 95 % of all the UFO sightings are identified as
natural phenomena and man-made artifacts; this statistic is taboo for the
believers and for the self-proclaimed experts.
In the limited environment of the UFO subculture, anything can
be proclaimed without recognizing the need of clear and reliable evidences.
Between professional ufologists and believers anything goes.
Fantasies, misinformation, lies and fictions are the rule of the law inside the
rarified atmosphere of the subculture and even the contradictions between
different UFO-ET mythologies are not recognized as clear evidence of ignorance
and personal fictions presented as facts.
A mythological ufologist can talk about thousands of UFO
sightings as evidence, without mentioning that 95 % of these sightings are planets,
balloons, meteorites, hoaxes and aircraft.
That’s why is possible in Richard Dolan’s mythology to imply
that the so called Security State is a consequence of the UFO presence and the
need of a giant cover-up to keep the
tremendous secret.
That’s why the invasion of Iraq was motivated by some
Stargate (sic) in the southern part of that country.
That’s why Alfred Webre tells us that a council of
Extraterrestrial civilizations keeps our Earth in quarantine, isolating us from
the civilized galactic community, and Andy Basiago tells us about his
time-jumps and his meeting in Mars with the man who is now president of the
United States
Anything goes when the show must go on.
