It's Also World UFO Day - Herald Tribune

The title is not the theme of the Billy Cox article, which highlights the poor treatment Wikipedia, and through it Joe Nickell and James McGaha, have accorded the 2004 USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" incident. Cox notes some of the same issues in "Nickell's smear job" as raised our hackles, but he's also enlarged the discussion with an example from his own personal experience with Martin Caidin. Elsewhere, Kevin Knuth proposes, what with July 2 being World UFO Day, Are We Alone? The Question is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study. Knuth echoes Cox's long-standing assertion that UFOs are "taboo," though here physicist Knuth's focus is naturally more on the woeful disregard that professional scientists, as well as the Press, have accorded the subject. Knuth has cogent things to say about UFO skepticism becoming "something of a religion with an agenda." Knuth's discussion is sound, thoughtful, and rather courageous. The piece does include a 1990 photo from the Belgian UFO wave that has been rather successfully discredited, as well as reference to the now-explained "Chilean Navy" footage, but these matters should not detract from the force of the argument, and only demonstrate that the field is capable of self-correction. (WM)

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