Loosely based on the real Project Blue Book, I vaguely remember watching a few episodes of Project UFO when I was growing up…I would have been about 9 years old at the time. In any case, if you care to watch them just follow this link.

I’ll be speaking at the 2006 New Frontiers Symposium in Halifax on October 14 on Project Blue Book and the Blue Book Archive. There’s a great line up in store for those attending so head on over and check it out!

First of all, let me say thanks to Paul for including my name in his top-ten list of Ufology’s Generation NOW and for his kind words and vote of confidence!

Unfortunately, although Paul has yet to reveal his full list of young(ish) Ufologers I fear that none of those on it, myself included, have it in us to bring this issue far enough forward to get science to seriously consider researching the phenomenon. Realistically, we can probably help preserve the body of reliable knowledge that has been accumulated thus far and perhaps even make some modest progress by adding to it. Considering that even a relatively well funded and reasonable project like SETI, staffed by a good number of level-headed PhDs, is often accused of being quasi-religious and engaged in fringe science I doubt we will see any great change in official or academic attitudes toward UFO research barring another significant wave of well publicized sightings.

Perhaps our best hope is that by preserving the history of the phenomenon, and ultimately providing a cogent and readily digestible analysis of it, we will help those in the future who are in a position to make a difference avoid the stumbling blocks that served to stymie serious efforts to study the phenomenon in the past.