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1 the overwhelming evidence for its existence Alexander Wendt and Robert Duvall, "Sovereignty and the UFO," Political Theory, vol. 36, no. 4 (August 2008), pp. 607—33. Sage Publications has posted the paper on _ its website, 607—33. Sage Publications has posted the paper on _ its website, http://ptx.sagepub.com. 2 a bad fairy had administered a sleeping potion Hynek, "The Roots of Compacency," 1985, op. cit. 3 UFO skeptics think that human beings know The widely used phrase "UFO skeptic" can be misleading, because "skepticism" should imply doubt but openness. However, in UFO discourse it has been deformed into positive denial. 4 over 400 olar planets Dennis Overbye, "A Sultry World Is Found Orbiting a Distant Star," New York Times, December 17, 2009. 5 "They Can't Get Here” Some of this section is reprinted verbatim from the 2008 paper, Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall, op. cit., p. 616. Occasional phrases or sentences in "Militant Agnosticism and the UFO Taboo" were also used in the first posted paper on paper. 6 civilizataions should have reached Earth long ago Martyn Fogg, "Temporal Aspects of the Interaction Among the First Galactic Civilizations," Icarus 69 (1987): 370-84. 7 the speed of light is truly an absolute barrier J. Deardorff et al., "Inflation- Theory Implications for Extraterrestrial Visitation," Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 58 (2005): 43-50. 8 to skip over space without time dilation H. E. Puthoff, S. R. Little, and M. Ibison, "Engineering the Zero-Point Field and Polarizable Vacuum for Interstellar Flight," Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 55 (2002): 137-44. 9 "Fermi Paradox" Stephen Webb, Where Is Everybody? (New York: Copernicus Books, 2002). 10 UFOs are not a national security concern Richard Dolan, UFOs and the aria ial PW ava leave! Visitation," Journal British National Security State, pp. 193-203. 11 reinforcing the skeptical case Peter Galison, "Removing Knowledge," Critical Inquiry 31 (2004): 229-43. On UFO secrecy see especially Dolan, UFOs and the National Security State, and, for the official view, Gerald Haines, "CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-1990," Intelligence and National Security 14 (1999): 26-49, and Charles Ziegler, "UFOs and the US Intelligence Community," Jntelligence and National Security, vol. 14 (1999), pp. 1-25. 12 a science of UFOs One could imagine, for example, a complementary, bottom-up or "democratic" strategy centering on an Internet-funded NGO, an idea we (Wendt and Duvall) have explored elsewhere. 1 "a powerful desire to do nothing" Hynek, "The Roots of Complacency," op. cit. 2 "the dam breaks, sometimes cataclysmically" Tbid. 3. Dr. James E. McDonald, senior atmospheric physicist Dr. James E. McDonald, "Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects," submitted to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Washington, D.C., July 29,1968. This report is recommended reading. For a detailed biography about McDonald and chronicle of his work, see Ann Druffel, Firestorm: Dr. James E. McDonald's Fight for UFO Science (Wild Flower Press, 2003). 4 a 2009 memoir Peter Sturrock, A Tale of Two Sciences: Memoirs of a ois a Anan Dissident Scientist (Exoscience, 2009). 5 on the position of the scientific establishment Peter Sturrock, The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence (Warner Books, 1999). Provides all CHAPTER 28: FACING AN EXTREME CHALLENGE