I've heard that Little Hawk's coined acronym for UFOs has been met with harsh critique in the community of UFOlogists. Let me channel (some are no longer in this sphere of existence) some voices:

Vallee stated: (UFO) entities are endowed with the same fugitiveness and behave with the same ignorance of logical and physical laws as the reflection of a dream, the monsters of our nightmares, the unpredictable witches of our childhood.

Hynek was openly contemptuous: I would have to say that the extraterrestrial theory is a naive one... we should take into consideration the various factors that strongly suggest a linkage... with occurences of the paranormal nature...interlocking universes...

Brad Steiger snorted: What we have thus far been labeling 'spaceships'...(are) multidimensional mechanisms or psychic constructs of our paraphysical companions.

Michael Talbot insisted on his own theory: In an omnijective universe, real and unreal have no meaning...which is simply imagined by one man may, after becoming widely publicized, actually materialize.

J. Clark of CUFOS dismissed the idea: the 'objective' manifestations are psychokinetically generated byproducts of those unconscious processes which shape a culture's vision of the otherworld. Existing only temporarily, they are at best only quasiphysical,

Greenfield theorized: The UFO phenomenon represents an attempt by the unconscious human psyche to project a collective archetypical symbol into the seemingly 'eterna' (material; nonphysical) environment.

L. Wiedeman knows the truth about UFOs: There are no such 'things' as UFOs, in that they do not have any existence independent of the mind. The fact is, the human mind has the capacity to project solid images, and these images become temporarily real in every sense of the word....The government has suppressed this information...that our entire reality is made up wholly of projections from the collective unconscious.

Last, but not least, Thomas Bearden explained it in very simple words: the UFO phenomena can be fitted to the hypothesis that they represent the prenatal care of the earthman by a linked superbeing, in preparation for the forthcoming linkage of the human species and the birth of another linked superbeing.

I have left out the ridicule from those knowing of a mundane origin. Some know that the CIA is responsible, some think Nazis fled to the Antarctis are testing modern version of the Wunderwaffe, others claim the crafts come from the inside of the hollow earth.

Though the verdict of the UFO community was far from unanimous and ranged from outrageous to interesting but premature, the researchers decided that a conference deciding about a nomenclature of UFOs, and perhaps even a start of a classification was overdue. In an unprecedented move they have even invited some skeptics of note and have met at an undisclosed location in the North of the American continent. I am happy to have got hold of one of the very few copies of the conference proceedings and shall share them with you tomorrow. Watch for a thread titled 'A classification of UFOs' or something very similar.

Wolfgang