From “flying saucers” to “Uap”, modern ufology is 75 years old

Probably, when 75 years ago he testified that he had sighted strange flying objects in the sky, the US aviator Kenneth A. Arnold did not yet know that from then on he would be considered the forerunner of modern ufology. It was June 24, 1947: Arnold, while flying on a CallAir -2 plane for a search and reconnaissance activity, observed nine flying objects that emitted flashing lights in the vicinity of Mount Rainier (Washington). The 24th June 75 years ago is therefore the conventional date of the first sighting of the so-called flying saucers (flying saucers), which were then renamed Ufo (Unidentified flying objects) and recently ‘renamed’ Uap (Unidentified aerial phenomena). “From 1947 to today, there have been over one and a half million sightings of which 20% of cases cannot be explained conventionally, since the flight characteristics and the type of performance presented places them outside of any technology present on our planet and therefore the terrestrial hypothesis is the one that remains more logical and plausible, given the continuous astronomical discoveries that modify the old structures of thought “, Vladimiro Bibolotti, president emeritus of Cun, National UFO Center, told Adnkronos. “a conventional date, but which falls in the year of the first hearing at the United States congress on Uap / UFOs and precisely on June 24, a circumstance evidently intended as a reference to the ‘first sighting’, an important discussion is held in the Senate of Brazil on OVNIs that is the UFOs as they are called in the Latin American continent “. In the planetary debate on the Ufo / Uap phenomenon “NASA is now also inserted as a space entity which in the recent statements of its Director Bill Nelson has officially opened to UFO research, with statements of extreme awareness on the importance of the phenomenon recorded not only by pilots of the US Navy but also by many astronauts, not only Americans. Relevant – adds Bibolotti – is the important involvement of prestigious US universities such as Harvard with the astrophysicist Avi Loeb, advocate of possible visits to our planet and the case of the interstellar asteroid Oumuamua, and the studies conducted by Professor Garry Nolan, professor of Pathology at Stanford University, on the harmful effects of the emissions caused on pilots who approached UAP “. The phenomenon of flying objects” could be ascribed to since the dawn of time. But it is only in this year – observes the scholar – that the study and official recognition of the reality of phenomenon has brought about a leap in quality, compared to the stigma and the veil of mystery that characterized it “. Finally, “the new role of the media in support of dissemination” should be noted.