Do You Love Mysteries?

Image courtesy flickr In August of 1953, Captain Ruppelt at Project blue Book asked to be reassigned when his staff was reduced from ten to two.   A paragraph from Wikipedia sums up the prevailing attitude at the time. Most who succeeded him as Blue Book director exhibited either apathy or outright hostility to the subject of UFOs or were hampered by a lack of funding and official support. UFO investigators often regard Ruppelt's brief tenure at Blue Book as the high-water mark of public Air Force investigations of UFOs, when UFO investigations were treated seriously and had support at high levels.  Thereafter, Project Blue Book descended into a new "Dark Ages" from which many UFO investigators argue it never emerged.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Book

By Carl Austin Image courtesy flickr Of all the mysteries I’m likely to cover, the topic of UFOs is without a doubt one of the most controversial.   Just mention the word UFO at a cocktail party and see how fast the other guests avoid you like the plague.   Even worse is for a respected professional or, heaven forbid, a pilot or scientist to admit that he or she saw one and their careers are likely to take a sudden tailspin as quick as showing up for work wearing a tin foil hat.   What’s even worse is that many highly respected people including police officers, military officers, astronauts and at least two US Presidents have publicly acknowledged that they have seen something strange in the sky and one wonders why all the fuss?