Nearly 1 in 5 academics admit close encounters of the anomalous kind
A survey of academics has found that nearly one in five reported an experience with unidentified anomalous phenomena , which researchers say signals the need to ditch the stigma surrounding sightings and broaden inquiries., a trio of scholars said they surveyed 1,460 tenured and tenure track faculty at 144"major research universities" to learn about their attitudes toward UAP research and reports.
Their findings uncovered an academic community curious about UAPs while retaining a healthy reservoir of skepticism. Despite around a fifth of respondents saying they may have witnessed a UAP, nearly 40 percent chose to exercise their academic integrity by reserving judgment. Fewer chose to proffer an explanation, with slightly less than a quarter saying UAPs were caused by natural events, and 13.14 percent leaning hard into the"devices of unknown intelligence" explanation.
For those curious what uni faculty claim to have witnessed, the report includes a dozen descriptions of encounters. Explanations ran from a parent having served in the military and having experience with UAPs to physicist colleagues telling the respondent they observed UAPs and couldn't explain them. One respondent claimed to have twice encountered a UFO."I know they exist and we don't have that level of technology.
That stigma, according to the authors, is what's holding more independent academic research into UAPs back – 64 percent of respondents said getting academics involved was either very important or absolutely essential.
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