IntroductionIn recent years, very few Australian professionals have expressed views on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP.) This article takes a look at three individuals, who have publicly commented about the subject. Adam Dodd – Queensland academicDr Adam Dodd – School of Communication and Arts – University of Queensland (uq.edu.au)In March 2018, Dr. Adam Dodd, an academic tutor in Communication and Writing, in the School of Communication & Arts, the University of Queensland, authored a paper titled “Strategic Ignorance and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Critiquing the Discursive Segregation of UFOs from Scientific Inquiry” in the Journal “Astropolitics.”The abstract of the paper read:”Since the late 1940’s, a tenacious disconnect between popular interest and professional disinterest in unidentified flying objects (UFOs) has typified the controversy surrounding the subject. Numerous high-profile scientists have seen the topic of UFOs as an opportunity to denounce and rectify a popular, yet allegedly misguided conviction – that some UFOs are physical anomalies indicating the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence – and thus to advance the explanatory authority of science.Rather than constituting rigorous, informed, and effective assessments, however, the ways in which many prominent scientists publicly address the UFO question often exemplify both the problematic “boundary-work” of scientific discourse in this area,…
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The three views on UAP of an Australian astronomer, an Australian Defence analyst, and an Australian academic
