An expert on international relations has taken on the taboo in modern society of taking UFOs seriously and calls for systematic science to try to determine what they are.
Alexander Wendt is the Ralph D. Mershon Professor of International Security and professor of political science at The Ohio State University. Before coming to Ohio State in 2004, he taught at Yale University, Dartmouth College, and University of Chicago.
Wendt is also a board member of the UFODATA Project dedicated to UFO detection and tracking.
Elusive phenomena
In a February 4, 2020 posted TEDxColumbus presentation, Wendt argues that the UFO taboo is incoherent and unjustified, and proposes a crowd-funded science of UFOs as a way of beginning to learn more about these elusive phenomena.
As a somewhat controversial sidebar to the posted talk, in a “NOTE FROM TED” the lead organization flagged this talk, which was filmed at a TEDx event, because it appears to “fall outside TEDx’s content guidelines.”
Furthermore, TED also noted that claims made in this talk “only represent the speaker’s personal understanding of UFOs which are not corroborated by scientific evidence.”
That said, view at your own mental risk by going to:
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