Written by Dr Michael Salla on .
On July 16, leading UFO historian, Richard Dolan, released an article setting out his views about how to assess individuals who have claimed to have direct knowledge and experience concerning secret space programs. He explains his sympathy for the view that such programs exist, and that people have been through these programs where they have or want to come forward with what they know.
However, he describes his general skeptism about individuals who not only claim to be whistleblowers with detailed knowledge about secret space programs, but who also achieve a certain degree of public acceptance, while providing no evidence in support of their claims:
But
when it comes to significant claims being made–really big claims that
are not only radical on their own merits but which transform the field
(and bring fame and money to those making them), then we clearly need a
higher standard than “he seems like a good guy with a detailed story so I
believe him.”
He describes three whistleblowers in particular who have come forward and gained a level of public attention with their incredible claims:
Some
of the most prominent of these people include Andrew Basiago, Randy
Kramer, and Corey Goode. These three individuals have each claimed to
have gone to Mars for extended periods of time. That’s explosive enough,
of course, but they have also stated that they have engaged in time
travel.
Richard points out that the lack of evidence means that we need to take the whistleblowers word for it, which can be a dangerous thing for researchers:
Again,
I must emphasize that none of these whistleblowers has made a claim
that an independent investigator can confirm. Everything is based on
trust. Believing such stories without genuine evidence takes us down a
dangerous road within an already treacherous field that is constantly in
the crosshairs of a skeptical establishment.
He is here attempting to steer what he perceives to be the middle path between a highly critical group of skeptics and debunkers claiming such whistleblowers are, at best, delusional or at worst pathological liars, and supporters accepting whatever the whistleblowers have to say on trust alone.
Richard refers to a series of emails he received encouraging him to come out against Goode in particular, who has recently been subjected to sustained criticism from Bill Ryan and Daniel Liszt (aka Dark Journalist) in a series of interviews. Ryan and Liszt have been a focal point for an internet campaign to discredit Goode as a pathological liar.
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