Stranger in a strange land

A Lesson Learned
Over the last few months I have been fairly active on a few UFO websites, and I have learned a lot.
When I started I was a solid believer in UFOs existence, after all almost everyone has seen something in the sky they couldn’t identify and that is a UFO until you find out more. I had seen a few things myself that I know weren’t swamp gas.
But when I ventured to join a UFO forum and tried to talk with the True Believers out there I was surprised. Not at the depth of knowledge but at the depth of ignorance out there.
NO ONE, it seemed had read anything older than this year’s writings on the subject. NO ONE seemed to understand that computers are a recent invention and that Photoshop wasn’t around in the 1940s. And EVERYONE seemed to accept anything and everything as gospel with no attempt to question the evidence.
I was soundly chastised for questioning a contactee’s story. How could I be so cruel as to think someone would make up such a story! It appears that even those who claim the experience is glorious still have deep emotional trauma from the experience and to doubt their story is like calling the Holocaust a lie.
I was asked many times why I was on a UFO site if I doubted some of the theories put forward, and just why I didn’t BELIEVE any of the conspiracy theories that were the heart and soul of UFOlogy.
In a short time I was labeled a skeptic to be looked at with either pity or hatred.
I am now more convinced than ever before that the reason no REAL scientist will come anywhere near Ufology is the company they will be expected to keep. Even the old established UFO investigation groups are now under attack because they won’t come out in support of the many conspiracy theories, and claims that are out there.
Ufology has, it seems, joined Scientology as a new age religion. And the Gods help the non-believer caught in their midsts.