UAP/Aliens

UFOs, Rock and Roll, and Wikipedia

If researchers and academia agree that Wikipedia is not a reliable source, why do YouTube and google push Wikipedia info on my UFO searches?

In the good old days, it was rare that a UFO story hit the newspaper. They did. The two big sightings that caught my attention were the Phoenix Lights, front page of USA Today, and the Stephenville flap, local Dallas news. Even then, I didn’t know Stephenville was a flap, a weeklong event that was occurring, because the news made it seem like a fleeting, nonsensical story. Had they been more precise, I would have driven out and watched the sky from someone’s field or the side of the road. Today, UFO stories are about a dime a dozen. They come with a side track of authoritative, narrative spin. Does the present system not trust the old system libraries? Do they not trust that people will read Graff’s book, The Inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life Here or There? Why would anyone buy any book or magazine when you can just update your facts on Wikipedia?

Bob Dylan’s song, Philadelphia Freedom, sung by Sir Elton John, sparked to mind when I saw the UFO articles available today via Google’s algorithm. If there are more articles than what is populated, I didn’t see them…