REPORTED PHENOMENA, UNEXPLAINABLE PHENOMENA: AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF UAP.
This paper analyzes the U.S. Navy's report that an unidentified aerial phenomenon was observed by pilots dispatched from the Nimitz aircraft carrier in 2004, a report published by the New York Times in 2017. I argue that an unidentified phenomenon is an unexplainable phenomenon, meaning one with unk...
| Publicado en: | Cosmos & History Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 380 - 413 |
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Ashton & Rafferty
2022
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