Skeptical Inquiry in the UAP Era: Narratives, Classifications, and the Search for Evidence
To the point
UAPs demand careful, evidence-based thinking that weighs historical psyop risks (as highlighted by Walter Bedell Smith) against competing narratives (Ferguson, McBeth, Prather) and sighting categories, keeps an open mind to explanations from terrestrial to extraterrestrial only after other options are exhausted, and guards against misinformation and the weaponization of discourse.