Richard Dolan thinks UFO culture has a personality problem
With much of the UFO discussion these days about which politician or whistleblower said what, UFO historian Richard Dolan has observed that more of the focus should be on paranormal events themselves, and less on hyperbole.
Speaking on his YouTube channel, Dolan observed that “so much of the discussion seems to be about personality lately.”
Perhaps it's the contradictory claims and the talking-heads-like presence of so many voices in the space community that cause the caveat that “people have to evaluate sources and think carefully about claims.”
And with magnified voices such as Neil deGrasse Tyson effectively jumping on the UFO bandwagon to sell his new book, brandishing phrases like “bring out the alien,” Dolan may have a case in point.
“The center of this subject is the event, the encounter,” explained Dolan, adding that “unless you want the subject to become in danger of being more suitable for gossip columnists than researchers.”
Richard Dolan - Too much focus on personality lately - "who said what, who knows who, who has an intelligence connection, who's exaggerating". "The center of this subject is still the EVENT, the ENCOUNTER. That moment when someone deals w/ something that does not seem to belong to the known world".
by u/TommyShelbyPFB in UFOs
Who is Richard Dolan?
Dolan is a prominent UFO researcher and historian, who has published several books on the geopolitical impact of official UAP disclosure.
Concerned more with the historiography than voicing off too loudly about disclosure, one Redditor back in 2022 claimed they preferred him as a writer rather than as a presenter, due to his monotone delivery.
But perhaps that’s what a lot of the community craves, a professor figure that has a track record of explaining the US military's penchant for dismissing UFOs while secretly studying them.
Following his comments on his podcast, a wave of praise washed across the UFO group on Reddit, with some calling him “a gold standard,” and others “a treasure trove,” and his work “close to perfect.”
When Dolan says “the event itself,” he is probably generalizing, but in the case of a defining UFO moment actually happening, any exaggeration could well be silenced in the process.
