Chalons-en-Champagne (France), 16 October 2005
Twenty Questions for European Ufology
Preliminary notes for the EuroUfoNet meeting agenda
a – UFO Sightings and reports collecting
a 1 – Who is collecting and cataloguing UFO sighting reports and news?
a 2 – Is it feasible to arrive at a common minimum database format?
a 3 – Who is coordinating field investigations?
a 4 – Is it feasible to arrive at a common minimum sighting form?
a 5 – Is it feasible to arrive at a common investigation methodology?
b – Internal cooperation and data exchange
b 1 – How can European national organizations cooperate with each other (besides exchanging publications)?
b 2 – Is a common European list of available scientific consultants feasible?
b 3 – Can we build and maintain a common list of ongoing research projects?
b 4 – Can we build a common database of available archives and of their contents?
b 5 – Can we have a regular exchange of duplicates from each other’s archives?
b 6 – What activities of archives recovery are being done and by whom?
b 7 – Is a common European refereed journal feasible?
b 8 – Is a common European website feasible?
c – External cooperation
c 1 – How can rationalist ufologists cope with “other” ufologists and UFO buffs?
c 2 – How can we contribute to let new generation buffs evolve in tomorrow’s ufologists?
c 3 – How can rationalist ufologists cope with scientific agencies and scientists?
c 4 – Can we elaborate concrete proposals for scientific studies and analyses to be conducted by willing scientists?
d – Philosophical and episthemological issues
d 1 – What is the self-perceived role of a rationalist ufologist in the XXI century?
d 2 – Should we draw borderlines to define who is in and who is out, as of ufology?
d 3 – Are we to radically change our traditional activities for new approaches (eg. Instrumented research)?
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