AlchoPwn
Public Service is my Motto.
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Maybe but you still seem to me to be assuming that that is what they should do mainly because you want them to. The people to whom you refer are individuals and each of them chooses their own areas to research. UFOs are just one area and there are already many people (a few groups being very well funded and employing scientists) collecting reports and searching for patterns in the anecdotes. But substantive, objectively measured or measurable data is still very, very hard to come in practice when it comes to Fortean phenomena (especially UFOs, one of my areas of special interest), and that's the key the difficulty at present.
Agreed. We run into the old problem of the French Academy saying "there are no rocks in the sky ergo rocks cannot fall from the sky" and thereby dismissing meteorites because they haven't personally seen them fall. Science has some problems measuring a phenomenon it can't easily explain or reproduce, which is unsurprising. Thus it becomes more a detective case than a laboratory investigation.