Types of UFOlogists

 1. The "debunkers", who refuse to accept anything that falls outside of the boundaries of accepted science

2. The literalists, who are looking for metallic craft or aliens physical part

3. The spiritualists, who will tell you about the soul travelling across space and time or even god and Satan visiting

4. The psychologists, ho believe that such phenomenon are mental projections or mental disease

5. Space Brotherism

Scientists

 Some scientists are researching the phenomena, but for obvious reasons they play their cards close to their chests. J. Allen Hynek, the world's most respected UFO researcher, liked to joke that the handful of scientists seriously studying saucers constitute an "Invisible College." Since Hynek's death in 1986, his position has more or less been assumed by Jacques Vallee, who will probably go to his grave best known as the model for the Francois Truffaut character, "Lacombe," in Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."

In the 70s and early 80s, a number of prominent researchers, including Hynek and Vallee, were approached by bona fide U.S. military personnel and summoned to meetings, at which it was hinted that some revelation about UFOs would be forthcoming from the government very soon. Hynek and Vallee soon smelled a rat and withdrew; others didn't. Several prominent saucerheads were strung along for months, waiting for the Big Secret to be revealed, down primrose paths that led nowhere. Today, the community seems to be more threaten by internal rivalry than external aggression.