Stanton Friedman is survived by his wife of 44 years, Marilyn.
(Submitted/Melissa Friedman)
Posted on 05/15/2019 5:27:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Friedman was returning from a speaking engagement in Columbus, Ohio, when he died suddenly at the Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday night, according to his family.
He was 84.
A nuclear physicist by training, Friedman had devoted his life to researching and investigating UFOs since the late 1960s.
He was credited with bringing the 1947 Roswell Incident — the famous incident that gave rise to theories about UFOs and a U.S. military coverup — back into the mainstream conversation.
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This is a loss.
Science belongs to the amateurs. Prior to WWII, it did, for the most part. There wasn’t even a term for scientist beyond ‘natural philosopher’.
Government is a generally necessary, but unfailingly bad thing. It’s a tyranny of mediocrity, for the most part.
God rest Friedman.
Rest in peace Stanton.
I have his website app on my computer screen. He is among the best. Not a nut job like most of the ancient alien bogus scientist crowd.
He is the real deal.
Everybody loves to quote Ike's farewell address regarding the "Military Industrial Complex," but Ike also issued a word of warning in his address regarding your exact same point.
"Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."
He was a hoot on C2C.
What a quote.
I’m teaching a HAM radio class to 11 to 18 year olds, and I go down the line highlighting the contribution of amateurs to the radio art and science.
This is very, very nice and particularly on point, and I thank you.
“The Invaders” finally got him.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnah3tn1wJ4
The original 'tinfoil' hat man... A brilliant physicist who unfortunately gave legitimacy to the UFO crowd. But in the end... When you compare that crowd to the lunatics who rant about global warming, they seem almost lovable in comparison and at least they understand why people think they're a little 'off'.
Tell a climate changer / global warming alarmist that they've got it all wrong and they take a conniption fit.
Stanton Friedman, famed UFO researcher, dead at 84
Hopefully he gets his questions about UFO answered in the next life.
Heard him when I was in college, early 70s...RIP.
Government is a generally necessary, but unfailingly bad thing. It’s a tyranny of mediocrity.
Profound.
I’m stealing your phrase.
Likely not an original idea, just an observation from someone who is watching young men and women enter society as adults.
I applaud the efforts of this President.
I highly recommend the book “Captured!” by Stanton Friedman and Kathleen Marden. May he rest in peace.
RIP.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
I'm copying spudville.
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