Roswell 1947 - Articles by researchers
See here for all the articles. See here for the main page of my Roswell incident section.
The policy for my "article by Researchers" section
Important:
The fact that I provide an article by a researcher related to the Roswell incident,
- does not imply that its author did not change his/her opinion thereafter, or that he/she did not found other elements justifying a change of opinion; in the case of the Roswell incident, this is frequent; it is up to the reader to make his own research also through other sources insofar as it is impossible for me to present instantaneously all the latest of future articles written by the researcher,
- does not imply that other authors had not have answered in an argument manner or not found reason to sustain a more correct or opposite conclusion in another article; in the case of the incident of Roswell, this is frequent; it up to the reader to make his own research also by other sources insofar as it is impossible for me to present in block and instantaneously all the latest and past or future articles written by all the researchers,
- does not imply that the author of this site supports or rejects the contents of the article, neither in its form, nor in its content.
Which kind of articles can be published?
The articles section will include exclusively articles dealing in a argued or informative or new manner of a particular aspect of the Roswell incident, exclusively by researchers actually involved in such research. The writings dealing with the incident in a global manner, undefended assertions, testimonies, newspaper clippings, documents by military authorities, expressions of opinions, will not be published in the articles section, but in other suitable sections, when and as appropriate.
Articles whose reproduction is prohibited to me will not be published. The authors wishing publication of some new article must expressly let me know their agreement as for the publication of their article in this section.
New articles will have to be sent to me in the form of an electronic text by email at patrick.gross@inbox.com, the author must identify himself/herself by and give his agreement for the publication in the articles section. The article must discuss homogeneous items, so that the article can be attached to one or the other articles categories, existing or new. An author wishing to express himself on various points corresponding to several such categories will have to provide several separated articles. The article will have to be written if possible in English and will be translated in French so that French readers can benefit of it. If the author does not provide a french translation, I will ensure the translation myself, the bilingual presentation being a publication prerequisite in my site. The author is free to ask me for modifications of this translation. The articles will be presented with the name of the author and the date of drafting, without interruption of comments by third parties except, when relevant, short comments of my share for untranslatable terms or elements being likely to be incomprehensible. No critics or opinions or comments will be added to the original article. The articles will be published in their full length.
What are the conditions for a right to answer?
The only type of right of response which will be taken into account is a response in the form of an article written in the compliance with all the rules defined here. In short, if you are an author or researcher with an actual involvment in research relating to the Roswell incident, you can write and send to me a new article treating in a argued or informative way of an already published article, whatever the author or the date is, with the same condition of respecting the guidelines that applied to the original article you respond to.
Other rules:
- By entrusting an article to me for publication, you accept that other authors may also see their articles published including if they are opposed to the conclusion or contents of your article.
- By entrusting an article to me for publication, you up any right to complain against me if a third party, whatever it is, copies your article and makes use of it; you accept the concept completely that such complaints cannot be against me but must be directed at this third party.
- If you wish that your authorization of publication of your article is restrained to its publication only in this site, although I am not enthusiastic with such a policy, I accept that such restrictions are emitted, they will then be published as integral part of your article and you must consider me free from any obligation to force other to respect these restrictions.
- If you accepted the publication of your article but wish to modify its content thereafter, I reserve the right to estimate if that will be an update of your published article, or the publication of the new version in the form of a new article in addition to the older one. In the case I decide a publication in the form of new article, I will provide a link before the initial article so that the reader can take note of your newer article.
Conflicts management:
The Roswell incident receives various interpretations even completely opposite among its researchers. The consequence is a large risk to see emotions such as anger taking an undue place in articles or answers to articles. This anger can possibly appear as discourteous remarks against other researchers. I recommend to the authors to restrain from such expressions, and to the readers not to react by an anger directed at myself, my role here being that of the messenger and not that of the author of the message. Here are some tips, which you may apply in your draftings so as to reduce the unhappy influence emotions in any debate:
- Name your contradictors correctly. Write "John Smith" and not "Smith" or "the hateful Smith" or "Mr."
- Express yourself using "I", speak for yourself. Write "I think..." instead of, for example, "everyone agrees that..." or "everbody knows..."
- When you call upon what you estimate to be established facts, indicate your sources, within your text or in the form of numbered footnotes references.
- Avoid criticisms or praises against or for people, indicate the facts or discussions or elements that you criticize or approve, indicating their origin by referecing their sources.
- It is perfectly legitimate and extremely useful to reveal errors, omissions, inventions of other researchers. It is simply a necessity that you formulate your article so that it is perfectly clear that you refute the errors, the omissions, the inventions of your contradictor, and that your style of drafting does not suggest that you have a personal grief against your contradictor or that you attack his person. Check that your criticisms cannot be wrongly perceived as attacks on your contradictor's agenda or as character assassination.
- Apply the tips in the following paragraphs.
Writing an article:
- Avoid negative formulations: for example, write "this is false" in the place of "this is not true."
- Write personal articles; avoid wasting your readers' time with presenting your version of work already published by others. Your articles should bring new information, or a new angle, which was not already carried out by other researchers. Do not play spokesman for other researchers; rather share with your reader what you discovered. Expressing agreement or disagreement with another researcher's work or presenting your rewriting of their work will not result in what I would call an "article," here, but will be of the nature of a standpoint, a position paper. I readily agree to publish your position papers, but in a section for this purpose and not among the "articles."
- Write structured articles. An article is better comprehensible if it comprises a short abstract of its contents at the beginning, followed by an introduction explaining what the article deals with, then of a presentation of the rough data or ideas on which you exert your thinking, then by a ordinated presentation of your thoughts, then by a conclusion which results from these reflexions, and when appropriate, due references of the quoted sources and acknowledgement to the other researchers who provided the substance without which your article could not have existed.
- Avoid the inappropriate use of vague, ambitious, general or impersonal words. Words such as "always," "never," "truth," "proof," "proven," "some," "people", "one," "they", "it," "definitively," "absolutely," "all," "none," "it is known," "one must", etc. seldom really apply.
- An article can be very short and deal with a very precise and particular point; do not yield to temptation in weighing down your article by poorly developed considerations on things not related to the core of your subject.
- Make a plan for your future article before writing it. This is a powerful mean to achieve a consistent article, which will interest the readers.
- After having written an article, let at least a day go by, then make a careful second reading. It is a very good way to locate the parts where emotion took the step on reasoning. A somewhat extreme but interesting technique sometime suggested by psychologists is to write your article, to throw it away, to let a good night go by, and then to draft it all over again.
