Basically the ufology is the state of self denial. For majority of the purposes and intents it appears to be a dead issue. The reason is that it is practiced by only a few people but it is infiltrated by many, who fail to realize the importance of this field as a scientific endeavor. Hampering the studying of this phenomenon by applying illogical or unexplainable skeptics or debunking through ignorance or hidden agenda or maybe expounding it with data which is not factual cheapens the quest for knowledge.
Ufology as a scientific area of reach and study, fails at many other levels as well. This branch fails to evolve by the normal processes as other sciences has achieved. In 60 years, this branch has failed to formulate a specific language for understanding, like found in many other branches of science. Like for example in medical profession, all the practitioners speak common language which is accepted universally.
A second front on which this branch fails is that it is not using its history as a base. Almost all the other recognized branches of science use history as a plan to investigate their past, present and future events.
There are many deficiencies in the field of Ufology, some are innocent but most of them are man made. Some of these fallacies are discussed below.
First and foremost is the belief by the majority that the Ufology covers all areas of the paranormal. Well it does not. Crop circles, rods, Bigfoot, crystal grazing, spook lights etc are not part of the branch which is known as Ufology. Any attempt to associate all these with Ufology is a very big error.
Second, the science have taken a very hard look at the data relating to the UFO issue and found that it lacks scientific merit or explanations. This is however, false. There has never been an applied, long run, unbiased and funded research effort regarding the collected data and documentation by any area or branch of sciences regarding this UFO issue. Erroneously this phenomenon is declared null and void.
Third is that, the earth is being visited by aliens. There is no evidence or data to prove this, this only remains a hypothesis. However there is enough hard data to prove that UFO’s do exist. The fact is that nobody knows yet from where these UFO’s come and where they go, neither any one has any clue regarding purpose of their appearance.
The last is the allegedly covering up of famous UFO incidents by the military or the government. These tend to make such events more mysterious and suspicious. These government bodies had failed to give any possible logical explanations on various famous UFO incidents like, the Roswell incident, the Kecksburg incident etc.