Firmage Still Searching for UFO Answers Tues. Since shaking off the burden of being a Silicon Valley CEO, Joe Firmage has been spending his time asking the eternal questions. However, if his recent remarks to a crowd of UFO researchers are any indication, he's only received enough answers about those persistent lights in the sky to deepen the mystery.
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While noble enough in itself, this dream of fusing religion and science, meaning and data, told the audience little about the truth behind those lights in the sky. Firmage himself seemed, if not uncertain, then unwilling to share much concrete detail on this matter beyond the fact that he believes that UFO phenomena do in fact exist and have been with us for millennia, and that they have been debunked and ignored in recent times largely due to the efforts of the scientific establishment. Instead, Firmage seemed content to point to the conditions under which the answer will appear, as though he hoped, like John the Baptist, that the crowd would choose not to follow him, but one to come after him. Still, in his opinion, the integration of spirituality with 21 st -Century science is likely to be one of those requirements and, as such, the understanding of UFOs would necessarily be a pleasant side benefit. What the crowd gave back was mostly applause punctuated with bewildered silence.