Talk:Edward J. Ruppelt

message: Sword’s opinion that “Ruppelt's published account of the material contained in the ‘’Estimate of the Situation’’ left out significant documentation proving that UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin” would mean US Air Force censorship of the book, is off-base. There is no proof of that. Nobody knows why Ruppelt did so.
What we do know is that he posed the question, “What constitutes proof?”:
*The hassle over the word “proof” boils down to one question: What constitutes proof? Does a UFO have to land at the River Entrance to the Pentagon, near the Joint Chiefs of Staff offices? Or is it proof when a ground radar station detects a UFO, sends a jet to intercept it, the jet pilot sees it, and locks on with his radar, only to have the UFO streak away at a phenomenal speed? Is it proof when a jet pilot fires at a UFO and sticks to his story even under the threat of court-martial? Does this constitute proof? The at times hotly debated answer to this question may be the answer to the question, “Do the UFOs really exist?” I’ll give you the facts - all of the facts - you decide.
So he was not going to “prove” the UFOs to be of extraterrestrial origin. He even left it to the reader to decide whether the UFOs really existed or not, which question has to be answered ‘’before’’ any discussion of their origin. Ruppelt obviously tried to not take sides. ‘’This’’ cautious approach may much more have been the real reason why he left out the material that ‘’Sign’’ thought to be “proof” of the interplanetary origin of the UFOs. Maybe he had other reasons, for instance, that the material seems to be too hot in his opinion. We do not know. It is quite unnecessary to speculate about US Air Force censoring interference, and more so since Ruppelt was a “whistleblower”. The Air Force would have done everything to prevent the book from being published, they would with certainty not have “cleared” it, to be sure.
Swords speculation makes no sense, at least in the form Hoyt quotes it, and the alleged “clearance” is off-base. This paragraph should therefore, in my opinion, not be included in the article.7bells (talk) 00:19, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Ruppelt’s 1956 book cleared by USAF?

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I have removed the links above as they fail to meet the criteria for inclusion of external links. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 13:07, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  external links 

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-- GreenC 13:25, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: There is an audiobook at LibriVox, linked at the bottom of the page. -- GreenC 15:12, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Gutenberg has plain text, Mobi and Epub versions of the book which are unique resources. -- GreenC 15:12, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: RfC: External links to archives of works 

message: *Support all The WP:ELNO #9 guideline advises against linking to search results. Nevertheless there are some sites which are only accessible via search. It's possible to obtain searches with extreme accuracy to the point of having zero false positives, negating the concerns of searching. As is the case here. There is wide prior consensus for including these 3 archives which are used in 10s of thousands of articles across Wikipedia for at least a decade. Other than to blindly follow a generic guideline for the sake of the guideline, which was never intended to stop us from linking to the archives at Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive and LibriVox.  -- GreenC 13:25, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: There is an audiobook at LibriVox, linked at the bottom of the page. -- GreenC 15:12, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Gutenberg has plain text, Mobi and Epub versions of the book which are unique resources. -- GreenC 15:12, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: I went ahead and added IA and LibriVox. If anyone disagrees we can ask for an official close. -- GreenC 15:47, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Close

message: "UFO (pronounced 'Yoo-foe') for short."
It has both acronym and initialism pronunciations:
  You-foe
  You-Ef-Oh
the latter far more common.
JohndanR (talk) 15:33, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  UFO pronunciation