🛸 Founder of Operant Ufology™ blending Radical Behaviorism, empiricism, absurdism, and firsthand experience to observe UFOs, and the humans who observe them.

Joined August 2021
My new article: 💡The Disclosure Cycle: Sisyphus, Skinner, AFR 200-2, variable-ratio reinforcement, and why uncertainty may be the most powerful force in modern ufology. 🔗medium.com/@Symposium_Divino… From a behavioral perspective, the Disclosure cycle may function less like a path toward answers, and more like an effective engine for sustained anticipation. In this way, the #disclosure process has not merely kept people waiting for answers, it has quietly trained them to thrive inside the waiting. #ufotwitter #ufox
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Delighted to be joining this @CallingBeings style inquisition Saturday! If the UFOs don't show up, humans generally provide more than enough anomalous behavior to keep a behaviorist like me entertained. Guests are: @AWaifSoul @ExoAcademian @EngagingThe Hosts: @studyofUAPs @AkashiCris17 @Stimulus_Delta @leahprime @inspiredcreatv @Boston_Bea & DJ! Show link: 1https://www.youtube.com/live/RcSs-iLlYAY?is=caZRl_5XMRlrIuQ1 #ufotwitter #ufox #symposiumdivinorum
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The larger colonies rarely agreed to leave quietly. #ufotwitter #ufo #symposiumdivinorum
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Things had become strangely routine since the visitors stopped landing in fields. #ufotwitter #ufox #symposiumdivinorum
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The larger specimens often appeared convinced they were participating. #ufotwitter #ufox #symposiumdivinorum
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No one had the heart to tell Carl his decoy looked like a lawnmower. #ufotwitter #ufox #symposiumdivinorum
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Things became uncomfortable after Nostradamus picked ‘birds behaving strangely.’
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The measurement claims alone make the Gulf Breeze UFO flap worth revisiting. Because it was reportedly a cluster, there may be weak hints of stimulus control across reports! By stimulus control, I mean: did the alleged objects systematically alter behavior in relation to specific stimuli such as observer movement, proximity, light, or pursuit? There seems to be much less evidence for operant control. Operant control: did the alleged objects change behavior as a function of consequence across repeated sightings? What still seems missing to me are the antecedent conditions. Were weather, time of day, witness behavior, observer position, and environmental variables documented systematically enough to reveal patterns across the broader Gulf Breeze wave? Better reporting makes better disclosure.
📷Rare Gulf Breeze UFO Flap Photographs Resurface These images are attributed to the Gulf Breeze wave and allegedly show a daylight UFO photographed over Santa Rosa Sound on November 12, 1996. According to the annotations, the object’s shadow was visible on the shallow bottom of Santa Rosa Sound, where the water depth was estimated at only 1 foot. That reportedly allowed for triangulation and size/distance estimates. The stated calculations: Distance: 108–115 feet Height above surface/ground: 16–38 feet Width: roughly 8–8.5 feet Height: roughly 4.5–5 feet I feel that this is the type of photographic analysis that makes older UFO cases worth revisiting carefully. Daylight imagery, environmental reference points, alleged shadow geometry, and measurable claims. The key question remains provenance. Where did the original negatives, prints, or first-generation scans come from, and can the measurements be independently reconstructed? Updates to come if I am able to uncover anything else in connection to these images. #ufox #ufotwitter
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The waitress later reported they were polite, tipped well, and became visibly uncomfortable whenever anyone ordered the steak special. #UFOx #UFOTwitter #SymposiumDivinorum
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Researchers remain divided. Subjects appear highly social during periods of heightened activity. Several continue gathering around the same mystery despite inconsistent feeding. One specimen has reportedly said: “This feels different, Bill..” #ufotwitter #symposiumdivinorum
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NOW AVAILABLE: OPEN MIND™ Cognitive Suspension Band 🚨 The universe occasionally becomes distressingly committed to details. Introducing the OPEN MIND™; featuring 7 revolutionary modes for moments when reality becomes unnecessarily specific. #ufotwitter #ufox
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Admittedly, from a behavioral perspective, aliens.gov was fascinating. It took remarkably little to get the disclosure machinery humming again. Apparently, attaching the word alien to a government website during an active disclosure cycle was enough. Decades on a variable-ratio schedule may have done the rest. Then contingency contact happened. For UFO disclosure seeking, the stimulus rather quickly became a stimulus delta: reinforcement unavailable. What happens next may be the interesting part. After enough intermittent reinforcement, organisms sometimes press the button a little harder when the pellet suddenly stops coming. #ufotwitter #ufox
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Correct. Lack of functional context means you are essentially looking at fragments detached from conditions. These videos show movement, but not the surrounding variables needed to meaningfully evaluate them. Which means everyone embedded in the loop; experiencers, believers, skeptics, debunkers, ends up spending time analyzing "nothing at all".
Need:  Date/Time/Location/GPS/Environment/Conditions/Direction/Elevation/Distance/Witness/Background/Account Narrative/Corroboration/Camera/Lens/Medium/Processing/Analysis/Dispensation/Reporting/Investigation/Distribution/Media Use/Exploitation/Follow Up Or it’s useless.
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Just to add your list @JonMajerowski , Still missing: antecedent conditions, environmental variables, observable movement topographies, total event duration, consequences, and operational definitions. Hard to evaluate without functional context. But maybe that's the point. Talk to ya saturday. 😉
The Pentagon just dropped Release 02 of the UFO files. 64 more documents. Videos. A senior intelligence officer describing orange orbs swarming a military helicopter for over an hour. Still not one file about what contact does to human biology. Still not one document explaining why experiencer DNA is being collected. Two releases in. Same pattern. They show you what they tracked. They never show you what it did to the people who were there. That is the book contactandcontrol.com
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Symposium Divinorum retweeted
The UFO is the teacher who never speaks. Yet we’ve rewritten history trying to answer it. The result? A culture conditioned by silence. The longer the silence, the more elaborate the dance. These are the rituals of the unrewarded. Article: medium.com/@Stimulus_Delta/r… #ufotwitter
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