Jeff Rense isn't a UFO zealot, but he is zealous about other things, such as The Holocaust. So, we can't list him here (and don't want to).
Stanton Friedman isn't a zealot. His UFO pronouncements are judicious, whether one accepts his ET view(s) or not.
Jerry Clark, Kevin Randall, and Dick Hall aren't zealots. They all, while avid in their views, rarely go off the deep-end with their UFO belief.
Now Joseph Capp at UFO Media Matters is a zealot. He believes that all UFO witnesses - all of them - are truthful and honest.
The Capp view about witness-truthfulness is rabid, not objective. Mr. Capp himself is a good guy, and projects that goodness on everyone who professes to have observed a UFO or says they were part of the Roswell incident.
Capp is not only na"ive, but he "attacks" anyone who even suggests that some UFO witnesses may be flawed, or lying. That's zealotry.
David Rudiak is a zealot, an imaginative one, but a zealot nonetheless. Let someone hint that UFOs may not be extraterrestrial in origin, and Rudiak is all over them, like a porcupine that's been prodded by a foe.
Regan Lee is a zealot. This person's objectivity is non-existent, and if anyone strays from the Regan Lee UFOs-Can-Be-Anything view, they'll end up being excoriated at the Lee blogs and web-sites.
Regan Lee also defends other zealots, no matter how obtuse their views are. Lee is a zealot "par excellence", and that's not a compliment.
The "Exopoliticians" are zealous, but their zealotry is couched, usually, in temperate terms, so one isn't likely to be offended (or shouldn't be) by their oblique views.
(And the premise of UFO Exopolitics - to get governments to admit and accept UFO entities as already here or when they do come, to be treated ambassadorially - is so unrealistic that it is impotent, unable to rise to the level of actual zealotry.)
The Nick Redfern, Greg Bishop, Paul Kimball triumvirate is not zealous. Those guys can be oblique but their views about UFOs and other strange phenomena aren't pressed upon others nor thrust forward with biased energy or intent.
Mac Tonnies, a peripheral member of the above "clan," is zealous, but only about new ideas. Tonnies isn't a fanatic about UFOs, but he is zealous about new hypotheses that impinge the UFO phenomenon.
What about the British UFO hobbyists? David Clarke, Andy Roberts, Joe McGonagle, and Jenny Randles could hardly be considered zealots, with all the British reserve.
And Nick Pope is a shining example of reserve and conscientious UFO evaluation.
But are there UFO zealots elsewhere in the world, such as Canada, Russia, France, Spain, of South America?
Sure, but it's the international temperament that causes zealotry about UFOs (and other things) outside The United States.
Such zealotry is more innocent than calculated or insane.
U.S. UFO devotees think they have "carte blanche "to be over-zealous about the phenomenon; it's in the nature of the American psyche to go overboard with things, and UFOs are an easy subject to wax enthusiastically about.
But this is what has made UFOs a laughing-stock among those who'd like to ruminate about UFOs but are put off by not only the goofiness endemic to the topic but the fanaticism, the zealotry of the UFO discussion in most flying saucer quarters.
Can UFO zealotry be tamped down? Not so far as we can tell. It gets wilder and wilder as the phenomenon goes on being elusive and unexplained.
And we see no explanation - rational explanation - in sight.
Rationality among UFO zealots is as elusive as UFOs themselves.....
Source: ufo-chronicles.blogspot.com
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