Pelicanist

Quick meaning: Pelicanist is a noun meaning (chiefly ufology, derogatory) Someone who attempts to explain away UFO reports by means of any explanation, however illogical.

Meaning

(chiefly ufology, derogatory) Someone who attempts to explain away UFO reports by means of any explanation, however illogical.

Example Sentences

As opposed to... Skepticism of the pelicanist flavor perhaps ?

Meanwhile, those of us who’ve experienced UFOs in various ways are called mentally ill, intellectually challenged, spiritually needy, liars, drunks, drug users, attention getters, drama queens, and more. Those all are worse than being called a thug, skeptibunkie, or Pelicanist. (Pelicanist is a term coined by UFO researcher Jerome Clark.)

Kottmeyer and others who use the psychosocial hypothesis constantly produce evidence to support their ideas, whereas the ETH proponents can produce only cranky ideas about magnetic, anti-gravity or interdimensional saucers, accompanied by a constant whining about "sceptics" and "debunkers" (not to mention "armchair ufologists" and "pelicanists").

Word Forms

• pelicanists

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ufologist, ultracrepidarian, pigeon, birtherist, abduction, paranormalist.

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