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that's hardly a definition...
that's hardly a definition...
I'm sticking with the current mantra: If there were anyone else out there, they would have dropped in by now. So, by definition, they cannot exist.
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that's hardly a definition...
No, it's because I live in Canada.
I'm reading Uninvited Visitors -a biologist looks at UFOs,
and it talks about OOPOs- out-of-place objects -
stuff that fell on Earth, in the times before the Media was completely leashed, and the list is awesome.
Blood, metal cannisters, animals, weird things that took weeks to die, all kinds of junk. Barns carried away, Angel-hair, all sorts fun stuff floating down.
The best ones, which we heard about when it happened, were the chunks of living....stuff, that took weeks, or in one case, two years to die.
It gets crazy. Chickens disappear, then fish rain down. Were 'they' trying to be nice and pay back for stealing the chicken coop?
Also, the Philadelphia Experiment letters are looked at. What the h*ll happened there?
The problem was that none of the evidence was independently verified by anyone.
Why worry about saucers, when the alines would be down here, impersonating human beings and doing horrific things, because they were raised in an insect culture.
Once they get onto welfare, there's no stopping them.
True, only the fortunate lucky few like astronauts get to see...........
But of course, none of this proves the existence of alien space craft flying around constantly.
Many years ago there was a programme on UK TV concerning a UFO sighting. A passenger on an internal flight had a cine camera and had been filming out of the window. When the film was developed, he had a shock: a small dot in the distance rapidly enlarged to a lens-shaped object which briefly hovered alongside the plane before rushing away again at incredible speed. The film was shown on TV and it was extremely convincing; the image was sharp and clear, and there were irregular white markings which could not be identified along the rim of the object. The cameraman was entirely credible and was shaken by it himself. I was also rather shaken, because I've never seen such convincing evidence for what looked like an alien craft.
Fortunately the programme producer had an enquiring mind and was not disposed to jump to conclusions. He borrowed the man's camera, loaded it with the same type of film, and gave it to a professional cameraman who sat in the same seat of the same aeroplane following the same route, and started playing about with the camera. It wasn't long before he saw the same thing, and he discovered that he could make it come and go just by shifting position slightly.
A close inspection of the window revealed what was happening: the window glass had a bevelled edge, and this was refracting a distorted image of the tailplane, making a section of it appear to be detached and floating in mid-air. The white markings around the rim were just where the paint had worn off on the leading edge of the tailplane. So as the camera lens was moved slightly to one side of the bevelled area, the "UFO" could be made to appear and disappear.
That was a real object lesson, both in not believing what your eyes appear to be showing you, and in how to investigate such reports.
Some things are too weird. People won't believe them, no matter what.
You can't even rely on video evidence.
To those out there who've seen or been a part of incredble things, they are the ones who have the memories that can never be forgotten.
Unfortunately both human perceptions and memory are frighteningly unreliable (memory in particular is extremely plastic, and people can be entirely wrong about what they firmly believe they remember).
Somehow, just wiping his nose repeatedly and saying "Wow" and "Incredible" several times does not convince me of the veracity of the person supplying the assertions.
Well, I've seen the stuff, so I'm out of the argument.
I'll bet 'they' are watching this city, right now, as there are huge swarms of people filling the streets for the hockey game.
Swarm, swarm..... ants like swarming. * )
I live near Chicago, and this only one of the authentic UFO stories that made the news...