Here is a really simple question, @Cryptterestrial.
Is there a solid way to disprove any of the ideas/possibilities you have presented to us?
More accurately, you have absolutely no idea if what he said recently invalidates in any way what he said over 40 years ago.
I don’t think that many believed they could increase their social standing by claiming to have seen a UFO.
You could say this about any religion.
That only works if they all believe the same thing. It is like saying that all that are religious validate any religious beliefs that I may have.
Not so far, but rejecting the idea out of hand won’t get us to the point where we can do that. Consciousness also remains unprovable (for now), more or less, but I have a pretty good idea that it exists.
Also, I remembered a better proof for UFOs than radiation. May post it later.
Good point. This has to do with a specific sub-group of people, though, and not a mass that perpetuates itself institutionally.
Even if everything you say is true, who cares? These inhumans, or whatever they are, will reveal themselves whenever they want to and not a moment before, and nothing we do will change that. So just ignore them.
I don’t like being teased.
We reject ideas out of hand every single day. I do. You do. We all do.
You just won’t reject this one…no matter what.
You may post it later?? If I had solid evidence for something this out of the ordinary, I would post it immediately before I did anything else!
I think I’d believe whatever explained the phenomena best. I accepted Albert Budden’s theory for a while, but I don’t currently buy it. Too simplistic. But even then, the Budden explanation shows some degree of understanding that I don’t get from Michael Shermer or Carl Sagan.
As long as that explanation doesn’t involve mistakes and lies.
Oh the military is interested alright, you miss the point about how UFOs appeared to many people in the past. If not frauds or mistakes, many times it was private or military flying crafts or devices that were going to be known decades later.
Military tech is confused as extraterrestrial UFOs (or as in recent posts, terrestrial, but with different aliens), and for the military and authorities, it is better to keep the charade going. It has to appear as mysterious in origin because the real explanations are not so mundane, and they are dangerous to be known for other nations if they find out about what one’s military is toying with right now. And also: Many in countries like the US would wonder where our taxes are going, and that would be dangerous for the current leaders.
25 years from now, those “toys” that are confused as UFOs will by then be known.
Just as we know now that a good number of people in the past thought that sightings of the stealth fighter and technology used to develop them were alien spacecraft.
Alas, it was not.
No, you wouldn’t, because here you are rejecting the explanation that explains it best.
The Ufology community has talked about these possibilities for years. By dismissing UFOs wholesale’, that only enables the US/contractors to keep on doing this.
You are rejecting out of hand the possibility that “they” are not doing it in the first place.
“They”?
Yes, the UFO community has talked about these possibilities for years, what is clear to me is that they do dismiss those possibilities.
How about now?
Nick Redfern and Jacques Vallée. Prominent in the scene. Both speculating about it.
Later.