I thought it was largely based on evidence.
Twelve jurors have to largely accept on faith that police investigators are telling the truth when it’s claimed that there is evidence.
UFO’s are a way for people to pretend to be important by asking questions (that have already been asked before) and accepting vague unfalsifiable speculation (often contradictory) that never ends in place of hard evidence.
And, either coincidentally or algorithms, this came by today:
(for some unfathomable reason, the thing about playgrounds is from a previous article).
And as soon as they take it out of you, before they can even look at it, some mysterious men in dark suits and glasses, or perhaps in a regular business suit flashing an FBI badge and smoking unfiltered Morleys, will take it away under national security, or the doctor will see a flash and won’t even remember taking it out.
That might have a purpose other surveillance for all I know. Thanks for saying what you think, anyway. (I mean that.)
With that said, I circumstantial evidence that seems relevant had to do with the coincidence with UFO sightings and with nuclear tests.
I’ll just think of you as Oscar the Grouch from now on, okay?
As I said in my inaugural post here, I believe in UFOs but doubt it has anything to do with extraterrestrials.
@GIGObuster: Sleep paralysis doesn’t exactly explain encounters with entities in the middle of the day, say. With that said, yes, I think that sleep paralysis does account for some of the supposed entity encoders. (I have a great sleep paralysis story that happened to me but I don’t want to sound more deluded than I already do to some of you.)
If you find it easier than providing the actual best evidence you say you have, go for it.
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@Czarcasm you haven’t commented on the above links and their reasons for their not satisfying you.
let me turn the tables on you. at base, I believe in an unconventional/paranormal explanation for UFOs because the conventional explanation does not suffice. at minimum, we have something that causes people to have vivid waking dreams with no obvious cause. at minimum.
let’s switch things around. why do not provide your best evidence against the paranormal nature of UFOs?
You don’t get to “turn the tables” until you put something on the table in the first place, sorry.
Well… there is indeed a shrinking gap for that “god of the gaps” argument from you. The argument you have is being reduced constantly.
The shrinking argument describes how (in this case) scientific progress and better evidence continually pushes Crypto and extra terrestrial explanations out of unexplained areas, rendering the “gaps” and the alien explanations to fill progressively smaller ones.
Those mysterious airships are perhaps vessels from a lost kingdom hidden in the remote interior of darkest Africa!
What?
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This is eaxctly my argument against Jacques Vallee and his ideas of unknow entities from locations unknown. He made a very good argument against the extraterrestrial hypothesis, which I agree with; but in order to explain the bizarre nature of UFO/UAP encounters, he invented a completely undefinable ‘extradimenional’ concept, which can basically be anything you want it to be. The UFOs of the gaps.
At least Cryptoterestrial’s ‘cryptoterrestrial hypothesis’ is based on this Earth, not Fuller’s. However;
Any race of ‘cryptoterrestrials’ would have left some traces on Earth; fossils from their distant past, genetic material, biological waste, agriculture, any kind of advanced technogy at all. But they appear to have left nothing. This is exactly equivalent to being non-existent.
And since they couldn’t have evolved sui generis, there would have to be thousands and thousands of species related to them - an entire kingdom of life. Where are they? I can accept - barely - that the non-humans are hiding from us on purpose, but what about the non-cats? The non-rats? The non-birds? Where are they?
At bare minimum (ignoring the physical evidence), the mental effects need explaining. and conventional theories can’t do the job.
excellent question. perhaps the CT’s relatives live alongside us in a conventional way. or perhaps the CTs belong to a shadow biosphere and they attained a level of sentience which the other organisms didn’t.
this makes many assumptions. the assumption, for example, that we would recognize fossils as the ancestors of intelligent life, or that they would have agriculture or technology. scientists have done research on how long remnants of a technological civilization would persist and concluded not as long as you would like to think.