What conspiracy theories do you believe?

[inertia]

Rosa Parks was never on the bus.

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Inertia’s entire philosophy in two words - Be nice.

[Krispy_Original]

What conspiracy theories do I believe?

“I was in a plane last week when I looked out the window and saw this white light. It was zigzagging around.” "I went up to the pilot and said, “Have you ever seen anything like that?” He was shocked and he said, “Nope.” And I said to him: “Let’s follow it!” “We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light.” “We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens.” “When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it. But we didn’t file a report on the object because for a long time they considered you a nut if you saw a UFO…” -Ronald Reagan, 1974

“I don’t laugh at people any more when they say they’ve seen UFOs,” Carter said at a Southern Governors Conference a few years ago. “I’ve seen one myself.” “It was the darndest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the moon… We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing’s for sure, I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified objects in the sky. I think it was a light beckoning me to run in the California primary.” “If I become President, I’ll make every piece of information that this country has about UFO sightings available to the public.”-James Earl Carter

“The American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the U. S. Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject.” Gerald R. Ford.

“Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control… It is imperative that we learn where UFO’s come from and what their purpose is…”- Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter Director, Central Intelligence Agency 1947-1950

“This ‘flying saucer’ situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.”- Gen. Nathan Twining Chief of Staff, US Air Force, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

“The evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident and that indeed an alien craft did crash and that material was recovered from that crash site,” says Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. Mitchell doesn’t say he’s seen a UFO. But he says he’s met with high-ranking military officers who admitted involvement with alien technology and hardware. Cooper told a U.N. committee recently, “Every day in the U.S.A., our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us.”, Cooper speculates that public skepticism toward UFOs will shift dramatically.- Astronaut Gordon Cooper and Ed Mitchell in a recent interview.

“It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side, it disappeared completely. It was an engineered structure, made from some type of metal, approximately 40 meters long with inner hulls. The object was narrow here and wider here, and inside there were openings. Some places had projections like small wings. The object stayed very close to us. We photographed it, and our photos showed it to be 23 to 28 meters away.”- Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev commenting on a UFO sighting that occurred while en route to the Solyut 6 space station in April of 1979.

“At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.” -Astronaut Scott Carpenter-Carpenter photographed a UFO while in orbit on May 24, 1962. NASA still has not released the photograph.

“I know other astronauts share my feelings… And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.” -Col. Gordon Cooper, January 14, 1997.

“At one stage we even thought it might be necessary to take evasive action to avoid a collision.” -Astronaut James McDivitt commenting on an orbital encounter he and Ed White had with a “weird object” with arm-like extensions which approached their capsule. Later in the flight they saw two similar objects over the Caribbean.

“The U.S. Government hasn’t maintained secrecy regarding UFOs It’s been leaking out all over the place. But the way it’s been handled is by denial, by denying the truth of the documents that have leaked. By attempting to show them as fraudulent, as bogus of some sort. There has been a very large disinformation and misinformation effort around this whole area. And one must wonder, how better to hide something out in the open than just to say, ‘It isn’t there. You’re deceiving yourself if you think this is true.’ And yet, there it is right in front of you. So it’s a disinformation effort that’s concerning here, not the fact that they have kept the secret. They haven’t kept it. It’s been getting out into the public for fifty years or more.” -Dr. Edgar Mitchell

“We have, indeed, been contacted-perhaps even visited-by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.” - Victor Marchetti, former Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the CIA, in an article written by him for Second Look entitled “How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon”, Vol 1, No 7, Washington, DC, May, 1979.

…things that make me go hmmmmmm…

Krispy Original – voted SDMB’s 19th most popular poster (1999)

[Squee]

Gee Krispy…thanks for the ‘debate’…

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The most rewarding part was when I got my money!
-Dr. Nick Riviera

[MKM]

I believe Marlyn Monroe, RFK and MLK Jr’s murders are all related in some way.

[Shirley_Ujest]

I beleive OJ killed Jon Benet for what was in Al Capone’s vault, relocated to Area 59.

[AHunter3]

I believe the television industry in in cahoots with the advertisers to keep the quality of TV shows sufficiently low to make commercial interruptions a break in the monotony rather than irritating annoyances.

What other explanation could there be?

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[Arnold_Winkelried]

From Krispy Original’s list, the only one that surprised me was the quote from Victor Marchetti. No one disputes the existence of UFOs (= unidentified flying objects, to be perfectly clear.)

It is a big step from that, however, to assume the existence of extraterrestrial visitors. Did this Victor Marchetti have any photograph / film / document?

[Max_Torque]

The conspiracy-minded might want to take a look at http://www.conspire.com , a site that largely promotes the book “The 70 Greatest Conspiracies Of All Time”.

I have the older version of the book, when there were but 60 ‘greatest conspiracies’. Most chapters of the book is a laugh (like the ‘fake moon landing’) but some are intriguing. I believe that Reagan and Bush probably made a secret deal with Iran to keep the hostages until after Carter lost the 1980 election. Also, there’s a chapter that suggests some interesting connections between the families of George Bush and John Hinckley. On top of that, there’s a chapter concerning how the Reagan administration might have considered John Lennon a threat and rubbed him out…

Anyway, the book’s good for a chuckle, if nothing else.

[system]

My conspiracy theory:
Krispy Original is ACTUALLY an alien from the planet xenon…

[Shirley_Ujest]

I believe that women’s shoes are designed by men who hate women.

I believe that women’s magazines and home decorator magazines are put out by therapists to make women feel insecure about their lives, their bodies and their homes.

I beleive that I control profession Red Wing Hockey. Whenever I watch a Red Wing game, they lose.

I believe that the same man has written the last 10 action film/comedy films/scream fest films in hollywood under an assumed name.

I think Keith Richards died years ago and is just reanimated for tours.

I beleive that car wash owners control the rain.

I beleive that my dog told me to type this…I think…I must go now…time to get a Milk Bone for her…

[Wendell_Wagner]

Originally posted by MaxTorque:
The conspiracy-minded might want to take a look at http://www.conspire.com , a site that largely promotes the book “The 70 Greatest Conspiracies Of All Time”.

I have the older version of the book, when there were but 60 ‘greatest conspiracies’.

Hey, it’s worse than that, MaxTorque. The first edition of the book was titled The 50 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time. The next edition added 10 more, and then the third edition added another 10. There’s something very mysterious about this proliferation of conspiracies.

[Elmer_J.Fudd]

I believe there is a conspiracy by a cabal of rabbits, roadrunners, canarys, and Mexican mice to subvert the laws of physics using a front company called Acme.

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Elmer J. Fudd,
Millionaire.
I own a mansion and a yacht.

[ubermensch]

http://www.brunching.com/features/feature-conspiracy.html

i think that this pretty much covers it all. and i BELIEVE it.

[SwimmingRiddles]

I think Cecil’s in on this one:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/941028.html

It’s all ME. {b} I {/b] turn on those lights!

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One must have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. -Nietzche

[tracer]

orangecakes wrote:

My conspiracy theory:
Krispy Original is ACTUALLY an alien from the planet xenon…

If there really is a planet named Xenon, we’re going to have to do something about the name of the 54th element.

[GLWasteful]

tracer:

If there really is a planet named Xenon, we’re going to have to do something about the name of the 54th element.

Really? do you suppose the residents have some sort of copyright arrangement?

Waste
Flick Lives!

[system]

I honestly didn’t know there was an element called xenon when I typed that! Uh oh…

[CurtC]

If there really is a planet named Xenon, we’re going to have to do something about the name of the 54th element.

The elements Uranium, Neptunium, and Plutonium were named after the planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto respectively, so I guess going the other way and naming a planet after an element is only fair.

[Sam_Stone]

I believe that Kennedy was not shot by a lone gunman, but was in fact cleaning a gun in his car and it went off.

[Pooch]

I believe the latest US missile test failure was the desired outcome.