reply to post by zorgon
If you are going to quote me please quote me correctly. You missed part of my statement which began, "people of no...." The result of this was
a quote which sounded like perhaps established faiths have incorporated these phenomena into a mainstream religion.
As far as my life long ambition, I have done extensive investigation into reported sightings in and around the various areas of the U.S. that I
happened to be residing in at the time. My conclusions thus far have been ambiguous at best. Some conclusions that I have arrived at are as
follows.
1) Almost all instances of UFO sightings have been within 150 miles of a military base.
2) Almost instances of sightings have occured by a single individual. Until very recently group sightings have been very rare.
3) No photo or video images that have been captured have been sufficient to qualify as evidence of anything other than,lens flare,atmospheric
phenomena,lightning,sattelites, or aircraft.
4) Less than 1% of sightings have been "unexplainable" in any scientific manner. Blue Book,as it was a Govt. project is not even remotley
trustworthy as a collection and collation of cases.
5) There is exactly 0 physical evidence that has not proven fraud, mis-identification or natural phenomena. I do concede that it is likely that
government agencies would have "dissapeared" such evidence, if it presented itself.
6) There is 0 definitive evidence that this has actually happened, regardless of cases like Roswell, NM, rural Pennsylvania, and N.E. Canada coast.
No evidence is available, and this fact leads me to conclude that as of yet it appears that the Govt. is only trying to distract attention from Aurora
or similar aircraft tech. projects.
On a personal note however I am still of the opinion that it is possible that there is other intelligent life in the universe, but as of yet in my
opinion there is 0 evidence other than statistical probability on a universal scale that such life exists, ie., Drake Equation, and other mathematical
models.
[edit on 20-8-2008 by spookjr]