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Originally posted by Verd_Vhett
reply to post by deejayiwan
I am of the opinion that any race able to travel such great distnaces in space would be More enlightended then us petty humans. I think if any race that has been here was going to attck in some overt fashion they would have allready,
To be honest I think they see us as Insignigent creatures, there greatest fear Is that we will make our way in to the universe, why do I say that you might ask well look at what man has done with the greatest scientific acheivment we have made as of yet, We harnased the power of the atom and turned it in to a bomb that still today grips the world in fear.
if I was an Inteligent race I would want nothing to do with us petty humans we are not ready to enter a galactic civilization.
However If president Obama did this its one thing I would applaud If the world knew that there was somthing more out there, maybe we could come togeather My only fear is we would do so from the Defencive stant point, and not aproach with caution.
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I've expressed the same opinion many a time..I'm glad to find someone who sees it the way I do. WE as a species are not ready nor deserve to join the galactic population. If we were ...who...would you pick to represent us as a race..the majority would pick Michical Jackson if he were alive///enough said.
Originally posted by deejayiwan
listen!
Originally posted by Monts
Great Article, S & F.
I think the fact that John Podesta has logged 17 visits to the whitehouse is proof enough that some kind of disclosure effort is going on in the whitehouse. It is now obvious that disclosure is a topic of discussion in the whitehouse. I pray that Obama takes the next step and proves that he is willing to bring the change he promised.
The first post in this thread has all the information you need
Originally posted by Astrobee
Originally posted by Monts
Great Article, S & F.
I think the fact that John Podesta has logged 17 visits to the whitehouse is proof enough that some kind of disclosure effort is going on in the whitehouse. It is now obvious that disclosure is a topic of discussion in the whitehouse. I pray that Obama takes the next step and proves that he is willing to bring the change he promised.
Is this verifable, that Podesta really did visit 17 times? If someone can prove this to me, then yes, I think disclosure is very close.
But every time I get my hopes up.........
Originally posted by Acidtastic
The first post in this thread has all the information you need
Originally posted by Astrobee
Originally posted by Monts
Great Article, S & F.
I think the fact that John Podesta has logged 17 visits to the whitehouse is proof enough that some kind of disclosure effort is going on in the whitehouse. It is now obvious that disclosure is a topic of discussion in the whitehouse. I pray that Obama takes the next step and proves that he is willing to bring the change he promised.
Is this verifable, that Podesta really did visit 17 times? If someone can prove this to me, then yes, I think disclosure is very close.
But every time I get my hopes up.........
I'm going to have to remain skeptical. I mean, I feel that it's close, but we've been lead down this path many times before. And we all know how it ends up. It's going to happen one day, so one of these predictions will come true, one day. (note to goverment spooks on here, make it soon )
Originally posted by Pathos
reply to post by karl 12
I promise you will have your answers soon.
Originally posted by Pathos
reply to post by Haydn_17
They are just uninformed. If you read through your list of quotes, you will notice a number of them were taken out of context.
"More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any scientific explanation, eg that they are hallucinations, the effects of light refraction, meteors, wheels falling from aeroplanes, and the like. They have been tracked on radar screens and the observed speeds have been as great as 9,000 mph. I am convinced that these objects do exist and they are not manufactured by any nation on earth. I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from an extraterrestrial source."
Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, Commanding Officer of the RAF during WWII.
"We had a number of reports from reputable individuals (well-educated serious-minded folks, scientists and fliers) who surely saw something".
As Air Force Chief of Staff, in his 1965 autobiography, Mission With LeMay, stated that although the bulk of UFO reports could be explained as conventional or natural phenomena, some could not.
Many of the mysteries might be explained away as weather balloons, stars, reflected lights, all sorts of odds and ends. I don't mean to say that, in the unclosed and unexplained or unexplainable instances, those were actually flying objects. All I can say is that no natural phenomena could be found to account for them... Repeat again: There were some cases we could not explain. Never could."
General Curtis LeMay
Statement from 1965 autobiography Mission With LeMay, with MacKinlay Kantor, New York: Doubleday, 1965.
"Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitude and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major US defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles."
Dr .H Marshall Chadwell, former assistant director of the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence, in a December, 1952 memo to then-director of the CIA, General Walter B. Smith.
"... no aircraft, neither in the United States, either in the Soviet Union is currently able to achieve the speed attributed to these objects from the radars and from the observatories. These objects appear to be driven by an intelligence the way in which they fly. According to reports from scientists and technical personnel, these objects fly in formation and finish manoeuvres that seem to point out that are not completely driven from an automatic equipment. These objects are in incontestable mode the result of long investigations and highly technological and exceptional knowledge."
Rear Admiral Delmer S. Fahrney, head missile testing of the American Navy on January 16, 1957.
"Every time I get skeptical, I think of the other reports made by experienced pilots and radar operators, scientists, and other people who know what they are looking at. These reports were thoroughly investigated and they are still unknowns.
We have no aircraft on this earth that can at will so handily outdistance our latest jets... The pilots, radar specialists, generals, industrialists, scientists, and the man on the street who have told me, I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't seen it myself, knew what they were talking about."
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt
Chief of Project Blue Book, from his book, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, 1956.
"The evidence that there are objects which have been seen in our atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be accounted for either as man-made objects or as any physical force or effect known to our scientists seems to me to be overwhelming... A very large number of sightings have been vouched for by persons whose credentials seem to me unimpeachable. It is striking that so many have been trained observers, such as police officers and airline or military pilots. Their observations have in many instances... been supported either by technical means such as radar or, even more convincingly, by... interference with electrical apparatus of one sort or another..."
Admiral Lord Hill-Norton (GCB), Chief of Defense Staff, Ministry of Defense, Britain; Chairman, Military Committee of NATO; Admiral of the Fleet; Member of House of Lords.
"I concentrate on the science. I'm interested in the UFOs seen by the police and military witnesses. I'm interested in the near misses that pilots report, where their aircraft nearly collide with these things. I'm interested in the visual sightings backed up by radar. I'm interested in the military bases that are overflown by these things. I'm interested in the cases where you have radiation readings on the ground.
These are no lights in the sky. These are not misidentifications of fantasy prone individuals. This is a cutting-edge technology being reported by reliable, trained observers, and it is something that goes beyond what we can do.
That to me suggests that if it is not ours, it belongs to someone else. If that technology is better than ours, then the extraterrestrial hypothesis seems to me the best explanation."
Nick Pope
Head of the "UFO desk" at Air Secretariat 2-A, British Ministry of Defence from 1991-1994.
"There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases - perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies - for which there is no explanation... We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to." (Redbook, vol. 143, September 1974.)
Dr. Margaret Mead, world-renowned Anthropologist.
"The opposite conclusion could have been drawn from The Condon Report's content, namely, that a phenomenon with such a high ratio of unexplained cases (about 30 percent) should arouse sufficient scientific curiosity to continue its study."
"From a scientific and engineering standpoint, it is unacceptable to simply ignore substantial numbers of unexplained observations... the only promising approach is a continuing moderate-level effort with emphasis on improved data collection by objective means... involving available remote sensing capabilities and certain software changes."
Ronald D Story - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics UFO Subcommittee -New York: Doubleday, 1980
"There are some definite flight type characteristics that are seen now that I would say represent genuine UFOs...ie: instant acceleration; instant stop; vertical acceleration -up into the air and down to the ground; reverses in direction; right angle turns -all in silence -multiple objects sometimes separating and then going back into each other.
They are classic,what I would call,genuine UFO characteristics -things that we can not do in a conventional sense".
British Detective Constable Gary Heseltine - Police UFO reporting organisation,PRUFOS.
"Reports of anomalous aerial objects (AAO) appearing in the atmosphere continue to be made by pilots of almost every airline and air force of the world in addition to private and experimental test pilots.
This paper presents a review of 56 reports of AAO in which electromagnetic effects (E-M) take place on-board the aircraft when the phenomenon is located nearby but not before it appeared or after it had departed. "
"Reported E-M effects included radio interference or total failure, radar contact with and without simultaneous visual contact, magnetic and/or gyro-compass deviations, automatic direction finder failure or interference, engine stopping or interruption, dimming cabin lights, transponder failure, and military aircraft weapon system failure."
"We're not dealing with mental projections or hallucinations on the part of the witness but with a real physical phenomenon."
Dr. Richard Haines, Psychologist specializing in pilot and astronaut "human factors" research for the Ames NASA Research Center in California-Chief of the Space Human Factors Office.
"The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing are close-range sightings of machine-like objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance characteristics, seen at low altitudes, and sometimes even on the ground. The general public is entirely unaware of the large number of such reports that are coming from credible witnesses... When one starts searching for such cases, their number are quite astonishing. Also, such sightings appear to be occurring all over the globe."(Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, July 29, 1968.)
Dr. James E. McDonald, Senior Physicist at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Arizona.
"Observations show that UFOs behave 'sensibly.' In a group formation flight, they maintain a pattern.
They are most often spotted over airfields, atomic stations and other very new engineering installations. On encountering aircraft, they always maneuver so as to avoid direct contact."
Dr. Felix Y. Zigel, Professor of mathematics and astronomy at the Moscow Aviation Institute
Originally posted by Pathos
reply to post by Haydn_17
They are just uninformed. If you read through your list of quotes, you will notice a number of them were taken out of context. Ronald Reagen was using the subject as a rhetorical statement. Many of your other quotes are individuals saying, "I don't know"; thus, they don't prove anything except a person's opinion based upon a limited understanding. Nothing is factual in any of those statements. They are speculating.
[edit on 18-11-2009 by Pathos]
I will say though, David Cameron's quote is out of context...
Mr Cameron laughed and replied: "I'm convinced we have been visited by alien life forms - and one of them is the trade secretary Peter Mandelson."
He then said: "I have no idea there is intelligent life out there and no idea whether any of the sightings which have taken place or whether any incidents which have taken place have any basis in truth.
"I do believe in freedom of information and openness and this question has been asked from time to time and I think we should be as open and clear as possible....
www.mirror.co.uk...