Most U.F.O. skeptics are not open to the evidence, page 1

reply to post by greeneyedleo

Of course you disagree with me because you didn't read my post or you misunderstood it.

Of course skeptics are open to the possibility but that's a meaningless statement to make them look open minded. They know if they were to say they are not open to the possibility they will look closed minded.

Being open to the possibility is meaningless. This is because debating possibilities is meaningless in the context of the evidence that's presented.

It's about weighing the available evidence as to what's most likely and what's less likely not any and every possibility.

Saying there has to be a natural explanation or it could be anything is meaningless in the context of the evidence.

We always come to a conclusion based on the available evidence. This is why a Jury doesn't prove guilt or innocence. A Jury finds the defendant guilty or not guilty based on the available evidence. This is why you have appeals in case new evidence comes to light that can change the verdict.

This happens in all walks of life. Evidence will be presented on this board and the skeptic will debate possibility not the evidence.

Here's some evidence:

Glowing, Egg-Shaped Object:
Parker and Hickson were good friends, and often fished together. They were both living in the town of Gautier, Mississippi. On one particular night, they were fishing the waters of the Pascagoula River, when they heard a strange sound... a type of buzzing. The two men immediately turned to see what the source of the strange noise was. They were shocked to see an egg-shaped object with bluish front lighting. The object was only a few feet above the water, and about ten yards from the two frightened fishermen.

Three Strange Beings:
While they sat stunned, looking at the weird flying machine, a door opened in the UFO, and to their utter amazement, three beings of unknown origin began to float toward the two. The beings did have legs, but did not use them-they literally floated across the water toward Hickson and Parker. The two fishermen would later attempt to describe what the beings looked like "... about five feet tall, had bullet-shaped heads without necks, slits for mouths, and where their noses or ears would be, they had thin, conical objects sticking out, like carrots from a snowman's head."

Harder and Hynek did a lot of the investigative work together. The two well-known researchers first interviewed the two fishermen together. Harder tried to do regressive hypnosis on Hickson, but the abductee was so frightened, that the hypnosis was stopped. To get things off on solid ground, both of the witnesses took polygraph tests, and both passed without a problem. Harder and Hynek both believed that the two tormented men were telling the truth.
Esteemed UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek would proclaim that "... there was definitely something here that was not terrestrial."

ufos.about.com...

1961 Betty and Barney Hill Abduction
1967 The Betty Andreasson Abduction
1967 Abduction of Herbert Schirmer
1968 The Buff Ledge Camp Abduction
1969 The Antonio da Silva Abduction
1973 The Doraty Abduction, Houston, Texas
1973 Pascagoula, Mississippi Abduction (Parker, Hickson)
1974 Hunter Abducted in Wyoming
1975 The Abduction of Sergeant Charles L. Moody
1975 The Travis Walton Abduction
1976 The Stanford, Kentucky Abductions
1976 The Allagash Abductions
1978 The Cullen Abduction
1978 The Dechmont Woods Abduction
1978 The Abduction of Jan Wolski
1980's Lost Time/Abduction in New York
1980 The Alan Godfrey Abduction
1983 The Copely Woods Encounter
1983 The Abduction of Alfred Burtoo
1985 Abduction of Wladyslaw S.
1985 Abduction of Whitley Strieber
1987 Abduction on North Canol Road, Canada
1987 Hudson Valley Abduction
1987 The Christa Tilton Story
1987 The Ilkley Moor Alien
1987 The Jason Andews Abduction
1988 Abduction of Bonnie Jean Hamilton
1988 DNA Sample From Khoury Abduction
1989 Linda Cortile-Napolitano Abduction
1990 Westchester, N. Y. Abduction
1992 The A-70 Abduction
1994 Abduction in Killeen, Texas
1997 Abduction in Wales
1997 Abduction in Australia, (Rylance-Heller)
1999 Carlyle Lake Abduction
2001 Abduction in Michigan
2003-Abduction in Florida
2004 Francis Family Abduction
2005 Man Abducted in Florida
2005 Clayton & Donna Lee Abduction

www.ufocasebook.com...

Physical trace reports were labeled Close Encounters of the Second Kind (CE-II) by J.Allen Hynek and involve instances where there was a physical interaction between the UFO and its environment. Usually these involve a landing trace, such as depressed grass or soil, but also burned or broken vegetation, residues, and more exotic traces. There are at least somewhere between 3,500 and 5,000 UFO physical trace cases.

www.ufoevidence.org...

There's much more. I'm talking about evidence not debating possibilities.

It makes no sense to debate,"There has to be a natural explanation" or "It could be anything."

Again, there will not be any evidence that's good enough under these conditions. This is because no matter how compelling the evidence is, the skeptic can always label say it could be anything.

That's like a police officer saying,"I'm not going to come to a conclusion because there's other possibilities." If this were the case then there wouldn't be any crimes solved. The Detective looks at the available evidence and then uses reason as to what's most likely and what's less likely. If a Husband's Wife goes missing and the Husband is acting strange, he gets a lawyer and family members are saying alarming things about him, the Officer is not going to look at the neighbor. This doesn't show the Husband is guilty but the Detective is going to weigh the availble evidence instead of debating any and every possibility.

This can also occur with Ufology because there's tons of evidence to weigh as to what's most likely and what's less likely based on the available evidence.