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Originally posted by TomCarey
reply to post by Maverick7
Playing word games, are we? There at least one in every barrel. By "education" and "training" I was referring to my formal education and the training that went along with it, which included my stint in the military. And one can research historical accounnts, which you demean as being just "stories," for their veracity and context regarding the subject at hand. In case you missed it, in courts of law credible testimony is considered "evidence," which has sent many a criminal to their ultimate fate.
Originally posted by Maverick7
Originally posted by TomCarey
reply to post by Maverick7
Playing word games, are we? There at least one in every barrel. By "education" and "training" I was referring to my formal education and the training that went along with it, which included my stint in the military. And one can research historical accounnts, which you demean as being just "stories," for their veracity and context regarding the subject at hand. In case you missed it, in courts of law credible testimony is considered "evidence," which has sent many a criminal to their ultimate fate.
Word games? Not at all. You implied that because of your education and training you had made certain determinations about the ET hypothesis or Roswell being 99.9% non-terrestrials. I simply asked what education and training you had that made you expert in such matters.
As to your INSULT about 'one in every barrel', isn't that beneath you? Why not just answer the questions. If you actually had no training or education related to propulsion, aircraft spotting, alien identification, or similar subjects, why not just say 'I misspoke, I have no training, just some experience hearing stories'.
As to stories and historical accounts, they are still stories, with sometimes second hand accounts. When you really dig down into the stories you find variations and vague information.
Saying that Roswell would be proved in a court of law is really a type of straw man argument isn't it? A court of law would find the 'facts' fairly incredible and in the absence of 'bodies' they wouldn't be able to rule on anything. There was not a crime committed, for example.
I'd suggest that you re-examine your position and realize that though you have a lot invested in this topic you could also be successful if you looked for flaws or alternate explanations. I'm surprised that looking into it for 22 years you don't find more than a few discrepancies. For example, there's never been any evidence of a craft, or storage of a craft. People like to talk about Area 51 but there's been a fair amount of evidence that all we have there are experimental craft of US origin.
Thanks for your input.
Originally posted by K-PAX-PROT
Now it does not take a rocket scientist to work out and perceive that there is only two real possible origins here, secret military black ops; or ET technology, lets now try and work out why we should trust known liars, in ordinary life we all we not TRUST those who lie never mind three times.
Originally posted by ilian51378
... Tom makes a good point about all the witnesses (600+) who gave their testimonies that support/suggest/prove an ET event, versus the zero (0) witnesses who came forth with a testimony/story about another plausible event. Only the government provided an alternative story, but let's see how credible they made themselves look in the eyes of the people:
1.) First statement of a military official "we have captured a flying saucer!"
2.) Two days later came another official statement, refuting the original one "Oh no, our military official who provided the first statement was a moron (hopefully not all military staff elected on high positions like the one of chief of the most elite military division in the U.S. at the time are such morons) and couldn't tell the difference between a milk and antifreeze - it was actually a high altitude balloon and not a saucer!"
3.) Some years later, the government had yet another change of heart and stated that "no, it wasn't a high altitude balloon (don't mind the fake pictures of the supposed balloon we showed you before) - it was dummies we dropped from the sky for our Project Mogul! Please pretend you are stupid if you happen to know that this project was not undertaken until 1952 and the Roswell incident happened in 1947..." Oh yeah, how about the fact that the government only interviewed five (5) witnesses on the supposed Project Mogul and the fact that three (3) of them (just so happens, or does it?) to have been involved with that project?
No documentation for Mogul: For all its stated reliance on documented facts, critics pointed out, the report concluded Mogul was the likely explanation even though no documents linking Mogul to the incident were discovered, and no Mogul equipment was produced to match the contemporary descriptions. Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney said: “It is clear… that the Air Force couldn't find any physical evidence that proves or documentation that clearly states that a balloon from Project Mogul was recovered… Second, the Air Force has no Mogul balloon material from 1947 to show to witnesses to provide a positive identification.”
5.) No military personnel seemingly punished for “misidentification”: If the “misidentification”, as critics put it, was merely an “over-reaction by Colonel Blanchard and Major Marcel”[3] (p. 30) as the Report describes, then why did the careers of some of these personnel not suffer as a result of this blunder? Rodegheir and Chesney: “Over-reaction indeed! Now there's an understatement… This explanation is made even more ludicrous by the successful careers that Marcel, and especially Blanchard, had in the Air Force after this monumental blunder, which should have resulted in instant demotion for them if their actions were what the Air Force is now claiming.”
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Originally posted by TomCarey
reply to post by ImaFungi
After 22 years and over 600 first and second-hand witnesses who have pointed us to an extraterrestrial answer for the event, and none, zero, nada, who have pointed us elsewhere, Sir William of Occam has nowhere else to go.
Originally posted by Bicent76
Another thing that strikes me as odd, is if a UFO crashed back in 1947, why has it not happened again? Of all the times UFO E.T's are filmed or written about spoken about etc, why just this incident?
I am thinking since there was so much black project events happening out in the Mojave, there is a good possibility something reverse engineered from one of the plunders of the world 2 went all wrong and crashed into the desert.
Roswell, also happened during the cold war, for all we know Roswell could have been part of a propaganda project, to put fear or intimidate the Russians etc, back then USA, was the technological power house, it was another 2 years before Russia tested there first atomic bomb. Nothing like trying to intimidate your enemy by proclaiming you have alien technology .
Originally posted by Maverick7
Originally posted by K-PAX-PROT
Now it does not take a rocket scientist to work out and perceive that there is only two real possible origins here, secret military black ops; or ET technology, lets now try and work out why we should trust known liars, in ordinary life we all we not TRUST those who lie never mind three times.
I would say that there is another explanation.
Let's see what we can take for absolute truth.
Something strew debris over a 1/4 mile section of the Foster Ranch where Mac Brazel worked.
Brazel related that on June 14, 1947 he and 8-year-old son, Vernon came upon a large area of bright wreckage made up on rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks. (other accounts say it was Brazel's daugher Bessie who was with him).
Could the debris have been planted?
From this pile of debris, which Mac related to this to Sheriff Wilcox, who in turn related it to Maj. Jesse A. Marcel, we have a story about something crashing. Marcel and a man in plain clothes (possibly Sheridan Cavitt) were reported to have gone out to the ranch by jeep and picked up the remainder of the debris, all of which may have weighed about 5-10lbs.
How this got turned into a story of having "captured" a Flying Saucer, isn't easy to say. It smacks of a planned disinformation campaign. Whether that was to deflect from a 'real crash' elsewhere, or if it was a ploy to convince the Soviets during the cold war that we might have advanced technology, giving us an edge or perhaps diverting their intelligence to a dead end area, it's not known.
We then have various stories about bodies about Pappy Henderson being involved in flying something to Wright-Patterson, but beyond that no actual evidence.
Why people feel the need to jump to a 'non-terrestrial' explanation for a pile of loose debris is not clear. We all are intrigued by stores of this type.edit on 7-9-2013 by Maverick7 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Maverick7
reply to post by K-PAX-PROT
Why the need to 'cover up'?
I think the first part of the issue was possibly related to the supposed bounty the AF was offering for evidence and location of crashed objects. Mac Brazel, I think, believed he might have such a thing. The AF was supposedly offering $3,000 for such evidence and Mac allegedly conspiratorially whispered he might have a crashed saucer to the Sheriff.
From there the story ballooned into a press release by Walter Haut. Then they realized, possibly that here was an opportunity to spin a disinformation plot, but they had to be cagey. They'd release the story, then retract it and using various techniques, make it look like they were covering something up.
Suddenly, the powers higher up found out it might be related to the Mogul project and said 'stop, get the debris and stop sending reports and asking questions'.
So we had a lower level 'scheme' counteracted by a higher level authority making it look like a cover up in spades to the civilians and UFO fans.
Again, we really have -nothing- to relate it to a non-terrestrially piloted craft. Someone decided to embellish the tale with talk of bodies, and again we have a couple second person recountings and some non-recorded death bed comments that weren't recorded by Kevin Randall.
Read through the presentation here to give you a better scope of all of the misrepresentation and confusing stories that possibly lead to the whole tale. home.comcast.net...
HTH
Originally posted by TomCarey
reply to post by Maverick7
Playing word games, are we? There at least one in every barrel. By "education" and "training" I was referring to my formal education and the training that went along with it, which included my stint in the military. And one can research historical accounnts, which you demean as being just "stories," for their veracity and context regarding the subject at hand. In case you missed it, in courts of law credible testimony is considered "evidence," which has sent many a criminal to their ultimate fate.