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originally posted by: stirling
originally posted by: jonnywhite
Steven Greer has not credibility whatsoever. And a bunch of those names have a lot of mixed up stories which I don't feel have any credibility either. What's left is maybe a few tales which don't have easy explanations, but it does not mean aliens are visiting Earth. Evenso, I knew someone who told me he saw a ufo when growing up. Apparently it was dramatic for him. This person was in the military at one point in his life, so why should I doubt him? There're lots of people with those kinds of stories. And yet I also have a relative who claimed they saw Jesus. There're people who say they've spoken to deceased individuals. There're people.....
Stories and unprovable bits of evidence does not make it all true. Unlike these alleged truths, science and reality can prove themselves. Which side would you choose, if it meant life or death? I wonder about these things all the time, but I know who I'd trust when it counts. I'd put my money on SETI or NASA with confidence if it had any weight. Putting my money on Ufology or the "Disclosure Project" is like throwing most of it away.
Go ahead and live in a cave....your outlook is certainly primitive enough.....
You obviously don't have an open mind on the subject and are repeating what you hear from those who claim to be experts....
what you don't quite get is most of them are disinfo experts....
originally posted by: JadeStar
originally posted by: stirling
originally posted by: jonnywhite
Steven Greer has not credibility whatsoever. And a bunch of those names have a lot of mixed up stories which I don't feel have any credibility either. What's left is maybe a few tales which don't have easy explanations, but it does not mean aliens are visiting Earth. Evenso, I knew someone who told me he saw a ufo when growing up. Apparently it was dramatic for him. This person was in the military at one point in his life, so why should I doubt him? There're lots of people with those kinds of stories. And yet I also have a relative who claimed they saw Jesus. There're people who say they've spoken to deceased individuals. There're people.....
Stories and unprovable bits of evidence does not make it all true. Unlike these alleged truths, science and reality can prove themselves. Which side would you choose, if it meant life or death? I wonder about these things all the time, but I know who I'd trust when it counts. I'd put my money on SETI or NASA with confidence if it had any weight. Putting my money on Ufology or the "Disclosure Project" is like throwing most of it away.
Go ahead and live in a cave....your outlook is certainly primitive enough.....
You obviously don't have an open mind on the subject and are repeating what you hear from those who claim to be experts....
what you don't quite get is most of them are disinfo experts....
Plenty of people have open minds but they're also skeptical about tall tales from people who have every reason to make up such tall tales to hide classified projects.
See the documentary Mirage Men for example.
originally posted by: Kandinsky
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
I'm going to skip watching 7 hours of videos because I'm aware of the stories and backgrounds of the participants. The stories, when taken altogether, don't have enough coherence to be truthful. There's no rational reason why a POTUS would be faced with evidence of 'aliens' and decide that 'nobody must know.' Neither would it makes sense that arch-enemies like the Soviets, China, Korea, Vietnamese etc would keep the secret.
Reverse-engineering is a fantasy unless the technology has parallel origins and only minimally advanced. For example, nobody at Sandia Labs in the 1950s could reverse-engineer an android phone. How could they reverse-engineer an alien technology and then manufacture them? Unless, of course, they crashed and had a paper blueprint that could somehow be deciphered? If so, what might be the Rosetta Stone that would help them bridge the gap between two unrelated languages?
How would they 'interview' an alien? Would they waterboard it to cooperate enough to learn its ABCs? Would it use telepathy? If so, how would the secret Intel guys communicate back?
There was a 'cover-up' and authorities wanted the reports to go away. Hynek expressed regret that he'd been so quick to explain away reports. However, trying to play down reports of UFO sightings doesn't take us all the way to 'four races' of aliens visiting and secret space navies. Some of the speakers have long since made the leap all the way to 'aliens' and their opinions frequently are massaged by guys like Greer with his mystical ability to be 'briefing' the world's most powerful Intelligence leaders.
Some are more naive in their source material like those associated with Edgar Mitchell and Noetics - good people. Hellyer is likely one of those who has trusted the opinions of well-known people without quite doing his due diligence. I'd lay bets that greer dazzled him with BS and turned his head. "Hold that thought Paul, I've got Vladimir Putin waiting. Seems he has a problem in the Baltics and wants my advice...."
The Congressional-type hearings were a dog and pony show and a reasonable fund-raiser to keep the wolf from the door for Basset etc.
IMAO of course
originally posted by: charlyv
a reply to: Tangerine
Review the list of military people at that conference, and/or review the online testimony of their supervisors.
Are you trying out a dis-info tactic here? This is not a playground of amateurs. State your business and spit facts.
originally posted by: charlyv
a reply to: Tangerine
Review the list of military people at that conference, and/or review the online testimony of their supervisors.
Are you trying out a dis-info tactic here? This is not a playground of amateurs. State your business and spit facts.
originally posted by: JimTSpock
a reply to: Tangerine
In a real court of law multiple credible witnesses are very hard to defend against. Of course multiple and credible are the important parts.
You should be a criminal defense lawyer. When you cross examine witnesses for the prosecution you can just say 'show me your testicle evidence!'. If you want to defend such a case you have to discredit the witnesses and try to blow holes in their testimony, showing how it could not be true. That is what is required to seriously attempt to debunk this whole thing and it would certainly be a lot of work.
Realistically this should be taken seriously and scrutinized seriously and objectively, which is probably beyond the scope of this website.
Originally published in France in 1999, the Cometa Report (titled UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?) made a valuable contribution to the subject of UFOs.
The following is extracted from an opening statement contained in the report from French Air Force General Denis Letty and gives valuable background data on Cometa and its findings.
“The accumulation of well-documented sightings made by credible witnesses forces us to consider from now on all of the hypotheses regarding the origin of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, and the extraterrestrial hypothesis, in particular.”
Lol at testicle evidence, but seriously we have over a hundred extreamly credible military high ranking persons giving thier testamony which is considered not only evidence but also the factual truth.
originally posted by: Specimen
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
Even if the military did announce that there are strange craft that are flying in our planets atmosphere, and that they have no control over them, and that it would heavily imply aliens.
What would that accomplish in the long run of things?
Would you feel happy and satisfied if the military did announce that there are aliens? Or would it piss you off more that the aliens still don't come down?
THE BRAVE PEOPLE WHO HAVE PUT THEIR CARREERS EVEN THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE TO REVEAL THE TRUTH TO US, DESERVE BETTER SHRIFT FROM THE PEANIT GALLERY.....
originally posted by: stirling
Sightings cannot always be attributed to UFOs, but UFOs definitely have been sighted and tracked on radar....pictures taken by unassailable witnesses also abound....they have been chased by military planes, seen by hundreds even thousands....
originally posted by: Bloodydagger
I believe ET is real and has been visiting earth for centuries.