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originally posted by: InhaleExhale
a reply to: Carcharadon
Really stumped on what you mean by visitor theory.
Who put forth the theory and what evidence does it have backing it?
From the most ancient of times, men have reported seeing strange objects in the sky. A Pharaoh was supposed to have seen fiery circles in the heavens, and American Indians have legends of flying canoes. The early Romans reported seeing flying shields. According to some interpretations of Aztec carvings, the god Quetzalcoatl supposedly arrived on earth wearing a beaked space helmet and in a serpentlike airship.
In 1561 and 1566, according to ancient accounts, “multitudes” of inhabitants of Basel, Switzerland, and Nuremberg, Germany, reportedly saw unusual sights in the sky. However, during 1896 and 1897, a most extraordinary thing happened in the United States. People throughout the country reported seeing an airship cruising overhead. ...
One of the most elaborate and widely published stories came from a small town in Kansas, U.S.A., in 1897. ... However, many years later, the story was reprinted and was exposed as a hoax.
Accounts such as the above, whether fabricated or supposedly real, have been reprinted in recent books on the subject. Many of the reports from that period prior to the turn of the 20th century might have been forgotten in dusty newspaper files except for some striking parallel events that began happening over 40 years later. Then it was that people began to recall and research these earlier events and began noting marked similarities.
UFO’s in Modern Times
The subject was revived in more modern times during World War II when Allied bomber pilots reported that they saw “strange balls of light and disc-shaped objects [that] followed them as they flew over Germany and Japan.” ...
... The above stories were only the beginning. The account that seemed to startle the world and that initiated the flying saucer era was told by Kenneth Arnold, a private pilot and a businessman. On June 24, 1947, ... They were described as “saucer-like things” ...
The use of the word “saucer” caught the imagination of the press and resulted in the now common term “flying saucer.” After this account was published worldwide, many who had seen strange objects in the sky began to tell their varied stories. This, along with other sightings, caught the attention of military authorities.
United States Government Investigates
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1952—The Year of UFO’s
The greatest number of UFO sightings received by the U.S. Air Technical Intelligence Command was recorded in 1952: 1,501. Early in March 1952, with increased numbers of sightings, the U.S. Air Force decided to create a separate organization called Project Blue Book. During that year of intense UFO activity, the sightings were diverse and many. ...
In 1966 Gerald R. Ford, then congressman from Michigan, was credited with calling for another federal investigation of UFO’s. This was in response to a number of UFO sightings in his state. The result was that another study was set up at the University of Colorado. Dr. Edward U. Condon, a prominent physicist, assumed oversight of the work. In 1969, at the conclusion of the study, the Condon Report was issued. Among other things, it said that “nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge . . . that further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.”
This ended the official involvement of the U.S. government in the study of UFO’s and, in addition, tended to cool public curiosity. It did not, however, end the UFO controversy, nor was it the end of UFO sightings. ... But what have scientists and other experts concluded in more recent years?
How do scientists explain UFO’s? The late Dr. Donald H. Menzel, a Harvard astronomer, and Philip Klass, former senior editor of Aviation Week, are among those who have studied the subject of UFO sightings. They affirm that UFO’s are actually IFO’s (identified flying objects). When investigated, UFO’s have turned out to be identifiable things or effects, such as weather balloons, nighttime advertising airplanes and helicopters, meteors, or sun dogs.
Philip Klass explained UFO’s as natural phenomena or as incorrect identifications. ... Klass’s thought is that people who are suddenly exposed to a brief unexpected event “may be grossly inaccurate in trying to describe precisely what they have seen.”
In his book Pseudoscience and the Paranormal, Terence Hines states that “careful investigation has resulted in straightforward natural explanations for even very impressive-sounding UFO reports. . . . All these cases make clear the nearly total unreliability of eyewitness reports. In almost every case, the witnesses’ reports differed substantially from the actual stimulus, but in only a very few cases were the witnesses willfully lying. Their knowledge about what UFOs ‘ought’ to look like influenced their reports, along with the effects of visual illusions.”
UFO’s—Guided by Beings From Space?
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originally posted by: dfnj2015
Oh well, disappointed again. Another year gone and no disclosure. I was really hoping 2018 was going to be the year. I imagine a number of ufologists are predicting 2019 will be the year of full disclosure. I just googled it. I was right.
Any thoughts? Is 2019 going to be the year of full disclosure?
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: DreamerOracle
Why would an alien race aggressive enough to develop the technology to explore space be less likely to destroy themselves than the human race? Much less survive their own planet, asteroid strikes, comet strikes, rogue planets, cosmic radiation, gamma bursts from exploding stars, supernovas, and black holes?
originally posted by: panicman66
I spoke to a senior investigator from MUFON in August this year....
originally posted by: neutronflux
No disclosure? With all those alien aircraft running around with their running lights on? Flying in clear sight? With all those alien transmissions flying through the air?
On a more serious note. “Disclosure” is such a straw man argument.
One: How would any government on earth stop an alien race that wanted to make their presence known.
Two: What exactly is the government suppressing? All the YouTube “evidence” of UFO’s?
The only thing to disclose is ufology is full of charlatans and lies.
Much is still heavily classified and WILL NOT BE DISCLOSED.
If the truth interests you, and so far it doesn't seem to, read some good UFO books by former military personnel then you will be able to form a more educated opinion.
originally posted by: neutronflux
The only thing to disclose is ufology is full of charlatans and lies.