You asked — What makes a politician “highly qualified”?
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Well..., for one thing, since it’s a Governor, who at the time didn’t want to admit what he saw and knew (then), that shows that he was “qualified” in terms of not having an “agenda” to promote such sightings and make it out to be a real UFO sighting. So, the first kind of “qualification” is not wanting to really admit to the public what he already knew at the time — but later admitted when he knew his statements wouldn’t carry the kind of authority that could cause panic (as he said he didn’t want to cause). There’s that kind of “qualification”.
Then another kind of qualification would be as a direct witness, not just reporting what he heard from others. He said (to a reporter), something to the effect that if he had been standing there, seeing it that night, it would have been amazing (I don’t have the right quote, but it’s something close to that...). So, the qualification as a normal witness, seeing the thing in the sky for himself.
Then, another kind of qualification would be the kind from comes from being a pilot and having good observational skills that would come from that and the training that goes into being a pilot.
He said of that — “I’m a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than anything that I’ve ever seen. It remains a great mystery. Other people saw it, responsible people. I don’t know why people would ridicule it.”
And then, being an Air Force Officer gives one training, too, in being able to observe things like this and make accurate reports.
I would say that he makes a better witness in something like this than one is going to get in most cases, involving random people out there, simply happening to be there and seeing something. It’s not too often that you would get the caliber of witness that you would have here...
Besides, he’s a Republican... LOL...
I've been around a while, have seen my share of episodes of mass hysteria. The mid '70's was the last I paid any serious attention to any of it, though. I personally know of a man who claimed to have shot BigFoot point blank with a sawed-off. He lived, as the crow flies, only a couple of miles away from me. In all the years that I lived in that particular hollow, I never saw or heard or smelled anything remotely like BigFoot.
And I've never seen anything like the flying saucer crowd claims to see, and I love looking at the night sky. Always have.
That said, let's get the thread back on track. Let's take a look at the "credibility" of the source:
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