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Are UFO sightings linked to sci-fi films?
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| 17 August 2009
Posted on 08/17/2009 10:33:54 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Newly released documents show that UFO sightings in the UK leapt five-fold in the same year that the alien invader blockbuster Independence Day was released. So is there a link between UFOs and science-fiction?
In 1996, the Earth was under attack from an alien mothership. Do you remember?
Fortunately, Will Smith was on hand to save the planet. This did happen. At least in cinemas.
Independence Day was the blockbuster film of the year, but the fiction it portrayed may have had an impact on the real world - a huge jump in the number of reported sightings of UFOs.
Documents from the Ministry of Defence released by the National Archives show the department recorded 117 sightings in 1995 and 609 in 1996.
This was also the year when television series The X-Files, about attempts to find extra-terrestrial life, was at the height of its popularity in the UK.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Science; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alien; jpb; science; sciencefiction; ufo
To: JoeProBono
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08/17/2009 10:36:32 AM PDT
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Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: JoeProBono
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08/17/2009 10:37:56 AM PDT
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pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: JoeProBono
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08/17/2009 10:38:01 AM PDT
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MaestroLC
("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
To: JoeProBono
Are UFO sightings linked to sci-fi films?
Yes. Whatever the popular UFO shape in the movies at any given time is what people seem to "see" in the sky.
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08/17/2009 10:38:48 AM PDT
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mysterio
To: JoeProBono
To: mysterio
I just saw Forgotten. It offers a relatively unique perspective (for movies anyway) on the existence of aliens.
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08/17/2009 10:40:35 AM PDT
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RobRoy
(This too will pass. But it will hurt like a you know what.)
To: Perdogg
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08/17/2009 10:41:43 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Are UFO sightings linked to sci-fi films?
I believe, YES. Even aliens are willing to take a trip out for a night to see a really good Sci-fi movie.
To: Perdogg
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08/17/2009 11:28:12 AM PDT
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raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: MaestroLC
Yes. Mass suggestion and hysteria.
To: JoeProBono
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08/17/2009 11:30:27 AM PDT
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dragonblustar
("... and if you disagree with me, then you sir, are worse than Hitler!" - Greg Gutfeld)
To: Perdogg
What is that from.....? Seems familiar....
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08/17/2009 11:50:48 AM PDT
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enraged
To: JoeProBono
Yes, aliens come to earth to see the new movies. When we had a lot of drive-ins, it gave them the option of staying on the ship.
Now they have to put on disguises and enter theatres like the rest of us.
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08/17/2009 11:53:30 AM PDT
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nufsed
(Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
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08/17/2009 12:02:28 PM PDT
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Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: JoeProBono
no, they are linked to Uranus
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