Posted on 03/19/2009 10:24:43 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Denver, CO. You may think that reports of strange craft flying around in our skies are rarities. However, according to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), thousands of reports are made yearly, and reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in 2008 reached a record high, with over 5,000 reports. This number is more than double the reports made in 2007.
So why is their such a drastic increase? According to Robert Powell, MUFON’s Director of Research, “Last year’s record numbers were contributed in part by mass sighting reports in Erath County, Texas and Bucks County, Pennsylvania.” He goes on to emphasize that many of the witnesses making these reports are highly credible professionals, such as police officers, county constables, engineers and former air traffic control operators.
Some of the best evidence collected in 2008 was related to the Stephenville, Texas sightings. In that investigation, a comprehensive radar report confirmed an unknown object(s) in the area of Stephenville on the evening of Jan. 8, 2008, and supported claims made by eight witnesses. Powell, along with radar expert Glen Shultz, went through millions of radar hits, provided to them through a Freedom of Information Act request to the FAA, to discover this startling correlation. Although the Stephenville sightings became a large worldwide media event, Powell is shocked at the lack of attention the radar report has received.
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That’s not a UFO. We know that it’s the Enterprise. :)
Most reports ever in 2008?
Without reading the article, my answer is “Video Camera Special Effects - 101”.
Occam’s razor
I knew it looked familiar.
Cheesey hoax. It’s not a real UFO, the pic is in focus.
Occam's razor in such cases works on the other side and
AGAINST
swamp gas, cow farts, Chinese lanterns etc.
The SIMPLEST explanations in the cases that have been screened for the usual non-strange events . . .
are
1. OTHER WORLDLY CRAFT
2. EXOTIC military technologies
or
both.
Chinese lanterns, weather balloons and blimps do NOT travel at super high mach speeds nor do right angle turns at high speeds . . . nor blink in and out of view instantly . . . nor go from stationary (!!!in a wind!!!) to moving instantly at high speeds.
Having a blimp or Chinese lantern do such things would be MORE IMPROBABLE than an alien craft explanation.
Sheesh.
Seems to me the naysayers on these threads are getting increasingly . . . silly in their cheeky, biased, uninformed assertions, if that's possible.
Naysayers have, for years, tossed out the "occam's razor" straw dog as though it shredded all the reports in a flash when the opposite has actually been the truth. Fascinating that none of them seemed awake enough to realize such realities.
All sightings said to coincide with Dennis Kucinich’s campaign stops during 2008...
I remember Walter Cronkite looking the viewers right in the eye, saying that NORAD radar has NEVER tracked any UFOs. Years later we find out that NORAD's radar, at that time, only looked for incoming targets - not those that were flying parallel to the earth's surface. The government [dis]information folks probably forgot to tell him that.
Much like the standard line back then, "There CAN'T be UFOs because nothing shows up on radar."
What if the naysayers are planted operatives trying to dissuade belief or trying to trivialize the matter?!
Joe, nice pic of NCC-1701!
I’ve certainly accused most of them as being just that!
I’ve done so Somewhat fingers-in-cheek
KNOWING that it may well be true for more than I’d like to think.
Some of their tenacity and some of the brainlessness of some of their assertions would be difficult to explain if anything else was their motivation instead of being a government shill.
Ego, pride, fear etc. can be fierce motivators . . . but to assert a lie so intensely for so long . . . Perhaps the government shill explanation is more reasonable, for that.
Ahhh - but screened but who (whom?!)?
Mufon, for example.
But all the major researchers and major organizations screen the sightings for the usual common possibilities.
About 5% of the total reports turn out to be OTHERWORLDLY.
That is until this past year. I don’t know what the percentage has been this past year.
That 5%, however, has been demonstrably UNUSUAL in typically a variety of hard to explain ways.
So more people than usually saw aviation lights in the night sky. That still doesn’t indicate the number of those ships piloted by space monsters was above zero.
Occam's razor does nothing to help explain what I saw with my own two eyes in the summer of 1967.
What looked exactly like a falling star abruptly came to a complete and instant standstill. After several seconds, the 'falling star' took off in a completely different direction.
After traversing most of the sky, it stopped again. Once more after several seconds it took off again in another direction but this time it didn't stop, just disappeared.
Layering your bises over the top of THEIR EXPERIENCES
is not a very reliable route to truth, for sure.
THEY were THERE.
You weren’t.
Naysayers seem to have a very strange understanding of sociology and psychology.
100% of the EXPERIENCERS
are evidently seen by the naysayers as being
100% utterly clueless idiots without an IQ above that of a slug and without more than a sub-atomic particle’s worth of critical thinking skills.
From my experience, that tends to fit naysayes a LOT more than it fits the many scientific, professional, highly educated etc. as well as a good percentage of salt of the earth ranchers etc. EXPERIENCERS.
In the 60’s, folks were seeing a lot of strange things.
To quote from the Matrix: (CHOI) “It’s called mescaline”.
(now don’t get all riled up - I’m just having a bit of fun... 8^)
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