Well, let me put it this way:
I don’t go where Quix goes a lot of the time, nor apparently TaraP, but I respect the search. In Quix’s case, he has a lot of raw and processed data to fall back on, and that earns my respect all by itself.
For my part, I’m an engineer, and work on our nation’s spaceships. I see some fairly high technology items, and some things that aren’t high-tech in themselves but rather are innovative approaches to apply ideas we’ve had in use for years. As I watch the development process, it is not hard for me to see that we will have the abilities that are ascribed to UFO’s someday.
(There are actually some pretty smart egghead-types working on credible Faster-than-light theories. Google ‘Alcubierre’.)
You may not agree with the way things are presented, or some of the religious links that some people make, but you chould look past all that with a logical eye. There is a lot to be seen. In a logical view, the idea of aliens, interstellar travel, and many other things are a matter of escalating technological progress. That’s all it really boils down to.
Friedman frequently points out one thing that, based on my own witness to the march of technology, makes perfect sense: What are the possibilities for technology for a race that is perhaps a million years older than we are, and how many races like that exist?
Personally, I think it will take us FAR less than a million years to have interstellar travel, including FTL.
Thanks for your kind and reasonable words.
Yeah studying a topic since 1962 does leave one with a fair amount of distilled data! LOL.
Now to be more certain what is true and what is disinfo is still a huge challenge.
I, too, am an engineer. Some of it is pretty interesting stuff, for sure, but I have yet to see any plausible connection to (non-earth) aliens. Zero.
Quix’s info is interesting to some extent, obvious nuttery in other cases, still, none is anything verified nor verifiable, ever.