Posted on 10/21/2003 3:02:06 AM PDT by SteveH
Edited on 05/07/2004 8:39:09 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Absolutely right. Back in the mid-'60s I saw a most unusual group of red lights in the night sky in a remote part of British Columbia. Three days later when the papers arrived, UFO sightings that very evening in various parts of B.C. were on the front page. I have provisionally concluded, until convinced otherwise, that these were secret experimental aircraft flights under Norad's aegis. I wish the Government would admit to 30+ year old observations - it would deflate a lot of the wilder theories.
What is the explanation for why all these governments -- which have changed personnel and leadership through the course of many decades -- would maintain this alleged conspiracy of denial? Politicians are always looking for things to distract people and to give them a cause around which to rally. Seems that it would be in their interest to make the big announcement of alien visitation and to disclose all the evidence. Yet, they continue (supposedly) to maintain this massive cover-up conspiracy. Makes no sense to me at all, especially considering that the same people have not remained in power that entire time. I cannot imagine a convincing explanation for that.
What I find kind of remarkable is that some take "I've never seen anything like it" as evidence that whatever is seen has to be some form of alien vessel. I can imagine hundreds of top secret flight/espionage projects, RPV's, etc., and experiments that would look strange. For example, I can only imagine how the original stealth aircraft may have been perceived, particularly in poor visibility or at night.
For an "explanation" of these events, I'd offer the following:
1) people lie for amusement or to inflate their own sense of self-importance. The fact that someone occupies a supposedly respectable position does not make them immune to that phenomenon, so personal testimonials carry little or no weight for me. Just because someone says it doesn't make it true. Just because 10 people say it doesn't make it true.
2) people are seeing ordinary things, but because of their particular perception, maybe a bad angle or something, it appears somewhat freakish. I can't tell you how many times I've had witnesses describe something honestly, but been horribly, horribly wrong.
3) The military has engaged in some highly secretive experiments with various unusual shaped craft, and rather than reveal that information to the public and destroy secrecy, they keep quiet and let people devise their own fanciful explanations.
All three of those -- and most likely a combination -- make far more sense than assuming that the government -- which is not and has never been monolithic -- would keep alien visitation a secret for more than half a century.
It's currently against the law for you or me to pick up a piece of space debris or to come in contact with aliens. There are federal guidelines for firefighters and first responders as to how to deal with a ufo crash.
You saw what happened to Jim Saunders when he was given a piece of TWA800. What do you think the government's response would be if bag and tag evidence was reported at some location?
Seriously. If you were the government, what would you do in that actuality? Would you contact the press and invite them in, or would you cordone off the area?
You can be shot on sight for getting too close to Nellis AFB because the U.S. doesn't want you to get a good look at Tacit Blue, or whatever else was high tech ten years ago. Do you think the government would have a lower level of security attached to the acquisition of alien technology?
Personally, I think that if a citizen were to show up at Rockefeller Plaza arm in arm with an alien for a press conference, reporters would be warned off by both their producers and federal agents, the alien sequestered, it's existence denied, and my bones, after a hellish interrogation, would be fish food in the Hudson.
Oh, so there IS evidence but no one can see it. Well, that's helpful.
The book on Alien Implants above produced multiple bits of evidence well documented.
So where is the physical evidence? In a museum somewhere?
You don't "set" the controls on a helicopter into a 20-degree dive.
This thing looks like a sea story that hornswoggled an ignorant member of the press...
If they just wanted to kidnap us, you'd figure that with all their science, they could be a bit more circumspect than simply trying to flag someone down.
The problem I have with the whole UFO thing is that the explanation for why the aliens are doing what they are, and why the government is supposedly covering it up, don't make any sense to me. You correctly ask the "why" question when rejecting the possibility that its just kids, but the "why" aliens would choose to flag you down in that way seems like an even bigger hurdle to overcome.
I also don't understand the how they can be so technologically sophisticated as to have these starships that move incomprehensively, and yet be so inept when they land here. Either they want to be seen, or they don't. If they do, then as I said, why not the Capitol. And if not, shouldn't they have the technology to avoid detection?
Often, or maybe normally, they don't even see normal things. We had a silvery object over town and I managed to get a small telescope on it. There was kind of an informal afternoon neighborhood social gettogether going on, kids and parents. No one else could even see the object, nor would they look through the telescope. It was a weather balloon at high altitude, and as happens when the balloon gets high enough, it ruptured. I happened to be looking through the telescope at that moment. To the eye the object simply disappeared, but through the eyepiece the shards were easily visible scattering in all directions. Still, no one else would look through the eyepiece, and no one else saw anything the whole time.
It's hardly surprising that when someone eventually sees something like that, they don't know what it is.
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