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To: D-fendr; Tommyjo

Thank you both for your input and visuals.

You’ll both now be attacked and ridiculed for trying to calm the herd. I think, as often happens, the officials who are chiming in on this are doing so clumsily. It adds to the speculation and can make a non-event look like something being covered up or mismanaged.

Occam’s Razor is effective about 99% of the time when hard facts are yet to be established. It does not make sense that the United States would launch a ballistic missile without official declarations of a test or exercise. It certainly does not make sense that a foreign country or private enterprise would do so without a very clear reaction from the government and military. It does make sense that a CBS camera crew would capture an image at a certain angle and misinterpret it. Then, when pressing for answers about something they are misinterpreting, the press reports back what sound like evasive or inadequate answers from officials.

I think it is possible that this something interesting, and more information may appear that confirms that. But I think it is far more likely that this is simply an optical illusion that understandably caused some confusion and alarm.

Remember that this is basically how the UFO movement keeps chugging along. Something is seen that looks odd, no immediate explanation can be found, officials state the fact that there’s a perfectly natural explanation... and many conclude that there is now evidence of alien craft and a government cover-up.


912 posted on 11/09/2010 2:58:49 PM PST by Cap74 (You can disagree with me. You can attack me. Do not lie to me.)
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To: Cap74

Tend to agree with you!


915 posted on 11/09/2010 3:04:58 PM PST by Kahuna
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To: Cap74

“Remember that this is basically how the UFO movement keeps chugging along. Something is seen that looks odd, no immediate explanation can be found, officials state the fact that there’s a perfectly natural explanation... and many conclude that there is now evidence of alien craft and a government cover-up.”

Like JAL 1628, where multiple ground-based radar (civilian and military), the involved pilots, and at least one other plane’s pilots imagined the exotic-movement unidentified flying object doing things no tech on earth is known to be able to do?

Your help with understanding the radars involved being subject to the same hallucination as the pilots would be appreiciated, this one has always stumped me.


948 posted on 11/09/2010 4:46:38 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: Cap74

No problem. Thanks for your thoughts on the matter. I couldn’t agree more.


1,006 posted on 11/09/2010 8:42:55 PM PST by Tommyjo
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