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- From: jaguar@arkham.wimsey.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer)
- Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
- Subject: UFO articles, and their relevance
- Message-ID: <yke9Z3w164w@arkham.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: 11 Apr 91 08:54:09 GMT
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- This is in response to the various UFO articles posted earlier on this group,
- and is not a flame to the author(s) or the person who posted them.
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- I'd just like to point out: isn't it more than a little strange that virtally
- ALL of these reports have featured:
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- a) Flying spacecraft CONSISTANTLY saucer shaped despite the obvious limitations
- of such a design, with "human" characteristics such as "windows", etc.
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- b) Aliens that are nearly always short, thin, with green/grayish skin and big
- heads, who appear (remarkably) to share exactly the same human physiology
- and genetic structure save for melanin content, head size and growth rates.
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- c) Testimonials from people living almost exclusively in rural or nearly
- uninhabited areas
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- ..and the list goes on. One of the articles attempts to steer away from this
- problem by suggesting that these sightings have been going on for some 50,000
- years. I doubt very much if testimonials from the Middle Ages and farther back
- in history can be taken seriously. People living at this time were uneducated
- and believed very much in the supernatural, which consumed most of their time
- for telling tales of "unexplained events" Flying saucers did not figure too
- highly in those times. Suddenly, in the twentieth century, not a single year
- after the word "flying saucer" is coined, the rate of UFO reports skyrockets
- from almost nil to an all-consuming passion.
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- It seems that people have an inexplicable desire to belive in something higher
- than their own existance, and the UFO craze fills that niche. Indeed, in a
- poll taken a few years ago in Britain, it was found that more people believed
- in "flying saucers" than believed in God.
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- Tales of abduction must be taken with a grain of salt. Anyone who has watched
- even a smattering of science fiction on television knows of the standard
- routine where aliens abduct an unsuspecting human, perform some unknown tests
- on him/her, than wipe his memory and return him to earth. Yet consistantly
- reports of abduction feature exactly this tale. It seems to me to project a
- profound lack imagination on behalf of humanity that such reports happen again
- and again.
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- Why is it, that from the thousands of reported abductions, not one has reported
- a detailed description of a spacecraft's interior (something of greater
- complexity than a typical Star Trek set)? Or retrieved some fragment from a
- crashed spacecraft, something that could be easily identified as being of alien
- origin? Or described an extraterrestrial that is not human in form (large
- heads and big black eyes don't count.) The human form is an accident which
- occurred after over a billion years of evolution. The chances of such
- "convergent evolution" happening elsewhere are almost non-existant.
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- Why is it so hard, if as some people would state that UFOs visit the planet
- daily, to produce ONE SINGLE PIECE of concrete evidence? Even aliens can make
- mistakes. The "crashed spacecraft" story featured in one of the articles is
- particularly intriguing. Why was there no attempt made to recover something
- from the wreckage? Or take a photograph? Again, all we are left with is one
- person's testimony.
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- As always, alternative explainations abound. Most UFO's are natural phenomena,
- and are uninteresting (clouds, artificial lights, etc.) The interesting
- phenomena, paradoxically, is never well documented or witnessed by large groups
- of people. The human mind being the fragile thing it is, it is much easier to
- assume that one person hallucinated (people do it daily, many times illegally)
- than to construct an elaborate hypothesis of alien visitation.
-
- A side note: the document from the USAF is obviously false. The Air Force did
- a comprehensive study in the 50's called Project Blue Book designed to look
- into every report by pilots of UFO encounters to try and see if there was a
- basis for such events. The project was abandoned after the reports were
- labelled "too inconclusive", and there has been little follow-up since.
-
- I'd be interested to see other people's views on this (no flames on spelling,
- writing style, or anything of that nature, please. I haven't taken English
- since 1st year, where I did end up with an A, thank-you)... Does anyone on the
- net have a personal tale of such an experience? (abduction or otherwise) I'd
- be very interested to see it.
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