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- From: mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu (Michael Edelman)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,alt.paranormal,alt.alien.visitors,alt.alien.research,alt.paranet.ufo
- Subject: Re: Marfa Buggielights Festival
- Followup-To: sci.skeptic,alt.paranormal,alt.alien.visitors,alt.alien.research,alt.paranet.ufo
- Date: 19 Jun 1996 13:04:53 GMT
- Organization: Wayne State University
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- Charles Gregory (ab801@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca) wrote:
- : Scott LaRoche <scott.laroche@atomiccafe.com> wrote:
- : > Ever hear of Occam's Razor? Why must the most complicated explanation for
- : > a phenomenon be given? The Lights aren't an aurora. They aren't "swamp
- : > gas" or "foo fighters". They are car headlights and tailights. I've been
- : > there twice and videotaped them while "experts" at the viewing site
- : > "ooed" and "ahhed" over every movement. If only they had brought
- : > binoculars.
-
- : Cool. Now how do we explain the way the lights come from directions other
- : than the highway (of which there is only one on the far side of the desert)?
-
- Funny how these other cases only arise after the original claims are
- debunked. "But what about the Marfa lights that pluck people out
- of their cars, huh? Answer me that!"
-
- --mike
-