Comments on: 10,000,000 UFO witnesses can’t be wrong!

By: Abdul Alhazred

Abdul Alhazred — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:19:12 +0000

I myself have seen flying objects which I was unable to identify.

By: mlcjmc

mlcjmc — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:43:31 +0000

10,000,000 UFO witnesses can’t be wrong!… just drunk.

By: g663

g663 — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:04:42 +0000

If we ditch all the woowoo nonsense and stick to the facts, there are plenty of credible instances of unknowns. Some of these resolve with progress in other fields of science, for example identification of new types of meteors. A good many are experimental aircraft, and a quick websearch will lead to some good historic sites that discuss some of these and some of the test flight protocols (some of which are similar to reported UFO behaviors). Interestingly, one of the early Air Force reports (1950s) concluded that some were probably extraterrestrial spacecraft but were no threat to the US: at a time when scientific rationalism was dominant in the culture, this was considered a ho-hum conclusion rather than a source of quasi-religious nonsense.

There’s an excellent no-BS series on the subject, running on the political website Daily Kos, http://www.dkos.com Look for the author who posts under the userID Two Roads, and look up his series “Saturday Night UFOria.” The author reviews the post-WW2 history of these objects in great detail, presents cases in a level-headed and matter-of-fact manner, and doesn’t jump to conclusions. His articles got me intrigued with this stuff as a kind of interesting puzzle to solve. As far as I’m concerned, this is a legitimate topic for science to study, and for amateurs to participate as they do in birdwatching and other areas.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:04:12 +0000

Dr Bob, that is a good point, with all the video cameras, and the improved quality of consumer photo and video cameras you would think that with all the witnesses/events someone would get at least one good image.

Maybe the aliens are using cloaking technology and disabling the equipment?

By: Charlene

Charlene — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:34:42 +0000

or that *means*.

I either need more or less New Year’s cheer.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:34:05 +0000

My friend from back home saw that meteorite! Of course, he thought it was a plane crashing, so I suppose that mean it was an IIFO – an incorrectly identified flying object.

By: Toronto

Toronto — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:35:39 +0000

Dr. Bob – there are, after a fashion. The recent Canadian Meteorite was caught on cell phone, hand-held, and security cameras by dozens if not hundreds of people.

While it was streaking by, it was most certainly unidentified and flying. Not to mention very cool to see, based on the tapes I’ve seen.

By: Dr Bob

Dr Bob — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:46:22 +0000

With the large number of portable video cameras now in the hands of the public including cellphones and the ability to self-publish videos on you-tube and other sites, why haven’t we seen a large increase in the numbers of pictures and videos of UFOs?

I wonder how many of these UFO sighting are actually secret Defense Department projects that must remain secret.

By: Torgo

Torgo — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:25:48 +0000

Well they’re not wrong — they did see something. But what did they see?

I spent the most of my life in the Mid-west and used to spend some of my time watching the skies, both with binoculars and the naked eye. I watched during the day and during the night. I saw many planes, satellites and planets, but I never saw anything I couldn’t identify. Sigh. I live a boring life I guess. I at least would like to have seen one black triangle.

By: Dennis Kucinich

Dennis Kucinich — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:39:41 +0000

I know they are real, I was abducted, and Sherlly McClain is my space wife!

By: George

George — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:14:11 +0000

A tiny UFO landed on my arm, and took a core sample! There was a bump that raised up on my skin and got itchy from the reaction to the silicone based life-form. My girlfriend said it was only a mosquito bite, but I know better.

I went to a military doctor the following week, and all evidence of the incident had been obliterated by then. He saw nothing because the night before my appointment, the air force anesthetized me in my sleep, replaced my arm with a perfect replica, and took my arm to Roswell.

This has been confirmed by Bill Gates, Snopes, and Senator O’Cznovich.

By: fluffy

fluffy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:11:27 +0000

“Even if 80 per cent of these so-called sightings can be proved to be of such ordinary objects as balloons, high-flying aircraft, birds, stars, etc., that leaves 1 million unsatisfied witnesses.”

I just love how they completely make up that 80% statistic and use that to lend credibility to the claim.

By: mc

mc — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:54:47 +0000

Ten million people will believe anything the press tells them to.

Anyhow, how do you get from “unidentified” (by non-experts) to “space aliens”?

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:20:27 +0000

I was trying to concoct some conspiracy based on the numerology:

1947: Roswell, NM UFO sighting in 1947
1935: George Gallup invented Gallup Poll
339 : Distance from Roswell NM to Gallup NM, miles
545: Distance from Roswell NM to Gallup NM, km
1967: Article publication date

etc…

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:21:26 +0000

U.F.O. Unidentified Flying Object. It does not mean it is a little green man from some other planet. (they are purple) it just means there is a flying object and it can’t be identified. Everyone has noticed something in the sky they don’t know what is.

By: J Mcdade

J Mcdade — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:06:49 +0000

What you say, “10,000,000 can’t be wrong,” is not so. One hundred million people can be wrong, or several billion Humans can be wrong.

Just think of the Billions of people who believe in a man who came back from the dead, and the same billions who believe that there is a super being who moniters their every thought. That there is a place called Hell to punish the sinners who do not subscribe to the saintly ways of some God. Also a place called Heaven to reward those he bend their backs and bow their heads to worship the so called supreme being. Human Beings will believe in anything, they don’t require evidence. The 10 Million you say who believe in U F Os, is in my opinion, a gross under estimate.