Question: How many alien aircraft sighting reports will it take to convince some people about UFO’s?
Nov
07
How many alien aircraft sighting reports will it take to convince some people about UFO’s?
Iraq was invaded and destroyed for allegedly developing nuclear arms and nearly the entire world believed it. None was found. Now it is said that UFO’s exist and they have pictures and videos to prove it. And some people find THIS hard to believe. WHAT!?
Answer by Caca
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With the improvement of technologies such as photoshop and others picture altering program make things hard to believe and I would really like Terran (us) vs Protoss (alien) setting but I will believe when an alien contact me or right in front o my eye i want a ferarri autobot
Because there was rumors that an enemy country was building weapons to destroy the countries they hate. (Reasonable) Your talking about ships that can go the speed of light from other organism-inhabited planets just visiting Earth for the view. There are alot of claims of UFOs because people want attention and thats a good way to get people like you to give it to them. Ever heard of Photoshop? Yeh, I’m sure that 90% of those are fake and the other 10% are mistooken for Planes, balloons, birds, etc.. There are hundreds of sitings each day. Do you really think that more will convince people?
It only takes one, with actual physical evidence, and consistent eyewitness testimony.
Sadly, when 99% of all reported UFOs are identified as natural celestial phenomenon, natural meteorological phenomenon, man made aircraft, satellites, the planet Venus, and Chinese lanterns, and the remaining 1% comes from testimony that is so vague and inconsistent that it must be dismissed, then we start to have a problem.
Keep in mind, of the millions of reported UFOs, none of them have been reported by astronomers or meteorologists…. and these are the people who spend their entire lives looking at the sky. Could it be they don’t report them, simply because they have the knowledge to be able to identify the objects that your everyday drunkard can’t?
Only one would be sufficient.
Unfortunately, in one hundred years since the idea of boogiemen invading us from the skies was invented (by HG Wells), not one vessel of extraterrestial origin has ever been sighted.
Sure there have been thousands of sightings of the planet Venus whipping people up into a high state of hysteria, thousands of reports of mirages, Chinese balloons, birds (as in the infamous Mt Ranier sighting of 1947), and all supported by suitably blurry and indistinct pictures.
AS if that’s not enough, there are also thousands of hoax videos (a cottage industry these days).
So just one miserable little alien aircraft, verified, and preferably captured and hauled off to a scientific lab for analysis would suffice. Then we would all be convinced.
Unfortunately it aint never happened , and recent evidence from professional astronomers using the new Kepler telescope tells us that it never will.
Cheers!
DLM got it right.
Not only are there millions of astronomers who spend lots of time observing on a regular basis, we now have cameras permanently picturing the sky 24×7, 52 weeks a year.
And yet you think we would rely on some unschooled, casual observers. One particular came on here and said he saw something as he glanced toewards the window. Does that say it all.
This isn’t a political forum, but to put the record straight. Saddam Hussein, not long after subjecting hundreds of thousands of his young men to death in an 8 year war with Iran, then attacked Kuwait. When the Americans caused his army to retreat, the Iraqis fired scud missiles into Saudi Arabia and Israel. For all the criticism lobbed at America, they actually stopped a possible WWIII by talking Israel out of retaliating.
Previously, Iraq had used poison gas on the Kurds in Northern Iraq, so all in all it was reasonable, given their record, that they would have more missiles and bio or chem weapons stashed away. And Saddam played a game with the weapons inspectors for years – letting them in, then throwing them out.
I always ask people what they think the alternative was to the Iraqi invasion and to date nobody has come up with an answer.
But to get back to the UFO thing – ordinary people are very bad observers, especially if they know nothing about what can be seen.
Most of them will be the likes of all those who come on here worried about 2012, or think the Americans didn’t land on the moon, or Mars will look bigger than the Moon this August. The ignorance is astonishing.
I betya you’re one of them, eh?
It will only take one reliable sighting, if you ask me. Although I have yet to see anyone reliable.
As it stands, there are inconsistent testimonies, testimonies made by the uneducated or the ignorant and incoherent, testimonies made by foreigners who dont even know what indoor plumbing is, testimonies made by the clinically paranoid and the nutty conspiracy theorists, offering only testimony, or at best blurry photographs that dont stand up to scrutiny.
Its not hard at all to believe aliens exist. Its just hard to believe they developed the technology to traverse the universe, got all the way here to visit the Earth, and decide to hide themselves from public view, or chose instead to made cute designs in wheat fields or make first contact with cattle or visit only trailer trash.
Furthermore, we all watch television to some extent. Or read books. We all know about sci-fi. Alien visitors has been a theme in western scifi for probably closer to two centuries. We can easily recognize the absurdity of believing what we see on television, and we recognize the notion that story telling is about deception. We recognize the theme as familiar and overplayed. Simply put, we are going to be skeptical of anyone who tells us its time to believe in fantasy. It, however, is not hard to believe in real world threats involving real world technologies that have historical precedence in other countries. False intelligence can still be far more believable than outrageous albeit true claims. All statements have a degree of reasonableness to them, whether true or false – and reasonableness is defined for each of us based on experience and knowledge.
Hasn’t it occurred to you that “UFO sightings” began in the 1950s, at the same time E-grade movies about alien invasion were all the rage? They’re cultural, limited to those societies where such entertainment happens.
Almost all sightings are reported by only one person, when you’d think that SOMEONE must have been looking at the sky at the same time. And almost all are immediately matched up to some phenomenon known to be happening in the sky at that time. The rest are solved sometime later.
One, with really good evidence. So far this has never happened.