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OT, UFO's Anyone?
| Scary | | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | mikejc563 at yahoo.com | | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | Chas | | mikejc563 at yahoo.com | | calvinthecat at ocsnet.net | | calvinthecat at ocsnet.net | | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | Chas | | Chris Gunn | | nemo outis | | calvinthecat at ocsnet.net | | calvinthecat at ocsnet.net | | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | Chas | | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | Chas | | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | Chas | | Chris Gunn |
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 | | From: | Scary | | Subject: | OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 06:48:34 -0800 |
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 | I was watching a documentary about UFO's and area 51, and I was wondering if anyone say in a group like RMA besides me has actually seen a UFO? Or at least believes that there something strange going on in regard to this UFO thing.
I'll just say that I'm not given to wild imaginings and I would tend to be skeptical about it if I hadn't seen one of these things with my own eyes.
I'm not saying that this thing was from outerspace or another dimension, the facts are that I don't know what it was! I can only describe what it looked like and what it did.
Also 3 other people saw it with me at the time, and the all describe seeing the same thing.
Thx Scary
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 | | From: | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 12:34:23 -0800 |
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 | Chris Gunn wrote: > On 23 Jan 2005 10:13:36 -0800, laszlo_spamhole@freemail.hu wrote: > > > >C'mon, Chas. Ghosts, Chi, and now UFOs? Isn't that a bit much? > > That is an odd question. > > It's like saying: "How can you be continuing a trend!?" > > >Hey, what do you think of the Time Cube? > > I like the wall paper. > > Personally I'm sticking to my belief in the sun god. I hope to do some > more sun worshipping this summer. > > > How's the staying awake business going? > Filling in your time well?
Sadly, I had to give it up around Christmas (I was bored out of my mind around 3 AM, and my parents are terribly light sleepers, so they weren't taking it well).
I haven't had the energy/time/courage to start it up again since then; the first two weeks are pretty horrible. Also, I'd like to start Judo again, and intensive excersize and polyphasic sleep do not mix. > Gunn
Laszlo
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 | | From: | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 15:28:12 -0800 |
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 | Chas wrote: > wrote > >> There are pictures that defy debunking; > > Really? Show me one, please. > > go do your own research-
I have. I've seen _plenty_ of UFO pictures. I've also seen plenty of debunkings. I'd like to know which images you imagine "defy debunking".
> it's of no interest to me to go find something for you.
I found stuff for you.
But, okay. Then tell me where you saw these pictures, and how you know that they "defy debunking".
> >> witnesses that fly for a living, > > which is no guarantee of infallibility. And it's well known that higher > > altitudes do funny things to the brain. > > Not dozens of times with whole air crews witnessing as well as radar record.
As far as I know, radar evidence of UFOs was a big thing when radar was fairly new and prone to error. As radars became more sophisticated, radar record of UFOs dropped to zero.
> >> much less trained observers and laymen observers. > > also no guarantee of infallibility. And despite your evident dislike of > > the concept, mass hallucination is a PROVEN phenomenon. > > Mass hallucinations with pictures?
Faked pictures, yes.
> >> They have been witnessed by thousands of people at a time, > >> the same objects photographed by many unrelated > >> photographers. > > Photographs I'm interested in. Show me. > > Mexico City, Sao Paolo; there are websites and > documentaries all the time.
Sure, I know. But I'm only one person; unless you expect me to debunk every single UFO picture ever made, I need to know which pictures you consider to "defy debunking", so we can have something concrete to debate.
> >> They've registered on radar, there are recordings of > >> people as they witness what's on the radar, multiple > >> accounts by flight crews about the same experience. > > I've read weird things like that. I don't know if they're true or not; > > I haven't heard the recordings or read the original accounts. > > Then follow up on it rather than making some judgment > you'll have to recant.
What, you have access to flight logs?
I'm not bothered by having to recant. I've done it before when I was wrong, on this NG, and--much to my surprise--I've found that it didn't actually make my penis any smaller, as many seem to fear.
So make me recant. Go on.
> > I am not convinced of this "obvious fact". I _know_ that eyewitness > > evidence is horribly inaccurate. Photographs I'm interested in. > > Eyewitness evidence, not so much. > > 'Eyewitness' accounts are very reliable about such gross phenomena- it's the > small stuff that they sometimes have trouble with. Eyewitness accounts are > very reliable in court, the movies notwithstanding.
Yeah, small stuff like how exactly the UFO was moving. With UFO sightings, the devil is always in the details.
> Chas
Laszlo
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 | | From: | mikejc563 at yahoo.com | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 13:52:05 -0800 |
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 | laszlo_spamhole@freemail.hu wrote: > Scary wrote: > > I was watching a documentary about UFO's and area 51, and I was > > wondering if anyone say in a group like RMA besides me has actually > > seen a UFO? Or at least believes that there something strange going > on > > in regard to this UFO thing. > > > > I'll just say that I'm not given to wild imaginings and I would tend > > to be skeptical about it if I hadn't seen one of these things with my > > own eyes. > > > > I'm not saying that this thing was from outerspace or another > > dimension, the facts are that I don't know what it was! I can only > > describe what it looked like and what it did. > > > > Also 3 other people saw it with me at the time, and the all describe > > seeing the same thing. > > > > Thx Scary > > When I was a kid, I liked to say I saw a UFO once. It got me attention. > In time, I actually came to believe it myself. > > When I was 13-14, I liked to say I could see auras. I talked about it > at length to my older cousin; she was very impressed (silence in the > peanut gallery, please). After saying this enough, I really _did_ start > to see auras, kinda... these little vibratey things around people if I > concentrated and squinted just right. > > I'm certainly not accusing you and your friends of making things up; I > _am_ saying it's at least possible that you're deluding yourselves. > Some people are more suggestible than others. This does not > significantly correlate with intelligence, despite what Trav would have > you think. >
May you catch 3 fish in the ocean and believe that that is not all it has to offer...
Mike
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 | | From: | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 10:25:50 -0800 |
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 | Scary wrote: > I was watching a documentary about UFO's and area 51, and I was > wondering if anyone say in a group like RMA besides me has actually > seen a UFO? Or at least believes that there something strange going on > in regard to this UFO thing. > > I'll just say that I'm not given to wild imaginings and I would tend > to be skeptical about it if I hadn't seen one of these things with my > own eyes. > > I'm not saying that this thing was from outerspace or another > dimension, the facts are that I don't know what it was! I can only > describe what it looked like and what it did. > > Also 3 other people saw it with me at the time, and the all describe > seeing the same thing. > > Thx Scary
When I was a kid, I liked to say I saw a UFO once. It got me attention. In time, I actually came to believe it myself.
When I was 13-14, I liked to say I could see auras. I talked about it at length to my older cousin; she was very impressed (silence in the peanut gallery, please). After saying this enough, I really _did_ start to see auras, kinda... these little vibratey things around people if I concentrated and squinted just right.
I'm certainly not accusing you and your friends of making things up; I _am_ saying it's at least possible that you're deluding yourselves. Some people are more suggestible than others. This does not significantly correlate with intelligence, despite what Trav would have you think.
Laszlo
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 | | From: | Chas | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:39:59 -0700 |
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 | wrote > I'm certainly not accusing you and your friends of making things up; I > _am_ saying it's at least possible that you're deluding yourselves. > Some people are more suggestible than others.
There are pictures that defy debunking; witnesses that fly for a living, much less trained observers and laymen observers. They have been witnessed by thousands of people at a time, the same objects photographed by many unrelated photographers. They've registered on radar, there are recordings of people as they witness what's on the radar, multiple accounts by flight crews about the same experience. All of the accounts are of phenomenon that act in a manner not commensurate with what we define as 'physical laws'. Now; what's suspect? The physical laws as we know them; or the obvious fact that there is something that defies them?
Chas
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 | | From: | mikejc563 at yahoo.com | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 17:05:00 -0800 |
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 | "Nice correlation between UFO sightings and how close Mars is to the Earth. I can find other similar correlations between other astronomical phenomena and UFO sightings if you insist, so please don't say it's because they're coming from Mars or something."
Uhh no. One object is moving in an intentful manner in the sky, the other is a fixed cosmic structure in outer space. Very different.
"Same underlying cause, same type of hallucination. If you believe in UFOs, you get abducted, if you believe in ghosts, you see one, if you're religious, you get a vision. If you're none of the above, you get whatever you're most susceptible to." Nothing about 'belief', Laz. Just personal observations.
Mike
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 | | From: | calvinthecat at ocsnet.net | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 17:55:52 -0800 |
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 | mikejc563@yahoo.com wrote: > "Nice correlation between UFO sightings and how close Mars is to the > Earth. I can find other similar correlations between other astronomical > phenomena and UFO sightings if you insist, so please don't say it's > because they're coming from Mars or something."
No but Mars is easier to see thus more people will see it at that time.
> Uhh no. One object is moving in an intentful manner in the sky, the > other is a fixed cosmic structure in outer space. > Very different.
But does *every* observer understand the difference in appearance? Seeing something is very easy. Interpreting and identifying is very difficult especially without the proper background. For example if we take everyone who has ever seen a UFO and show them a few seconds of ground fighting at a UFC how many of them would know which guy has the positional advantage?
> "Same underlying cause, same type of hallucination. If you believe in > UFOs, you get abducted, if you believe in ghosts, you see one, if > you're religious, you get a vision. If you're none of the above, you > get whatever you're most susceptible to." > Nothing about 'belief', Laz. Just personal observations. Yet personal observations are strongly shaped by belief.
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 | | From: | calvinthecat at ocsnet.net | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 07:31:40 -0800 |
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 | Scary wrote: > I was watching a documentary about UFO's and area 51, and I was > wondering if anyone say in a group like RMA besides me has actually > seen a UFO? Or at least believes that there something strange going on > in regard to this UFO thing.
I think everyone has seen something they can't identify. Happens all the time because seeing is easy but identifying is hard. If it happens to be in the sky then it is a UFO. For me the real treat was when a F-117 flew low and slow directly over my house (in daytime) while I was working in the back yard. Man those things are quiet.
> I'll just say that I'm not given to wild imaginings and I would tend > to be skeptical about it if I hadn't seen one of these things with my > own eyes. > > I'm not saying that this thing was from outerspace or another > dimension, the facts are that I don't know what it was! I can only > describe what it looked like and what it did. > > Also 3 other people saw it with me at the time, and the all describe > seeing the same thing.
What you saw was swamp gas reflecting the light from Venus.
Here - watch this red light.
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 | | From: | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 10:13:36 -0800 |
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 | Chas wrote: > "Scary" wrote > > I'll just say that I'm not given to wild imaginings and I would tend > > to be skeptical about it if I hadn't seen one of these things with my > > own eyes. > > Also 3 other people saw it with me at the time, and the all describe > > seeing the same thing. > > Physics says they are impossible on a very basic newtonian level.
What, unidentified objects?
No, Newtonian physics is comfortable with the idea of objects that haven't been identified.
> You'd have to change the Laws of Physics as We Know It > to even believe that you and your druggy friends weren't > having a mass hallucination engendered by your primitive > superstitious beliefs in Sky-Pixies or a hollow earth. > Ask Lowe; he'll tell you.
C'mon, Chas. Ghosts, Chi, and now UFOs? Isn't that a bit much?
Hey, what do you think of the Time Cube? http://www.timecube.com/
> Chas
Laszlo
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 | | From: | Chas | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:26:58 -0700 |
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 | wrote >> Physics says they are impossible on a very basic newtonian level. > What, unidentified objects?
Nope; ones that act in a way soas to be called 'unidentified'. Ones that act in a way commensurate with the 'laws of physics' don't garner much attention other than in New Guinea or whatever.
> C'mon, Chas. Ghosts, Chi, and now UFOs? Isn't that a bit much?
'Science's' answer for all of them is pretty much the same- swamp gas.
> Hey, what do you think of the Time Cube? > http://www.timecube.com/
That the author was 20, at most.
Chas
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 | | From: | Chris Gunn | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:21:22 +1300 |
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 | On 23 Jan 2005 10:13:36 -0800, laszlo_spamhole@freemail.hu wrote:
>C'mon, Chas. Ghosts, Chi, and now UFOs? Isn't that a bit much?
That is an odd question.
It's like saying: "How can you be continuing a trend!?"
>Hey, what do you think of the Time Cube?
I like the wall paper.
Personally I'm sticking to my belief in the sun god. I hope to do some more sun worshipping this summer.
How's the staying awake business going? Filling in your time well?
Gunn
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 | | From: | nemo outis | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:34:16 GMT |
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 | In article <1106504016.289665.85400@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, laszlo_spamhole@freemail.hu wrote:
I firmly believe in UFOs. And I believe that is exactly what they are: UNIDENTIFED flying objects. It's the loons who insist they have identified them who annoy me.
Regards,
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 | | From: | calvinthecat at ocsnet.net | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 13:50:12 -0800 |
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 | laszlo_spamhole@freemail.hu wrote:
> > You'd have to change the Laws of Physics as We Know It
Compared to what we will probably know about physics 500 years from now our current knowledge of physics might seem as high tech as what we knew during the Dark Ages would seem today.
> > to even believe that you and your druggy friends weren't > > having a mass hallucination engendered by your primitive > > superstitious beliefs in Sky-Pixies or a hollow earth. > > Ask Lowe; he'll tell you. > > C'mon, Chas. Ghosts, Chi, and now UFOs? Isn't that a bit much? > > Hey, what do you think of the Time Cube? > http://www.timecube.com/
I think that had to be written by Hal. It is a gem that keeps going and going. I especially liked the part about how God evolved from Santa Clause.
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 | | From: | calvinthecat at ocsnet.net | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 14:06:06 -0800 |
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 | Chas wrote: > wrote > > The thing is, we _know_ that countless people report the moon as a UFO. > > Ditto for Venus. Every time there's any celestial phenomenon out of the > > ordinary, UFO sightings go up. > > Never heard anything like that- where'd you hear it? > > > Also, for ghosts (and UFO abduction experiences, which are basically > > the same thing), > > How in the world are they 'the same thing'?
One way they *could be* the same thing is if the same phenomenon were interprited differntly based on the beliefs and background of the person who experiences it. 500 years ago it happens to a peasant who belives werewolves and vampires are real and thus he thinks he is either a werewolf or a vampire. Say the same experince happens today to someone who belives ghosts are very real and he will think he is some kind of medium. If instead he belives aliens visit earth in flying saucers then he might think he was abducted and had his memmory wiped. If it happened to me I would probably think I had seen God or were under attack by the devil. World views shape perception of events.
Note: that does not mean the phenomenom is not real or all interpritations are wrong.
> >...This includes your own experience with a > > ghost, which (if I remember correctly) includes every single typical > > hallmark of sleep paralysis hallucination.
Anyone know a good scientific sites on sleep paralysis hallucinations? I would like to explore that topic in greater depth.
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 | | From: | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 10:49:53 -0800 |
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 | Chas wrote: > wrote > >> Physics says they are impossible on a very basic newtonian level. > > What, unidentified objects? > > Nope; ones that act in a way soas to be called 'unidentified'. > Ones that act in a way commensurate with the 'laws of physics' don't garner > much attention other than in New Guinea or whatever.
The thing is, we _know_ that countless people report the moon as a UFO. Ditto for Venus. Every time there's any celestial phenomenon out of the ordinary, UFO sightings go up.
Obviously, this doesn't prove that all UFO sightings are overexcited people reporting celestial phenomena, but it does tend to make one a bit sceptical. If people (not one person, not two people, but _hordes_) mistake the friggin' MOON for a UFO, I'm inclined to believe that airplanes, street lights, discos, and reflected light would get people into a right furious tizzy.
> > C'mon, Chas. Ghosts, Chi, and now UFOs? Isn't that a bit much? > > 'Science's' answer for all of them is pretty much the same- > swamp gas.
And hysteria and self-delusion, yes. I'm sure you don't want to argue that hysteria and self-delusion _aren't_ powerful forces.
Also, for ghosts (and UFO abduction experiences, which are basically the same thing), the usual answer is almost certainly sleep paralysis and attendant hallucinations. This includes your own experience with a ghost, which (if I remember correctly) includes every single typical hallmark of sleep paralysis hallucination.
Most people have one or two sleep paralysis experiences in their lives; I've had one, so far. It was pretty terrifying, especially since I didn't know what it was at the time.
Laszlo
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 | | From: | Chas | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:49:46 -0700 |
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 | wrote > The thing is, we _know_ that countless people report the moon as a UFO. > Ditto for Venus. Every time there's any celestial phenomenon out of the > ordinary, UFO sightings go up.
Never heard anything like that- where'd you hear it?
> Also, for ghosts (and UFO abduction experiences, which are basically > the same thing),
How in the world are they 'the same thing'?
>...This includes your own experience with a > ghost, which (if I remember correctly) includes every single typical > hallmark of sleep paralysis hallucination.
Nope; wide awake, working at my bench, mid-afternoon, lots of sunlight.
Chas
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 | | From: | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 15:18:55 -0800 |
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 | calvinthecat@ocsnet.net wrote: > Anyone know a good scientific sites on sleep paralysis hallucinations? > I would like to explore that topic in greater depth.
Well, this was the first site Google suggested:
http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html
And it looks pretty good to me. A quick explanation of the basics, and links to more involved sites.
Laszlo
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 | | From: | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 15:15:50 -0800 |
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 | Chas wrote: > wrote > > The thing is, we _know_ that countless people report the moon as a UFO. > > Ditto for Venus. Every time there's any celestial phenomenon out of the > > ordinary, UFO sightings go up. > > Never heard anything like that- where'd you hear it?
Assuming you mean my second statement:
http://www.larryhatch.net/50YEARS.html
Nice correlation between UFO sightings and how close Mars is to the Earth. I can find other similar correlations between other astronomical phenomena and UFO sightings if you insist, so please don't say it's because they're coming from Mars or something.
> > Also, for ghosts (and UFO abduction experiences, which are basically > > the same thing), > > How in the world are they 'the same thing'?
Same underlying cause, same type of hallucination. If you believe in UFOs, you get abducted, if you believe in ghosts, you see one, if you're religious, you get a vision. If you're none of the above, you get whatever you're most susceptible to.
> >...This includes your own experience with a > > ghost, which (if I remember correctly) includes every single typical > > hallmark of sleep paralysis hallucination. > > Nope; wide awake, working at my bench, mid-afternoon, lots of sunlight.
I know, I read what you wrote.
I'd bet dollars to donuts it was pretty boring work, too. > Chas
Laszlo
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 | | From: | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 15:33:53 -0800 |
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 | Chris Gunn wrote: > On 23 Jan 2005 06:48:34 -0800, modelmakers@msn.com (Scary) wrote: > > >I was watching a documentary about UFO's and area 51, and I was > >wondering if anyone say in a group like RMA besides me has actually > >seen a UFO? Or at least believes that there something strange going on > >in regard to this UFO thing. > > >I'm not saying that this thing was from outerspace or another > >dimension, the facts are that I don't know what it was! I can only > > > I used to stage UFO stunts. > > I got pictures in the local papers (taken by some third party) and > everything. > > My uncle one did a nice one on a military radar outpost. He had a > couple of insiders ready to go: "OMG! What's that on the radar!" etc. > > Not much of a challenge really. > > We used small hot air balloons.
I like the recent brouhaha about crop circles... all sorts of woo-woos gave their expert testimony that there was no way a particular circle could have been man-made, because the crops bent just so, and they were braided, and none of them were broken, and yadda yadda.
Until a couple of kids confessed it was them. They used wooden planks and rope.
Laszlo
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 | | From: | Chas | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:04:19 -0700 |
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 | "Scary" wrote > I'll just say that I'm not given to wild imaginings and I would tend > to be skeptical about it if I hadn't seen one of these things with my > own eyes. > Also 3 other people saw it with me at the time, and the all describe > seeing the same thing.
Physics says they are impossible on a very basic newtonian level. You'd have to change the Laws of Physics as We Know It to even believe that you and your druggy friends weren't having a mass hallucination engendered by your primitive superstitious beliefs in Sky-Pixies or a hollow earth. Ask Lowe; he'll tell you.
Chas
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 | | From: | laszlo_spamhole at freemail.hu | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 11:05:54 -0800 |
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 | Chas wrote: > wrote > > I'm certainly not accusing you and your friends of making things up; I > > _am_ saying it's at least possible that you're deluding yourselves. > > Some people are more suggestible than others. > > There are pictures that defy debunking;
Really? Show me one, please.
> witnesses that fly for a living,
which is no guarantee of infallibility. And it's well known that higher altitudes do funny things to the brain.
> much less trained observers and laymen observers.
also no guarantee of infallibility. And despite your evident dislike of the concept, mass hallucination is a PROVEN phenomenon. Whether UFO sightings are mass hallucinations or not is a matter open for debate, certainly, but that mass hallucinations in general exist is not.
> They have been witnessed by thousands of people at a time, > the same objects photographed by many unrelated > photographers.
Photographs I'm interested in. Show me.
> They've registered on radar, there are recordings of > people as they witness what's on the radar, multiple > accounts by flight crews about the same experience.
I've read weird things like that. I don't know if they're true or not; I haven't heard the recordings or read the original accounts.
> All of the accounts are of phenomenon that act in a manner > not commensurate with what we define as 'physical laws'. > Now; what's suspect? > The physical laws as we know them; or the obvious fact > that there is something that defies them?
I am not convinced of this "obvious fact". I _know_ that eyewitness evidence is horribly inaccurate. Photographs I'm interested in. Eyewitness evidence, not so much.
> Chas
Laszlo
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 | | From: | Chas | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:45:25 -0700 |
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 | wrote >> There are pictures that defy debunking; > Really? Show me one, please.
go do your own research- it's of no interest to me to go find something for you.
>> witnesses that fly for a living, > which is no guarantee of infallibility. And it's well known that higher > altitudes do funny things to the brain.
Not dozens of times with whole air crews witnessing as well as radar record.
>> much less trained observers and laymen observers. > also no guarantee of infallibility. And despite your evident dislike of > the concept, mass hallucination is a PROVEN phenomenon.
Mass hallucinations with pictures?
>> They have been witnessed by thousands of people at a time, >> the same objects photographed by many unrelated >> photographers. > Photographs I'm interested in. Show me.
Mexico City, Sao Paolo; there are websites and documentaries all the time.
>> They've registered on radar, there are recordings of >> people as they witness what's on the radar, multiple >> accounts by flight crews about the same experience. > I've read weird things like that. I don't know if they're true or not; > I haven't heard the recordings or read the original accounts.
Then follow up on it rather than making some judgment you'll have to recant. \ > I am not convinced of this "obvious fact". I _know_ that eyewitness > evidence is horribly inaccurate. Photographs I'm interested in. > Eyewitness evidence, not so much.
'Eyewitness' accounts are very reliable about such gross phenomena- it's the small stuff that they sometimes have trouble with. Eyewitness accounts are very reliable in court, the movies notwithstanding.
Chas
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 | | From: | Chris Gunn | | Subject: | Re: OT, UFO's Anyone? | | Date: | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:21:21 +1300 |
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 | On 23 Jan 2005 06:48:34 -0800, modelmakers@msn.com (Scary) wrote:
>I was watching a documentary about UFO's and area 51, and I was >wondering if anyone say in a group like RMA besides me has actually >seen a UFO? Or at least believes that there something strange going on >in regard to this UFO thing.
>I'm not saying that this thing was from outerspace or another >dimension, the facts are that I don't know what it was! I can only
I used to stage UFO stunts.
I got pictures in the local papers (taken by some third party) and everything.
My uncle one did a nice one on a military radar outpost. He had a couple of insiders ready to go: "OMG! What's that on the radar!" etc.
Not much of a challenge really.
We used small hot air balloons.
Gunn
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