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For decades, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) kept a record of all of its investigations into extraterrestrial activity in one extensive report called Project Blue Book ( http://www.archives.gov/foia/ufos.html ). Up until last week Project Blue Book's massive catalog of over 10,000 UFO and extraterrestrial reports from the 1940s to the 1970s had only been accessible by visiting the National Archives in Washington. Now the archives are available online. ( http://projectbluebook.theblackvault.com )
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A shapely CATHOLIC SCHOOLGIRL is FIDGETING inside my costume..
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday January 23 2015, @02:42PM
As in, I completely believe that there are lots of people who have seen flying objects they haven't been able to identify.
The problem is that they jump from "I have no idea what that was" to "There must be little green men in flying saucers". It's a false pattern recognition, frequently primed by classic science fiction films (the ET-believers tend to describe and/or draw ETs that bear a striking resemblance to the known-fictional ETs from popular culture).
Now, if there were actual hard evidence for any of what the ET-believers are saying, I'd take it a bit more seriously. But right now ETs on Earth are about as likely to exist as the Loch Ness Monster.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday January 23 2015, @04:05PM
Aliens in the conventional sense are less likely to exist than the Loch Ness Monster. The Loch Ness Monster and Sasquatch are equally more likely to exist. Though, if you believe in the Bible. You also believe in Aliens. I.E. Angels, they aren't exactly Human or from this world.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday January 23 2015, @04:26PM
Explain your logic here.
Lots of people have explored Loch Ness looking for Nessie. They've used all sorts of interesting ways to try and find him - underwater cameras, sonar, and so forth. There have been similar efforts for lake monsters in other places, all of which have turned up empty.
By contrast, nobody has had the ability to explore most of what's in space. The nice folks at SETI are continuing to look, but they've explored only a tiny fraction of the information that's coming our way. If, as seems perfectly reasonable to guess right now, interstellar travel is incredibly difficult and risky, and interstellar communication takes a really really long time, then it's there's no real surprise that we haven't found aliens or they haven't stopped by to say hello.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 23 2015, @04:45PM
Yeah, I just have to go to the next airport to see lots of unidentified flying objects. Sure, I can tell it's an airplane, but I cannot identify them (as in, determine their identity; I can't tell one Boeing 747 from another, at least if they are from the same airline), therefore about every airplane that starts of lands is, from my view, an unidentified flying object.
I however hope the tower can identify them quite well, ;-)
(Score: 1) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Saturday January 24 2015, @11:53AM
...they jump from "I have no idea what that was" to "There must be little green men in flying saucers"...
They're not green; they're actually grey.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.