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A Case for the Reality of Intervention in Human Affairs by Extraterrestrials
9/02//08
Part 2
Common men and women live their lives wrapped in their daily lives, too busy with their jobs, their families, their finances, to spend what spare time they have delving into the mysteries of the universe, life on other planets and the phenomenon of UFOs. Yet from time to time, we all find a quick minute or two, to wonder about the possibilities. A decade old poll claims that 80% of Americans believe our Government is hiding the facts of what crashed in Roswell. A much recent poll reinforces the belief in life on other planets. A quick google of how many people believe our planet has been visited, or is being visited, gives a wide breadth of data to weave through. Roughly, it’s about 35%.
By nature, I don’t offer up much credence to polls and data, as I’ve found interpretations vary pending on an individuals bias. Like looking at a half glass of water and arguing if it’s half full or half empty, the argument is unjustified. The point I want to make though is somewhat simple, people are not only open to the existence of life on another planet, they pretty much accept it as fact, and over a third of all Americans believe something is happening in our skies.
A somewhat disagreeable fact one finds as they look at some of the polls, is that often the questions are lumped together with questions about ghosts, the devil and/or a belief in God. Just as polls ask questions not related to UFO research, many in the field offer up strange origins for what we see in our skies, further leading to ridicule and confusion. For instance, there are those who claim unknown lights and craft in our skies are time travelers, from Mars, demons manifested to mislead the righteous, originate from deep within our own planet, and are even the descendants of Atlantis. I sincerely hope they all are not right in their beliefs.
A second and salient point to understand is that people are indeed open to the possibilities and it is not the general public that derides and ridicules those who claim sightings of lights in the sky. Indeed, simply typing UFO in google yields 71 million returns. While that’s miniscule compared to 656 million for God and 230 million for porn, it’s indicative of a general public interest in the subject.
The final point I’m trying to make here is two fold. First, Why the interest? and second, All the interest in the world doesn’t make it so. Personally, I want to believe there is something strange and wonderful within the realm of our human existence, that there are still unexplored mysteries that we cannot yet even begin to imagine. If this sounds like a fringe brand of some bad Religion, I can’t really deny it except to also say I do believe in God, but more as a thread that weaves our Universe together, than a supreme being. While the belief in life on other planets, is for most, probably a matter of fact without any religious or spiritual implications (at this point in time), that belief needs to be separated from the realm of UFO’s seen in our skies. They are two different belief sets. People who believe there is life elsewhere in the Universe, don’t necessarily believe in UFO’s. Common sense dictates that if there are UFO’s flying around our space, believers will tell you they originate from any number of places and planets, time and dimensions. The truth is, neither belief set is based in solid fact. While it’s highly probable there is life somewhere in the Universe, there are no real current facts to prove it. Actually, there is more data to support the belief that we are being visited by something or somebody.
Indeed, common sense, curiosity and interest are not sufficient for beliefs passed off as facts. However, their appropriateness is in the foundation for searching for facts. They are the starting point for all of our scientific methods. A bit of common sense, a natural curiosity and a passionate interest in the subject begins one on the quest for answers. That is the rational foundation from which questions come.
What I am saying is that we have no tangible proof, despite numerous claims, of where the strange phenomenon originates from and that the fact that something is going on in our skies, must first be separated from crop circles, cattle mutilations, abductions, conspiracies, ghosts and demons, and than proven as a unique reality. While all this high strangeness might very well be related to some degree, or none, the fact is, they all serve to muddy the fact that something is in our skies.
It’s generally accepted the modern UFO era started with a sighting by Kenneth Arnold on June 24th of 1947, roughly two weeks before the Roswell incident and three days before the Maury Island Incident, which Kenneth Arnold was asked to investigate. Ironic, that these few weeks in 1947 are representative of the last 60 years of sightings, in that the confusion, the claimed military coverup and the overall mystery of what really happened are still true today for most incidents and sightings, as they were then. Confusion and coverup not withstanding, the strange thing I find hard to digest is that Kenneth Arnold had no knowledge of the Maury Island incident, three days before his sighting.
Either Harold Dahl and Kenneth Arnold both independently came up with a UFO Hoax at about the same time, or they both saw something strange and inexplicable. I can find no documentation that Dahl and Arnold knew each other previous to their meeting on July 30th. If someone has knowledge to prove otherwise, I’m more than willing to amend this article. The basic truth is that either both Dahl and Arnold are lying about their separate UFO incidents, or again, something happened. I find it hard to believe that two men who had no knowledge of each other, came up with an idea of hoaxing a UFO sighting, in roughly the same part of the country, within days of each other. Or perhaps, one is telling the truth and the other lying.
Essentially, as mentioned before, when one person claims a sighting without supporting evidence, there’s cause for reasonable doubt. Yet clearly, when you have several Police Officers witnessing an event, and giving a description of a UFO that was not only witnessed by large numbers of people, but photographed as well, a continent away and ten years earlier,
Belgium UFO
Illinois UFO
one can only wonder if everyone is actually perpetuating a hoax. One thing that bothers me, is that witnesses will often describe the same event with different interpretations, as they did in the Illinois sightings themselves, yet there’s an strange similarity between the two images above. Adding to the mix is the Hudson Valley Triangle sightings in the early to mid eighties. Are all these people suffering from mass hysteria?
Yet it is not only witness observations that we are concerned with. In fact there are numerous Radar anomalies associated with several sightings. In 1952, there was a sighting over our capital and the UFO’s were picked up on Radar
At 11:40 p.m. on July 19, 1952, Edward Nugent, an air-traffic controller at Washington National Airport, spotted seven objects on his radar.
50 years later, the military still struggles, or refuses, to explain Radar contacts. Yet, understandably, radar contacts themselves apparently can be unreliable.
One of the most interesting sightings occurred in 1964, by Lonnie Zamora, a New Mexico police officer. In addition to his sighting, there is some supporting physical evidence
...According to Mayes, she had examined the site the day after the event, and had gathered plant samples for analysis. Mayes later determined that the plants which had allegedly been burnt by the UFO's flames were, unusually, "completely dried out". (Druffel, 219) Mayes also found no evidence of radiation, but found "two organic substances" she was unable to identify. (Druffel, 219)
Mayes also reported to McDonald an area of apparently "fused sand", where the sand had taken on a glassy appearance, near where the object had allegedly landed and then departed. The area of glassy sand was roughly triangular, measuring about 25 to 30Â inches (760Â mm) at its widest, though it gradually tapered down to about 1 inch wide; it seemed about a quarter of an inch thick.
So where do we find ourselves, without mentioning Roswell, Betty and Barney Hill, Kecksburg, the Phoenix lights or Rendlesham. If those claiming UFO sightings are misinterpreting what they saw, or outright lying, do we say the same for those who have gave deathbed confessions? Of our heroic astronauts who have came forward?
What is going on?
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