Re: ALIENS ARE REAL, REVEALS FORMER ASTRONAUT

Given that fools and idiots can and do rise to the highest levels of
government and government agencies, it's hardly surprising that a few
managed to become astronauts.

This guy has absolutely no qualifications that give these particular
ideas any credibility at all. Best just to ignore him, as you should any
harmless lunatic.
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Chris L Peterson

We are privileged indeed to have a fully qualified psychiatrist on the
forum who can diagnose lunacy without ever having met the patient. :-)

Of course I can see where you are coming from. The whole Ufology thing
is a freak's circus. They'll believe in anything which presents itself
as evidential proof of the existence of whatever whim is hand fed to
them this week. You only have to look at their forums ansd websites
and the idiocy on You Tube to see the laughable quality of their
pictorial evidence. Anybody who's been around the block in aircraft
recognition and photography, meteorology, astronomy, wildlife and
birdwatching would sneer at the images and videos flaunted as
"absolute proof" of the existence of UFOs, All of which must
inevitably lead to the conclusion that these "craft" are manned by
small grey ET persons with a taste for geometric destruction in
farmer's wheat fields near ancient British monuments.

But what do you say to witnesses who have seen the inexplicable in the
presence of others in daylight? After years of the poison gnawing at
their insides they simply cannot dismiss the sighting as any man made
object or natural phenomenon? Let's completely ignore the dancing
lights in the sky at the hands of a chronic Parkinson's patient with a
cheap mobile phone equipped with a camera of miserable quality. Let's
dismiss the astronomical commonplace and the Chinese lanterns and the
helium filled balloons and the ISS and all the satellites "up there".
What comfort do you offer to the intelligent and experienced observer
of the totally inexplicable seen in broad daylight in the presence of
others? How does one become qualified in believing one's own eyes when
presented with the extremely unlikely at uncomfortably close quarters?
Should the witnesses wait patiently for half a century for their
particular "top secret flying project" to be finally exposed to the
public gaze? What if they never do become common knowledge despite
the waiting and the endless wondering? Must they die with the
knowledge that they are prone to group hallucinations and telepathic
exchange of images of apparently solid objects? Even though their
highly trained colleagues can confirm a radar trace of the objects
seen? Objects that other very reliable witnesses in the air and on the
ground saw too? Would you doubt the integrity of somebody who admitted
they had seen a B1 bomber or a B52? Both are highly unlikely
observations but not remotely impossible. Where does one study to
become adequately qualified in seeing B52s or B1s? Would this same
qualification apply to UFO observation? Or is that just wishful
thinking? ;-)
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