Comments on: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… not an alien spaceship

By: corey

corey — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 12:05:59 +0000

I was just reading the comment on march 17 05 Gryfin210 , I did not see the documentry that he is refering to but I would imagine that if the couple were filming the sighting they would have got the camera to film the unexplained that they where seeing, so the cobweb on the camera is not a plausible explanation,

By: Curt Renz

Curt Renz — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:19:51 +0000

Actor Dan Aykroyd is the spokesman for a video production claiming that the government has been hiding evidence that benevolent intelligent extraterrestrials have been observing our progress: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do…6&q=nasa+video

A believing woo has introduced a thread promoting the film on the message board at astronomy.com. You may enjoy taking part in the discussion: http://www.astronomy.com/ASY/CS/foru…/ShowPost.aspx

By: Ken Gayley

Ken Gayley — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 01:33:30 +0000

Didn’t Feynman once say something about it being much easier to
believe in the well-known irrationality of terrestrial intelligence than
the unknown rationality of extraterrestrial intellience?

By: Dave Craig

Dave Craig — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:24:56 +0000

I wonder how a farmer would feel about an Air Force pilot trying to tell him the difference between a bull and a cow. Everyone loves conspiracy theories. They are as American as yelling at the umpire at a baseball game. It makes great sport and great entertainment. It only becomes dangerous when certain crackpots take it so seriously they get on Art Bell and get everybody all worked up over something that should be taken with a grain of salt at the most.

By: Apestench

Apestench — Fri, 13 May 2005 19:10:09 +0000

As a physics teacher, I often have students asking me whether I believe in UFOs. I tell them yes, there are some things seen flying that haven’t been identified, yet. Then they ask me about Roswell. Here is what I find interesting. They ask “Why doesn’t the government just release the information they have about the Roswell crash?” They seem surprised when I tell them that in 1998 the government DID release the information because the statute of limitations had run out under the Freedom of Information Act. The information said it was a top secret (at the time) Air Force project. One student then told me he still didn’t believe it because the government was just telling us what they want us to hear. I asked him, “If I took you to Area 51, Hangar 18 and showed you the wreckage, would you believe then?” He said “No, the government is just showing you what they want you to see.” I asked “What could I show you to prove to you that it was not a flying saucer?” He said “Nothing, because I know that’s what it was.”
The problem is not that people can’t believe the government. It’s that they WON’T believe the government.
Another thought, It’s funny how farmers seem to know more about what alien spaceships look like than Air Force people know about what their planes look like. This thought occurs when an Air Force person says that a UFO was a plane but the farmer insists it was a spacecraft.

By: Zeb Rice

Zeb Rice — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 03:33:34 +0000

I once saw a WHQFOWIIBWSINU!

I think it was an experimental type of airplane.

By: Stefanf

Stefanf — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:18:44 +0000

Another thing that bothers me is how people seem to think that the word “UFO” means “alien spacecraft”. Argh, no it doesn’t! If you *knew* it was an alien spacecraft, it wouldn’t be an UNIDENTIFIED flying object, now would it?
Perhaps the craze would diminish a bit if instead of UFOs we’d call them WHQFOWIIBWSINUs (suggested pronunciation: whak-fo-weeb-wi-si-nu): We Haven’t Quite Figured Out What It Is, But We’re Sure It’s Nothing Unusual.