Great, they’ll be here just in time to fix the imminent global warming catastrophe we’re causing. Maybe they’ll even help with the imminent swine flu pandemic that’s set to wipe us out imminently….

“a 2-hour international TV special has already been booked that will introduce an alien species, similar to humans, to the world.”

Yup. We are the Visitors. And we are in peace. Always.

Sounds like a plug for V if I ever heard one…

Well I, for one, welcome our giganormous gigantic alien overloads.

Is it just me, or has this joker been watching too much Super Dimension Fortress Macross?

Ooh, maybe if the do reveal some of that Extraterrestrial Over-Technology it’ll include transformin’ fighter jets. ^_^

There’s enough evidence of Extraterrestrial visitation to fill an airplane hangar.

Oh, dear. Not this old chestnut again.

Thousands of first-hand reports from military people, airline pilots, police officers and other trained observers from all across the world.

None of which is actually evidence of anything. Even “trained observers” can misidentify familiar things in unfamiliar settings. What are these people “trained” to observe? Human activities. Are any of them meteorologists and astronomers too?

Even the best-trained human eye can be fooled. That’s what optical illusions are.

Eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable, which is why a modern law court will never convict on eyewitness testimony alone.

Thousands of computer authenticated photos and videos. Many taken before computers were part of mainstream society.

OK, show me just one that simply could not be some terrestrial object or phenomenon misidentified as an alien spaceship.

Trace evidence from landing spots that among other things have tested positive for radioactivity.

Proving what?

If you’re anywhere near Dounray, a radioactivity hot-spot means a plutonium particle from the poer station, not alien visitation. There are thousands of places that are naturally more radioactive than the average background, even before westarted messing about with uranium.

How many of those alleged landing sites had their radioactivity measured before the alleged landing?

You all either don’t know of the plethora of evidence or conveniently ignore it. Very small-minded people here. I actually feel bad for you all.

You should feel bad for yourself, because the “evidence” to which you refer does not actually prove anything. Even if alien technology is vastly superior to our own, the challenges of interstellar travel are still huge. To believe that they are overcome routinely on the basis of some blurry photos that could as easily be hubcaps as anything else is lunacy.

Even the most mysterious and inexplicable UFO reports could still be some hitherto unknown terrestrial or atmospheric phenomenon. Certainly, something we don’t know is orders of magnitude more plausible than alien spaceships.

To believe that we are alone in the universe is a belief steeped in anti-science.

First, no-one has claimed we are alone so this a just a straw-man. Alien life of some kind is considered fairly likely to exist by most scientists. However, just because alien life is likely to exist does not make it any more plausible that Earth has been visited by alien spaceships. The evidence for Earth having been visited is zero.

It’s the equivalent of believing the earth is flat or that we live in a geocentric universe. Sadly, some of the “reasoned” thinking out there, performed by “professional” skeptics and the like, is wholly anti-reason, literally drowning in counterintuitive thinking.

The rest of your comment is mere dribbling.

Dear John; No professional skeptic has ever said this, I love for you to pull out an article where a “professional” skeptic says that we are alone in the universe. It’s not counterintuitive thinking to ask for evidence of UFO’s being flown by sentient beings from another planet. I also argue that the only reason we know that the earth isn’t flat or that we live in a geocentric universe is wait for it…

SCIENCE PLUS REASON not blindly proclaiming negative evidence and crying foul while jumping on your dead high horse, because people don’t believe you.

PS.

E. Kaye, I love me some video of nothing.

I just laughed and clicked, “DELETE.”

There’s enough evidence of Extraterrestrial visitation to fill an airplane hangar. Thousands of first-hand reports from military people, airline pilots, police officers and other trained observers from all across the world.
Thousands of computer authenticated photos and videos. Many taken before computers were part of mainstream society. Trace evidence from landing spots that among other things have tested positive for radioactivity.
You all either don’t know of the plethora of evidence or conveniently ignore it. Very small-minded people here. I actually feel bad for you all.

Jon Stewart caught Faux Snooz doing that very thing. They are SO fallacious.

Sometimes these whakos remind me of a Phase Locked Loop circuit,ie, when it fails, you can’t figure out where the error started, because each component is triggered by the previous component. I SO hated working on those, back in the ’70s.
“News” on the web sometimes reminds of those Phase locked loop circuits. Apply power and watch it explode and go.

GAry 7

Any ideas what the first video actually is? Looks to me like someone went filming round an abandoned or unfinished building (on Earth of course).

The 2nd one is easy. It’s just the rim of the very large crater giving a shadow.

Bwwwwhahahahahahaha!!!!!

But noooooooo….. it’s a far better use of their time to cluster in hidden locations, put on the tinfoil hats, and mutter among themselves about gubmint conspiracies and putting forth never-proven “claims” that NASA hides things.

Keep up the good work Phil

What would Mr. Spock say about all this!!!

Now to dispense of the utter nonsense and get on with actual science.

Ares 1-X is alive! It’s alive! Hand shakes and hugs all around.

Well, the problem is going to occur when, despite the current ongoing war with HR 8799d, he decides to also wage war against Fomalhaut b due to “Saucers of Mass Abduction” claims.

No, hang on.

I thought it was the Tau-Ceti Imperium that were responsible for all the mass abductions. It’s just the conference that was on Formalhaut b.

PS, to anyone who doesn’t get the geekdom reference – Google “Skizz”.

UFOlogists have been doing just fine without blessings from U.S. presidents for several decades, we’ll keep going strong thanks.

And in – what? 50+ years of making claims – you have not one piece of actual evidence.

There are a lot of interesting mysteries in our immediate skies and they aren’t going to investigate themselves.

Perhaps this is so. And perhaps they all have mundane explanations. But, either way, they are not worth investigating after the event unless there is some actual data to examine.

But hey, at least we have shills like Flying Sardines to put us in our place by filling their posts with emoticons in place of rational discourse.

And yet you do not address any of the points (s)he raised. I am left to assume this is because you are unable to.

Even a blind baby could figure out that there are some pretty strange things in those old Moon photos

Yup! The surface of the Moon! That really is strange. An environment with no air and no water (to speak of) and no weather apart from bombardment by micrometeorites and the solar wind. That is weird!

and it’s common knowledge that NASA/JPL have a filtering system for “anomalous” images (see: airbrushing).

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

It may be “common knowledge” among you conspiracy loonies, but this means nothing. Completely aside from the fact that anyone with a suitable receiver can intercept signals from e.g. LRO or MRO or Cassini or the Apollo missions, you have made no attempt to support your slander with evidence.

IOW, it’s just the same as every other groundless CT claim.

But don’t take my word for it. Google!

I certainly shan’t take your word for it, and I daresay I could find dozens of websites that claim the same thing you do, but this makes neither you nor them correct. Unless you can come up with some actual evidence to support your accusations, they are no more than fantasy.

Well, the problem is going to occur when, despite the current ongoing war with HR 8799d, he decides to also wage war against Fomalhaut b due to “Saucers of Mass Abduction” claims.