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UFOs, and how funny reading about them can be!

kittynh

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I try to read more than just the good critical thinking type books that support my skeptic beliefs. I find, especially with UFOs, that I have to read books by the believers to be able to counter their arguements. (I'm a volunteer "expert" on UFOs at another web site).

Some books are pretty well written and convincing (not to me, but to someone else I could see how they would believe). And then there are the really FUNNY ones.

Here's just a few snippets from the one I'm just starting to read "Silent Invasion : The Shocking Discoveries of a UFO Researcher" by Ellen Crystall

"Thus began a series of sightings in northern New Jersey that was to continue for about two years. At one point, upward of two dozen lights were in the sky at once, just circling around and around, never going any place. My parents' home is below a flight path to a local airport. One some nights air traffic is continuous. But planes were obviously vehicles that came and went, making noise where it was expected, winging through the sky on their way to and from the airport. The other lighted objects never seemed to be going anywhere. Once could argue that they were privatly owned planes with pilots flying around just for enjoyment, But we saw many lighted objects going around in circles over the area for four hours or more."

Actually, I have been in those UFOs circling the airport for what seemed to me at the time to be hours!

"I didn't see anything more for many months. Throughout that time, however, I had the feeling that I was being watched. Call is intuition, ESP or whatever, it was the same sensation as being in a room where someone behind you stares at you and you feel it enough to turn around and find the feeling is accurate. They were watching me I thought. "

That's proof enough for me! But I have to answer questions from people having "feelings" all the time. So, it's good to be prepared. But this book is great entertainment!

My feeling about this author is the same I get about a lot of people that believe in the paranormal. They feel special. Why should aliens be watching a person who was basically a temp office worker when the book starts? UFO researcher, now that is interesting!
 
^And with the last paragraph, the truth was completely revealed.

That's exactly it. Sad, bored little people who aren't at all important. So they make themselves important with some circling airplanes and a rich imagination.
 
I say, chaps!

These UFO people are tremendously advanced, you know. They can cross interstellar space. And that's a long way ... a really long way.

So if they can do that, surely hushing up their activities would be a piece of cake.

Let me put that another way:

- there is no proof that aliens have visited us
- to conceal that evidence that well means the aliens must be highly advanced
- only highly advanced aliens could reach us
- therefore that proves aliens have visited us!!
 
Although slightly off-topic, and probably more than known by all here, I think this is a good thing to remember.

May it console all those poor souls who yearn for a visit from our celestial brethren. Or something. :D
 
It's funny how all these supposed UFOs can fly around and around for hours right in front of the airport's air-traffic controllers but it takes a UFO researcher to see them for what they really are. ;)

Air-traffic Controllers' attitiude: "We figure, what the hell, if they're not asking to land, then let's ignore them!" :D
 
I'm at the point where I wish I could post the entire book. The writer seems like a lovely person I'd enjoy hanging out with. Well, except for her habit of hanging out in fields at 2am looking for UFOs.

She says in chapter 2 that UFOs can change their lights to look like airplane lights! And that people have told her, "those are just airplanes" but it's UFOs just pretending to be planes. She also has a LOT of photographs of things she calls "Teslas", which seem to be little opaque circles. UFOs do not show up on film. They have some beam of jamming device that keeps them from showing up on film!

So, you can't photograph them, and they can look like airplanes.

I think I'm going to look for some UFOs tonight! This sounds a lot like when we would drive by Lake Champlain with a very bored young child. Our daughter hated car rides to Cananda to visit our relatives when she was very young. In desperation pre-skeptic days I told her about "Champy" the lake monster. She spent the whole time we drove by water "seeing" Champy and his family in every rock and boat wake. She was only 3 at the time, but she could clearly see him (and his wife, children and cousins) all over the place.
 
kittynh said:
......UFOs just pretending to be planes......
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This reminds me of the man who maintained that Shakespeares plays were not written by the Bard himself but another englishman with the same name.
 
to.by said:
This reminds me of the man who maintained that Shakespeares plays were not written by the Bard himself but another englishman with the same name.
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Yes, it's well known that Shakespeare (the other one) wrote Shakespeare's plays when the first Shakespeare had writer's block- and thereby saved his Bacon. :D
 
kittynh said:
I try to read more than just the good critical thinking type books that support my skeptic beliefs. I find, especially with UFOs, that I have to read books by the believers to be able to counter their arguements. (I'm a volunteer "expert" on UFOs at another web site).
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I recommend "The Mothman Prophecies" by John Keel. After I saw the movie, I sought out the book. I wasn't surprised to discover that the movie bore no resemblance to the book; I was surprised to read the actual content of the book.

It seems that John Keel, the book, and the events go back to the 60s and the height of the UFO craze. If I believe Keel's book, the events he reported are essentially the origin of the "Men in Black" mythology (most of the book concerns these peculiar characters).

What I find especially amusing is when Keel talks about how he tries to avoid those crazy UFO nuts.
 
Morwen said:
Although slightly off-topic, and probably more than known by all here, I think this is a good thing to remember.

May it console all those poor souls who yearn for a visit from our celestial brethren. Or something. :D
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:dl:

That's just brilliant stuff. :D
 
I also read this book. And I have seen her on a TV program (but of course I can't remember which one). If I remember correctly, she has a Ph.D in psychology (is that correct? it's something like that)

As you said kittynh, she seems like a nice enough person, except for that one little thing....

I particularly enjoyed the photos included in the book. It's so obvious! How could you not believe after seeing those stunning photographs?

What, you only see a black background and some white dots? Aren't those little ETs clever, disguising themselves to look like out of focus lights?
 
Ha! That's a good one. Now if you just photoshop the other lamposts OUT, you could be on the way to having your own cult.
 
kittynh said:
I have better UFO pictures in my photo albums! Mr.Randi even used one of mine once in his commentary. Just look at the bottom for my husband and the UFO.

:D
http://www.randi.org/jr/06-05-2000.html
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HOAX!!!

That's not really your husband, the aliens from that UFO told me so ;)

Btw, Navy?! Dang. Alright, tell him to tell a few Navy jokes to himself from me (ex-Army, currently reserves). At least he's not a Marine :)
 
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