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 fitman2005

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Posted: 2/6/2008 8:40:01 AM
Thank you both - for sharing. Prior to the night I saw "my ufo" I had never put a lot of thought into them. Some of the things you guys have mentioned are kinda "out there." VERY interesting, to say the least! Opens up a whole new realm of ? what? I don't know if I even want to know! lol!



You're quite welcome...thank you as well. It's funny but from the time I was very young...it seemed that this phenomenon or at least the traces of it have followed me. I don't know what it was, but growing up it seemed as people would approach me to relate a sighting or something else in relation to UFOS. When the subject presented itself much later in a researcher's own findings, my brother and I did not hesitate to jump in and go in the field and look for ourselves. You are quite wise IMO to shy away from this subject. I have had several opportunities to approach this phenomenon much closer and I have hesitated. I think it is important to be very wise..but I draw a line where my instinct tells me not to go further. It seems also that the powers that be who are knowledgeable are also not willing to openly share their well kept secrets which are sure to leak out in any case. Problem is--they leak too slow...and what we don't know CAN very well hurt us.




There is evidence which suggests there are as many as 13 different races of alien beings on or visiting the earth currently...of which only two are seemingly benevolent.



This is something I don't buy... here's why:

Consider why humankind throughout its history are the low-life they are, the warmongers, intolerant/incapable of bringing the world together in love. We have not grown up to the basic human understanding of many things - we are not capable of thinking ourselves free from aggression. Does anyone suppose that highly superior intelligent beings (who will not only be thousands but possible hundreds of thousands of years more advanced than us) would not have mastered the art of oneness?

It's something to think about. :)



I have Tony-- and here are my conclusions:

yes-- I agree the human race has failed miserably in its history for the most part. Yes, we have wars, we have nuclear proliferation, we have hatred for our brother and so forth.

Personally, I don't believe this was the original design for man however. Call it sin, call it a fall, call it a negative regressive balance, the fact is that man has fallen short of the glory of being a God.

Consider these thoughts:

A) If abduction scenario cases are accurate and a hybrid-interbreeding program is in place, why would these beings of such a higher development and 'oneness' even desire to mix themselves with the human race? Wouldn't such a union take away from their superior development.

B) If we as humans are so inferior in our own design, why is it that these beings (seemingly from what the evidence suggests) appear to not have even the innate capacity for such tangible and beautifully unique qualities as emotion or empathy??

C) How can you be so sure that 'they' themselves, are not engaged in their own battles or conquests or 'warmongering' as you call it?? In fact, there is evidence of such yes?

D) And here's the kicker--what can possibly be restraining these 'alien' forces from a complete take over of our species right now?

E) Here's another kicker--Why haven't they or the government for that matter, made their motives and presence here abundantly clear unless there are 'other' ulterior motives besides the lame, tired, best interests 'national security' issue.

So Tony, what you are stating..and correct me if I'm wrong..but you are saying that it is ignorance, not sin which is the great moral failing of man. And the solution to ignorance is cosmic education, enlightened awareness. The clincher? Those who achieve that awareness and accept the fact they really are God are no longer separated from true reality. They have overcome ignorance. They have bridged the gap between material and spiritual. And because they have become reconciled to themselves, they have achieved "Christ-consciousness." In short, they are their own Christ, their own Savior.

I couldn't disagree more. IMO --this would be putting ourselves in place of the true "Messiah."

I am also not willing to put my trust for my eternal well-being or otherwise on any sort of outer-space connection as many have sought to do in this day and age. To openly embrace such unknown entities is pure 'Russian roulette' on a cosmic level.



Nor ants, per se. More like "lab rats" There was a lot of posting about anal probing. When you look at it from the practical standpoint...that's a direct route to your insides! There isn't a better way to see how the inner organs are laid out and how they work. You could pass a probe through the mouth and downward, but the probe would have to be much longer. Then you also have to consider the "gag reflex" and this can cause problems with probing. So....if the Aliens are, in fact, doing anal probing my guess would be they want to see our internal organs?


Quite right. The other more common probing attribute would be the insertion of an implant thru the nasal passage. This procedure is said to sometimes result in issues of chronic sinusitis in many recipients. The scoop marks also were probably the most common procedure of all.
 Montreal_Guy

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Posted: 2/6/2008 3:37:53 PM
Just for the sake of discussion ....


If abduction scenario cases are accurate and a hybrid-interbreeding program is in place, why would these beings of such a higher development and 'oneness' even desire to mix themselves with the human race? Wouldn't such a union take away from their superior development.


Ummm....


Plan to create human-cow embryos

UK scientists have applied for permission to create embryos by fusing human DNA with cow eggs.

Researchers from Newcastle University and Kings College, London, have asked the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for a three-year licence.

The hybrid human-bovine embryos would be used for stem cell research and would not be allowed to develop for more than a few days.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6121280.stm


I wouldn't necessarily go around calling the kettle black.....I mean green.


If we as humans are so inferior in our own design, why is it that these beings (seemingly from what the evidence suggests) appear to not have even the innate capacity for such tangible and beautifully unique qualities as emotion or empathy??


Well, any race that managed to get to a point where they had a technological edge of so great a magnitude that they could easily do things we could not would (logically) perhaps also have the means to eradicate themselves if they fell pray to intense emotions like hatred.

If aliens have visited our planet, perhaps that's the reason they seem like that to us. Perhaps just studying our history, and us, (and perhaps other less successful life forms who've eradicated themselves on other planets) has reinforced that notion.


And here's the kicker--what can possibly be restraining these 'alien' forces from a complete take over of our species right now?


May I suggest that they (far more than we) know that life existing on a planet is so rare (statistically speaking) in this universe , that they can't afford to directly involve themselves in contacting us.

The differences in culture (and perhaps even the acknowledgment of other life) might alter the course of a culture so much as to "ruin the experiment". By studying us , without direct interference, they might learn far more.

It's a bit like an anthropologist might want to study a Stone Age tribe, without showing them TV's and iPods.


Here's another kicker--Why haven't they or the government for that matter, made their motives and presence here abundantly clear unless there are 'other' ulterior motives besides the lame, tired, best interests 'national security' issue.


"Daddy" is never going to want to introduce you to a new stepfather.

If that culture is far superior, the fact of it's existence means there could be grave social problems telling people about it. Who needs to reveal an unbeatable enemy to their people ? The fact that it would possibly destroy (or at least cause huge paradigm shifts in) things like religion.

Oh...they are one hundred times superior to us and ....they think religion is silly, and God doesn't exist ? The people AREN'T going to take that one too easily. You think we have problems now ?

Just wait until everyone realizes that God and religion are some quaint local customs in our neck of the galaxy. If the little green men start saying there's no real moral cost against doing evil, and you just die and rot - watch out.

It's bad enough now WITH religion.


I am also not willing to put my trust for my eternal well-being or otherwise on any sort of outer-space connection as many have sought to do in this day and age. To openly embrace such unknown entities is pure 'Russian roulette' on a cosmic level.


Little green men versus old guy sitting on a throne in the clouds ? That's essentially the concept of religion and faith, if you think about it.

I'm not so great a believer in the alien abduction theory, but can't rule it out. We've seen researchers duplicate the feelings in labs, with electric charges.

Like UFO's themselves, the overwhelming number of incidents may have totally logical (if unknown now) reasons that have far more to do with our world than any other.

But perhaps not all....
 skypoetone

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Posted: 2/6/2008 3:43:21 PM
I hear you Gus and I'll try to explain what's been buzzin' around in my head for some time. I posted it on the other thread and it is just one that was deleted. However... you have given me the opportunity to revive it here:

(This of course is in no way set in stone... I mean, how could it be? The world would be a whole different place if this came close to reality)

There is another theory that alien beings are our future selves, that they are a far superior evolved race of humans. It’s interesting because it answers some of the questions raised on this thread. Why, for example, they don’t make public appearances. It could be that it would damage the natural balance of our development. Maybe this has already been compromised. This could be why those in government have to keep it quite… “You didn’t see anything here today, nothing happened!” suddenly resonates in the ears of those who did. :)

Our brains would have evolved to such a level that we never needed to physically do anything. Our bodies would look less muscular, the muscles no longer used would disappear from anything resembling what they once were. The superior brain powers everything, self-healing as natural as breathing takes place. The texture and colour of our skins has altered beyond anything we would recognize today, even our sexual orientation alters, maybe the organs have withered, become nothing, the act of sexual intercourse is played out between two beings in an psychological dance of spiritual oneness… and what they feel is pure love.

Time travel is a communal thought process, their craft is a mere impression of what we see, but to these advanced humans it is nothing more than a projection. :)
 Two Hawks

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Posted: 2/9/2008 1:40:55 AM
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I have been studying UFO's, Aliens, Alien visitations and abductions for 25+ years. I am a Field Investigator for MUFON and I have interviewed about a dozen people who have had a "lost time" experience. Now I know these abduction stories and lost time experiences seem a bit like mass hysteria and preposterous and borderline "attention getting".....but....those I interviewed prefered to speak with someone (in private) like me than someone who knew nothing about them, or was a doubter. The people I interviewed requested to speak to me about their experiences in private and not where others could hear them. I can very easily understand their logic behind this.

In these interviews there are specific questions that I ask. "Do you remember seeing, or being near anyone?" "Do you remember hearing voices, or hearing someone, or something giving you instructions?" "Do you remember hearing someone, or something telling you that you would not be harmed?" "Do you recall anything they did?" There are other specific questions, but I won't go into those now. The ones I listed are some to the basic questions.

In all of the interviews I conducted they remembered most of the basic questions and answered in the positive. They did remember seeing someone. They did remember hearing instructions and them being told that they would not be harmed. None of them remembered anything that was done to them. I speculate they were given a mental block on this? Why they were not given a mental block on all if it is beyond me.

While in the Army I was a trained interrogator and I knew how to read facial features to tell if the person way lieing, or not. In my interviews with these people I found that none of them were lieing. They were speaking the truth.

I was shown the "scoop marks" where (I presume) a skin sample was taken. I have shown pictures of these marks to Doctors. They have told me that they are not marks known to our medical science. We could make similar marks, but generally speaking we wouldn't for any reason.

So......as preposterous as it may sound.....I firmly believe that we are being visited and abducted. For what reason is anyone guess.

I leave you with that.

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 fitman2005

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Posted: 2/9/2008 10:08:03 AM
"Daddy" is never going to want to introduce you to a new stepfather.


"Daddy" shouldn't be lying to his kids either. Let me decide if I like him or not. This is the problem with aristocratic government. They control all power, knowledge, technology, and to include SOME religions.


If that culture is far superior, the fact of it's existence means there could be grave social problems telling people about it. Who needs to reveal an unbeatable enemy to their people ? The fact that it would possibly destroy (or at least cause huge paradigm shifts in) things like religion.


What do ya want from a culture that has most likely existed since before the appearance of man? It's time to wake up, smell the coffee, truly figure out just who we are in the cosmorama. Give mankind a few years and see what he can produce as well mind you. And the present technology we knowingly have at the moment is just that-- what we 'knowingly' have....the hidden technology is something one has to really dig to find out. Ask yourself why it is that people with even 'free-energy' patents or ideas are shut down or even put away. Does the name 'Tesla' ring a bell?

What will soon occur in my opinion-- is a huge paradigm shift in both society and religions. It's going to happen--and it's just a matter of time. (something we're soon going to run out of.)


Oh...they are one hundred times superior to us and ....they think religion is silly, and God doesn't exist ? The people AREN'T going to take that one too easily. You think we have problems now ?

Just wait until everyone realizes that God and religion are some quaint local customs in our neck of the galaxy. If the little green men start saying there's no real moral cost against doing evil, and you just die and rot - watch out.


yeah--or wait till we find out that He does exist and is really pissed off!! Or that the masquerade game they've been playing on humanity is about over...and we reach a point of annihilation amongst ourselves except for the elite few...of course and their technology which they believe will save them from the God of the universe which they so often like to discredit and debunk.




Little green men versus old guy sitting on a throne in the clouds ? That's essentially the concept of religion and faith, if you think about it.


well no, not really--I don't see God as being confined to one place and space...I don't see little green men reaching up to where His kingdom is either though.


There is another theory that alien beings are our future selves, that they are a far superior evolved race of humans. It’s interesting because it answers some of the questions raised on this thread. Why, for example, they don’t make public appearances. It could be that it would damage the natural balance of our development. Maybe this has already been compromised. This could be why those in government have to keep it quite… “You didn’t see anything here today, nothing happened!” suddenly resonates in the ears of those who did. :)

Our brains would have evolved to such a level that we never needed to physically do anything. Our bodies would look less muscular, the muscles no longer used would disappear from anything resembling what they once were. The superior brain powers everything, self-healing as natural as breathing takes place. The texture and colour of our skins has altered beyond anything we would recognize today, even our sexual orientation alters, maybe the organs have withered, become nothing, the act of sexual intercourse is played out between two beings in an psychological dance of spiritual oneness… and what they feel is pure love.


that's quite the 'novel' idea there Sky--care to put it into print? lol ...I don't buy it though. It doesn't jibe with the 'Nordic' variety either does it? Also-- ask yourself this--Who would really want to buy a motorcycle helmet that big?? I mean really. I think it goes back to the "butt-dragger" hypothesis someone else brought up here sometime ago..along with another one someone else had suggested..


I am a Field Investigator for MUFON and I have interviewed about a dozen people who have had a "lost time" experience.


Two Hawks--in your case studies--did you ever investigate the scene or scenes where the abductions actually took place?
 skypoetone

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that's quite the 'novel' idea there Sky--care to put it into print? lol ...I don't buy it though. It doesn't jibe with the 'Nordic' variety either does it?




I pleased you recognized it as "novel" Gus. This of course only answers one question, that of the human/alien hybrid variety. However, in a universe of possibilities there are also as many probabilities, yes?
 Two Hawks

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Posted: 2/9/2008 2:04:54 PM
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Two Hawks--in your case studies--did you ever investigate the scene or scenes where the abductions actually took place?


Fitman:
I did not have the opportunity to invistigate places where abductions took place. The people I interviewed told me they took place in their home state. None of the people I interviewed were from Washington.

There are many, many theories within the UFO community as to why these abductions are taking place, but none are based on known fact. Pure speculation is the best answer for this. We think that our government with its infinate amounts of wisdom may know why they are taking place, but we figure if they do know why....they aren't about to let us know. It has been said...and again....NO PROOF ON THIS that our government is struck a deal with certain Alien races. We get technology from them and we allow them to abduct and study us. Here again....for what purpose we don't know.

The "Nordics" of which you speak are probably those from the Pleiadian Star System. They are Human in appearance and somewhat larger than Earth Humans. Here is a site on them: http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/celestial/pleiadians.htm

In my studies of this I cannot flatly deny that what appears to be going on....ISN'T going on. There is too much evidence that says that it IS going on.

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 fitman2005

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Posted: 2/9/2008 2:30:55 PM
The "Nordics" of which you speak are probably those from the Pleiadian Star System. They are Human in appearance and somewhat larger than Earth Humans.


yes..I have known that..they are the race commonly referred to in the classic Eduard "Billy" Meier contact case. A most intriguing breed. They have sometimes been sighted together with the greys in some abduction cases. One other was the Travis Walton case. Walton stated there were a few unique qualities re. the Nordics:

A) There were both male and female.
B) They appeared to be related or very similar in appearance.
C) The males were of extreme muscular build.
D) There was a peculiar appearance in their eyes--one which he could not identify...
E) They stepped into the picture in dealing with Walton only after he awakened and rose to fight off the greys that were apparently attempting or completing their probe of him. To me-- it would seem that these are the ones controlling the greys aye? So what the Walton case evidence suggests is that the two races are sometimes found working together with the greys possibly taking orders from the Nordics....very interesting...

The Walton case was an example of a spontaneous abduction...whereas the person 'walked into' the snare so to speak much like the couple on the cruise ship you knew and also the Barney and Betty Hill case. In many- if not most abduction cases, the person has a long history of abduction since childhood.
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Posted: 2/9/2008 2:55:10 PM
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In one of the interviews I did with abductees...the pair from Texas...the said that they had remembered seeing someone very Human like along with the Greys. They also remember a voice telling them they would not be harmed in any way. They presumed it had come from the Human like person? In the UFO circle it is said that the Greys are the ones that do the examining and sometimes have a more Human like person with them. A supervisor???

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 fitman2005

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In one of the interviews I did with abductees...the pair from Texas...the said that they had remembered seeing someone very Human like along with the Greys. They also remember a voice telling them they would not be harmed in any way. They presumed it had come from the Human like person? In the UFO circle it is said that the Greys are the ones that do the examining and sometimes have a more Human like person with them. A supervisor???




^^^^^^interesting..and not surprising..it seems to corroborate Walton's testimony. Please tell me Two Hawks--what was the longest period of abduction time frame that you interviewed?
 Two Hawks

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Posted: 2/9/2008 3:26:23 PM
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The longest time I recall for "lost time" was about two hours. Here again it was the couple from Texas. Most to the interviews I did the people stated about an hour, or maybe just a little longer. The couple from Texas was, by far, my best interview. They were both worried about being abducted again and asked me if it would happen. I told them it probably would, but they had nothing to worry about because they hadn't been harmed the first time. I really don't think they are here to harm us. We in the UFO community sort of think we may be "lab rats" and they are just studying us with no intent to harm. We presume that if they really wanted to harm us they could do that without hesitation. As advanced as they appear to be...harming a Human would be quite easy.

Check your mail box.

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 Montreal_Guy

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Posted: 2/9/2008 11:01:00 PM
One fascinating detail of the Betty and Barney Hill abduction story was that Betty Hill drew a sketch under hypnosis of a "star map" she saw in the craft.


Simon suggested that Betty sketch a copy of the "star map". She hesitated, thinking she would be unable to accurately depict the three-dimensional quality of the map she says she saw on the ship. Eventually, however, she did what Simon suggested. Although she said the map had many stars, she drew only those that stood out in her memory. Her map consisted of twelve prominent stars connected by lines and three lesser ones that formed a distinctive triangle. She said she was told the stars connected by solid lines formed "trade routes" whereas dashed lines were to less-traveled stars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_and_Barney_Hill_abduction


That abduction experience took place on September 19, 1961.

They were a bi-racial couple, which would have been very rare at that time. Perhaps to a culture that had no corresponding racial differences, that alone might have been worthy of study - or at least enough to attract attention.

That star map that she drew was examined by various people, and seems to actually match up with a certain sector of the galaxy - a part unknown in 1961.


"Deciphering" the star map
Map of Zeta Reticuli, according to Betty Hill and Marjorie Fish
Map of Zeta Reticuli, according to Betty Hill and Marjorie Fish

In 1968, Marjorie Fish of Oak Harbor, Ohio read Fuller's Interrupted Journey. She was an elementary school teacher and amateur astronomer. Intrigued by the "star map", Fish wondered if it might be "deciphered" to determine which star system the UFO came from.

Assuming that one of the fifteen stars on the map must represent the Earth's sun, Fish constructed a 3-dimensional model of nearby sun-like stars using thread and beads, basing stellar distances on those published in the 1969 Gliese Star Catalog. Studying thousands of vantage points over several years, the only one that seemed to match the Hill map was from the viewpoint of the double star system of Zeta Reticuli. Therefore she concluded that the UFO might have come from planets orbiting Zeta Reticuli.

As a result of Fish's hypothesis, some have dubbed the Hills' account The Zeta Reticuli Incident. Most Ufologists, however, continue to prefer the Hill Abduction or some similar term.

Distance information needed to match three stars, forming the distinctive triangle Hill said she remembered, was not generally available until the 1969 Gliese Catalog came out. Fish also was the first to note that all the stars on the map connected by lines (which Betty Hill said she was told were trade or frequently-traveled routes) fell in a plane, with Zeta Reticuli acting as a hub. Thus the displayed routes would be the most logical and efficient way of exploring the nearby stellar neighborhood for a civilization located in Zeta Reticuli. These points played critical roles in the subsequent debates over the validity of the Fish match to the Hill map.

It was also pointed out that Zeta Reticuli is highly unusual in being the only known example of a wide double star system consisting of two stars very similar to the sun. One of the articles in the Astronomy magazine debate, on the ages of the stars in the Hill/Fish map, said evidence pointed to the Reticulan system being 1 to 3 billion years older than our own, with the suggestion that this would have permitted another intelligence race to have evolved much sooner than we did and be considerably more advanced. Furthermore, it was noted the two stars are very close together (now believed to be only 1/8 light year apart), whereas the nearest star similar to the sun, Tau Ceti, is 12 light years away. It was argued that the closeness of the two sun-like stars would likely have acted as a considerable spur to developing interstellar travel.

However, it was also noted that the Zeta Reticulan stars are metal poor compared to the sun, raising questions as to whether a solar system like our own would have developed, whether sufficient carbon existed for life to have even arisen, or whether sufficient quantities of such metals would have been available to create a technological civilization even if there was an earthlike planet and advanced life in the Reticulan system.

Skeptic Robert Sheaffer in an accompanying article said that a map devised by Charles W. Atterberg, about the same time as Fish, was an even better match to Hill's map and made more sense. The base stars, Epsilon Indi and Epsilon Eridani plus the others were also closer to the sun than the Hill map. Fish counterargued that the base stars in the Atterberg map were considered much less likely to harbor life than Zeta Reticuli and the map lacked a consistent grouping of sun-like stars along the lined routes, unlike her map.

- Ibid


An interesting thing about the look of the map, is that it was described in terms that seem to indicate is was holographic - before holograms were known in the general population.


"Betty described the map as three-dimensional, like looking through a window. The stars were tinted and glowed. The map material was flat and thin (not a model), and there were no noticeable Lenticular lines like one of our three-dimensional processes. (It sounds very much like a reflective hologram.)"

Betty did not shift her position while viewing it, so we cannot tell if it would give the same three-dimensional view from all positions or if it would be completely three-dimensional. Betty estimated the map was approximately three feet wide and two feet high with the pattern covering most of the map. She was standing about three feet away from it. She said there were many other stars on the map but she only (apparently) was able to specifically recall the prominent ones connected by lines and a small distinctive triangle off to the left. There was no concentration of stars to indicate the Milky Way (galactic plane) suggesting that if it represented reality, it probably only contained local stars. There were no grid lines."

Marjorie Fish on her interview with Betty Hill

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=138294



Many skeptics are quick to point out, “oh, but these could be any random stars in the universe!”. That is where they are wrong. The important point is that these aren’t just random stars, they are mostly yellow stars, like our own (which, while not rare, are not the most common). Also, the lines of travel drawn are between these yellow stars (just like those of Zeti-Reticuli, and our own solar system). That kind of a coincidence is not random, nor even in the realm of probability. According to Betty, these beings were exploring stars similar to their own.

- Ibid


So we have an incident happening in 1961 which mentions things that were not known at that time. Even the taking of samples (hair and fingernail clippings) for scientific study wasn't done then.

Fingernail clippings are routinely used in DNA matching, as are hair clippings - today.


He begins by examining the claim that blastocysts -- the human reproductive cells desired for stem-cell research -- are probably not human, and certainly not "beings" any more than are fingernail clippings, which also contain an individual's complete DNA code.

http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/issues/is-lak.htm


Another part of that examination also shows a rather modern medical procedure :


The doctor used a hypodermic needle some four to six inches long to conduct what he said was a pregnancy exam. He thrust the needle into Betty's navel, which caused her agonizing pain, but the doctor rubbed her forehead and the pain vanished.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_and_B


That sounds to me like a description of amniocentesis, a medical procedure that had been done for a long time already in 1961 - but wasn't widely known outside of medical circles.

And one other amusing detail, their confusion over "removable teeth".


Returning in a few minutes, the leader examined Betty's mouth and seemed to be trying to pull her teeth from her mouth. When this was unsuccessful, the leader asked why her teeth were fixed while Barney's came out of his mouth. Laughing, Betty told them that Barney wore dentures because humans often lose their teeth as they age.

- Ibid


That's certainly not something one would typically "create" as a detail, especially when hypnotized. One can imagine some alien being quite perplexed about the difference.

Since this is one of the first popular "abduction" stories, it's purity is much higher. There's little chance that details were inserted from other people, since there were none in the popular culture.
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^^^very good Montreal--nice overview. It was also one of the first of UFO cases to undergo regressive hypnosis as well. It may be one of the most verifiable, authentic, pioneer cases of the modern era. I think Betty has passed on now...and I did hear her speak on her experience at a conference about six years ago. She remained quite enamored with the aliens and had pursued attempts to contact them and such well into her later years.

One other striking thing from that case is the fact that Betty was allowed to watch the proceedings of the abduction while totally coherent. I seem to recall also that there was something placed on their vehicle as well by the aliens that would sort of track them for later use. She also attempted to remove a book from the craft at the time of her abduction..after asking and receiving permission. But as she was about to leave, it was removed from her upon further review.
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Posted: 2/10/2008 10:58:21 AM
Two Hawks takes the Talking Stick:

The Betty and Barney Hill case was indeed unique. It was the first reported case of abduction. It was, as you probably expect, treated as fiction, but the more people who became involved in it...the more real it became. One would think that if they had concocked that story, after all the skeptacisim came, they would just no longer speak about it. But they wanted people to know it was true and that they had been abducted. So they pursued it until it was discovered that their event with Aliens was, in fact, true. It took a lot of courage to continue on with their story. But we now know that they were abducted and examined medically.

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 Nergal

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Posted: 2/10/2008 2:47:21 PM
As far as I am aware there hasnt been a single provable case of people being abducted by aliens. If there was, there would be a huge hue and cry and goverment investigations. But no, there hasnt been because it hasnt happened. Bad dreams, guilt and sleep paralysis. In the middle ages it was demons, now its UFOs and aliens. Hypnotic regression is the most dangerous thing you can do in these cases. Numerous examples of how the hypnotist fills in the blanks for the patient. Roseanne Barr ended up in a massive and public split with her family when she accused them of sexually abusing her as a child, because it was implanted by the hypnotist, albeit accidently. It may feel true to the 'victims' but like any other alien encounter incident nothing has been proven.
 fitman2005

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Posted: 2/12/2008 9:26:06 AM

As far as I am aware there hasnt been a single provable case of people being abducted by aliens. If there was, there would be a huge hue and cry and goverment investigations. But no, there hasnt been because it hasnt happened.


really? Look at the evidence already found in history. It shows the government stepping in...announcing a downed alien craft..then changing their story and thoroughly back-peddling with a cover story the likes of a 'weather balloon.' So apparently there already was a government outcry re. aliens per say. It stands to reason if they covered this evidence up, they would cover up anything ELSE to do with the phenomenon. In fact, there is quite the LONG history of cover-up after cover-up.
 skypoetone

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Posted: 2/12/2008 2:11:23 PM
TW the Hill's case is a classic....

I think I covered their story earlier in this thread, but the point cannot go without reiteration...

The overwhelming evidence for the authenticity of this case was found in the starmap Betty observed and of which she had no previous knowledge. :)
 Two Hawks

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Posted: 2/12/2008 2:46:00 PM
Two Hawks takes the Talking Stick:

There is also the Bob Lazar story. According to him (Lazar) he was working at Area 51 on several secret projects. He got away from that and sort of "spilled the beans" about it. Then he was made a "non person" by the government. Records were lost, or didn't exist. His Social Security number was lost. ...and a whole bunch of other things happened to him after he "talked".

I have read that story several times and I do believe that Lazar was an attention seeker and that what he presented was not quite the truth. More or less something to call attention to himself. I do know what the government can and may do, but I think Lazar took it a little overboard. He may have been working at Area 51, but how do we know for sure? I do believe that Lazar concockted that story as an attention getting device.

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 Nergal

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Posted: 2/13/2008 2:17:20 AM
With Lazar, the journalist he went to with his story did some investigations as the story got more far fetched and ended up debunking him. I thought that was quite funny. But its typical of UFO stories. There isnt any real proof, as has been gone over on the thread in Science and Philosophy, which is where this thread belongs. The people that come up with the stories are always proved to be out by miles. The star map? There was a study done in Manchester UK of pyramid shaped buildings and monuments. Coincidentally they gave rise to a star map not unlike that of the pyramids in Egypt. Its fitting information to the facts, its not a fact in itself.
 skypoetone

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Posted: 2/13/2008 8:24:55 AM
Compare the Betty Hill 'star map' with the official – read the information disclosed here:

http://farshores.org/dy03.htm

What kind of evidence does one need for it to be relevant?
 Shawn2010

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Posted: 2/13/2008 9:27:13 AM
This could have been only three things I know of. One night me and my buddy are out over by the school burning a j, when all of a sudden there was this light in the sky beside this building. It was too far from the building to be attached to it like a hanging light or something, so I thought it was a plane so I didn't take any notice to it. Few seconds later I look back at it and its getting bigger, I figured it was the plane getting closer so it could land. I turned away and went back to smoking. 5 to 10 seconds had past before I looked back to that general direction, but what I came to see in the sky, o.k. I ask you all, when you look up at the night sky and you look at a full moon it looks huge right. This ball of light had grown to the size of the full moon, and I'm been totally Serious with you all when I say it was that big. Where looking at each other and .......................................... we where both speechless couldn't say one word it was some crazy looking shit. It moved a bit then it just faded away like a candle running out of air. Now, I'm not crazy, well maybe a little. In my life I've learn quite a bit in my 27 years and three things pop out at me on what this could have been. 1. comet hitting the earths atmosphere and burning up(would have been a huge one).
2. A supernova (star burning itself out and the light finally reaching us).
3. UFO (little green aliens)

My guess would be for the second one. But that doesn't mean I don't there's aliens. cause there is
 Nergal

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Posted: 2/13/2008 12:10:16 PM
I'm not disputing the similarities skypoet. But thats immaterial, its how much of that was due to prompting by somebody who did know star maps or perhaps a book she had read in her youth. And thats the biggest part of the problem. Objectivity. Its shown countless times on these forums that most UFOlogists arent objective. They really want it to be an alien encounter and stretch the point until it is.
There have been sightings of objects.
People have testified that they have been abducted.
People have claimed that the US government is covering things up.
Cattle have been found mutiliated.
I'm not denying that these things have happened. I am denying its proof of aliens visiting the planet. Objects can be weather balloons, cloud formations, aircraft from an unusual angle, even faulty cameras. People can have strange dreams and wake convinced they are real. The US government does cover things up, mostly secret military projects because its paranoid as hell. Cattle mutiliations are more than likely the US government trying to find out if its poisoned its own food reserves doing nuclear testing. Why do aliens always land in the USA, whats so special about them, apart from them having 5 times as many lunatics as the UK. The fact remains that nobody has ever come up with any actual objective proof of aliens visiting the planet. Its all conjecture, supposition and testimony from people saying what they believe. Not PROOF.
 skypoetone

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Posted: 2/13/2008 1:47:10 PM

I'm not disputing the similarities skypoet. But thats immaterial, its how much of that was due to prompting by somebody who did know star maps or perhaps a book she had read in her youth. And thats the biggest part of the problem. Objectivity.


Negal, did you even read the item?

If you did it’s a pity you didn’t pay attention to paragraph 8, this explains everything and makes you statement incredulous...

Hill drew the star map in 1964 from her encounter, under hypnosis, recalling her experience in 1961…

Now, the Gliese Star Catalogue wasn’t published until 1969! This publication was the first to show that two of the stars were in the correct place on the map...

Incredibly what are the odds here of Hill getting this right when she could not have had any prior knowledge? Even the best astronomers could not have known to devise such a chart in 1964.

I rest my case.
 Ravenstar66

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Posted: 2/13/2008 1:49:13 PM
I WANT to believe! (hehe)

No really.. I would LOVE to see a UFO. I wonder if there is a way, other than spending all my free time chasing rumours, that one can increase the possibility of seeing one?
 skypoetone

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Posted: 2/13/2008 3:45:43 PM
I wonder if there is a way, other than spending all my free time chasing rumours, that one can increase the possibility of seeing one?

I can't speak for those who try to manifest such things, but I certainly never had to try. :)

Of course it could be that I'm no familiar with birds, superman, father christmas, or other common airborne objects. Lol!
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