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 Nergal

Joined: 4/29/2007
Msg: 276
Aliens: Fact or Fiction?
Posted: 2/7/2008 7:17:50 AM
Come on Two Hawks you are speaking like a complete paranoic.

My analysis of Roswell based on reading various books, and TV documentaries. Is that the USAF 'lost' what was then a Top Secret project. I've seen a UK RAF crash recovery operation and the public are allowed nowhere near it, even for a relatively conventional aircraft. Its safety and security considerations combined. But this one had got into the hands of the public, which basically meant someones a$$ was on the line. So some idiot comes up with the Flying Saucer story. And then uses that to cover up the Mogul balloon and it becomes a huge excuse. The alien bodies, thats down to pre-testing for landing the space program. Crash test dummies and failed high altitude parachute drops. There was an interview with one of the guys who survived such an accident and his head swelled up to twice normal size, and 'he didnt look remotely human'. People may have been threatened with losing their jobs, and their reputations, but lives is a bit strong. These guys are on military pensions which means covering their backsides by telling contradictory stories. The 'journalists' know there are people who will happily pay for any claptrap they write, so they arent bothered about the truth. To the US gov it becomes an easy disinformation program to keep attention off their actual research.
The US government is one of the most stupid organisations in the world. It makes****up after****up . They really do get themselves into some really stupid situations and if they didnt have this policy of disinformation and blaming it on UFOs and then denying the existence of UFOs they would have spent the entire last century, and the little of this one looking like they couldnt zip their own trousers up.
Look for real world explanations, rather that alien landings.
Crop circles .... Drunken students and Young Farmers having a laugh.
Cattle Mutilation .... US Gov testing whether testing nuclear devices has contaminated their cattle and food growing regions due to fallout .. ( Thats a FACT)
Strange lights in the sky .. Stealth planes going airworthiness checks or pilot training.
 yna6

Joined: 1/21/2007
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Posted: 2/7/2008 9:11:24 AM
Oh please...as if none of you saw "Alien Autopsy" on Fox......anyone want to take a stab at how they performed an autopsy on something that doesn't exist? Sheesh....dead, right in front of you, cut open, etc, and still you refuse to believe....

hehehe...that ought to get some of them going...DOH! Did I say that out loud???
 x_file

Joined: 6/25/2006
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Posted: 2/7/2008 4:24:11 PM


Are aliens real?


Real? You mean "exist"?



If so, are they here to destroy our world and take everything away from us?


Our world? This world is as much as theirs as it is ours. Imagine your dog or cat thinking about the world the way you do!



Are they some form of human?


Are dogs some form of human? If you say "No", then your dog is an alien.

All beings in this universe share something in common.
 Two Hawks

Joined: 11/14/2007
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Posted: 2/8/2008 12:08:39 AM
Two Hawks takes the Talking Stick:

yna6:
You are absolutely right! That alien autopsy film was a total FAKE. I will NOT argue that at all! That video was scrutinized by Hollywood Special Effects people, doctors and some other credible people and they all agree that is is a fake. It was a good attention getter, but a total fake! First clue: The wall phone seen in the autopsy room. Wall phones didn't appear until the early 50's...around 52 I think? 5 years after the fact.

But we can't rule out that there wasn't any dead bodies in that crash. The local mortician in Roswell was asked, buy the military, for three "child sized" coffins and he supplied them to the military. Now why do you suppose the military would want these if the crash was nothing more than a "weather, or Mogul balloon"

Two Hawks passes the Talking Stick
 late™

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Posted: 2/8/2008 12:51:32 AM
The local mortician in Roswell


...Glenn Dennis?

The story that was debunked by OMNI magazine in '95?

The story that caused the authors of two of the Roswell book's co-authors to part ways?

re:
The Fall issue of Omni magazine reveals that Roswell researcher/author DON SCHMITT knowingly resorted to falsehood to accuse the Government of cover-up of key information. This has prompted his long-time partner and co-author KEVIN RANDLE to issue a public statement in which he characterized Schmitt as "a pathological liar."


There seems to be a pattern here, ...


if the crash was nothing more than a "weather, or Mogul balloon"


...then there's the affidavit from Brazel's daughter:


Roswell researcher Karl Pflock also interviewed Bessie Schrieber for his report "Roswell In Perspective" [RIP], published by the Fund for UFO Research [SUN #29/Sept. 1994]. Pflock included a two- page affidavit in which Brazel's daughter offered her recollections of the material which she helped to recover. Her recollections include the following:

"The debris looked like pieces of a large balloon which had burst. The pieces were small, the largest I remember measuring about the same as the diameter of a basketball. Most of it was a kind of double-sided material, foil-like on one side and rubber-like on the other....Sticks, like kite sticks, were attached to some of the pieces with a whitish tape. The tape was about two or three inches wide and had flower-like designs on it. The `flowers' were faint, a variety of pastel colors...."

(The recent USAF investigation, which concluded that the Brazel ranch debris came from a then Top Secret Project Mogul project to use balloon-borne sensors to detect Soviet nuclear tests, reported that the radar target-reflectors were made by a company that also produced children's toys. Plastic tape was used to strengthen the kite-like radar reflector, and the tape sometimes had colored flowers and geometric designs imprinted on it if the tape had originally been acquired for use on toys.) [SUN #30/Nov. 1994]

Mrs. Schrieber's affidavit noted: "The foil-rubber material could not be torn like ordinary aluminum foil....I do not recall anything else about the strength or other properties of what we picked up. We spent several hours collecting the debris and putting it into sacks. I believe we filled about three sacks....We speculated a bit about what the material could be. I remember dad saying, `Oh, it's just a bunch of garbage.'"
 Two Hawks

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Posted: 2/8/2008 1:37:16 AM
For your reading pleasure:

http://roswellproof.homestead.com/Dennis.html
 late™

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Posted: 2/8/2008 1:52:15 AM
Yes, check the dates, it was debunked 4 years later (13 years ago), ...rather soundly, here:


The Fall issue of Omni magazine reveals that Roswell researcher/author DON SCHMITT knowingly resorted to falsehood to accuse the Government of cover-up of key information. This has prompted his long-time partner and co-author KEVIN RANDLE to issue a public statement in which he characterized Schmitt as "a pathological liar." The Omni article, entitled "The Case Of The Vanishing Nurses," was authored by Paul McCarthy, a writer with a long-time interest in UFOs.

Roswell mortician Glenn Dennis claims that a friendly nurse at the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) revealed to him that she had participated in a preliminary autopsy on July 7, 1947, on three strange creatures, presumably recovered from a crashed UFO [SUN #31/Jan. 1995; SUN #32/Mar. 1995]. Dennis claims he gave the (alleged) nurse his "solemn oath" that he would never reveal her story or identity--a solemn oath which he decided to violate six years ago. When Roswell researchers Schmitt, Randle, Stanton Friedman and Karl Pflock expressed interest in trying to locate "Nurse X," Dennis gave them her name: Naomi Maria Selff. The names of five nurses based at RAAF in 1947, shown in a group photo in the 1947 RAAF Year-Book, did not include Naomi Maria Selff. But if one or more of the five nurses listed could be located, they should remember her--IF Nurse X really existed.

In McCarthy's article, he reports that during a 1994 interview, Schmitt claimed that despite his rigorous efforts he had not been able to locate military records for Naomi Maria Selff or for any of the five nurses known to have been based at RAAF in 1947. Seemingly, this substantiated Randle/Schmitt's claim of a government cover-up. McCarthy wrote: "When I told my editors at Omni this intriguing tale, I proposed writing it up as an example of investigatory diligence and the lengths to which UFO researchers would go to uncover witnesses. To my surprise, Omni saw something entirely different. It was an opportunity to doublecheck Randle and Schmitt's claims....Could I find the nurses' records? And...the expense budget being small, could I do so from my desk in Hawaii, without leaving home."

McCarthy Locates "Missing" Nurse Records In Only Three Days

Within three days, McCarthy reports, he had located the records for the five nurses by contacting the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. Within three weeks McCarthy had those records in hand. It took a little longer for McCarthy to track down each of the five nurses and to learn that only one-- Rosemary Brown, age 78--was still alive and living in a nursing home. McCarthy interviewed her by telephone and reported: "She remembered the other four year-book nurses, but not Nurse X, and not Glenn Dennis himself." [Emphasis added.]

When McCarthy told Schmitt how easily he had obtained the "missing" records for the five nurses, Schmitt then "did an about face. In a total reversal of his position, he told me he'd known about the St. Louis records," and claimed he himself had interviewed nurse Rosemary Brown. Schmitt offered the following explanation, according to McCarthy: "It is not that we were putting out misinformation, it is just that we were denying that we found anything." [Emphasis added.] McCarthy says that Schmitt "believes that Brown may actually be Glenn Dennis's nurse...even though her name is not the same as the one Dennis gave him..." [Nor does nurse Brown's 1947 photo resemble Dennis's description of Nurse X.] Schmitt explained that this is "why I haven't publicized the fact that we have found her."

This prompted McCarthy to comment: "All well and good, but then why make an issue of the missing nurses in the first place, as if their very absence were proof of a government attempt to perpetrate conspiracy, erase information (and even people), and be sinister in the extreme?" When McCarthy sought evidence from Schmitt that he had really located nurse Brown via the St. Louis records center, Schmitt referred him to an "assistant," named Brad Radcliffe, who allegedly had done the search. But when Radcliffe was contacted, McCarthy reports he obtained only an evasive run-around.

Randle Sharply Criticizes Former Partner, Severs Relations

Initially, McCarthy reports, Randle tried to defend Schmitt's claim of "missing" records for the five nurses, as Randle earlier had done when Schmitt was accused of falsifying his academic background and employment [SUN #33/May 1995]. Although SUN believes Randle was an unwitting victim of Schmitt's tall tales, McCarthy blames both: "Not only do they say they fabricated their `vanishing nurses' claim, which they hoped would be published in Omni, they also cited evidence that just didn't stand up to inspection." [Emphasis added.]

On Sept. 10, shortly before publication of McCarthy's article in Omni, Randle issued a "To Whom It May Concern" letter which lambasted Schmitt and revealed an irrevocable split with his former partner. After briefly discussing Schmitt's false claims about his education and employment, Randle said: "I had believed that his lying related only to his personal life. Now I learn that it doesn't. Research that he claimed to have been done was not done by him but by an `assistant.' He claimed that he had searched for the Roswell nurses but their records were all missing. That is not even close to the truth....Instead of going through the front door in the search, he chose to have his assistant go through the back doors. When that failed to produce any results, Schmitt declared that the records were all missing. Lies.

"These lies to not appear in either of the books I wrote about Roswell. Yes, I did the writing. Schmitt would review the rough draft of chapters for the first book and then add his comments. Sometimes I would use what he wrote, if I had verified it....He did contribute one chapter which was the `Conclusions.' In it, he claims that he had searched for the records of 11 men [who had been based at Roswell in 1947]. He could not find those 11 records. The Air Force researched the names and found the `missing' records for most of them. The others were of men with such common names that no determination could be made [SUN #30/Nov. 1994]. I asked for the documentation from Schmitt to prove this. He said he would send it but never did. I wasn't surprised." Randle's Sept. 10 letter defends the credibility of the two Randle/Schmitt Roswell books as follows: "Every-thing I put into the books, I knew to be the truth because I had researched it myself, or I had checked to make sure the documentation existed..."

Randle's Sept. 10 statement concludes: "The search for the nurses proves that he [Schmitt] will lie about anything. He will lie to anyone....He has revealed himself as a pathological liar....He has destroyed his work and badly damaged mine....I will have nothing more to do with him."

THE CRUCIAL QUESTION: If Randle was so easily fooled by a person he had worked with closely for more than FIVE YEARS is it reasonable to expect that he could distinguish fact from fantasy in the tales told him by persons he scarcely knew--such as Frank Kaufmann, Jim Ragsdale and former mortician Glenn Dennis-- especially when Randle sorely wanted to believe their tales? ["A CREDULOUS MAN IS A DECEIVER"....Francis Bacon.]

Roswell Researcher Pflock Provides Latest Version of Mortician's Tale

The Fall issue of Omni also provides the latest version of the Glenn Dennis's tale of his (alleged) experience with "Nurse X," authored by Roswell researcher Karl Pflock, who has become a close confidante of Dennis. Pflock has critically questioned the crashed saucer/ET body tales told by other Randle/Schmitt "star witnesses," such as Frank Kaufmann, Jim Ragsdale and Frankie Rowe, but Pflock endorses Dennis's veracity. Although Pflock, Randle, Schmitt and Stanton Friedman sharply disagree about many Roswell Incident issues, they ALL endorse the tale told by Dennis.

Pflock's Omni article carries the headline: "STAR WITNESS: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence." In reality, Dennis broke the "solemn oath" of secrecy he allegedly gave to Nurse X more than six years ago. His tale has been recounted in many books and articles and he has appeared on numerous TV shows. When significant changes in Dennis's tale are spotted, he claims he was misquoted or misunderstood. [Dennis's statements in Pflock's article are based on a tape recorded interview.]

Did The (Alleged) Pathologists Come From Walter Reed Hospital?

When Dennis was interviewed early this year by Associated Press reporter Tim Korte, the subsequent AP story quoted Dennis as saying: "She [Nurse X] said there were two pathologists from Walter Reed Hospital" who were performing the autopsy. This was a very important new detail (whose significance will be discussed below), which was reported in the March issue of SUN. When Pflock read this in SUN, he called Dennis who indicated that the AP reporter had misunderstood. (Dennis claims that when he received a call on the afternoon of July 7, 1947, from the RAAF base mortuary officer, asking about the effect of embalming fluid on human tissue, that Dennis had suggested he consult with pathologists at Walter Reed Hospital.)

So when Pflock called me on March 15 after his discussion with Dennis, Pflock suggested that the AP reporter had erred and thought Dennis said the nurse had said the two pathologists had come from Walter Reed Hospital. Pflock said he planned to check with AP reporter Korte, adding: "if this is an accurate quote, we have an interesting situation." Seemingly, Pflock recognized the significant implications of this "new" Dennis claim.

Fortuitously, SUN had chanced to obtain a video tape of a Roswell-related show which included an interview with Dennis, produced by Carl Day of Dayton TV station WDTN, which had been broadcast on May 20, 1994. After learning from Pflock that Dennis questioned the accuracy of the AP article by Korte, SUN wrote to Carl Day on March 25 to ask if he would review the transcript of his interview to see if Dennis had mentioned the two pathologists and where they were from. On April 10, Day called and read me the following transcript of what Dennis had said on-camera: "The guys--they were in with the nurse--they were flown in from Walter Reed hospital out of Washington and they were in there doing a partial autopsy." This was reported in the May issue of SUN. A similar statement about the pathologists having come from Walter Reed hospital was contained in a report entitled "The Glenn Dennis Story," which I had purchased at Roswell's International UFO Museum. Dennis is a vice president of the museum.

Pflock talked with the AP reporter, who said he was confident that his quote was accurate, and Pflock went to the trouble of contacting WDTN's Carl Day who provided further confirmation that Dennis had said the two pathologists had come from Walter Reed Hospital. Surprisingly, this did not have any noticeable effect on Pflock's confidence in Dennis's veracity.

Instead, in Pflock's letter of May 9, he now claimed that Dennis had not denied making the statement about the two pathologists having come from Walter Reed but rather that Dennis had said "he didn't recall making such a statement to Korte. A fine distinction, but an important one."

In the recent Omni article, Pflock asked Dennis: "Did the nurse know who the doctors were or where they came from?" Dennis responded: "I asked her, and she said she'd never seen them before. She told me she heard one say to the other that they'd have to do something when they got back to Walter Reed Army Hospital." [Emphasis added.]

The Walter Reed Hospital Claim Torpedoes Other Dennis Claims

If two pathologists had been flown out from Washington D.C. and were engaged in a preliminary autopsy on the ET bodies by mid-afternoon on Monday, July 7, 1947, as Dennis now claims, they would have had to depart Washington no later than early Monday morning. This means that RAAF officials must have learned of the crashed UFO and ET bodies at least by late Sunday, July 6--the day BEFORE rancher "Mac" Brazel drove to Roswell to report discovery of the unusual debris--which triggered the whole "Roswell Incident."

With this new Dennis scenario, chief intelligence officer Maj. Jesse Marcel and counter-intelligence officer Capt. Sheridan Cavitt would certainly have spent Monday, July 7, at the crash site, inspecting the UFO and ET bodies and supervising their recovery. But according to Marcel, he was having lunch at the Officers Club Monday noon when he received a call from sheriff George Wilcox telling about rancher Brazel. Marcel and Cavitt then spent several hours that afternoon driving back to Brazel's ranch to inspect and collect the unusual debris.

According to the Omni article, in the early afternoon of July 7, Dennis said he received several telephone calls from the RAAF base mortuary officer. During the second call, according to Dennis, "he wanted to know about embalming fluid: what chemicals it contained, what it would do to bodies that had been lying out in the open. Would it change the stomach contents? Would it change the tissue, the blood. He also wanted to know about our procedures for removing bodies from a site..." [Emphasis added.] If Walter Reed pathologists were flying out to Roswell, the answers to such questions could await their arrival. FURTHERMORE, THE (ALLEGED) ET BODIES WOULD BE EMBALMED ONLY IF THEY WERE BEING READIED FOR BURIAL AND NOT FOR AN AUTOPSY.

The most incongruous question that Dennis claims he was asked in the early afternoon of July 7--how to remove bodies from a site--indicates that the (alleged) bodies were still at the crash site. YET BARELY AN HOUR LATER, WHEN DENNIS CLAIMS HE ARRIVED AT THE BASE HOSPITAL, THE BODIES HAD BEEN RECOVERED AND THEIR AUTOPSY WAS UNDER WAY.

Dennis Reports Seeing One/Two Debris-Filled Ambulance(s)

Dennis first went public with his tale on Aug. 5, 1989, in a taped interview with Roswell researcher Stanton Friedman. In that interview, Dennis said that when he drove a slightly injured airman to the base hospital on the afternoon of July 7, he parked alongside "one of the old military, square ambulances....There was (sic) these two MPs and the door [singular] was open to the military ambulance [singular] there and that's where some wreckage was....I just looked and glanced in and I just kind of kept going and I went on in (the hospital)." [Emphasis added.]

In a sworn statement by Dennis, executed on Aug. 7, 1991, and included in Pflock's own lengthy report "Roswell In Perspective," Dennis provided some new details from his original account to Friedman [SUN #29/Sept. 1994]. He said he drove the injured airman "around to the back of the base infirmary and parked it next to another ambulance. The door [singular] was open and inside I saw some wreckage. There were several pieces which looked like the bottom of a canoe, about three feet in length....There was some strange-looking writing on the material resembling Egyptian hieroglyphics. Also there were two MPs present..." [Emphasis added.]

But in Pflock's Omni interview, Dennis reports there were at least two military ambulances filled with debris. "When we got to the first ambulance, one of the rear doors was open....I saw something in there that looked like half of a canoe, leaning up against the side near the open door....I remember markings on the canoe-shaped thing....They were about four inches high....I saw the same kind of wreckage in the second one. [Emphasis added.] The doors were closed on the third ambulance, so I couldn't see what was in it." [Neither rancher Brazel, Maj. Marcel nor Capt. Cavitt ever reported seeing canoe-shaped objects.]

If any of these versions were true, at least one ambulance had been used to transport the debris and ET bodies from the crash site, and by the time that Dennis arrived the bodies already were inside undergoing autopsy. Yet the ambulance(s) with precious crashed debris was/were still sitting outside the hospital. Why hadn't they been driven to a nearby hangar where the curious debris could be examined and studied?

If neither of the MPs knew how to drive and no other drivers could be found at RAAF, why didn't the officer who ordered the two MPs to guard the ambulance(s) think to close the door(s) to keep the crash debris secret from unauthorized persons like Dennis?

When Pflock asked Dennis: "Why do you think the nurse and everything about her seem to have vanished," Dennis replied: "This is just my surmise, but I think when she was transferred [immediately after the incident], they discharged her and arranged for her to join an order, enter a convent. Everything was covered up with the church's help." [SUN Comment: An alternative explanation is that Nurse X is a figment of Dennis's imagination.]
 Nergal

Joined: 4/29/2007
Msg: 283
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Posted: 2/8/2008 3:25:15 AM
Thats the root of the problem. Credibility. It doesnt matter whether its UFO stories, conspiracy theories, or ancient technology/space travel stories. The journalists start looking into things, find there isnt a story, or its not as interesting as it could of been and start twisting the facts. There are some good examples out there. Roswell has been done to death by the media, I think its only the publicity that actually keeps the town going. I'd love it if aliens turned up tomorrow and pointed out that they had never been here before, and neither to their knowledge had anyone else.
 late™

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Posted: 2/8/2008 3:59:34 AM
Thats the root of the problem. Credibility. It doesnt matter whether its UFO stories, conspiracy theories, or ancient technology/space travel stories. The journalists start looking into things, find there isnt a story, or its not as interesting as it could of been and start twisting the facts. There are some good examples out there.


For the real "cover up" story:
See: That's Entertainment! TV's UFO Coverup
http://csicop.org/si/9611/ufo.html
 Nergal

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Posted: 2/8/2008 8:16:29 AM
Good post late .... it shows how much sensationalism there is involved. As I said the journalists arent interested in the truth, just in viewing figures or buyers of their books. And its a huge gravy train, and has been since Roswell so why spill it and kill the goose that lays the golden eggs etc.
I think the worst side effect has been that its enabled the US goverment to treat its own people like mushrooms .. keep them in the dark and feed them BS, and they lap it up.
There are guys that worked most of their lives at Area 51 who are now dying from various unexplained cancers and conditions. These arent due to alien contamination but down to working with unsafe materials in an unsafe manner.
 Two Hawks

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Posted: 2/8/2008 11:14:19 AM
Two Hawks takes the Talking Stick:

I know very well ho the government can treat civilians and their own. I spent 24 years in the Army. Take, for instance, the Mi Lie (spelling?) incident with Lieutenant Kally. He was doing th job he was ordered to do and he was railroaded by military officials. The blame on that should have gone to the higher ups that issued the orders for him. I spent three years in Vietnam and you didn't know who the enemy was. It could have been any Vietnamese up to and including children. In many situations, the order of survival was shoot first and ask questions later.

So you are quite correct. The government and the military can treat anyone they way they see fit.

Two Hawks passes the Talking Stick
 cocytus

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Posted: 2/8/2008 11:31:25 AM
My Lai
Lt. William Calley

While government can certainly treat anybody any way they'd like, they have difficulty keeping this treatment a secret for any significant length of time.

Which is why their keeping alien visitation, alien technology or alien bodies secret for over 60 years seems, at best, unlikely.
At worst,impossible.
 james03868

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Posted: 2/8/2008 5:20:24 PM
In a nutshell, if the “truth” were to ever come out, it would be a major contributor to Armageddon. It has happened before. Some of the very foundations of our society, such as religion, well who know how the religious people would react. The fact that our government has been lying to us would also be very devastating.

There is also the affect on our scientist and young people. The reason that many people go into the science field is because they want to be the first person to discover something, and if they think that some alien has already discovered it a long time ago, they could lose all motivation. It has happened to those that have tried to reverse engineer alien technology.

As much as I would like the truth to come out, I know how very devastating it could be. Understand that reptilian societies are dealing with a similar issue as to whether their ancestors could have come from this planet those many millions of years ago. God knows what could happen if they thought that this was their mother world. They certainly would not be happy with a bunch of hairless apes treating it the way that they are.
 Nergal

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Posted: 2/8/2008 7:17:30 PM
I take it you subscribe to on of the more fruit loop based conspiracy theories then ?
 CheshireCatalyst

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Posted: 2/8/2008 9:03:39 PM
Ouch!

As a

hairless ape
I must say that I am offended.....

Hairless apes have dignity and worth.

 james03868

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Posted: 2/8/2008 10:18:23 PM
That fruit loop conspiracy theory scares the burgesses out of me and many of my colleges, assuming it is true of course. It is probably the only thing that really scares me, other than being alone for the rest of my life.
 Nergal

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Posted: 2/9/2008 12:12:02 AM
Well nobody has had any alien technology to reverse engineer, so I cant see how that has sent anyone off the rails. I do see organised religion as being afraid of aliens. It would really put the cat amongst the pidgeons if God had created someone else before Man, and they didnt look like us. That would counter a lot of the basic tenets of the Christian faith. As far as I know the Lizard conspiracy is chiefly spensored by David Icke, fromer footballer, former sports commentator. Went nuts one day and disappeared then turned up claiming to be the new messiah. Yep he is stable and credible ok.

I dont think you have anything to worry about, apart from being alone for the rest of your life because you stick to your ridiculous beliefs.
 james03868

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Posted: 2/9/2008 2:26:33 AM
I once had a girlfriend who was one of theirs. She had dreams of reptilian creatures, some of which had wings (dragons, fracking a-holes). When I found out about those dreams, it pretty much confirmed what I already suspected. My love with her was intense, and we were planning to spend our lives together, but she turned out to be a very big regret. She also had some mental problems (gothic, cutter, etc). I tried to help her, and I tried to make a relationship with her, but in the end I could not have her.

If anything, the reason I will be alone is because I committed myself to somebody I knew I could not have. She turned out be a major regret. Whether I was lead to her or whether my meeting her was coincidence I may never know.

It also seems like women in this society want a man they view as perfect, and not some bald guy with a beard and a gut. It seems like the only girl that would fall for me and stay with me would be one that was coerced someway into being with me. Maybe I should shave my head again.
 late™

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Posted: 2/9/2008 3:42:47 AM
As far as I know the Lizard conspiracy is chiefly spensored by David Icke, fromer footballer, former sports commentator. Went nuts one day and disappeared then turned up claiming to be the new messiah. Yep he is stable and credible ok.


And, when we explore this "in a nutshell" are we surprised to find a nut? Yeah, what's frightening about Icke isn't the food group that best describes him, it's that so many "believe". Hoaxes and delusions, the line between the two blurs when the latter feeds of the former.
This isn't unique to Icke.


It would really put the cat amongst the pidgeons ....
Indeed

"Heaven's Gate"
In common with many other UFO groups, they believed that UFOs were inter-stellar space ships operated by extra-terrestrial beings who were attempting to bring humanity to a higher level of knowledge. However, they have a belief not shared by other UFO groups: that by committing suicide together at the correct time, they will leave their containers (bodies) behind. The soul goes to sleep until it is "replanted" in another container. Eventually, the soul will be grafted onto a representative of the "level above human." The latter will be on-board a UFO. Another nut with a messiah complex, ....who convinced other nuts that they needed new nutshells., about 40 of them. That's a costly debunking no?

"Raëlians" believe that ETs known as the Elohim created life on Earth through genetic engineering, and that a combination of human cloning and "mind transfer" can ultimately provide eternal life. Past religious teachers, like Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad are said to have been sent by these scientifically advanced extra-terrestrials to teach humanity. The Elohim are said to be planning a future visit to complete their revelation and education of humanity.

"Scientology"....a tinsle-town tinfoil beanie club that combines ETs with the belief in "Past Lives". Hubbard once said: "You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion."

(sigh)

Beam me up Scottie, there's no intelligent lif on this planet.
 Master_Bates

Joined: 2/10/2005
Msg: 295
Aliens: Fact or Fiction?
Posted: 2/9/2008 4:08:30 AM
I have been following this thread..sort of. Interesting discussion. One of the accusations by conspiracy theorists is that Nasa is covering up UFO documentation. I have watched some of the videos on youtube of supposed UFO's spotted by the space shuttle or other astronaut crews.

My father was an Apollo astronaut and I recently asked him if he had seen a UFO when he was on his little vacation form this planet. He said that while he saw some strange things, but nothing that he was convinced was an alien spacecraft. I also asked him what he thought of some of this conspiracy stuff, and over Christmas break when I was visiting he watched some of the videos and some of the conspiracy stuff about Nasa UFO coverups. He sort of chuckled at some of the videos, one in particular about how a space shuttle crew actually radioed to mission control stating that they still "had the alien spacecraft in sight" (he thought the astronauts were making a joke).

He said that space is so out of our ordinary experience, that is, from how we perceive things on earth, that anything can look strange up there. It is difficult to visually tell distances and of course light acts differently causing weird optical phenomena that we are not familiar with here on earth. For instance, a piece of drifting space debris a few meters away could look like a mother ship that is miles away and it is difficult to tell the difference, especially through the lens of a camera.

Most astronauts know better then to immediately assume something that is unidentified to immediately be an alien spacecraft, and there is likely a much more prosaic explanation. he was certain those shuttle astronauts saw a piece of drifting space debris or a satellite, knew what it was but it looked more impressive, and were simply joking about it being an "alien spacecraft". But of course this is all made up since he never went to the moon, it was just some big room at Universal Studios made to look like the moon according to the conspiracy theorists. Just my .02.
 Aknightrmor

Joined: 5/19/2007
Msg: 296
Aliens: Fact or Fiction?
Posted: 2/9/2008 4:35:40 AM
If there were aliens... do you think they're our friends? What business would they have wasting tons of resources on some kind of vehicle and propelling it with some energy that didn't come from nothing.

They would either need to have some seriously great energy technology that we'd do well to steal or copy from them or they would be looking to loot some form of material from earth. They might want to invade earth for their own species and they might try to enslave humans.

I had dreams last night that someone was in my bedroom. That my window was open and several times I saw my blinds flare out as if a breeze had blown against them. I have very poor vision to the point where I can only see clearly 5 inches infront of my face and it was dark. I remember trying to say "Whos there?" several times with no response and the being that was about my size but larger than me crawled onto my bed and laid down next to me. When I was awake, I had no evidence that this actually occurred. My family should have heard me saying stuff if I said anything. My guitar was still next to me in bed. My window wasn't open. It was just a dream. But it all felt kind of real.

I bet most alien abduction incident/experiences are dreams like the dream I just had last night how I felt it was real, but it wasn't.
 Nergal

Joined: 4/29/2007
Msg: 297
Aliens: Fact or Fiction?
Posted: 2/9/2008 5:01:12 AM
Pretty much Aknighrmor ... that and sleep paralysis as far as I remember.
It just surprises me how gullible people can be. I mean a known science fiction author comes up with a new religion .. not hugely convincing is it. I remember David Icke as a commentator and they got him back in after his breakdown. You could see the other presenters, who had worked with him in the past, trying not to laugh. The guy is a loon.
The answer is stay away from goth/cutter girls. I recently went out with a pair of them, twins ... they were weird and had lots of issues. No pint in committing to someone who is so wrapped up in their won issues. Maybe help them where you can but dont get emotionally involved.
I like the astronaut story though. There are a couple of tales of how astronauts have used Arthur C. Clarke. And one was tempted to report a black monolith.
Resourses wise we havent got anything aliens might need, except maybe Coca Cola ... Given the technology a small gas giant could power our civilization for millions of years, and they are common.
 cocytus

Joined: 11/9/2007
Msg: 298
Aliens: Fact or Fiction?
Posted: 2/9/2008 7:33:30 AM
Ummm...if whatever crashed at Roswell WAS an alien spacecraft....wouldn't the aliens have been able to recover their equipment?
And wouldn't they have wanted to recover their crew mates?
And, what would have stopped them from doing as such?

Let's how this is explained away.....
 james03868

Joined: 9/26/2006
Msg: 299
Aliens: Fact or Fiction?
Posted: 2/11/2008 1:10:58 PM
I am surprised that nobody on here has mentioned scientology.
 late™

Joined: 1/9/2005
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Posted: 2/11/2008 2:25:25 PM
I am surprised that nobody on here has mentioned scientology.


#227, #294

As well as "Heaven's Gate", etc.
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