Extraterrestrials

[The Grand Nudger]

I too am very comfortable dismissing MANY sightings. And if sightings were the only evidence we have, I wouldn't have even bothered. Also to clarify for everyone, I do not claim to know for absolute fact that extraterrestrials are visiting earth, but I have found plenty of compelling evidence to warrant a real consideration (and dare I say belief) of the possibility. But yes, I do think that extraterrestrials have shown at least some interest in this planet. When all the likely and the plausible has been exhausted without explanation, the extraordinary must be considered. 

Anything in specific that you found compelling?  

(even if you're pulling our legs...I'm sure we could drum up something that's at least compelling, lol)

[vulcanlogician]

I thought he might be Poe'ing us, but there's no law on the books that says you can't give a serious answer to a satirical question.

[Cinjin]

In the most generous interpretation, cutting out all of the anal probings during happy hour in rural america (it was your boy Jimbo, not aliens, sorry Cletus!).....many people report seeing UFOs.  

I'm completely comfortable dismissing thousands of UFO sightings if the subject is aliens..because even if there were aliens they're not likely to be the explanation for very many of those ufo sightings.

Do you have any favorites?  I'll take one credible alien craft over mountains of ufo accounts.  Quality, not quantity.  "Too much" bad evidence is still bad evidence.

(I want to believe superbad)

Anything in specific that you found compelling?  

(even if you're pulling our legs...I'm sure we could drum up something that's at least compelling, lol)

I do. But since sightings seem to be the big hangup, I'd like to first present a small handful of those tomorrow.
It's 1 am and I really need to get to bed.

[Athene]

My thoughts on alien abductee accounts, specifically:

I don't see why a species possessing the advanced technology/capability required to travel light years should have such a fascination with anal probing. 
Buttholes aren't that complex, comparatively.

I don't have an opinion yet on the abductee phenomenon, as I have done little research on it. That being said, the anal probe thing is not a real thing. 
It's a joke made up in science fiction movies that took off and got a life of it's own. From what I understand most abductees have never reported anal probing.

That was my attempt at a funny. Butt, bad jokes go bad.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Last I heard, we have well over seven billion of them - that's a LOT of extra Terrestrials.

Boru

[Succubus]

@Succ....did I get POE'd?  It isn't really that strange of a position for a person to hold.  If so, ofc it would be Cin...least expected and all that jazz, lol...

Aye, a little research tells me he has an inordinate fondness for polls, mostly shallow drivel, or about him. We have a new (recently resurrected) attention seeker.*



*May contain limestone!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

My thoughts on alien abductee accounts, specifically:

I don't see why a species possessing the advanced technology/capability required to travel light years should have such a fascination with anal probing. 
Buttholes aren't that complex, comparatively.

"WHAT CAN I LEARN FROM A FART?"

[Succubus]

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I'll take one credible alien craft over mountains of ufo accounts.

My favorite was this doofus who said he saw a UFO speeding low across the sky one foggy night.  He had a shaky cell phone video to back him up.

When the investigators went out to check in the daytime they found that he was standing on the edge of a beach with a promontory running out and with a highway on it and there were cars driving along the highway.  The speed limit on the road was 40.

As noted, people see what they want to see.

My favourite? Rendlesham Forest UFO case.

Soon after the News of the World story appeared, I went in search of local opinions about the case. I made contact by telephone with a forester, Vince Thurkettle, who lives within a mile of the alleged UFO landing site [he now lives in Norfolk]. Immediately I was brought down to Earth. “I don’t know of anyone around here who believes that anything strange happened that night,” he told me.
So what did he think the flashing light was in Rendlesham Forest? I was astonished by his reply. “It’s the lighthouse,” he said.

That lighthouse lies at Orford Ness on the Suffolk coast, five miles from the forest. Thurkettle plotted on a map the direction in which the airmen reported seeing their flashing UFO, and found that they were looking straight into the lighthouse beam.

That link is a beautiful deconstruction of the total bollocks Rendlesham case, by the most learned and highly readable Ian Ridpath.

...Everyone seems to completely ignore the incredible amount of government documents testifying to the existence of aliens, crash sites still radioactive...

This just screams Rendlesham. Let's hope so, much hilarity will ensure.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Rendlesham is a great case study for illustrating the retrofitting of evidence. The track-back is quite clear.

[Fake Messiah]

Anyway, dozens of government officials from nearly every major country have come forward to admit that extraterrestrials are indeed real.

What like Jimmy Carter? You know it turned out to be Venus.

Both British and US Freedom of information acts have unearthed a myriad of documents that show those governments have been extremely active in covering up and then ridiculing UFO sightings.

Can you name few? I saw in 1st post you mentioned Roswell, but there is really nothing there. And that is the thing when you want to believe in something which isn't there you automatically create giant conspiracies which are ridiculous like MiBs, devil, Illuminati... to "explain" it. Heck maybe our sky is full of spaceships that are buzzing around all the time, like on SW planet Coruscant, but reptilians in charge are projecting holographic sky to hide it from us and maybe it's just my imagination.