"Many people worldwide have sworn to have seen UFO?s"
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Yes, and before modern machinery, many people claimed to see flying witches on brooms. Many people claim to have seen Bigfoot also as well as any number of cultural phenomena that contains no physical evidence. The numbers lend no credibility whatsoever . For instance millions of people of Islamic and millions of people are christian. They both can't be right but they both can be wrong. This proves that millions of people can believe in something unprovable and be wrong.
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"Thousands claim that they have been abducted, and many more than once."
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So? Thousand also claim past lives, physcic abilities and other nonsense that has no evidence backing it up.
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"Numerous high level members of our military and every branch of the government have given depositions that this is true. "
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You must be refering to the "disclosure project" where it was claimed this was forthcoming. It hasn't happened and likely won't. Two years ago a handfull of people said they would provide conclusive proof immediately and it hasn't materialized. (holding my breath)
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"The astronaut?s that landed on the moon said Aliens where there watching them! Why would they say that? And not just one of them made this claim!"
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No they didn't, this is a fabrication of the nutball UFO community. I linked earlier to Aldrin's actual statement...look it up. It is neither fantastical or conspiratorial. The UFO community fabricated a myth around a very benign statement.
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"Thousands of pictures exist"
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As well as thousands of proven frauds and explained phenomena. The UFO community continues to embrace pictures after they have been analyized and explained. Sheer numbers mean nothing because not ONE picture has been confirmed as alien in nature. Ask yourself not why there are thousands of pictures, but why out of the thousands of known frauds and explained pics not one confirmed alien picture exists. That is the real question.
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"There are thousands of cases of cattle mutilations,"
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and this proves what exactly?
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"There are hieroglyphics depicting UFOS"
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No there are not. This fraud was first perpetrated by a known nut who wrote "chariots of the gods". These pics are actually known by people trained in Archeology as other than aliens. people embrace the fantastic and ignore the actual evidence. It is there if you really wan't to know.
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"Can I prove that they are not real? No!"
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Of course you can't...anymore than you can prove that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and leprachauns aren't real. There is no way to disprove something that is likely fabricated. You cannot disprove a negative. Try this, disprove this statement...."a four legged multiheaded invisible monster from another solar system invaded earth and mutated cattle and made crop circles."
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"The preponderance of evidence suggests it has to be real."
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Sorry, but there is not one iota of evidence that suggests aliens have visited earth. NONE.
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"the story has been around for thousands of years."
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I challenge you to find one piece of literature older than 200 years old that mentions alien spacecraft. Post it here....
and for insight into how the UFO community "verifies" evidence, check this out...MUFON, the largest and most respected UFO people believing research body, twice certified a microsoft mouse as an actual UFO!!!
http://ufohoax.tripod.com/LMFAO!!!!!
over and out.
[ This Message was edited by: GregFL on 2004-06-23 14:14 ]