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To me it's not hard to understand why some aliens might not have the same technological capacity or knowledge in certain areas as we do — especially knowledge specific to us that has taken thousands of years of experience and study being us here...

I don't understand this thinking. They've mastered the physics and biology of interstellar travel but they can't send a nano probe into my bedroom to get a blood sample from me in-between my snoring? And the same goes for every alien seen...

Note that I didn't include the rest of your post because I take no issue with it. All valid speculation and everyone is entitled their opinions. This last bit ( above ) is a bit more interesting. I agree with you that in some cases the aliens...

Way too optimistic in my opinion. Sure, once familiarization is deemed complete. But this is different--fear of the unknown, and not just any unknown but advanced alien beings with incredible powers. That's why there's familiarization, to...

Re: Kevin Randle While I think he's a fantastic credit to the field and admire his Roswellian tenacity he does tend to use the phrase "ETH biased" a lot more often lately. His blog has an ETH flavour to the language but he debunks everything in...

This is going to repeat earlier Paracast discussions regarding materialism, folklore, UFO's and the human experience, but it's a good solid historical article. And it points at where most of ideas derive from. I'm not saying anything weird or...

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Witness events are interpreted by their brains first trying to make sense of nonsensical material and then later by ufologists with an agenda. You can't put stock in anything that comes out of an agenda driven approach to the phenomena. Yes...

I don't buy the takeover scheme notion of Jacobs, but the witnesses clearly had a highly unusual experience and highly suggestive of ETs. Barney spotted the craft through his binocs. If the Hill case was just a military psyops operation, they...

Yes indeed - concur with your take on this curious field. How naive we all were decades ago to perennially hope that next year will be the year when the mystery is solved … and so the best goes on 😂 And yes totally agree re: Jerome Clark...

Ok that Rogan stuff is all improvisational poppycock. The only thing that came close to making sense was "take magic mushrooms to make more love and peace in the world". Unfortunately I do not own an aura ring nor a hyperbaric chamber to test...

A "significant proportion" (33%) indicates progress has been made but it's not adequate. Maybe around 80--90%. And just because a person believes aliens exist doesn't necessarily mean he's ready to accept their presence here calmly--if or when...

The 33% represents those polled on belief and extrapolated out — that's full one third. Many more are perfectly ready to psychologically accept it with minimal adaptation because they've been so inundated with it — and the rest don't care one...

Thanks for your "two cents" — an excellent example of what constitutes constructive discussion. While your essay makes several valid points and observations, my takeaway from it is that it has more to do with how humans in general have...

I’ve been following the UFO enigma since the early 1970s. As a young man, I was very naïve regarding the ramifications of first contact. After a lifetime in this society and looking at our world as a whole. I am convinced that human society...

Cynicism is an essential survival skill :cool:

I live in Calgary Alberta and for the record, voted Conservative, so my opinion doesn't in any way represent that of the political opposition in the province. The separatist rhetoric we hear in the west typically plays on how much of our...

In 2019, 73% of Americans said they believed in the existence of UFOs, while 33% said they believed in the existence of extraterrestrial beings. This indicates that a significant portion of the American population is open to the idea of alien...

Well — certainly no disrespect to COB, but Chris' observations are more about the bad behavior of one species of wildlife ( us ) — than the "planet" itself. The Drake Equation suggests that the galaxy should be teaming with other civilizations...

Unless you're retired! Then you've got lots of time to talk turkey with the aliens and see just how gender fluid they are and why they want to trade pancakes for a jug of water.

I always thought Christopher O'Brien was on the money when he asked why would aliens want anything to do with our war.mongering, anti-environmental, sexist, racist backwater planet. I may be adding an issue or two to his general statement, but...

Yes, I did indeed take a political interpretation of your argument, but I didn't know you were lumping illegal aliens in with extraterrestrial aliens. It almost sounds like Bill Paxton's line from the movie "Aliens." Of course there will be...

The UFO meme has been used across time as a means for the many three letter agencies to communicate different bits of subterfuge and to gobble up info for their own purposes. It's all spycraft spook stuff. This latest barrage of extremely...

I'm not so sure about that. We've been inundated with the alien theme to the point where many people are sick and tired of hearing about it. Not only are they familiar with it — they're demanding to see the real deal. The rest don't care anyway...

That's the issue that familiarization is intended to rectify. It's precisely because of what you note that familiarization is a slow and very subtle process. It'll take decades more IMO. Frankly I think that's happened already. As The Alien...

I assume that by "mass deportation" you mean the deportation of people who are in the United States illegally. Are you stating that if you are in favor of deporting illegals AND you refused to learn a second language you would not be able to deal...

I like your definition of following The Subject as it really matches mine especially the Vallee points. I think Trinity just sit too well into his paradigm of interpretation but what a big mistake that was. However, ar times I have gone while...

Thanks, tyger for giving me some good laughs re: American military UFO disclosure/whistleblowers. I think you've got that nailed down. The only progress made in the field I think has been a more open intellectual discussion happening mostly in...

I think what I meant is that 10 years ago I was under the genuine illusion that real discussion was taking place and shared information would be seriously read and would inform responses. Never happened, I don't think. TLDR being a valid reason...

@pixelsmith Looks like you are no longer active here, but just to say: after closing in 10 years I agree with you 100%. And in fact, I owe you an apology. How blind I was. I was utterly convinced of my stance. I was wrong. I hope one day you see...