Recent content by softbeard

Yeah, that's an old one. Initially I thought there might be something to it, but now I watch it and the first thing that I think is 'nice CGI'. Overly dramatic, and if you look closely, the lighting of the cloud in unconvincing. I think other people have deemed it a fake, and I agree.

While theoretically possible, you would require an immensly powerful magnetic field to support a significant weight at such a distance. I would say no known magnet could even come remotely close to being able to generate such a field. And don't forget, you would stilll need to lift and move your...

How do you know they cause 'injury, disappearances and death'? Where are the cases of people injured by aliens? I'm pretty sure aliens are not in the list of lcauses of death and injury. Now maybe if you showed that aliens gave humans automoblies and cigarettes...

I completely agree with that statement. From my experiences, 'psychological' studies have to be taken with a grain of salt, though they gain my respect when they are done with quantitiative statistical data backing them up. I guess I'm trying to express my lack of faith in generalized...

I make no assumptions other than, just by comparison of volumes of this planet versus the universe, chances are that they are extra-terrestial, hence alien. You, however, are making assumptions as in '...completely safe to assume that any large high performance aircraft would be both costly and...

Nope. Don't agree. You're assuming it takes a great deal of resources for them to mount their displays, but it might not at all. For all we know, it could all be just a frivolous experiment to them. They may have vast resources and coming here might be just on a whim, for all we know. My point...

Now who is making assumptions? Why assume they are well-funded? Who knows if money means anything to them? The assumption of 'aliens' is a little bit more logic-based. They seem to fly in vehicles coming from 'out there'. They seem to fly their vehicles back into the sky 'out there'. Hence the...

I see you're taking a milatiristic view of things, as in 'downing one', 'cracking it open'...Uh, do we really want to go there? If 'they' really have technology to silently glide in football field-sized airships at will, do you really want to start any kind of confrontation? I personally am not...

Well, whatever the 'reason' was, we are not going find it by speculating. Unless you claim to know 'how the aliens think' you cannot possibly guess the reason. It could have been provocation or a friendly 'hello'. The point is it is pointless to speculate on reasons in situations such as this...

Hmm... I'd guess the purpose was data & sample collection. Trying to figure out how to properly cook humans :). No, seriously, those videos were good re-enactments. They had me convinced. Really bright silent lighting, size of a football field, slowly moving over your neighbourhood. Zooms off in...

Yeah... I don't think it's a fake; it could be, but something about the details when the lights are dimming tells me it's probably legit. Plus, there is a lot of non-dramatic stuff during which time you can't really see anything. Most fakes go for constant melodrama in the video; something...

Not sure it makes any sense to call time linear or not. Truth is that time is a local property, dependent upon the observer. As Einstein showed, time does not pass at an 'absolute' rate, and is not the same for all observers. This is contrary to our everday perception about time being an...

I don't think that really counters anything I've said. First, this was over 60 years ago, during/just after a major war. Don't forget Churchill was voted out of office; people didn't see him as a good peace-time leader. Finally, his 'secret' about UFO's has indeed been revealed to the public so...

Yes, I agree there is classified, 'secret', information within the military. However, believe me, the 'secrets' are usually far more mundane than portrayed in the movies. True, there are exceptions. Usually this more spectacular stuff comes out ~20 years later and, as a rule, someone writes a...

I'd be careful with the 'us' and 'they' idioms. I realize it's the norm in conspiracy theories to use this divergence, but I don't think it applies in real life the way you try to use it. 'They' are 'us, with the same motivations and foibles. The way you try to portray military personel is that...