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It doesn't go that far in my case. No stigma or anything like that. Only on very rare occasions will anything negative be said (The religious person I mentioned earlier likes to bring it up sometimes if we're disagreeing about something totally unrelated). It's more of just a complete lack of...

Absolutely nobody...for the most part. 99% of the time my friends and family could care less. But once in a blue moon the subject gets brought up in a positive way by one of them. The interesting thing is that usually when that happens I end up taking the role of the skeptic because they've...

I'll go ahead and say it: If I could find a copy, even from a library (I've looked. No copies in my area) I'd scan it and put it on the net. I very much doubt a single cent will ever be made on it again anyway.

Allagash Abductions by Ray Fowler Captured! by Stanton Friedman and Kathleen Marden Encounter by Kelly Cahill (Basically impossible to find. I haven't gotten to read it myself) Those are all abduction books. Anyone that has been around this forum for a while probably knows I've gotten to be...

My favorite band is Iron Maiden. They did a song on their Brave New World album called The Wicker Man. It's not even a song I like all that much but the title was better for a screenname than most of their other ones. Often people assume my nick has something to do with the old movie but I...

Exactly. When one dies the lights go out and they never come back on. Billions of years will pass afterward and it might as well be a nanosecond as far as you're concerned because you'll never be aware of any of it. But I've had a few people lecture me about their religious beliefs a time or...

I forgot to mention the night vision stuff, goggles, cameras, etc. That's probably even more silly. I can somewhat understand turning off the electricity in a place as it might interfere with their equipment, especially the EMP things. But if you do your searching in the day or simply setup...

As I am with religion/life after death I'm pretty doubtful about ghosts. A close relative claims to have seen the ghost of her father shortly after his death but I suspect it might have been a brief separation from reality brought on by grief. But it's not that I don't want to believe. My...

Seems unbelievable but time and time again eyewitness descriptions can be truly outrageous.

I think the Phoenix lights are a good example. Plenty of people described a solid boomerang the size of a football field, some said it was miles long, one guy said it was so big all of our stealth bombers could be landed on the wing of it. Another guy even described it as a rectangle. I also...

Well, Lance. You look up in the sky at some lights without any point of reference and see how accurate you are.

Aside from the silly techno-babbling (Lots of numbers and big words to make himself sound all professor-like. I've seen that sort of thing in pro-UFO papers as well and it's often a pretty good sign the author is spinning BS) the guy's reasoning is nonsensical to me. The date is meaningless...

I can't even remember the editor's name but I liked every article I read by him (Read 4 or so by him back to back and was impressed). This other one was written by someone else, was a submission. ---------- Post added at 06:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:43 PM ---------- OK, so...

You mean the Belgium photo article? It was SUNlite 3_2. Then in the following issue he did a follow-up (I didn't bother reading the second one as I was already pretty convinced the guy was a cultist after the first one) to defend criticisms the original had generated. He even tossed out some...

Apparently this journal was once headed by the late Phil Klass. I imagine I wouldn't have liked it under his leadership as he was far too egotistical, mean spirited, and smart-alecky. But the new editor seems to have his head on pretty straight. ---------- Post added at 04:21 PM ----------...

Was checking out a skeptical journal called SUNlite. Many of you probably already know about it but it had escaped my attention until now. I've skimmed over 3-4 issues and read several of the articles so far. Most have been pretty good, such as articles on Rendlesham, lack of UFO photographs...

Is it just me or does a certain type of person tend to report abduction encounters? Y'know, mostly caucasian, middle-class suburbanites. Where are the reports from street gangs, guys in prison, prostitutes? At this point I would be more impressed by a report from an illiterate street walker...

Even if alien abductions were real how would one go about proving it? Nothing really makes sense that wouldn't raise ethical issues. The encounter narratives seem to have all possible avenues for practical research blocked from the start: the witnesses claim the ships and even the beings...

When you are trying to get across an extremely simple concept like "You don't need to rely on others when you can look at something yourself" and the person is carrying on like they don't get it you can find yourself groping for ways of wording it that will make them get it. Perhaps the...

Oh boy, don't start using analogies, unless ya' think you're some kind of zen master. :)