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Yes, this was Captain Mantell apparently thought when he died chasing a balloon. I'm sure he wouldn't have given his life in "pursuit" if he realized it was just a balloon, but people are easily fooled, more easily than most of us like to admit, but just look at any collection of optical illusions, which is really a collection of ways showing how easily our senses are fooled.
I chased one, one time in an airplane. Boy, it really looked like a big saucer very high and I had an afterburner going and got as high as I get in this airplane. As I started pulling up along close to it, I had a very shamed face look on my face when I realized it was a big weather balloon with the radio package hanging under it.
If you give me complete, free "run" over MUFON's database...to the extent that I can redesign said database, and I'll provide you the "proof" you want...right down to the pictures...
originally posted by: Ectoplasm8
Or........... you can make it really easy on yourself and do what has already been asked of you and others numerous times-
*Physical Earthbound events... Crashes, landings, interactions, abductions... These are your own claims. Post your personal best irrefutable physical evidence cases of each.
originally posted by: tanka418
As I have already indicated, and you seemed to acknowledge, personal experience is un-usable as evidence. And, since you will not accept any other evidence; it would seem to be a bit pointless at this time. Now, when you are ready to actually "look" at and evaluate evidence you might try www.ufoevidence.org... After that do a simple Google search for physical trace of UFO's and ET...sift through the results; you will find plenty of excellent material.
Alternately you might try re-thinking your views on evidence, UFO / ET phenomena, scientific procedure. It would seem that your ideas of what constitutes evidence is a bit skewed...you might want to review "rules of evidence" as well.
Again, my personal "best" ET experiences are all personal, and, you of course won't accept "stories". Though, IF you did; I might tell you about a conversation I had with a starship commander a few days ago. The actual content is irrelevant, but, I asked for a "sign" that this telepathic conversation was "real". He told me to look for a "solar flare"...within a few hours a solar flare appeared; more or less where he indicated it would. Of course I can't "prove" telepathy quite as easily as I can the solar flare.
Now then, please don't condemn me for my wee story; we all know it's not acceptable. Just toddle along and continue with your "muddle", perhaps someday you'll catch up with the rest of the Universe. You are like so many others; you demand something you know you will never get, and because of this; you never start.
originally posted by: tanka418
a reply to: Ectoplasm8
Ya know, listening to you, One almost has to wonder 'if' you are capable of inference. I mean you don't seem to be able to apply the simple login and common sense required to infer the existence of ET. It's almost as if you were; "Inference challenged".
But, I presume you can walk, feed yourself, probably drive a car, and many other physical activities that all require the ability to infer. Yet in this single area, one that isn't really all that important to your continued survival, your ability to infer logically seems to enter some sort of exception (error) state and shut down.
It sees more likely (probable) that folk like you are simply too afraid of the reality you find yourselves in, and find ways, even if illogical, to avoid confronting that reality.
Astrobiologist Richard Hoover spent more than forty six years working at NASA. In that time, he established the Astrobiology Research Group at the NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, and became internationally known for his research on microfossils in meteorites. Hoover has published many papers in which he asserts the discovery of extraterrestrial life in meteorites.
Hoover no longer works for NASA, but he continues his controversial research and is currently an astrobiologist at Athens State University and a visiting research professor with the Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham. Hoover discussed his research in a lecture at the 2014 International UFO Congress. At the event, Hoover sat down with journalist Lee Speigel of the Huffington Post. Speigel asked Hoover to explain what it is that convinces him that life is not restricted to Earth. Hoover responded, “I am absolutely convinced that life is not restricted to the planet Earth because I have found the remains of lifeforms that are absolutely, conclusively extraterrestrial.”
Speigel pointed out that Hoover’s findings have met with harsh skepticism by critics. But Hoover stands behind his research. He replied, “These critics will not debate me in an open scientific forum. I would be perfectly willing to go to the Cosmos Club in Washington, to go to any university and have an academic debate and scientific discussion.”
During Speigel’s interview, he also asked Hoover about a possible organism photographed by NASA’s Opportunity rover. Hoover explained,
"Opportunity rover in 2004 took an image of a fascinating structure on Mars that shows structural features that are consistent with organisms on Earth known as crinoids . . . Crinoids are echinoderms, like starfish . . . so these are animals! And I’m saying that Opportunity took a photograph on Mars that shows features that are consistent with what we know of crinoids . . . Now, the fascinating thing is here you have a possible fossil of a very interesting organism in a rock on Mars, and three hours and a half after that photograph was done, that rock was destroyed by the rock abrasion tool."
Hoover claims that he asked NASA astrobiologist David McKay to explain why such an interesting structure was destroyed. He was told that it was done “to look at the inside looking for carbon.” But Hoover has a problem with this answer. He explains, “Well, the problem is, anyone who does much in the field of paleontology knows that you don’t have to find carbon to find fossil.” To further explain his confusion by the decision to destroy a potential fossil, Hoover offered this analogy: “If a paleontologist finds on Earth a rock containing an interesting fossil, they collect it. You would never have a paleontologist say, ‘Gee. That may represent a new genus of life on Earth. Where’s my rock hammer? I want to smash that to bits.’”
Although Hoover is not the first to question this 2004 event, it is interesting to hear the opinion of someone formerly associated with NASA.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
The Drake Equation is scientific proof ... IMHO
Proven via math. The Drake Equation
You can't argue with math. It is what it is, ya' know?
and math counters with the fact that interstellar travel is impossible.
Q: Yeah, I see. The propulsion of your ships is it like teleportation, or. . . ?
B: In your terms, I’ll say, very good, closer to that idea, yes. When there is a hyper-leap, ‘tis truly teleportation, there is no traveling. Realize, however, that it is simply a slightly different version of regular motion anyway, seeing as how you create yourself over and over and over and over and over again, every moment of time that you exist, so fast that you think you are one fluid motion. And so you are really teleporting from moment to moment to moment. We simply remove a few of the moments in between. You follow me?
In a sense; understand that light is what everything is in third density. You follow me? You are light.
Simply, our craft allows the manipulation of light so that the energy of its connection as the barrier
between one dimension and another is released. We use the doorway, the gateway aspect of light and
simply amplify it in many different ways, so that the craft is immersed in a field that is represented by
the doorway aspect of light. And once in that field, it is then, as a craft, disconnected from any particular
universe, and so we may wind up, anywhere and “anywhen” we wish it to.
Q: Regarding your spaceships again. This method of propulsion that you were talking about, which is
similar to teleportation, can that occur right from the planet’s surface, or do you have to go out into
space first before you apply it?
B: We will find that we will remove ourselves, to a degree, from a large gravitational source in order to
initiate what you term to be a hyperjump. Although there are phase shiftings in a sense, which can
3alternate a ship from parallel universe to parallel universe, while still in proximity to a gravitic body. Do
you follow me?
Q: Yes. But in general, you have to leave the planet’s surface then?
B: In general, I will say, it’s simply safer, as you will find that the field created ‘round and about the ship
will have a tendency to take with it what is nearby. We would not want to be pulling up chunks of real
estate with us. Do you follow me?
originally posted by: tanka418
Now then, please don't condemn me for my wee story; we all know it's not acceptable. Just toddle along and continue with your "muddle", perhaps someday you'll catch up with the rest of the Universe. You are like so many others; you demand something you know you will never get, and because of this; you never start.
originally posted by: Ectoplasm8
You seem to want to isolate me to make your point with a silly little snub that- *I just don't have the capability to understand the world around me....
Yet, I can still function in that world!* Amazing how I can do that, isn't it? Hmmmmm.. I guess that goes for a majority of the scientific community, skeptics/debunkers/non-believers as well? Big crowd of people lacking login[sic] and common sense. Also, don't forget... We're afraid to address the reality that aliens are on Earth, so we have this internal struggle and have to deny the overwhelming evidence and project out irrational and ridiculous excuses in order to survive and hide our true feelings because if we didn't, we'd have a nervous breakdown. 'Bout right? It must be horrible to be us... Ya?
Third verse... Closing time.....
originally posted by: AlienView
Let us turn off the bongos and continue with facts and evidence.
Scientist believes evidence of alien life on Mars was destroyed
originally posted by: Thain Esh Kelch
originally posted by: FlyersFan
The Drake Equation is scientific proof ... IMHO
Proven via math. The Drake Equation
You can't argue with math. It is what it is, ya' know?
Exactly, you can't argue with math, and math counters with the fact that interstellar travel is impossible.
originally posted by: Ectoplasm8
I'm of course familiar with a majority of cases on these UFO websites. Not many on this site aren't.
Thank you.
I'm not going to condemn or mock your story.
I thought I did point out the dubious nature of the lab report.
originally posted by: tanka418
That being said; what you should have brought out of that bit of inquiry is: "insufficient data". The published "reports" do not contain enough data to make any sort of determination. Such things as mtDNA, Autosomal, and other markers should have been included in the report.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
"insufficient data" seems to presume that we have reliable data but we need more. I make no presumption that the data we do have is reliable, without a way to confirm it.