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Current officials are now concerned about the potential threat represented by the very real, advanced technological objects: how close they can come to our fighter jets, sometimes causing a near miss, and the risk that our adversaries may acquire the technology demonstrated by the objects before we do.
originally posted by: celltypespecific
ANOTHER BREAKING NEWS FROM THE NYT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rejoice !!! Rejoice!!!
www.nytimes.com...
originally posted by: Kreeate
Apparently the slide is from 2018 ( Hal Puthoff’s 2018 public conference )
Here's the video : ( timestamp 09:09 for the slide )
Yes, there are skeptics who use critical thinking skills to evaluate evidence to see whether or not it supports claims being made. And then there are those who need no evidence and will believe whatever they are told, as long as it's what they want to believe, fits their bias. We need real evidence, hot hot air coming out of mouths, which can contain lies just as easily as truths.
originally posted by: Kreeate
a reply to: NightVision
Oh I'm quite happy to accept evidence. I just haven't seen any.
I want to believe.
originally posted by: hawkguy
a reply to: Crisis
What Bob says doesn't pass the sniff test. It doesn't take a ton of science knowledge and critical thinking to determine that if you have two options, and one involves someone lying to cover their ass while the other involves completely rewriting physics as we know it, which is more likely?
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
Here's the slide from 9:09, someone has been changing slides, Hal Puthoff's slide says "possibly including off-world""
originally posted by: Kreeate
a reply to: NightVision
Oh I'm quite happy to accept evidence. I just haven't seen any.
I want to believe.
originally posted by: Kreeate
originally posted by: Crisis
But what kind of evidence?
Empirical, irrefutable, verifiable, peer-reviewed evidence.
originally posted by: Rob808
There seems to be a failure from believers to recognize the lack of empirical evidence and instead focus on the anecdotal as it MAY support a long held faith of theirs. From the information presented, if we go along with the premise it’s truthful, it’s not stated anywhere something was created by non human intelligence, it’s stated it’s thought material wasn’t made on earth, but not presented as a fact. But true believers feel “disclosure” of their long held beliefs will be done through a series of slow drips and half truths. So really anything stated on the subject weather specific empirical fact or someone expressing a belief is taken as clear proof they are correct we must be in phase ii of disclosure (or whatever phase they believe).
Skeptics are willing to admit they are wrong, they want to follow reality even if it takes them to an unexpected place. Believers refuse anything but their own internal faith.
a reply to: Arbitrageur
originally posted by: Crisis
originally posted by: Kreeate
a reply to: NightVision
Oh I'm quite happy to accept evidence. I just haven't seen any.
I want to believe.
But what kind of evidence? Video recordings which can be easily debunked & faked with CGI, radar analysis, pilot testimony which almost always is called into question (since eyewitness testimony isn’t reliable), ex-military leaking documents, a newspaper article, a “respected scientist” saying he’s witnessed some stuff, etc.?
The only type of evidence/proof that can convince people will have to be a physical sample off a space ship, which is impossible to retrieve. But then how would we know it came from a spaceship, and isn’t just a rare unique type of metal found on a remote place on earth?
A lot of people just want aliens to land on the lawn of the White House. It’s not gonna happen like that guys
originally posted by: Crisis
Okay, such as?
originally posted by: mirageman
Biggesst irony here is how people are using a quote by Eric Davis that he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth to vindicate Bob Lazar's lies.
This is the same Eric Davis who told Joe Mugia recently
...
Lazar worked as a radiation health monitor in the unsecured logistics contractor facility outside of Area-51, so he was never inside that site, and he never held security clearances because he didn’t need them to work in an unclassified area. Lazar made up his entire cockamamie story about the UFO that he saw in a building inside Area-51. He was never exposed to any classified information, facilities, or programs in his work area.”
www.ufojoe.net...
This is what these guys do. They seed stories to create circular arguments in the so called UFO community to cover whatever it is they are really up to. Which almost certainly has nothing to do with aliens from outer space.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
Please point out what in this physicist's critique of Bob makes you think he's jealous? I'm not seeing it.
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
Yes, I think a lot of the angst we are seeing here and those that defame Bob are actually quite jealous of him for his accomplishments in PHYSICS
A Physicist’s Critique of Bob Lazar
After reading an account by Bob Lazar of the “physics” of his Area 51 UFO propulsion system, my conclusion is this: Mr. Lazar presents a scenario which, if it is correct, violates a whole handful of currently accepted physical theories. That in and of itself does not necessarily mean that his scenario is impossible. But the presentation of the scenario by Lazar is troubling from a scientific standpoint. Mr. Lazar on many occasions demonstrates an obvious lack of understanding of current physical theories. On no occasion does he acknowledge that his scenario violates physical laws as we understand them, and on no occasion does he offer up any hints of new theories which would make his mechanism possible. Mr. Lazar has a propensity for re-defining scientific terms, and using scientific language in a confusing and careless way. For these reasons, I don’t feel that Lazar’s pseudo-scientific ramblings are really worthy of any kind of serious consideration.
When physicists make accomplishments, we hope that other physicists will recognize them. What we see here is a physicist saying Bob Lazar doesn't even know physics as we understand it, without any jealousy that I can see.
That really is the ultimate irony, isn't it?
originally posted by: mirageman
Biggesst irony here is how people are using a quote by Eric Davis that he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth to vindicate Bob Lazar's lies.
Bob Lazar supporter: Look! The NYT quoted Eric Davis talking about off-world crash retrievals! This confirms Bob Lazar!
Eric Davis: "Lazar made up his entire cockamamie story about the UFO that he saw in a building inside Area-51. He was never exposed to any classified information, facilities, or programs in his work area."
This is the logic of Lazar supporters?
Not that I trust anything Eric Davis says, but you can't have it both ways if you're logical, if you believe what he says about crash retrieval, don't you also have to believe what he says about Bob Lazar making up the UFO story (which he certainly did).
I don't believe half of what Eric Davis says, but that applies to things like when he says "poltergeists are real" and that one followed him home from Skinwalker Ranch. Does he really believe that? Or he he spreading misinformation and doesn't believe it himself? Or was he saying that to con Bigelow out of more funding, which apparently was actually coming from the taxpayers?
But as I said elsewhere, he could be telling the truth about a briefing of crash retrieval of off-world objects if the briefing said: If an ET space ship crashes, here's how we should retrieve it", even firefighters have a plan for what to do if ET ships crash. Or not. He could be telling the truth about Bob working in an unclassified area, we know Bob Lazar had K/M next to his name in a phone directory indicating he worked for the contractor Kirk-Mayer, which also shows Lazar was NOT a direct employee of Los Alamos.