Being a new member.......

Is there anything here (pics, videos etc.) that has not been labeled as a hoax? As a new member it would be great to deal with the unknown rather than waste time reading 50 plus page posts on obviously faked cases.

I have a few cases that I believe are true unknowns that I may post in the future but at this early stage I would appreciate a response to this question.

First of all you should read this thread. It's a compilation of the best known and most detailed cases to date.

Of course, the rest of the forum is filled with hoaxes, stories about man eating lizards and new age stuff, that you should avoid

Welcome to ATS !

[edit on 23-5-2007 by DarkSide]

Originally posted by Lexicon Devil
Is there anything here (pics, videos etc.) that has not been labeled as a hoax? As a new member it would be great to deal with the unknown rather than waste time reading 50 plus page posts on obviously faked cases.

I have a few cases that I believe are true unknowns that I may post in the future but at this early stage I would appreciate a response to this question.

Well, sure there are some photos and videos not labeled as hoaxes. There have always been. You can go back to the Trent/McMinnville photos, for instance. They've never been shown to be a hoax. Consensus among the UFO experts who met with the Trents is that they were way too dumb to have faked them. They show a nice, clear flying saucer.

I think www.ufoevidence.org does an excellent job of presenting the best cases, new and classic, and doesn't waste too much time with junk coming from anonymous sources.

The problem with these things, of course, is that even the best photo or video in the world doesn't exactly prove much of anything. The things in the photos all flew away, and didn't really leave much of anything behind we could get a good test done on. Could they have been aliens from another planet? Maybe, except we don't know of any life anywhere but here, so that's kind of like trying to explain one unknown with another. Could they be military craft? Possibly, except for the descriptions of the weird creatures that float around in them, who probably aren't Top Gun. (See the Hickson/Parker Pascagoula abduction for an example.) Otherwise, they could be things from different dimensions and time that are just beyond our limited understanding. Don't know.

Which is why we're still looking and debating. Some of us for decades, now. Fortunately, the amount of material available for study is so substantial that it encourages continued study, and offers some hope that with additional good data we can start to figure these things out.