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Yes it is nice to see politeness.
Originally posted by jclmavg
Dave?
Originally posted by debrisfield
Nice to have a polite discussion for a change.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Rudiak: Right, Wrong or just Ridiculous? So Printy is trying to figure out who is right about the trajectory, but debrisfield is saying that Mogul flight 4 didn't even exist. I don't know about that, there's sure a lot of detailed trajectory plotting and debate going on for a nonexistent object.
Regarding politeness, sorry if I wasn't polite, but I try to be. I agree with Gazrok on many issues but often not on Roswell, but in spite of our disagreements we have always been polite to each other, from my perspective. And one thing that I think we DO agree on about Roswell is that probably neither one of us nor anybody else is 100% sure what really happened, we are all speculating to some degree to fill in the blanks, except you debrisfield seem a lot more sure than the rest of us, and if we don't agree with you then we're "gullible". Anyway I see no reason we can't disagree yet still be polite about it and drop the ad hominems.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
And one thing that I think we DO agree on about Roswell is that probably neither one of us nor anybody else is 100% sure what really happened, we are all speculating to some degree to fill in the blanks.
Anyway I see no reason we can't disagree yet still be polite about it and drop the ad hominems.
Originally posted by XtraTL
Originally posted by debrisfield
My main comment here is that many of these readings would be invalidated by lack of proper letter counts. E.g., the words that follow the "disc" word at the start of the second paragraph are of lengths, 4, 4, 4, 3, not 6, 7, 2, 13.
My second comment is that for a reading to be considered possibly valid, it has to make sense. It should be grammatical and has to work with the words, phrases and sentences before and after it and in the context of the historical circumstances under which the message was written. Thus I wouldn't expect to see "UFO" in the memo since the term hadn't be invented yet and the same for "MJ-12", as some have done. Such anachronisms are good indications of bad readings.
It turns out I missed a line when I wrote up. There's the line that goes:
"~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ parts for further analysis" (or something similar)
However, you may be right that my letter counts for the following line are incorrect. I find it quite hard to tell how many letters each word has. That seems to be something other people express more certainty on.
I think I count 6, 7, 2, 7+, 5/6, which is fine for ".... appear covered up ~~~~~~~ negate", but I'm not so certain I am reading that correctly now.
I'm relatively convinced the first line says "and the ~~~~~~~ of the wreck you collected to the". Some words that might fit are: pictures, viewers, victims, vessels, remains, jetsams, persons, sensors. Some make sense in context, others don't.
I agree with your other comments entirely.
I would love to have the time to really analyse this message properly and come to a conclusion as to how much of it can actually be read with any confidence. I think a surprising amount.
However, to me there does not appear to be anything particularly striking on the paper. Admittedly, if it said "victims of the wreck" that would be mildly interesting. Unfortunately it is not at all clear to me that this is what it says.
Even if it could be read, it's not going to be held out for a newspaper camera to photograph if it is top secret. My best guess is it is a memo that says something along the lines that the parts should be collected and sent off for analysis and that if anyone from the media or public asks about it that it should be referred to as a weather balloon and that its best not to contradict what has been said.
Originally posted by Whateva69
Of all the things on the memo this cought my attention MJ-12
The Illustrated History of MJ-12