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Originally posted by 0rbital
Originally posted by RadioactiveRob
Ice crystals
Mass Hallucinations
Venus
Weather Balloons
Thermal Inversions
Meteorites
RC Toy Airplane with LED's
Photoshop
Jupiter
Satellites
Aurora Borealis
Chinese Lanterns
CGI
Rockets
Airplanes
Birds
Ball Lightning
Are there any more absurd and ridiculous debunk excuses that I've missed so far?
Seeing as everything in that list is actually proven to exist and alien visitation is not......isn't it ridiculous for you to suggest that most of these likely explanations.......which do actually account for 99 percent of sightings.......are absurd and ridiculous? Yep, I'm convinced it is.
You make the post sound like you automatically believe that everything you see that you can't explain must therefore be an alien craft which is as closed minded as the ultra hardcore sceptics can be.
Originally posted by RadioactiveRob
I'm not a die-hard believer that believes every sighting must be an alien craft and I stay away from the fringe side of UFOLOGY that deals with things like reptillians and grays that are supposedly infiltrating and undermining the U.S. Government. I understand there's a lot of people on here that believe those things but not me.
Originally posted by Unidentified_Objective
They are not "excuses" if the objects are in fact, unidentified
Originally posted by Human_Alien
Originally posted by Unidentified_Objective
They are not "excuses" if the objects are in fact, unidentified
If they, by all intents and purposes, are unidentified (and on a video/photo) how is it people can agree what it is? Like lanterns? Planes? Rockets go awry?
The guesses are just as enigmatic as the subject matter! But because we're left brained creatures, there's comfort in familiarity. Because after all, you can't apply logic without having had experienced it first, right?
Originally posted by Unidentified_Objective
In cases where the logical conclusion is obvious, then one should be willing to accept the possibility that it is in fact...the simplest answer. Ergo, if we know that at 9PM someone had a party on hollywood blvd and released chinese lanterns, then it's safe to assume that someone claiming they saw a UFO (And the UFO happens to be a light slowly drifting/rising in the horizon) at 9:07PM in the Los Angeles sky, witnessed nothing more than chinese lanterns.
It's ruling out these simple explanations that is outrageous and ludicrous.
Originally posted by Human_Alien
If alien intelligence can travel faster than the speed of light and manifest themselves through solid objects
There is one very important word, that PhoenixOD used in that question, which you may have overlooked. That word is [color=BEFF7D]Seriously.
Originally posted by SoymilkAlaska
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
reply to post by SoymilkAlaska
Just when was the last time you EVER saw anyone [color=BEFF7D]seriously put forward the explanation of swap gas for a UFO sighting.
honestly i was just using swamp gas as an example, sorry for not being more clear.
but really, every time someone comes up with a video "hey look at these strange lights in the sky, ufo maybe?"
someone always says "swamp gas" (for example)
Originally posted by RadioactiveRob
Let's get a list going. I'll start with what I'm aware of.
Ice crystals
Mass Hallucinations
Venus
Weather Balloons
Thermal Inversions
Meteorites
RC Toy Airplane with LED's
Photoshop
Jupiter
Satellites
Aurora Borealis
Chinese Lanterns
CGI
Rockets
Airplanes
Birds
Ball Lightning
Lens Flares
Are there any more absurd and ridiculous debunk excuses that I've missed so far? If anyone else can think of more please post it and I'll update the list.
Originally posted by FireMoon
.... The recent "debunk" of the 1957 B47 incident is a classic I have already mentioned on another thread. Erudite knowledgeable about Radar.... just happens to completely neglect to mention when announcing, it was a radar "Ghost", the object was clearly seen visually by at least 2 members of the crew and say so in their discussion with the ground controllers.
Originally posted by TheIrishJihad
Wow. Great thread OP. Seems whenever the skeptics are mocked they get all butthurt.
Every thread made about ufos generally has Chinese Lanterns, Rocket/Missile launch with a condescending comment about how stupid it is to thinks its anything other than easily explainable mundane stuff on the first two pages. Lots of folks on here are self proclaimed experts in video analysis. It's ridiculous.
One I haven't seen yet is,
Space Junk