Talk About Your Illegal Aliens
This weekend, a conference in Denver will hold panel discussions about the ultimate illegal aliens. As in aliens. As in UFO.
BOULDER, Colorado — The 37th annual Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) symposium is being held July 14-16 in nearby Denver, attracting throngs of believers, the downright curious–as well as upright skeptics and debunkers.
The symposium's title is the drawing card: "Unconventional Flying Objects: The Best Evidence". The three day gathering features a potpourri of UFO discussion - from border crossings of the third kind, UFO crash retrievals, and triangular UFOs to the alien agenda and ethics of contact. Also add in reports on the physical evidence for UFOs.
There is no doubt that UFOs are here to stay, agrees John Schuessler, MUFON's International Director at the group's headquarters in neighboring Morrison, Colorado. "We see no drop in UFO reports," he told SPACE.com, but added that some of the characters in the UFO arena muddy the waters…a lot.
Gee, imagine that.
"We have found that a lot of the scientific-sounding responses given to cases in this field are often nothing more than opinions by well-credentialed individuals that have actually done no field work," Schuessler noted. "They give their answers in a way that makes them seem like they actually know what they are talking about when in fact they are doing nothing but debunking based on their own beliefs. That happens on a regular basis and many people believe them. Science is not well served when this happens," he said.
Of course, the same pronouncement applies to a lot of other fields, doesn't it? I have commenters here who solemnly recite someone else's analysis of another's opinion as the Stone Tablet Truth™.
"Unproven theories abound," Knapp continued. "We are pretty sure the visitors are ETs…or inter-dimensionals…or time travelers from our future…or manifestations of the collective consciousness. We also know they are benevolent guardians, evil reptilians, harvesters of souls or genetic materials, angels from heaven, demons from hell, or maybe androids dispatched by incomprehensible super-beings. It's a proven fact that they are here to help us, teach us, or eat us, or mate with us, or mess with our heads, or save their own species while they carve up our livestock, doodle in our wheat fields, and befuddle our most sophisticated technology."
Are UFOs driven by teenage pranksters on a joyride through the cosmos, Knapp questioned, or perhaps anthropologists from a parallel universe, modern manifestations of pixies and leprechauns, or pragmatic politicians from Serpo–a planet of Zeta Reticuli–who have cut a deal to trade advanced technology for the unfettered opportunity to abduct and traumatize certain unfortunate bloodlines?
"Take your pick," Knapp said.
Heh. Sound familiar?
Weird Stuff | Gaius Friday, 14 July , 2006
By Blackhawk, Friday, 14 July , 2006 @ 6:25 pm
Here comes the Men In Black…galaxy defenders….
Maybe some of these folks have been zapped a few too many times by the memory eraser thingy. That could explain some of this behavior.