I like to be told what's going on...
But you are being told lies, half truths and embellishments all of the time so how can you believe what anyone "reports" when it's all a fabrication of reality just to get your interest up?
I like to be told what's going on...
I would like to say I don't believe in aliens what so ever. I even laugh about it when the topic comes up.
Do you know the definition of ''alien?''Thats a good question. If there are intelligent beings behind this phenomena why would we assume they are 'alien'.
Maybe they were here before us...maybe they dont travel through space at all but somehow fold in from another dimension.
As to the evidence, assuming there is a huge body of evidence in many forms going back several decades...how would you know if you dont look for it?
That movie was made by people who either experienced contact or worked closely with people who did. You can feel it.I would like to say I don't believe in aliens what so ever. I even laugh about it when the topic comes up.
But.......
After watching that movie Fire in the Sky I feel somewhat on edge when we are out in the middle of nowhere in the pitch dark and see something really weird in the sky.
we expect to see "aliens",
But you are being told lies, half truths and embellishments all of the time so how can you believe what anyone "reports" when it's all a fabrication of reality just to get your interest up?
Yorda your sentiment that popular culture is solely responsible for the increasing interest / awareness of UFO's or Abductions is echoed by many people. However it was David Jacobs who first made me aware that the opposite might be true. Popular Culture merely picked up on something already happening for a long time and then it picked more momentum up as it permeated through. Even more scary is his assertion that because abductions are increasing in number the popular culture is becoming more aware of this.... I doubt popular culture is solely the culprit in either event
Does that mean we should abandon our legal system...which accepts eye witness accounts as evidence?I'm truly interested in this topic, but because science has yet to find any evidence beyond eye-witness accounts, personal experiences etc. then in some ways it does seem silly to contemplate.
Does that mean we should abandon our legal system...which accepts eye witness accounts as evidence?
And that is one way to look at the issue:
it is a very strange phenomenon.
You can sit at home and assume that the people who claim to have been abducted all fit your mental image of the brain addled person who makes such claims. But actually you will meet a wide range of people, many of whom are very rational about, well, pretty much most issues, people who hold down jobs, many of them professionals, whether blue collar or white collar, have familes and complicated social lives, etc. And when they sit there, one after another soberly and often reluctantly describing their experiences, you will have to reevaluate.
Do I mean you will then believe there are aliens abducting? No. I am sure the effects of this kind of repeated encounter would vary.
But, you would, at least most of you, be convinced that something very odd is going on in most countries around the world, whether physical, mental or whatever. Something is happening that gnaw at you. How could so many otherwise rational people end up claiming to have these experiences?
What does that mean? (this is a rhetorical question. I know all the explanations that explain away the phenomenon and reassure the one who believe their hypotheses - made as little armchair generals with no experience at all of the people they hypothesize about .
It is always amazing how people who think experience is a poor way to develop knowledge somehow allow themselves to use
lack of experience
as the basis of their theories.
Obviously enough people have said they've been abducted by aliens that it is a world-wide phenomena, but still considered pseudoscience. Why?
Greys
because science doesn't know what it is. science studies the physical world, but the alien abduction and UFO phenomena are beyond the physical world. pseudoscience = beyond science.
The very earliest reports of entities involved primarily humanlike beings. And while the human types in the form of the blond 'Nordics' were once responsible for about a quarter of the total cases, since the 1960s they have not been quite as common. Similarly, the hairy dwarfs that were reported so frequently in the 1950s are rather infrequent in contemporary accounts.
... [P]rior to 1987, when Whitley Strieber's Communion and Budd Hopkins's Intruders were published in England, less than a quarter of the entities reported in Britain's abduction cases were of the small, bald-headed entities. But after the books appeared there, more than half of the cases involved the 'American standardized alien' ... Because American abduction cases get more publicity than any other such cases, it seems as if the image of the Gray has been more or less imposed on the rest of the world as the standard alien type. [2]
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/ufo3.htm#u7
Obviously it's wide-spread enough that people can't deny the existence of the phenomena, but no one WANTS to believe. It's much easier to say 'oh, they had a bad acid trip' or 'maybe their insane' or 'they just want fame'...but what about the people who don't even want to report their experiences? We have support groups offered for abductee victims and yet no real scientific back-up to the existence of the phenomena? It seems odd to me.
Ufologists allege that one american in twenty now claims to have undergone such an experience, (but they would, wouldn't they?). If true this figure would be a remarkable and not very happy comment either on the critical faculties of that great nation, or on the habits of an unknown spacefaring species.
As it happens, the figure is bogus. It originates from a 1994 Roper poll, which revealed that 1 american in 50 had undergone such an experience. But, as Joel Best pointed out in his book "Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics" in 2001, the number of people who actuially claimed to have been abducted by aliens was actually zero. The pollsters, worried that a direct question about aliens would put people off, used 5 'symptoms' of abduction instead. Anyone who scored suffciently highly on those symptons was deemed by the pollsters to have undrgone an abduction experience.
The questions were things like "Have you ever woken up paralysed with the sense of some strange presence in the room?"This sensation is typical of sleep paralysis, the most obvious and rational explanation of abduction experiences. So really the Roper poll was a survey about sleep paralysis. Only the researchers thought it had anything to do with alien abduction. The subjects had more sense.