For just a moment, I got really excited over this:
Then I googled it: Turns out it's just an art project. I was curious as to what sort of propulsion system it had, so I kept searching. Turns out it was suspended from a helicopter. Seriously? I wouldn't have guessed that with how calm the water was. I guess that's why all the videos of it lack sound, so you can't hear the helicopter? If I wanted to be really paranoid, I'd say it was so that you can't hear the lack of helicopter! ;)
I know, some portion of our readership is right now scratching their heads and wondering why we even bother, since most UFOs most definitely have a simple and logical explanation that doesn't involve aliens. But take 3 minutes to watch this...
The airforce's own statistics on UFOs says that 10% of sightings have "Insufficient Information" to determine their nature, and an additional 21% are "Unknown". Multiple decades of investigation concludes that 31% of sightings can't be explained away, and yet they decide it's worth dropping the investigation and censoring the files that come out via Freedom Of Information Act requests. Makes ya wonder, doesn't it?
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I qualify as "some portion". : )
Of course, you yourself said "unidentified" does not mean "alien".
Here's my two cents, unasked for as it may be... : D (Apologies if this is pissing on anyone's campfire; I'll try to be nice.)
I agree that the blackouts in the document are evidence of a cover-up. ...Uhh... Kind of literally. ; ) Clearly some shit's going down. But this is expected, neh?
I just (personally) find the alien explanation non-compelling. Not impossible, just... implausible.
I was showing my wife one of the more interesting UFO films on You Tube the other night, and she asked me if I believed in alien life. ...I had to say, "oh, ABSOLUTELY... The laws of the universe seem prone to creating life". I expect life is relatively common in the universe. She clarified that she wanted to know about intelligent life... and that's where I'm not so sure. Personally, I think intelligence (to the degree that humans exhibit it) is a fluke of nature, so to speak. That is, I don't see intelligence as really necessary in the grand scheme of the universe's propensity for self-organization. It just seems to expensive and precarious. Thus, I always weigh f-sub-i as being very low. One in ten thousand?
(Aside: Blogger doesn't allow SUB tags?!? How lame is THAT?)
Of course, a low f-sub-i does not preclude life being out there. But add to Drake's equation f-sub-w, the proportion of advanced civs that develop warp drives (or other FTL travel) and/or are willing to travel for inordinately long periods of time, AND f-sub-e, the portion of those who chose Earth as a destination out of the 200-billion-plus stars in our galaxy, and f-sub-w (in honor of W Bush), the chances that such travellers would be technologically stupid enough to let hicks video-tape them AND technologically weak enough to be destroyed by our troops (OR are willing to participate in a cover-up)... and the chance that aliens are afoot starts to compare to the chances that I will be eaten by a homeless man dressed in a stolen wookie costume at exactly 3:13 PM tomorrow.
Hey, it could happen.
[shrug] Not that there isn't a compelling story to be told there... (I have recently come to grips with the fact that I am much more a sci-fi guy than a fantasy guy. I love the stuff.) and that makes it appealing. But I just don't see sufficient cause to believe it, much less do anything about it. ; )
Man, this talk has me itching to play some Star Wars. : D
And I'll let you know about that eaten-by-a-wookie thing. ; )
I agree with you that no one should be jumping on the "all UFOs that can't be explained away via simple explanations must be aliens" bandwagon. That hay ride goes somewhere silly. I hope I didn't give you the impression that's what I was proposing.
But there's clearly something going on, and our government clearly knows significantly more about it than they lead us to believe.
I do understand that "national security" is not a fallacy in and of itself. Certainly, there are legitimate concerns about revealing the names of agents and sources, and that revealing things, like in the Plame case, can endanger people and reduce our countries ability to gather intelligence.
However, I find myself very skeptical towards the notion that the information contained in UFO investigations from the 40s to 80s could possibly include things parallel to that. It's extremely unlikely that 75% of that document was names of US deep cover operatives, or technical specs of experimental flight projects.
Afterall, stealth bombers are widely known to exist, and the basic concepts behind their stealth tech is available to the public. So if, for example, a large percentage of those blacked out sections had to do with UFO sightings that had in fact been Stealth tests, the vast majority of it should be declassified by now. Acknowledging that "an experimental Stealth Bomber flew over Jed's cornfield in the summer of 1982" doesn't jeopardize national security in 2008, but it would make Jed feel a heck of a lot more secure that he isn't crazy for thinking he saw it.
So, either there's a more sinister truth being concealed, or our government is a bunch of sick fucks who ought to come clean for the sake of our mental health. I'm not sure which concept is more alarming.
P.S.: Don't worry, your piss landed nowhere near my campfire. :)
P.P.S.: I can speak only for myself, however, as I don't know where exactly Jake makes his camp.
P.P.P.S: Reflecting further upon it, I suspect he pitches a tent whenever and wherever he pleases, and feels no shame about doing so.
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