For over 70 years throughout the
world and up to the present time there have been literally thousands upon
thousands of reports of UFO activity, many of which include alien abductions.
Even granting that the majority have been from mischief makers or hoaxers,
there still remain thousands of cases reported by the public in addition to many unimpeachable sources including astronauts, pilots, air traffic
controllers, the military, and police forces.
Throughout this time the reaction
from official sources has been to denigrate, ridicule, scorn and deride such
reports. This even extends to casting doubt on the sobriety and even the sanity
of those involved. Indeed, the career prospects of many who dared to speak out have
been adversely affected. With the recent exponential growth in a variety of
communication options, this maligning and muzzling of witnesses has become more
difficult to enforce. The amount of evidence is overwhelming. Although non
believers referring to “little green men” etc is possibly becoming a less routine
response, understandably there remains some reluctance to “go public” with
genuine sighting reports and run the risk of being humiliated.
Nevertheless, there are many who
are willing to go on the record. YouTube has a large number of these, some more
credible than others. Among the most credible of those with
no doubt whatsoever, is astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell who was the sixth person to walk
on the moon;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExCeqjJ2-G8as was his fellow astronaut, the late Gordon Cooper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPR8T1o3Dc
Also Paul Hellyer, ex Canadian
Defence Minister, has frequently spoken publically on the subject
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In the case of alleged abductions,
many of those affected suffer memory loss and psychological after-effects. In
some cases their experiences can be recalled during regressive hypnotherapy
sessions. However to publicize this tends to reinforce the outpourings of the “I
told you so” experts who claim this as verification of mental instability.
Strangely however the reports from abductees show a remarkable agreement in
describing their captors and the details of their ordeal. Many claim to have
been abducted on numerous occasions. In
spite of the commonality in their accounts there still remain those who won’t
be convinced, whatever the evidence.
However there is one event which to me provides the nearest thing to “smoking gun” evidence that exists. It concerns a school in Zimbabwe where over 60 school children witnessed a UFO which landed on the school grounds during recess and from which emerged two entities who approached and engaged the children.
However there is one event which to me provides the nearest thing to “smoking gun” evidence that exists. It concerns a school in Zimbabwe where over 60 school children witnessed a UFO which landed on the school grounds during recess and from which emerged two entities who approached and engaged the children.
Subsequently many of them were
interviewed by Dr John Mack, a Pulitzer Prize winner and world renowned
Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University, who was investigating the alien
encounter phenomenon. He is probably the most esteemed academic to have studied
the subject.
The school is a good example of a
post colonial multiracial establishment and the YouTube video showing some of
the interviews reveals that they are intelligent and remarkably articulate in their responses
to difficult questions. After viewing this can anyone doubt their accounts?
Moreover they are very much in line with other similar reports world-wide. Watch
this and see;
So there we have it. Even when all
the chaff has been removed from the wheat, there still remains a huge body of
irrefutable evidence to consider. Additionally, there are those who despite having experienced extra terrestrial phenomena, feel outside their comfort zone to reveal their stories. This is no doubt to preserve their ongoing social acceptability.
The very defensive attitude
exhibited by US politician Dennis Kucinich in this recent YouTube video is typical of the discomfort expressed by public figures when questioned;
Even with the evidence in plain sight of
increasingly mathematically complex crop circles, there are still those who
prefer to believe that these are the work of a couple of drunken farm hands
armed with a stake, a
ball of string and planks tied to their feet! In addition to these yeomen of the sod there has been a great deal of thought and effort put into crop circle construction by artistically minded humans. These can result in fairly complex patterns which
are aimed at debunking all and any other explanations.
Example 1 shown below from 2001 consists
of 409 circles. In 2012 a challenge was issued to the debunkers to recreate
this design. So far there have been no takers. It would suitably stretch the
imagination of those who might accept the challenge, knowing that they have to
leave no signs of their presence, lay the wheat in the customary weaved, layered
configuration and have just dusk to dawn to complete the work! The
extraordinary Example 2 raises the bar considerably. Taken by Lucy Pringle it
shows what appears to be an alien head and a disc in binary code which
apparently contains an enigmatic message which has been decoded (see below).
Planks and string just don’t cut it anymore!
The latest development in this saga
has been the emergence of “debunking debunkers”.
The following video is very
compelling;
In summary it is quite
extraordinary that in the face of so much evidence, desperate efforts to deride
and denigrate the phenomenon continue unabated.
Example 1
Example 2
Released decode of message
contained within circle of Example 2.
“Beware the bearers of false gifts and their
broken promises. Much pain but still time. There is good out there. We oppose
deception. Conduit closing”.
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In complete contrast to the
foregoing, all organised religions are based exclusively on faith with no supporting
evidence other than that provided in the relevent “Holy Book” of each. Since I
am more familiar with the Judeo/Christian Bible, I will confine myself to its content.
The history of this venerable document stretches back nearly 2000 years since when it
has been translated and edited multiple times from its original Aramaic or
Hebrew into Greek, Latin and ultimately English. Far from representing a
consensus of its content, each edition inevitably reflected at least an
element of the individual agenda of each editor. By the Tudor era there were many
different and opposing interpretations. It was a shambles.
The Garden of Eden; from history to mythology
Lucas Cranach der Ältere(1472–1553)
Finally in 1604 under the auspices
of King James 1 and despite the objections of many, a concerted attempt was
made to produce an “Authorised Bible” which was designed to represent the best
of the disparate other versions. As this task involved no fewer than 47 scholars, this led to still more differences in individual interpretation and content.
Furthermore the Apocrypha was arbitrarily omitted from the Protestant version
as were several other books. Nevertheless despite its chequered
background and doubtful provenance, the outcome is still considered by the faithful
as being God’s word.
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In conclusion, here we have a
strange dichotomy. On the one hand in the UFO case there is a wealth of
supporting evidence but considerable resistance to embracing it. Regardless of
personal conviction it is considered better to reject than to run the risk of career
limitation or social (-no pun intended!) alienization. On the other hand we have
an ancient religious book which has been, and still is accepted without any
supporting evidence or proof at all. Over the past centuries belief has been
obligatory under pain of torture or death and even nowadays it is still more socially
acceptable to believe -or as I suspect in many cases, to feign belief. The latter
is sometimes referred to as Pascal’s Wager or “playing it safe”.
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