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Ufologists also make up fake histories, like [[Erich Von Daniken|Erich von Däniken]] and [[Robert Lazar]], and rumors of covert alien invasions.
 
Ufologists also make up fake histories, like [[Erich Von Daniken|Erich von Däniken]] and [[Robert Lazar]], and rumors of covert alien invasions.
  
Calling a website "[http://www.raysoftruth.tv/ Rays of Truth]" doesnt prevent it being a hoax.
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Calling a website [http://www.raysoftruth.tv/ "Rays of Truth"] doesn't prevent it being a hoax.
  
 
==Alien protection ==
 
==Alien protection ==

Revision as of 12:24, 30 September 2009

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Ufology is the "study" of UFOs, which mostly consists of people saying "wouldn't it be cool if they were alien spacecraft" and bashing the late Philip Klass for saying they aren't.

Isaac Asimov pointed out that if people insist on identifying UFOs as spacecraft piloted by alien beings, they very well aren't unidentified anymore.

Despite the fact that it's hard to study something that can't be proven to have happened in the first place, ufologists are much like paranormal researchers in that they aren't too bothered by that.

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Government cover-ups, etc.

Ufologists spend a lot of time pushing conspiracy theories regarding government cover-ups.

Stories about alleged government cover-ups of evidence for aliens are inherently unprovable and unfalsifiable, but we can say a bit though:

  1. If real aliens exist and want to communicate with Earthlings they can easily do this, by, for example, landing something in any crowded part of any big city and repeating as necessary. Aliens could also do things near major broadcasting studios.
  2. If real aliens exist and don’t want Earthlings to find out about them, with their probable superior technology they could easily hide from us.

Ufologists also make up fake histories, like Erich von Däniken and Robert Lazar, and rumors of covert alien invasions.

Calling a website "Rays of Truth" doesn't prevent it being a hoax.

Alien protection

As far as this author knows the lack of bombardment on the Earth's surface isn't hard to explain since many lunar features date back to the Pre-Cambrian and similar features on Earth have eroded or been destroyed through geological activity. If there were a problem we couldn’t possibly say whether the aliens use fermions, hyperspace or something quite different. [1]

Alien abduction

  • Security Camera Footage of an Alien Abduction? One of many alien abduction claims. All you actually see is that someone goes into the shadow, becomes invisible, a light flashes so he can be seen briefly, then he's invisible again. A few hours later a similar man appears round about the same spot prostrate and vomiting. Alcohol can explain that very easily without aliens. It's also possible to stop a camera and rearrange things.

External links

  • See the Wikipedia article on Close encounters.
  • The castle on the moon This is a fairly typical example of a video alleging that the US government covered up evidence for aliens; this time it's an alien base on the far side of the moon. An irrelevant picture of a book entitled, “Serial Killing for Dummies” appears just before the end of the video. Is it all about advertising that book?
  • UFO Evidence plenty of "quality" evidence to laugh at check out here.

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