Draft talk:Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind

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Probably good enough for mainspace now, I think. Bongolian (talk) 03:15, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@Bongolian HA! I wish. Most of it isn't debunked just yet, though I put some placeholder text in the "Rebuttal" columns which gives the impression that I did. Also, you know I like refs, so I have to gather more. Other debunks yet to come include:

• Examining Tom DeLonge's organisation and turning Sheehan's arguments on itself ("Why should we believe you and not Tom DeLonge? He is about as credible as you are!") I'll need to do some reading of the To The Stars Academy website and watch a very specific press conference DeLonge, Elizondo, Semivan and Puthoff gave so I can include them as references.
• I'll have to read Emoto's original paper. The fecking thing is paywalled, but I can... uhm... ya know, put on me eyepatch. (I hope the paper isn't too long, however I DO intend to read all of it top to bottom. I do my homework, so to speak).
• There is a scene in the film where Greer "summons spaceships" but in reality it's just flares fired from a flare gun. The debunk will be a synthesis of many different threads floating around on UFO forums, mostly Reddit.
• I want to criticise the commercial side of his business, since the dickhead is so quick to accuse everyone of being bought and paid for, while he is out there charging upwards of 3500 dollars for these "CE5 trips."

That's a long way off yet though. I kinda want to cook the dish before serving it up to the customers, ya know? So far it's only 2 out of 10 sections debunked (also wanna piss about with the prose a bit, right now a lot of these are like, my "raw thoughts," if that makes sense? A bit ranty). Gimme say, uhm... three weeks? A bit more? I'm in the middle of getting a new job IRL, so things are a bit hectic, but I'll let you all know the Saloon Bar when I'm finished. - Rairyu75 (Talk) 03:40, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

OK. Bongolian (talk) 03:43, 5 March 2024 (UTC)