In “I was almost abducted by aliens” (Discover, Greg Laden’s blog, June 30, 2012), Laden tells us,
National Geographic Channel has run a poll in which they found that 36% of Americans “believe UFO’s exist.” This is in line with previous results. …
10 percent of Canadians do too. Here are some other polls on the subject.
Apparently, most believers think President Obama would be better able to handle hostile aliens than challenger Mitt Romney, but we understand that the President does not intend to campaign for re-election on that fact. 😉
From National Geographic,
The national poll measured different views on extraterrestrials, and found that 36 percent, or more than one-third, of Americans believe UFOs exist. In fact, 11 percent (more than one in 10) are sure they have seen a UFO with their own eyes, while 20 percent (one in five) know someone who claims to have seen a flying saucer.
Helping the agreeable nonsense along on a summer’s day, here are 7 Huge Misconceptions About Aliens, odd given that no one has ever come up with actual evidence that they exist.
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Off Topic: Neurosurgeon Eben Alexander is on this weeks “I Survived: Beyond and Back” TV show talking about his Near Death Experience
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Of a sobering note:
Here is one shocking personal experience from a man who had just returned from his Buddhist temple when he had his NDE:
The Bible contains references to UFOs. And are you saying that eye-witness accounts are not actual evidence- even when it comes from very credible sources?
Fears of an some unseen threat:
Terrorism
Looming Environmental Disasters
Aliens Attacking Earth
Asteroid Collisions
Potential World Wars
Financial Crisis
Energy Crisis
Common theme: Largely unidentifiable threats with questionable origins or no real reason for concern that scare people. And ‘coincidentally’ great ways to persuade people to accept some form of international governance (puppeted by banking cartels of course). :-/
You don’t have to scare all the people with one threat, just some with each. People that aren’t persuade by UFO invasions are persuaged by Terrorism, people not persuaded by either of those amaybe are affected by fear of global warming…ect… All the bases are covered. And each leads to a common endpoint: some form of world government.
Newly released UFO files from the UK government
More UK UFO files
I’m sorry Joe, eye witness testimony counts for nothing if it’s not in support of the view point of certain Christian sects that humans are alone in the universe (and I’m Christian and a mystic, so no one assumes I’m a communist atheist materialist darwinist or anything). You’re punching the heavy bag if you try to bring up anything pro-UFO here.
Off Topic: This was a very interesting interview for me to watch:
A Conversation with Eben Alexander III, M.D. – Near Death Experiencer –
Eben Alexander III, M.D., Steve Paulson (Interviewer) – video
http://www.btci.org/bioethics/...../vid3.html
Nonlocal Consciousness: An Explanatory Model for the Near-Death Experience –
Pim van Lommel, M.D. – video
http://www.btci.org/bioethics/...../vid1.html
complete listing of videos from forum:
BIOETHICS FORUM VIDEOS – 2012
http://www.btci.org/bioethics/.....fault.html
On the surface this appears to be a nonsensical poll. What is meant by “UFO”? I bet a lot of people have different interpretations of that acronym.
Do I believe that people see objects that appear to be flying but are hard to identify as being either a plane, helicopter, meteor or whatever? Sure.
Do I believe that beings from other stars have been seen flying around in spaceships? Absolutely not.
StuartHarris-
What about radar and pilot contacts? Are you saying that experienced pilots and air-traffic controllers don’t know what a plane, helicopter or meteor looks like?
And next what about some advanced civilization living here? ie not from another star, well maybe long ago but here to stay?
Some years (decades?) ago, I saw a TV show by a competent geologist who argued that many of the UFO sightings corresponded with geological fault lines through veins of quartz. His theory was/is that pressure in the rocks generates enough piezoelectric energy to create eruptions of ball lightning, or a similar electrically charged plasma.
The ball would behave in a number of strange ways, appearing to be metallic or changing colors, rise and fall in erratic patterns based on attraction not gravity, and shoot into the sky or “wink out” for no apparent reason.
As far as I know, he never got any support for field investigations because he was proposing a serious investigation of a thing that the Science community has long claimed does not exist.
Many observers claim only that they saw something they could not explain and that no one else could, either. The leading professional debunkers frequently misrepresent the claims and known facts during their “disproof”. I find it odd that we’re spending billions of USD to confirm facts about Mars that we already know and yet we can’t find even 1 million USD to do some investigations of Earth itself.