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Old 11-15-2024, 08:59 AM
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UFO existence (or not) has for at least the past century been the playground for wackos. Reports of alien abductions seem to follow a general pattern: artists' conceptions of the technology of the aliens, as of the time of the report, always seem to reflect the technology of the time. Example: I watched The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951 version) last night. Fascinating how the view screen in Klaatu's space ship looked like, and fired up the same way as the televisions of the time, and anything and everything assumedly electronic was represented in flashing lights and escalating beeps. I have little doubt that the reports of alien contact at the time, and for some time after, looked pretty much the same.

How many such "reports" are factual only in the fevered minds of the person(s) doing the reporting?

Nevertheless, if there have been (say) 10,000 such reports and only one is true--then the other 9,999 don't really matter.