[Lottoguy]

Last year opened the door with the first Congressional UFO hearing. Yesterday was the second of what is promised to be many. I'm looking forward to the next one because these testimonies have been real eye openers that everyone should watch.

[Velvet]

I was reading about it in The Wall Street Journal… creepy… expected but still…

[fdpaq0580]

Sorry I missed it. 👽👽👽

[rjm1cc]

Is there any country that says they have seen a UFO?

[coralway]

After a few beers, UFOs seem to be everywhere. It’s quite a coincidence.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Oh yes, the underwater orb-growing business. I saw a clip of it. I was mostly just very sad for our country that people who are in positions of power actually believe this tripe.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Oh yes, the underwater orb-growing business. I saw a clip of it. I was mostly just very sad for our country that people who are in positions of power actually believe this tripe.

Unidentified Flying Object! You have never seen something that you couldn't identify? I have. Many times. But (big "but"), that doesn't translate automatically to believing in flying saucers, little green men, ghosts or sasquatch. Just interesting phenomena that are currently not understood. In my book, weird is wonderful and mysterious is marvelous. How boring life would be without a few mysteries to solve.
And don't be sad for our country alone. The world is full of folks that believe all kinds of bs. Our country is no more immune than any other.
Maybe one day, if we survive, humans may run out of things to stir our imagination, but I don't think so.

[Velvet]

WSJ:

Luis Elizondo (former Department of Defense official)

“Let me be clear: UAP are real,” said Elizondo, who added that much of his government work is still classified. “Advanced technologies not made by our government, or any other government, are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe.”

During questioning by Mace, Elizondo said that the government has a secret UAP crash retrieval program to identify and reverse engineer aircraft it finds.
…
In 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report reviewing dozens of reports of mysterious flying objects between 2004 and 2021. The report identified several objects that appeared to use technology beyond the known capabilities of U.S. or adversary technology.

[Topspinmo]

Why? Either believer or non believer and not going to convince either one.

[Velvet]

Just my impression, science is not a matter of belief, but the information is kept quiet to avoid possible panic.

[eyc234]

Repeating what top space scientist has said. So an advanced race that can move across space from a planet outside our solar system, 4.2 light years away(5.8786E+12 miles x 4.2) and they crash on our planet. They are also advanced enough to make this trip but are so scared of us that they do not make contact. Then there is the lack of proof, with approximately 15 billion cellphones in the world that can capture everything in our life in clear color both as still pictures and video but there is not one clear undeniable picture or video ever presented. As for the conspiracies that governments are keeping things secret, that means that not one of the thousands of people in the government and outside contractors has not come forward with undeniable proof, just saying something is not proof, that all of the governments around the world are in cahoots to keep this information secret. Someone in the last 75 years would have needed or wanted to get rich by being the first to put this proof out and cash in.

[ThirdOfFive]

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.

[Velvet]

I’m not sure how it would benefit the Defence Department to make something like this up, but personally I have never seen a UFO.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Velvet

I’m not sure how it would benefit the Defence Department to make something like this up, but personally I have never seen a UFO.

Would you like to? Would you enjoy/fear seeing something that seemed "unusual" or unreal?
I have been fortunate to have seen, heard, smelled things I could not identify. Sometimes it is exciting. Sometimes it is frightening. But, it reminds me that more things in the universe then our tiny minds can imagine.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by rjm1cc

Is there any country that says they have seen a UFO?

I saw it discussed too on News Nation. I really do not think they exist, but it appears that more than half of the American public do think they exist.

I am trying to keep an open mind.