UFOs (UAPs): Explanations?

Discussion in 'UFOs, Ghosts and Monsters' started by Magical Realist, Oct 10, 2017.

  1. Q-reeus Banned Valued Senior Member

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    The following link to a very brief summary of Jacques Vallee's UFO odyssey may just possibly lead to you actually reading one of his very insightful books on the topic.
    And just possibly, you may even then have a fundamental shift in perspective that will satisfy your repeated questions here:
    https://www.thinkanomalous.com/jacques-vallee.html
    For once I can reciprocate. And hope it keeps up.
     
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  3. Q-reeus Banned Valued Senior Member

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    There was no Eureka moment when I came down from sitting on the fence re UFOs and kindred phenomena. More of a back-and-forth mental struggle that gradually shifted in favor of not only the reality of non-mundane UFOs but that it was just a part of a continuum of supernatural/paranormal phenomena, traditionally considered separate by most who accepted e.g. poltergeist activity as too well documented to be just all hoax and hysteria. Vallee and Keel pointed out many instances of a linkage between those two in particular. In such cases it's always a value judgement thing - by the very nature of such instances they can never fall under conveniently repeatable laboratory study. Given every indication non-human intelligences with their own agenda quite different to ours are the actual source.
     
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  5. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    Fascinating website. Tks for posting it. Just watched the video on the Zaragoza Goblin case and found it very intriguing. One of the best documented cases of a poltergeist phenomenon we have, if we can even call it that. This one was just a voice, but it would talk to anyone who entered the apt, even the police. What does this tell us about the possibility of disembodied consciousnesses? In the very least that they CAN exist!
     
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  7. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    Interesting video, and an idea that I have read about before, don't ask me where or when.
    I'm not shifted my position but again reiterate that I firmly believe we are not alone, and again interestingly many reputable scientists expect we may have the "required imperial evidence" for its existence with the next couple of decades, albeit simple bacterial life or similar. I believe that is the thought of Seth Shostak and his SETI orginization.
    I would also fully support any further official, investigation/s into UFOs [the small unexplained number] and the idea put forward by Vallee...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vallée#Interpretation_of_the_UFO_evidence
    He advocates a stronger and more serious involvement of science in the UFO research and debate.[10] Only this can reveal the true nature of the UFO phenomenon.
    Bingo!
     
  8. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    Q-reeus:

    I provided the full, accurate quote in the same post. It was this:

    As I've said many times, we are dealing with non-material entities who have their own at best whimsical agendas and zero compulsion to comply with ridiculous demands of willfully ignorant, narrow-minded scoffers.
    Part of my response to that was:

    The problem is that when UFO evidence is good, the UFOs rapidly become mundane IFOs, and when it's bad we just end up with unsolvable cases - unsolvable due to lack of sufficient evidence. At that point, the skeptics say "We need more evidence." You, on the other hand, say "It must be non-material entities who have whimsical agendas and who defy narrow-minded scoffers."
    Have I misrepresented your position on this? I don't believe I have in the least. So what are you complaining about? Is it the quote marks I used to paraphrase your position? Are you complaining that people might misread the paragraph above as a direct quote from you, despite the fact that I provided the direct quote in a nice box with your name on it earlier in the very same post?

    I'm starting to think this coronavirus thing is affecting people's ability to think straight.

    No. You do what MR does and what every UFO nut does. You think that a large enough accumulation of shoddy evidence constitutes proof of aliens. Quantity not quality. MR thinks that the more spammed cases he reproduces here the better his argument becomes, but it doesn't work like that. 100 dodgy eyewitnesses isn't much better than one.

    It's based on observations of how the children were interviewed.

    Well, if you bothered to investigate the psychology of such things and the nature of memory you might not be quite so surprised at that. But I doubt you will.

    Next shiny bauble? We're moving on now, are we? Doubt has been cast on the Zimbabwe case, so let's find a new one and see if the skeptics can debunk that! Thing is: you guys never stick with anything long enough to actually try to make a case for your beliefs.

    Not at all. Here's what you wrote:

    None of the projection hypocrite trolls here have ever attempted for instance to seriously refute the newer US Naval encounters.​

    To which I replied:

    Nonsense. Obviously you haven't read the thread. Now go and do your homework.
    Note that no mention was made about these incidents being actually debunked. What we were talking about there was whether any of the "hypocrite trolls here" have ever attempted to seriously refute the alien craft hypothesis around those cases.

    Perhaps you have a very high standard of what a "serious" attempt to refute must involve. Is that your gripe? I read your complaint to mean that nobody here has attempted to provide a serious alternative explanation or explanations of the incidents. But I myself have done exactly that. Now, I obviously haven't gone out and reinterviewed all the relevant witnesses myself. I haven't been into the Navy archives. I don't have any access to information about this stuff that you don't have. But does that make me any less serious than you are? What make you think you have the superior argument on that?

    Sorry, I'm not jumping through your silly hoops. Search my posts in this thread and you'll see what I had to say about those cases. There is quite a lot there.

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    Oh, and as an afterthought, I'd just add that I always find it fascinating what people choose not to respond to. What you left out in your response to my post is as telling as what you chose to address. I asked you several direct questions, remember. How many did you answer? By my count, none.
     
  9. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    You really think I was trying to pass that off as something that really happened? Seriously?

    Go outside. Get some fresh air.
     
  10. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    Is anybody here doing that, or are you setting up a straw man?
     
  11. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    Presumably that wouldn't have anything to do with the TV show about aliens they'd all watched the previous night.
     
  12. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    That's all I noticed in the video.

    In the clouds? On their way to the windscreen? Look at the sky in the video.

    Refraction.

    Not sure what you're talking about. Got a still?

    Should it be? Show me.

    Does it? The camera is moving all over the place.
     
  13. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    Yes, just like that.

    And the alien craft story is not unlikely or contrived, and you alien nuts have no bias. Okay then. Whatever you say.

    "Man videos a cloud" is very unlikely to make the evening news. "Man videos an alien spaceship" is somewhat more likely to be broadcast. There's a reason for that, even if the video doesn't actually show an alien spaceship. Think about it.
     
  14. Q-reeus Banned Valued Senior Member

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    I prefer to respond only to what imo is worth responding to. Evidently you have an abundance of time on your hands to indulge in mostly pointless point-by-point provocative questions and/or outright distortions/assertions. It becomes tiresome to keep correcting everything twisted or drawn out of context. Add habitual flaming e.g. oft repeated use of 'UFO nut(s)', used in such a way as to imply that term is apt for whoever combatant you are attacking. FLAMING. Contrary to forum rules/guidelines. And from someone normally expected to be the shining example of forum netiquette. Hardly.

    You along with every other participant or lurker here knows my position. It doesn't fit your contrived narrative deriding 'little green men' etc. and that irritates no doubt. Too bad.
     
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  15. foghorn Valued Senior Member

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    I see what you mean now.
    I notice JamesR addresses that point in his post #4085.
     
  16. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    Oh? And what TV show was that? Or is this just you lying again because you've got nothing else?
     
  17. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    So, how many was it? 2 or 3? Can't anyone there even count up to 3?

    This whole thing stinks of fraud. Are you actually believing that several spaceships with a couple of aliens traveled light years just so they could set down near a schoolyard in bumfuck Zimbabwe only to flash some mental images to a group of school children? This was their mission? And, to what ends did this mission have purpose? It is said the aliens wanted to state something about how humans are screwing up the planet and that we could do better. Why would they pass this along to a bunch of kids in the middle of nowhere? Why not set down on the lawns of the White House and pass on this vital information to the President?

    Since then, have any of those children accomplished anything remotely having to do with this event other than one girl touring UFO conferences repeating her story?

    This is a load of horse puckies. Whatever adults who dreamed this up and had these kids indoctrinated to tell such a story should have their fucking heads examined.
     
  18. river

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    Yeah I saw a program some time ago that mentioned this experience and the investigation into this experience .
     
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  19. Q-reeus Banned Valued Senior Member

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    His way of addressing it leaves much to be desired. I'll quote the entire relevant passage in #4085:
    From my #4055:
    James R no doubt read that but chose to fabricate a caricature 'paraphrase' "It must be non-material entities who have whimsical agendas and who defy narrow-minded scoffers."
    Note what is in red. I made a single slip-up earlier by not adding a customary and consistent 'imo' which gave James the chance to pounce. Now inserted below in red:
    Don't ask for yet more on that silly episode. I detest having to deal with such needless digressions.
     
  20. river

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    Q-reeus , your post # 4094 is absolutely disgusting .

    Your response to MR in that post ;

    " So, how many was it? 2 or 3? Can't anyone there even count up to 3?

    This whole thing stinks of fraud. Are you actually believing that several spaceships with a couple of aliens traveled light years just so they could set down near a schoolyard in bumfuck Zimbabwe only to flash some mental images to a group of school children? This was their mission? And, to what ends did this mission have purpose? It is said the aliens wanted to state something about how humans are screwing up the planet and that we could do better. Why would they pass this along to a bunch of kids in the middle of nowhere? Why not set down on the lawns of the White House and pass on this vital information to the President?

    Since then, have any of those children accomplished anything remotely having to do with this event other than one girl touring UFO conferences repeating her story?

    This is a load of horse puckies. Whatever adults who dreamed this up and had these kids indoctrinated to tell such a story should have their fucking heads examined. "

    Is this acceptable ?

    Anyone , a person , is welcome to comment .
     
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  21. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    That post was by (Q) not Q-ueerus...
     
  22. river

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    Sorry people .
     
  23. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    River: please - learn to use the quote feature properly.
     

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