France: UFO sightings are no X-Files

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[Dachi]

The UFO thing is interesting

I tend to be very skeptic. I am Atheist, I don't believe in ghosts etc. and any time someone is explaining a phenomenon to me I have already decided in my head what they witnessed was no phenomenon and just a coincidence or statistical anomaly etc.

I have always lumped UFO's in with big foot, perhaps leaving open the possibility of some top secret government experiment on an alternate aircraft, smudged photos, pranks, doctored videos, etc.

Lately I have been seeing some of the videos and presentations posted on places like Youtube and Google video and I have to admit I am becoming less sure it is all a lie.

Previously I couldn't comprehend how someone could travel 20 or 30 light years to get here only to fly around a bit, stick a probe in someone?s bunghole and leave.

Even some respected people like Buzz Aldrin and the Apollo 11 crew have claimed to see a UFO.

There are some theory's that Aliens may have assisted humans in some technologies (one of them is explained on a vid from www.IrishUfology.net posted to video.goolgle.com).

Some religious phenomenon?s like the Lost Ark have spawned theory that it was an attempt by aliens to teach humans about electricity.

There are also quite a few reports of UFO sightings after humans demonstrated nuclear capability.

Many reported sightings predate human ability of flight, countering the belief that it is some top secret stealth plane the government is building.

One theory (shown on above mentioned Google vid form IrishUfology) explains that they believe the reason Aliens may be able to reach earth from UFO?s is because they believe they are on a planet in our solar system. This sounds crazy after seeing what Mars looks like and realizing all other planets are inhabitable, but the planet they live on does not necessarily need to revolve around the sun on the same plane as Earth.

To be honest, we have never even given much thought to this idea that there may be other planets with orbits different than earth. Recently a telescope has been launched for the purpose of finding other planets: (<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10872&#38;feedId=online-news_rss20" target="_newWindow">http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10872&#38;feedId=online-news_rss20</a>)

One guy pointed out (same vid) that humans seem to make unusually significant advancements every ~36K years or so. He believes this mysterious planet may pass near Earth every ~36K years explaining this advancement.

We have known for some time that the best way to ensure our survival in case of a huge meteor striking earth is to inhabit another planet. What if we were not the first people to think of it?

What if there is another society watching ours, letting us think outside the box to see what technologies we come up with on our own that they might not have thought of, and occasionally checking our progress helping us with significant advancements along the way?

If nothing else, it would make for a good science fiction book.

[jabbotts]

2001: a space odissy

"If nothing else, it would make for a good science fiction book."

An alien artifact programmed to cultivate intelligent life spurs on the evolution of one of the great ape (that'd be us) then checks in every few thousand years to confirm progress or give another evolutionary push.

All three books span human history from the discover of tools and meat on through to a fantasticle future where even exposure to space is simply a medical injury that can be treated. It kept me reading on the subway for a few months anyhow.

Try to keep an open mind though. Ghosts may be nothing but to presume we're the most intelligent the expanses of space have to offer is rather arrogant, even for us increadably arrogant fifth children of the great ape family. My belief is that there's something more advance than us out there. It may have been spotted a few times but for the most part, it's smart enough to stay the away from us still in our evolutionary infancy.

[lloydpowell23]

Bad Journilism

This is bad journalism. You can't make reference to something in the title ("No X-Files") and make no reference to it in the main body of the story. Who said that? What does it mean? We are left wondering.

[imacpwr]

Re: Bad Journilism

I'm guessing it's more a spelling problem..
;-)

[Mack_The_Knife]

meh

UFO sightings are not closed files?
X, crossed out
maybe?

[Mack_The_Knife]

meh

UFO sightings are not closed files?
X, crossed out
maybe?

[RobinSzcz]

UFO information

It is a pleasure for me, in the US, to see a country willing to share the truth (for better or worse) about UFOs with their citizens. It shows respect, even though it took thirty years to get to it.
robin szczepaniak

[nelsonde]

If they're so smart...

If these aliens are so advanced and are determined to observe us without revealing their presence, why do they forget to turn their lights off?

[emjaysee]

re: If they're so smart

You make a good point. However, like many people, you forget that we're talking about aliens. We wouldn't know what their agenda is. Perhaps they want us to know they exist but aren't prepared to reveal themselves completely, or perhaps they don't care one way or the other. Maybe they're teenage aliens out for a joyride, or vacationers gauking at the natives. Maybe they don't have bodies and the visible light we see is all we could ever see of them. There may be some that don't have lights that we don't see at night. Maybe the ones with lights are probes. Who knows? The fact remains that people obviously see these things and they have to be 'something'. What they are remains to be 'seen', pardon the pun.

[Mack_The_Knife]

Angular consideration

Unidentified Flying Aircraft...
does not mean Extraterrestrial Vehicle.
Knowing about unidentified aircraft sightings can be very useful. It can be in affects of government conspiracy, it makes it publicly available to see how attentative the public is. If there is authorized or unauthorized aircraft activity in a specific area, it can be investigated. Extraterrestrial air craft, local government air craft, foreign government air craft, or things entering the atmosphere which should not be doing so, i.e. shooting stars, fallen satelites, or debris from space launch accidents.

[edgirard]

France: UFO sightings are no X-Files... & UFO believeability

After watching dvd videos of parts of the "in the clear, unencrypted 400 hours of videos recorded during the Apollo missions and seeing the infrared recorded appearance of craft suddenly becoming visible in the earth's atmosphere in formations, and individually" ;the story of and the evidence of the dropa stones in china, the story of and evidence of past alien presence in Mali Africa; Dr. David Sereda's explanation of how achieving near light speed and beyond by implemtation of non-radioactive, complete annaialation fusion power generation, and implementation of the gravitational waves emitted provide irrefutably that theory and evidence of the acuality of space travel and actual infrared ccd camera's video recording of celestial space vehicles, as well as, picture of alien spacecraft parked on the moon, and other testimonies of recovered spaceships hidden away underground etc, the ability to see the facts are simply undeniable. There are just too many proofs of actual alien space vehicles, archeological trophies of extraterrestial archeological evidence, and, other evidences and testimonies by those who have been professionally employed to reverse-engineer the technologies recovered, to simply dismiss the possibility of and the existence of extraterrestials and their powered spaceflight as unbelievalbe and without merits of convincing proof's and finally don't forget the filmed evidence and testimonies of "sensational" events occurring over Area 51 witnessed by citizens and tourists in the area surrounding the "Black Mailbox"! These evidences simply overwhelm denials of even the possibility of the existence of extraterrestials, their crafts and powered spaceflight using technology that is known about; but, simply hidden away from public and commercial explotation. If anyone denies any of the foregoing examples; then, so be it; however, denials don't disprove or erase facts.

[Selenologist]

FRANCE: UFO SIGHTINGS ARE NO X-FILES... & UFO BELIEVEABILITY

edgirard should learn to use the English language properly and a little more efficient. In his comments, partially copied and pasted below, he repeats all kinds of unfounded claims that do not have one iota of evidence to support their reality. Obviously, he is not a logical thinker and is blindly fooled by the statements of others and what is shown on TV. The dropa stones are not evidence of anything connected with aliens or alien craft. "Dr" David Sereda talks a lot but doesn't say anything worthwhile listening to which is the main complaint by others who have bought or watched his presentations. There is no evidence of "alien presence" anywhere on Planet Earth. TV documentaries are not evidence. And the biggest laugh of edgirard's comments re: "picture of alien spacecraft parked on the moon" which is just plain, ol' B.S. There isn't a single recovered "spaceship" hidden anywhere on Planet Earth. Siminlarly, there are no "archeological trophies of extraterrestial archeological evidence." He rambles on, as a gullible believer, without realizing that "denials don't disprove or erase facts" except where the "facts" are created in television studios and presented as on the History Channel to fool people such as edgirard. He ought to repeat 100 times the maxim: "Claims require evidence" or they're just empty air, such as edgirard's comments.

[rakeonrake]

Desensitization

Well, I guess it wouldn't make much sense to tell the Human Race all at once that we are just one of many races out there in the stars. So, our governments have slowly been desensitizing us to the idea that aliens exist.

Organizations like the History Channel wouldn't be able to glean as much info as they do from the Freedom of Information act, unless the powers that be didn't want them to.

By now, if you were to ask the average person if they would be shocked if aliens were proven to exist, I would bet the answer would be no. They still might not admit they believe in aliens in a social situation for fear of being alienated (no pun intended), but they still are probably agnostic about it in the back of their minds.

The evidence that we are given is becoming more and more credible over time as we become a space faring race ourselves (citizens are now starting to reach orbit).

It is my belief, that the powers that be will feel that we are ready to know the truth in the next few years.

There is way to much evidence already for aliens to be nonsense. High ranking military people have been involved in UFO encounters, NASA has been involved as per recordings, numerous pilots have encountered UFO's and spoken about it on flight recorders (black boxes). The list of credible sources is very extensive. Also, there was the American military project Blue Book, whose specific purpose was to assess the threat of UFO's; it was cancelled in 1969. Why would they have had such a project if there were no UFO's?

I don't believe it's an accident that we are being shown this evidence as of late.

Sightings of aliens have gone back before biblical times as per paintings and such. If they wanted to hurt us, it would seem that they would have done so by now.

I don't know about the abduction thing, but it's pretty evident that aliens are real and most of them seem pretty peaceful.

[darkgiant]

Wow.....

Oh.... my..... god.... this whole thread is shot through with retardation. From people regurgitating tabloid headlines as facts, to people who are trying to sound smarter than they really are by using big words that they can't spell, to people who seem to only want to insult others to prove that they are better than them. Jesus, people, pull your heads out. the story was NOT about proving or disproving alien life. It was about the fact that the french govt. is releasing a series of files that document unexplained phenomena. NOTHING was said in the article about anyone saying that they were probed, or whatever the little green men are supposed to do!