JonMJ33

I am wondering what peoples opinions are with respect to the UFO phenomenon?

I suppose I will also start this discussion with the following:

In the spring of 2013, 40 witnesses from around the world including Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer along with military personnel, intelligence personnel, defense contractors, government officials, physicists, historians, lawyers and researchers who testified before former members of the Senate and House about the reality of the UFO phenomenon.

Here is a short clip about the "Citizen Hearing On Disclosure."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paFhgWqb100

DeadChannel

Why has there never been a piece of hard (ie. not anecdotal) evidence?

Exo

In a day where literally everything is recorded by somebody, the fact that there is not a lot of hard evidence, especially recently, is proof enough for me that 99% of all UFO sightings are bullsh*t.

The only real freaky event that left me with no answers was the Pheonix Lights incident in the 90s.

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Chula Vista

Totally explained. I got to see that live during the short time we lived in Temp, AZ.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Exo

Well that's that.

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Chula Vista

As soon as the sun came up the next day and you could see the outline of the range and then picture the order in which the lights went out it was clear.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

JonMJ33

No its not.

JonMJ33

Anybody who has spent a tiny amount of time investigating this case is well aware that there were flares in the sky that night. Look deeper into the case, you will see that the flares were an entirely separate event.

Consider this:

JonMJ33

I agree, the vast majority of UFO events are mistaken identity, or hoaxes etc. It is the few cases that are truly strange and have a good amount of evidence that need to be taken seriously.

Yes the Phoenix Lights case is interesting. Especially when you have the Governor of the state telling you about the reality of the event. Here is Governor Fife Symington in his own words:



Also with regards to newer cases, this case has come to be very interesting indeed. The incident also has video from the Department of Homeland Security. The Scientific Coalition for Ufology came out with a 162 pg. analysis of the event and it is very technical. All information with the applicable links are included in this article.

-Leaked UFO video captured by Homeland Security analyzed

Here is the video:

DeadChannel

Except that the Phoenix Lights have been reasonably well refuted in this very thread.

Oh ffs, that's not evidence.

Oxymoron

That doesn't make it scientifically valid.