Alien Visitations - Stony Brook · PDF fileUFOs What is a UFO? •All are indeed...
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Alien Visitations
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“The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by such learned dunderheads [priests and pedants]; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe -- that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power, and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.” HL Mencken
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Close Encounters
• I: Visual sighting of aerial object (UFO) • II: Observation plus physical effects
• Heat • Electrical interference • Paralysis; frightened animals • Physical damage
• III: Direct observation of extraterrestrials • IV: Abduction
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UFOs
What is a UFO?
• All are indeed unidentified. • Most are Venus. • Almost certainly none are alien spacecraft
Picture from Robert Sheaffer: http://www.debunker.com/ufo.html
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Fata Morgana (mirage)
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Extraordinary Claims
Require Extraordinary Evidence
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Is UFOlogy a science ahead of its time?
Consider • Scientific study of Witchcraft • Phrenology • Fairies • Homeopathy • N-rays • Orgone • … • Cf Shaeffer 1980 (http://www.debunker.com/historical/
SmithsonianUFOtalk.html)
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Nazca Lines
Nazca Desert, southern Peru Created 450 600 AD 10-30 cm deep depressions in desert
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Crop Circles
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Crop Circles
• Mostly found in southern England • Have gotten more complex with time • Doug Bower and Dave Chorley have
admitted to making hundreds, and demonstrated how on BBC
• Cereologists still maintain that not all can be hoaxes
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If you had physical evidence of UFO visitations, could you keep it a secret? Could the government?
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Area 51 Groom Lake Nevada
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton Ohio
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Roswell
• Something happened in Roswell NM in June 1947
• Yes, there was a cover-up • No, flying saucers were not involved
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Roswell: Anatomy of a Coverup
• July 1947: Top secret Air Force balloon payload (project Mogul) crashes
• Military rushes in to clean up evidence; • Plants cover story of crashed “flying disc” • AF retracts story next day and shows debris • Nobody cares until 1980s
• Pentagon releases top secret reports in 1994
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Reports by Pilots
• Jan 7 1948: T.F. Mantell chases UFO in P51. Crashes. Chased top secret high altitude Skyhook balloon.
• Nov 17 1986. K. Terauchi flying JAL 1628 over Alaska reports UFO (2 lights) following for 50 minutes. 2 other planes fail to confirm. Saw Jupiter and Mars.
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UFOs are • Usually Venus • Or lenticular clouds • Or insects • Or weather balloons • Or bolides/rockets • Or hoaxes
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Do (did) they walk among us?
Dogu figurine, Japan, 1000-400 BCE Oannes
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The Mystery of the Dogon Inhabitants of Mali Legends written down in the 1930s speak of • Sirius B • 4 moons of Jupiter • Saturns rings • Elliptical planetary orbits
How could they have known this? cf. James Oberg in http://www.debunker.com/texts/dogon.html
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Future Evolution: Biological or Mechanical?
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How do aliens think?
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How to Serve Man
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