23 - The Fringe

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23 - The Fringe
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On May 5, 1999, I received a pair of emails
indicating that alien UFOs would attack the Earth
on October 3 of that year. Obviously that didnt
happen, and the emails themselves contain many
elements of a hoax. You may read them yourself
here and here
Is there really something to all this UFO/alien
business? How can one tell?
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Eyewitness Accounts Memory
What we see is often not really there (Lowells
canals) People can be convinced during
questioning to remember things that did not
happen (many recent sexual abuse
allegations) People lie People like to play
tricks People tend to want to believe People
dont like to change their minds People dont
like to admit when they are wrong People make up
things when they do not understand PEOPLE ARE
HUMAN
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Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)
Most people equate UFO with alien craft The term
unidentified actually means unidentified Reports
of UFOs go back centuries
Prior to invention of airplanes, UFOs tended to
look like zeppelins Flying Disks reported by
Kenneth Arnold in 1945 while flying airplane near
Mt. Rainier - this is where the modern era
began - aliens now operate flying saucers, not
flying cigars! What aliens looked like also
varies from culture to culture and one era to
another. Global mass communication has changed
this.
The Greys (Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind)
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Project Blue Book - 1965
Because some UFOs might actually be aircraft
belonging to hostile countries (read USSR), the
US Air Force launched a study to try to identify
all such sightings as best as they could. The
breakdown
Identification Number of
Sightings Percentage of Total Astronomical
events 245 26.7 Aircraft 210
23.7 Satellites 152 17.1 Hoaxes,
Imagination, etc. 126 14.2 Insufficient
Data 85 9.6 Weather Balloons
36 4.1 (still being processed) 17
1.9 UNIDENTIFIED 16 1.8
The 16 unidentified cases are just that -
unidentified
Pilot Mistakes Venus for Plane
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Gulf Breeze

• Ed Walter, a native of Gulf Breeze, Florida,
  presents Polaroid photographs of UFOs/saucers to
  the people and press the town. He also reports
• being frozen by a beam of blue light from the
  craft while taking the pictures
• he was mysteriously lifted off the ground by a
  strange force during the event
• received telepathic messages from the aliens
• faced an alien eye-to-eye
• (this one was widely publicizes on TV at the time)

The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a pro-UFO group,
investigates suspects fraud
June 1990 - Pensacola News Journal Person who
bought Ed Walter's home discovered a model
"saucer" in the garage attic, Youth in the town
admitted that he and a friend helped Ed Walter
fake the pictures.
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Alien Abductions
The book that started the modern craze
Some individuals estimate that 10 of the
population has been abducted Given a population
of 2 million (greater Cinti) and average
lifetime of 80 yrs ? 5-10/night!
Q Why do we not witness 5-10 people being taken
away every night? A They have mastered the art
of becoming invisible Q Why then do we see
their spacecraft if they can become
invisible? A
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Roswell
Object crashes in June 1947 on Brazels
ranch Debris collected brought to nearby Army
Air Corps Base Base press officer releases report
of crashed discs Legend grows of alien bodies
set to Wright Field in Dayton

• Recently, at the request of Congressman H. Shiff
  (R-NM), the US General Accounting Office released
  all records relating to Roswell. They indicate
• no evidence for a cover-up
• no evidence for a UFO
• no evidence for alien bodies

Crash debris identified by Columbia NYU as
theirs - part of Project Mogul (now declassified)
- balloon-borne microphones to listen for Soviet
nuclear tests.
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The Alien Autopsy Film

• First aired by Fox as a true documentary in 1995.
  But
• Autopsy not carried out using methods of the
  profession
• Examiner does not handle instruments properly
• Anticontamination suits are bogus
• Injuries inconsistent with crash
• Warning signs used did not exist until 20 years
  later (OSHA)
• Organs have no connective tissue!! Etc.
• Kent Jeffrey, co-founder of the International
  Roswell Initiative, along with many other UFO
  supporters, claim that the film is a hoax.
• 1998 - Fox reveals the film as a hoax in
  subsequent airing!

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Taken from a Pro-UFO Site
Click On Me!
August 6, 1997, Mexico. Much controversy has
followed this almost unbelievable film of a UFO
taken downtown Mexico City in broad daylight.
Shown on countless television stations, and
still-framed in many magazines and books, it is
alleged that over 100 people watched this event
as it was filmed. The film did stand up to
analysis for quite some time. It is now
considered by most to be an ingenious hoax.
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Ancient Astronauts
1960s-1970s, Erik von Dainiken publishes
Chariots of the Gods books (the first one while
serving time in a Swiss prison for fraud,
supposedly) Claim Many ancient cultures
similarly helped by ETs (Example Egyptians could
not have built pyramids without help from them)
TODAY Many examples of people showing how it
could be done King Pacal of Palenque Ancient
Astronaut? Most experts on Mayan culture suggest
this Depicts Pacals journy to the underworld
(Xibalba) at the time of his death
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Some claim to see UFOs in artwork
Flying Saucer or a common motif ??
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Aliens in Spacecraft?
Actually depict the Sun Moon
Want to learn more?
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Lenticular clouds
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Crop Circles

• These patterns of crushed grass began to appear
  in England in the 1980's. Since then, they have
  been seen on other places, and the patterns have
  become more complex. Explanations given
• Alien landing sites - it was impossible" for any
  human to do this
• Wind vortices (totally absurd for the complex
  patterns seen)
• Hoaxes
• In 1991 David Bower and Dave Chorley claimed
  responsibility for starting the crop circle
  craze. They demonstrated live on BBC TV exactly
  how they did it. Since then, others have been
  caught in the act.

Apparently aliens have force fields
invisibility (i.e. the motion picture Signs),
travel interstellar distances and/or cross
dimensions but have to navigate by making
drawings in corn fields??
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Crop circles have become a form of art
See http//www.circlemakers.org/
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The Face on Mars
Richard C. Hoagland The monuments of Mars A City
on the Edge of Forever (1987) claims the feature
is artificial
Viking vs. MGS
Happy Face on Mars!
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So what? Does believing in this stuff harm anyone?
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1997 - 39 Members of Heavens Gate Cult Commit
Mass Suicide over a Simple Camera Artifact!
Saturn-Like Object - a UFO that would take HG
members to heaven after death?
Actually just the star SAO 141894
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Art Bell (radio host who has a lot of such stuff
on this show) Whitley Streiber (Communion)
post FAKED image of UFO following Hale-Bopp. For
a more complete description go here and here .
Original photo by Dave Tholen, U Hawaii
Doctored photo spread by Bell Streiber
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In April 2006, a number of web sites world-wide
carried the prediction by Eric Julien that
fragments of Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 would
strike the Earth on May 25. Apparently from a
psychic dream, he interpreted the Missing Earth
crop circle as a sign from aliens that parts of
SW3 would hit the earth. He proved it using
NASA software. It didnt happen. Because web
pages are ephemeral, I list them as PDF copes to
be preserved for posterity. Enjoy. US Newswire
Web Page pdf Juliens Web Page pdf
Disclaimer pdf
And then there was Comet Elenin
(2011) Nibiru? Energy Shield? UFO
Fleet? whatever...
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Summary - My Own Assessment Bring me a living
alien, or a piece of his spacecraft. Is that too
much to ask?
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers - (1956)
Mars Attacks! (1996)