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To: MarkBsnr

I don’t know what the UFO is, it’s probably anything else but a UFO.

Perhaps the Msgr’s comments were considered so strange that no one decided to issue a clarification.

I’d like to know, for example, why he was convinced they are extraterrestrial.

I knew of a dentist who claimed he’d been on board their ships and was going to take a trip to the pleiades.

Personally, I’m not convinced that these things are ETs. I think it’s more likely they are Government Programs. Like War of the Wolrds by O Wells radio hoax.


40 posted on 07/09/2010 5:27:57 PM PDT by 0beron
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To: 0beron
Well, for instance, the replacement for the SR71 Blackbird. Here in flyover country, people occasionally see an object going far too fast for conventional aircraft. Yet, the SR71 was top secret until it was decommissioned with a top speed of oh, say Mach 3.5 or so.

Or so? The estimates that I have seen place it at Mach 5.0 or even higher.

Does Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas, et al have anything in the works? What have they already done? I understand that there are eyewitness occurances, but William of Occam had a really sharp point.

42 posted on 07/09/2010 5:35:44 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: 0beron
I don’t know what the UFO is, it’s probably anything else but a UFO.

I know what you mean, but it probably WAS a UFO, which is simply an unidentified flying object. That object could be a blimp or a balloon, but until it's identified, the term UFO suffices.

I keep an open mind on such things, but I've never seen anything that is remotely convincing. One of the books on UFOs, the Day After Roswell, was loaned to me by a UFO buff. He told me the forward was written by Strom Thurmond. Here's the forward. It's clear to anyone that's dealt with writings from politicians that the author, Philip Corso, worked for Thurmond at one time and told Thurmond, or someone on his staff, that he was writing a book and asked Thurmond to write a forward. One of Thurmond's staff put together a complimentary biography and gave it to Corso. I later read that Thurmond stated he had no idea of the nature of the book when he agreed to write the forward. If you read the forward, there's no mention of UFOs.

The rest of the book was similarly slippery, in my opinion. This is what I've run into whenever I've investigated supposedly paranormal activities. It's like the store in Alice in Wonderland, where all the shelves are full until she looks directly at one. Then it's empty, but all the shelves around it are full.

64 posted on 07/09/2010 8:05:54 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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