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How UFO Reports Change With the Technology of the Times
Smithsonian ^

Posted on 02/03/2018 12:19:06 PM PST by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 02/03/2018 12:19:06 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

In before the pic of the guy with wild hair and goofy look on his face !


2 posted on 02/03/2018 12:29:11 PM PST by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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Nevermind that the U.S. kinda helped in the UFO sighting stuff with experimental suff ?


3 posted on 02/03/2018 12:43:27 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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4 posted on 02/03/2018 12:46:19 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: BenLurkin

(rolls eyes)

It is a well-known fact that alien ‘visitors’ mimic the current technology of whatever the mudball has as they visit.

So balloons, blimps and now, flying saucers are the drones released by the Aliens who monitor this Eden.


5 posted on 02/03/2018 12:52:26 PM PST by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: snooter55

Wow, I see a resemblance there !!

;o)


6 posted on 02/03/2018 12:58:48 PM PST by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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To: BenLurkin

The look of the aliens as well, first they were Angels, Demons, elves. Now, since an outer limits episode showing some big eyed aliens, we have big eyed alien sightings... the
phenomena is a cultural one.


7 posted on 02/03/2018 1:16:26 PM PST by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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There are even a few eccentrics who mimic things that don't fly

8 posted on 02/03/2018 1:19:19 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Paradox
the phenomena is a cultural one.

That's an eye opener...

Seriously, the article and your comment hit on the most significant point. We see what we are conditioned to see by our culture.

9 posted on 02/03/2018 1:21:51 PM PST by pfflier
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Apparently biased misleading unresearched article- There are several archival reports of Revolutionary War soldiers seeing bright UFO`s in 1776 flying over battle areas... I researched this for 10 years and found a lot of reports in newspapers, archived journals, diaries in Canada/USA and Native Americans` accounts via oral histories by the talkers, etc., about fast and slow flying stars, lights, etc. and in the colonies, back to 1600`s. These writer guys are very lazy, never do their homework.


10 posted on 02/03/2018 1:42:50 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ((((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))))))
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To: BenLurkin

Were paintings of UFOs blurry?


11 posted on 02/03/2018 2:04:38 PM PST by fso301
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12 posted on 02/03/2018 2:09:18 PM PST by Zeneta
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To: jmcenanly

What’s that green thing to the right? It has a face but it’s not smiling.


13 posted on 02/03/2018 2:11:21 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: bunkerhill7

In the middle ages if you saw a light in the sky, you knew it was a lantern on the end of a witch’s broomstick.


14 posted on 02/03/2018 2:12:40 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: fso301

https://listverse.com/2016/04/24/10-historic-divine-paintings-that-clearly-show-ufos/

Some of them are blurry - others are pretty clear!


15 posted on 02/03/2018 2:14:44 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts)
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To: PLMerite

My data only goes back to 1621 in America.


16 posted on 02/03/2018 2:21:02 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ((((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))))))
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The article simply states that observers see what their culture knows then describes the sighting in those terms. I don't think it is denying the presence of UFOs.

The brain doesn't know what it doesn't know

Basic research on hallucinations will tell you that the brain tries to fill in the gaps created by the unknown by substituting the known.

Regardless of what they saw, it would be no surprise that someone in the 1600's would see an aerial sailing ship or falling star where someone in the early 1900's might see some form of airplane or airship and someone in the 1960's a rocket or spaceship. An SLBM in San Diego last year had people describe seeing a worm hole. Has anybody but Morgan Freeman seen any of those lately?

17 posted on 02/03/2018 2:26:06 PM PST by pfflier
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Humans see something unusual in the sky and try to equate it within their range of knowledge. Remember the Superman intro - “It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s . . .”?

IMO, Biblical Ezekiel saw something way outside of his experience and still gave a pretty accurate description of an aerial device and outlanders coming to earth. I particularly like the “Wheels with a wheel” analogy. He must have seen cart/chariot wheels spinning rapidly (think cowboy movies and racing stage coaches with their wheels having the “wheels within a wheel” optical illusion.)


18 posted on 02/03/2018 2:27:07 PM PST by Oatka
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To: stylin19a

Not so fast!

From the source (http://greyfalcon.us/pictures/Flying%20Saucers.htm):

All of these photos are computer generated forensic composite illustrations. None of them are official USAF photos. Since the USAF seems very reluctant to de-classify these birds, these illustrations were created to give people an idea of what they looked like. Yes, they really did exist, but due to some stability problems, this particular model was scrapped.


19 posted on 02/03/2018 2:35:47 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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hey...thanks !
I just looked for photos cause I had recently ran across one of this saucer plane photos.
It looks like the story backs up the photos ?


20 posted on 02/03/2018 3:05:44 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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