Oh, I believe that many of these reports are legitimate - that is, level-headed people are really seeing inexplicable things.
The question is, what are they seeing; and is there just one explanation?
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Thanks for telling it like it really is instead of falling for the bs peer pressure to come up with snide remarks.
When you’ve really studied, with an open mind and some understanding of human nature, all the reports down through the decades, you can’t help but come to the conclusion that people have been seeing *something*.
At times, I’m sure they’ve seen our own aircraft before they were ‘released’ to the public. But other sightings are baffling.
I’m currently reading ‘The Close Encounters Man’, a biography of J. Allen Hynek by Mark O’Connell. It’s a very well-written and fascinating book - not just about Hynek’s involvement with UFO stuff, but also his professional work in astronomy and physics, and his work with weaponry during WWII.
I don’t think a man of that caliber was chasing ‘will-o’-wisps’.
I actually believe in UFOs, but there are a great deal of plausible explanations for this incident, and they’re not all snide.
I saw a UFO once. I’m unsure of what was. It looked like 6 or 7 stories of a bombed out building just hanging there in the sky. The weather was clear, I pointed it out to several people who also couldn’t make it out, then our shuttle to the metro station arrived and we resumed our commute back to the ‘burbs.
It wasn’t an aircraft, it didn’t move, and it wasn’t suspended. It was unidentifiable.
Then there was the incident one evening at Broyhill park in 1959, my sister and I saw the lights overhead gyrating in and out of a cloud at dusk... but I was too young to make a detailed observation. My sister remembers that as well.
I don’t arbitrarily discount sightings and in the extreme, have even wondered about parallel time lines, other dimensions etc... even organic dopamine secretions, or satanic manifestations. It is something that comes to mind occasionally after reading articles or hearing other people who have observed the unidentifiable as well.