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Deathbed Confession Says Aliens Were at Roswell
xnuandax writes "The army's explanation of weather balloons in the Roswell, New Mexico incident 60 years ago has been dealt a serious public relations blow. Late Army Lt. Walter Haut had signed a sealed affidavit prior to his death last year asserting that he had witnessed the wreckage of an egg-shaped craft and its extraterrestrial crew while working at the Roswell Army Air Field. An article at News.com.au reviews how Haut had worked as public relations officer for the Roswell base and was involved in the original weather balloon explanation of events at the time. This recent evidence would seem to confirm speculation that egg-shaped saucers are notoriously difficult to fly safely at low altitude."
"As much as I want to believe aliens are among us, it just doesn't make sense that a civilization advanced enough to cross interstellar space would crash in New Mexico. And the chances of aliens being humanoid in appearance are close to zero."
Could your mind be anymore closed?
What you try to pass of as "objective" thinking is actually a stunning demonstration of your complete lack of those very reasoning faculties you wish to try to convince us you possess. You are nothing more than a caged animal, unable to understand that there is more here than just the confines of your cage. And as such, if the door were to one day fly open, you would merely poke your head out yet remain fastly inside, quite content.
Why?
A drop of water is of the same basic shape because of surface tension, and its dominance, at various length scales, over the forces of air resistance and gravitational gradients. There's really only one principle at work there.
Arguing that relatively advanced lifeforms should all be vaguely humanoid because we consider ourselves to be advanced and humanoid is essentially saying that environment has no influence on evolution. It might fly at the Creation Museum, but won't work in the real world.
maybe they were muslim terrorist hijacker aliens?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
The U.S. is quite the innovation machine whenever it is scared shitless.
"...Also the US doesn't really have a history of shooting down aircraft over our air space.
If you compare the number of Soviet recon aircraft the US has shot down vs the number the US has lost you will see that the US really isn't that trigger happy..."
Umm? The US has a history of murdering anything that moves!! We also have a history of making extravagant claims for our weapons and then suppressing the fact that they don't work very well.
So I suspect that if we haven't shot down many Russian recon planes then the reason is that we failed to hit them. I don't think you realise just how bad our military are. We can only win battles against small third-world countries like Afghanistan, and most of the people we kill there are civilians...
why not do it via radio
Maybe they tried, but on a wrong frequency (light, perhaps). Maybe we interpretted it as noise from a nearby satellite. Maybe we got it, but SETI@Home failed to identify it. Maybe they have non-interference laws and just wanted to have a look, but sent fresh pilots into unfamiliar atmospheric conditions because all the good pilots were busy with more important planets.
Of course, there I was, ranting on, whilst feeling smugly superior, and all the time failing to understand the plight of misunderstood American military personnel. Now, if you believe that, you'll believe anything.
prepare the survey weasels.