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UK UFO Sightings Declassified, Still No Intergalactic Relations
schwit1 is just one of the massive flood of readers (and publications) writing to tell us about the recently declassified UK Ministry of Defense account of a supposed UFO sighting. Included are nineteen sightings between 1986 and 1992, with the most notable being a sighting in 1991 with a US Air Force pilot's first-hand account. Not that this lends an air of credibility to anything, just more papers with more words. "Almost 200 such files will be made available by the MoD over the next four years. [...] UFO expert and journalism lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, Dr David Clarke, said the documents would shed new light on relatively little-known sightings. He said some conspiracy theorists would already have decided that the release of the papers was a 'whitewash.' He added: 'Because the subject is bedevilled by charlatans and lunatics, it is career suicide to have your name associated with UFOs, which is a real pity. The National Archives are doing a fantastic job here. Everyone brings their own interpretation. Now you can look at the actual primary material — the stuff coming into the MoD every day — and make your own mind up.'"
Do you really think the MoD (or the CIA, NSA, etc.) are going to provide us with the real deal? Of course it's a whitewa.....NO, NO NOT THE ANAL PROBE AGAIN!!!
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No alien civilization is expending the mammoth amount of resources needed to traverse the vast distances of interstellar space just to stick a probe up your ass. Deal with it.
yeah, but, it's more PC to say, "Aliens stuck a probe up my ass!" than saying "I stuck a probe up my ass because I LIKE IT!"
I'll still blame the aliens thank you very much!
No alien civilization is expending the mammoth amount of resources needed to traverse the vast distances of interstellar space just to stick a probe up your ass. Deal with it.
I think you underestimate the driving power of finding inlets of pornography.
I am the richest astronaut ever to win the superbowl.
Considering that most of the people whose asses they probe are smelly rednecks with beer guts and only a few teeth, I would question their taste. You travel 100's of light years, only to forgo probing Natalie Portman for some trailer park skank?!?! Aliens are indeed strange.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
To counter your wildly irresponsible statements, I offer proof.
Foolish Earth meat-creature, there are no aliens here! Just thinking about this ridiculous idea makes my vocal tubes swell with mirth! Ho ho!
I'm so excited I just made water in my pantaloons!
Which medieval paintings are those? And are you seriously citing your knowledge of radar screens based on an Atari game?
Obligatory Calvin and Hobbes quote: Sometimes I think the surest sign intelligent life exists in the universe is that none of it has come here.
Prediction: The real iPhone killer is going to be sex robots from Japan. Think about it.
... are you seriously citing your knowledge of radar screens based on an Atari game?
Laugh now, but when the revolution comes, I am the one who will fly the TIE fighters to save humanity. I have countless hours of simulation time to prove it. :-)
Similar training has also taught me the best way to win a firefight (like let's say, Iraq or Vietnam or WW2 Germany) is to bunny hop diagonally, then make a rocket-jump to higher ground! Seriously, the guvmint needs to apply this to our armed forces training now!
There are also dragons in medieval paintings. "You will have to explain why" they don't exist or else, obviously, we must accept that dragons are real. It's well known that the fire of a dragon's breath goes "from 400K to 700K in a matter of seconds," so we can safely say this is confirmed by ironclad modern empirical evidence!
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