The Real British X-Files

blakeharris snips from a site called The X-Journals: "Nick Pope used to work for the British Ministry of Defense and for 3 years headed up their UFO project. His remit was to investigate UFO sightings reported to the British government, looking for evidence of any potential threat, or anything judged to be of any 'defence significance.'" Some very interesting anecdotes in here, as well as some background on how certain files about these sightings came to be preserved in the first place.

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Parent wears a Tinfoil hat to work

[GreenTech11]

Remember to wear your tinfoil hat when you go outdoors, and don't forget to tell everyone that we never landed on the moon. Paranoia and distrust of the Government should only be taken so far.

Re:UFO stories from airline pilots

[4D6963]

No, they are skeptic because they haven't seen good evidence.

More like because they don't want to see it and quickly dismiss what they accidentally see anyways. But they tend to focus on average Joe's UFO sightings rather than the well documented and really hard to explain ones.

And my appeal to authority is justified in that you'd think that a highly trained elite pilot who's flown for years and even been to space would know what he's looking at when he looks in the sky around him.

Re:UFO stories from airline pilots

[4D6963]

Yeah, you see, that in my opinion is the problem with scientists. The defence guys actually try and investigate these reports and obviously it's not the Russians or the Chinese who spent the last 60 years flying those things above our heads. Which means at least SOME scientists should wonder what's up with these phenomenons and try to find out. Because that's a scientist's job to explain the world around us.

Which is what annoys me about scientists in general these days, they're more interested in dicking around with bullshit ass string theory and its 26 space dimensions straight pulled from their arse cause that's where the grant money is at, and no one's left to study the green elephant in the room that everyone tries to sweep under the rug.