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Looking For a Link Between Sci-Fi UFOs and UFO Reports
NewsWatcher writes "The BBC has an interesting story about the link between sightings of UFOs and sci-fi films. From the article: 'Documents from the Ministry of Defence released by the National Archives show the department recorded 117 sightings in 1995 and 609 in 1996.' Those years correlate with the screening of the film Independence Day (1996) and when The X-Files was at the height of its popularity in the UK (1995).
'The more that alien life is covered in films or television documentaries, the more people look up at the sky and don't look down at their feet,' said an expert on UFO sightings based at Sheffield Hallam University."
Tell that to my ass.
The more that alien life is covered in films or television documentaries, the more people look up at the sky and don't look down at their feet,' said an expert on UFO sightings based at Sheffield Hallam University.
Which means that they are seeing something.
UFOs have been observed since ancient times. The apostle John saw one. The Egyptians inscribed a UFO in their hieroglyphics. And the ancient Hebrews recorded the interactions of aliens and humans as the Nephilim.
I think there's more than the authorities are willing to divulge. It's interesting to see leaks like the quote above confirm what some of us have believed for a long time.
I'll start to believe this might be credible when there is a proven, positive correlation between the prominence of UFOs in film and on TV and the incidence of trip-and-fall accidents.
Why? You suspect a conspiracy that government pushes TV shows about conspiracy theories to cover up real conspiracies?
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Alien life must be even more boring than earth life if THAT show were to make a profit. Highly unlikely.
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Of course! Don't you realize that Wormhole X-treme! is just a coverup for the secret government Stargate project?
Really, the show ended after the Dinosaur Wars, they just didn't bother to tear down the studio.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
I think you missed the universal bailout that helped keep stellar motors afloat. The saucer evolution is obviously from new models being released to the market! Thanks to cash for clunkers, I can trade in my 1940's model (rather unreliable and prone to crash) for a new shiny one that can also submerge!
I believe plastic surgery and genetic manipulation is big with the races of the core worlds which is why so much variance in aliens is seen. Meh, I'll keep my tentacles and brow ridges (all the cool kids are getting big eyes and smooth heads).
Does it have an antenna?
Something like 0.2% of the US population claims to have been abducted by a UFO. This means about 16 flights per night for a medium-sized city. Do UFOs coordinate with air traffic control, or what?
UFO 149A, you are cleared to descend to 6000, turn right heading 240, report when over LAX VOR.
Psh, don't you realize that Wormhole X-treme is just a cover-up of the fact that Stargate is a cover-up for the real Stargate program?
What's this? Another weblog? On transit?
And for all practicality, when someone says "there talking", they mean "they're talking".
You just got troll'd!