CIA releases its own X-Files

Ewen writes "The Daily Telegraph in England reports that the CIA has 'released a secret history of its investigations into UFO sightings, revealing that there was more truth in the popular television series The X-Files than is often believed.' Read the full story at The Telegraph. " Truth, that is, that agents screw up and some believe and some don't. The CIA ultimately concludes that the probability of contact with extra-terrestrial life is slim. But, then again, they would, wouldn't they? /impish grin/

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UFOs

[eponymous cohort]

If we had the technology to visit other worlds, and we discovered a more primitive life form, what would we do?

Would we abduct some of them as specimins to examine? I'm sure that we would. And we would do what we could to supress their memories of the encounters, because we wouldn't want to disrupt their natural course of evolution too much.

It's exactly what the alledged aliens here are accused of doing.

Now I can't say for sure if it's really happening, I've never encountered anything that made me say "That has to be a UFO". But I think it is certainly possible.

Sure there is a lot of BS out there, but sometimes a given UFO event is much more plausable than the explaination given by skeptics. Example:

"The silver ball flying around the trees was simply the planet Saturn being refracted through ice crystals in the atmosphere. The light that came from the silver ball was caused by ignited swamp gases that drifted from the nearby (10 mile away) swamp. The aliens were a form of mass hallucination, and the 20 foot, perfectly round charred grass were the craft was alleged to have landed was caused by the heat of the swamp gases, and the perfect circle is just a coincidence, case closed!"

While that's not an actual debunker statement, it is similar, and as far fetched as some I've seen. It's easier to believe in UFOs than in that!