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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 05/08/2006 : 13:22:53
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CNN has this Reuters article which reveals that the British Ministry of Defense has done a secret study which concluded that there is no evidence that UFOs are of unnatural or extraterrestrial origin: quote:
UK: No visits from little green men
Monday, May 8, 2006; Posted: 11:10 a.m. EDT (15:10 GMT)
The Ministry of Defense confirmed on Sunday a secret study completed in December 2000 had found no evidence that "flying saucers" or unidentified flying objects were anything other than natural phenomena.
The 400-page report, released under freedom of information laws to an academic from the northern city of Sheffield, concluded that meteors and unusual atmospheric conditions could explain UFO sightings such as bright lights in the sky.
"No evidence exists to suggest that the phenomena seen are hostile or under any type of control, other than that of natural physical forces," the report said, according to extracts quoted by the BBC.
"Evidence suggests that meteors and their well-known effects, and possibly some other less-known effects, are responsible for some unidentified aerial phenomena.
"Considerable evidence exists to support the thesis that the events are almost certainly attributable to physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere," it said.
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The ministry publishes annual lists of UFO sightings on its Web site, which rank among its most viewed -- and bizarre -- pages.
In 2005 the ministry was asked under freedom of information laws for details of its plans for "dealing with the arrival of extra-terrestrials".
An unnamed defense official replied: "While we remain open-minded, to date the MOD knows of no evidence which substantiates the existence of these alleged phenomena and therefore has no plans for dealing with such a situation."
I'll note that the article implies that the British study takes at least some UFO sightings themselves seriously, and seems to be concerned with explaining them rather than assuming they were all reported by liars, nuts, or people under chemical influence. I think it's a fair assumption that some UFO sightings are "real," in the sense that sober and normally reliable people really observed something odd in the sky.
What are your comments?
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 05/08/2006 13:26:18
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 05/08/2006 : 15:52:35 [Permalink]
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| All part of the vast conspiracy - damn Illuminati, they are a craft bunch. |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 05/09/2006 : 23:40:15 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by pleco
All part of the vast conspiracy - damn Illuminati, they are a craft bunch.
Do you mean to say they sit around doing crafts when they should be busy controlling the world? |
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