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Dave W.
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Posted - 03/13/2014 :  20:43:37  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Over a decade ago, the largest British pro-UFO group disbanded because the number of sightings, photos and videos of UFOs were dropping while the number of cameras was rising exponentially. It's hard to sustain membership in light of facts like those.

I guess they needed to think ahead, and create a TV show like the largest US pro-UFO group - MUFON - has done. Robert Sheaffer gives us a taste, and remarks that MUFON is basically selling itself to its whackiest fringe:
What is really interesting is that the people who seem to be the most upset about the absurdities of Hangar 1 are not skeptics, who expect pro-UFO organizations to act irresponsibly, but instead the group I call skeptical believers: those who believe that some UFO incidents might represent genuine mysteries beyond science, but who recognize that the great bulk of UFOlogy consists of error, exaggeration, and humbug. And the "skeptical believer" is just as ready to denounce humbug as is any skeptic. After all, the only way to convince science that the UFO phenomenon is worth studying would be to toss aside all of the accumulated humbug, and accentuate the (hopefully) solid cases. So when MUFON gives itself over to humbug without reservation, it destroys all hope of presenting a convincing pro-UFO case to the skeptical scientific world. So much for the "scientific method!" In a very real sense, the skeptical believers, along with skeptics, are allies who can be characterized as realists - those who care very much what the facts are about UFO cases and try to stick to the facts as best possible - as opposed to unrealists who are ready to embrace any absurd UFO tale if it is exciting, and ignore all facts to the contrary.

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sailingsoul
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Posted - 03/14/2014 :  15:18:23   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send sailingsoul a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dave W.

Over a decade ago, the largest British pro-UFO group disbanded because the number of sightings, photos and videos of UFOs were dropping while the number of cameras was rising exponentially. It's hard to sustain membership in light of facts like those.



What shortage?

There doesn't appear to be any shortage of UFO videos on Youtube. Or how Nasa is hiding information about Alien bases discovered on the moon and/or Mars. Not to mention that Alien ship found under the Baltic sea or Alien bases found under water in Florida and other places. All highly TOPSECRETE right there on youtube. Exactly where one should look up all the secrete stuff the government is hiding.


Just do a youtube search for "Alien bases on Moon" or "Mars". They won't scratch the surface, compared to what there is for UFO videos taken right here on earth.

Hold on to your seats you haven't seen nothing yet. As Fox knows there are no reports that are in fact so unbelievable that a whole shit load of Americans, at least, won't swallow it "hook line and sinker". Just like elsewhere "raising people from the dead in the name of Jesus" is just a chip off that iceberg.

There are only two types of religious people, the deceivers and the deceived. SS
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