Kaen
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there is nothing in this Nimitz story that is remotely suggestive of ETs to me.
I like the fact-based down-to-earth investigation skills of debunkers. I also really admire the knowledge and the analysis capabilities of the members of this forum. That is why I enjoy discussing UFO cases with debunkers more than I do with ‘believers’. And since 95% of the UFO cases can be explained, they often find a good explanation.
But what strikes me as odd is this need for ‘closure’ for the other 5%: Somehow the possibility of an extra-terrestrial visitation must be excluded or pushed away as far as possible.
This may be unpopular in the eyes of ‘believers’, but it is certainly popular among fellow debunkers. A bit of peer-pressure may even be at work here.
Of course there is something in this story that opens up the possibility of extraterrestrial visitation. It is the reported 'impossible' maneuverability - often without any visible means of propulsion - that is a recurring pattern in almost all UFO reports. It has been since the late 1940’s. This case is just another example in that same pattern.
The 1947 Twining memo already mentions the ‘extreme rates of climb’ and ‘maneuverability’ as typical characteristics of UFO’s and adds that these reported ‘objects as large as man-made aircrafts’ are ‘something real and not visionary or fictitious’.
They have stayed unidentified ever since.
Nobody is making any hard claims, however, and just like you I really would want to hear more from the other witnesses. In the meantime I can perfectly live with an open-minded ‘unidentified’.