The unambiguous, truthfully shared experiences are either real and the source is incredibly, purposefully elusive to evidence capture, or the experiences are hallucinatory/other.
The governmental Disclosure morasse is the same as the civilian...
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We, and I certainly include myself, have wandered through the brambles and the mudpuddles far, far away from the topic. Might I suggest that this conversation be moved off the page to clean it up a bit?
I was just referring to what Andreas said about why people think this is "disclosure".
I agree you cannot test things about historical reports, only look for similarities and patterns in the reports.
I'm not sure that either "historicity" or eyewitness reports belong on our list of things that can be studied. If witnesses have described things in the past, then that's all we have. There is no further information to be had. And if later...
It was recently revealed that David Grusch is C.O.O. of a company called StarDustX Materials, Inc., which investigative journalist Ben Schreckinger reported on 17 September 2026 through his publication, PARADIGM. The company is associated with...
I think a main problem for the military is that the released videos often reveal how mundane objects are misidentified due to parallax, low resolution, and other factors that most people would expect military personnel to be familiar with. This...
Well, I don't think any military is particularly interested in proving or disproving alien visitations. Why would they be? But things ARE flying around in our airspace that are difficult to identify. And it IS important to get better at...
I keep asking myself why these people keep at it, and the the simplest explanation is that the UFO subject rewards people for talking about it, whether or not they have anything substantial to reveal.
Attention, status, money, political...
AARO has also never said that there was nothing to work on, nothing to analyse or that the issue itself is meaningless.
Tim Phillips himself said during the interview with Mick West that there were interesting cases, but that he obviously...
I suspect the biggest problem for the UFO community is that the people with the best tools and access to the most relevant data have yet to produce anything that settles the question. Instead, we keep getting told that the real evidence exists...
I would say that is probably true. But what they "know" is that with better tools and better techniques than are available to the majority of people they don't see anything. No aliens, no flying saucers, nothing. But how do they prove a negative...
Particularly in the modern era, in the world of instant cheap mass communication networks, I also suspect interesting bits from one report are going to get picked up and included in later reports, either intentionally for hoaxes or subconsciously...
Interesting, and welcome.
Just a heads up, best practice on this particular forum is to source our claims. In other words, where are you getting the "21M balloons" number? Please share that sourcing so we can see where it comes from and...
I'm seeing estimates that on the order of 21 million party balloons are sold and possibly released each day globally. Around 5 million each day in the U.S. The flight time depends on many factors, but flight time can range from an hour to...
Taken a step further, this not only assumes the current military systems can prove aliens, but must also assume ALL past military systems were able to prove aliens. Many of the current disclosure advocates suggest retrievals and intercepts as far...