UFO Thread

Figured I'd start a thread to talk about UFOs. We get a lot of sightings around here and I don't know what to think. More or less I'm a skeptic when it comes to these things but the stories are still interesting as long as it doesn't get into those looney abduction tales.

Rob Dyke did a nice little video recently featuring the infamous "Phoenix lights". I've seen them first hand and while I lean toward thinking they're some kind of publicity stunt, there's no way to be sure right now.

Oh, nice. I've been subscribed to Rob Dyke for a couple of years, now.

As for UFO's, I find the topic very interesting and miss the days when Coast to Coast AM would talk about that subject more often. Nowadays, C2C usually has the worst kinds of charlatans as guests, peddling snake oils, hoaxes, completely unfounded theories, and claiming to have clairvoyance and other pseudo-scientific hogwash. I digress.

I've never seen an actual UFO in person. It would be amazing to see such a thing and I do believe that there are many legitimate cases where highly unusual things are spotted in the sky by honest people. There are an awful lot of fake reports, too, but not all of them are fake. I don't doubt that you've seen the Phoenix lights, either.

They are most likely some kind of elaborate publicity stunt, yes. From first impressions, those lights look like flares attached to small parachutes or perhaps helium balloons.

That's a cool video but most UFO reports turn out to be airplanes. People who claim to have met aliens or been abducted usually have some kind of psychological condition that causes them to either hallucinate or have delusions.

The universe is a big, big place. Who knows what's out there?

Those Phoenix lights are fascinating. Not aliens, most likely, but why the hush from the Air Force? It wouldn't make sense to claim ignorance, so much as a flare gun goes off and they're all over it.