The UFO Thread
Posted: 23 May 2021
I'd like to kick this thread off with this short video from a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Yeah I enjoyed that. Obviously a lot of it is dramatised but it was a fun show.
Yeah, that's great. I've not heard that possible explaination before .
The US Navy and The Pentagon evidently don't think they're nothing burgers.
Our camera tech has never been better. The low quality is a red flag to me.Tiny Montgomery wrote: ↑23 May 2021The US Navy and The Pentagon evidently don't think they're nothing burgers.
You're right to keep your powder dry but the explanation of "oh its nothing, its just mental illness/hysteria/mistaken identity/weather phenomenon" for what is now 1000s of years of such stuff being reported is just being wilfully ignorant. My Dad says silly things that he thinks are zingers like "why do these things only appear to the Yanks" etc. To me these are weak arguments that are just appeals to an inherent normalcy bias
Yep, that's a good argument and you hear some of the biggest woo & UFO peddlers extremely wary all of a sudden about the current mainstream stuff just BECAUSE its coming from "official sources" lolBRIGGS wrote: ↑23 May 2021Our camera tech has never been better. The low quality is a red flag to me.Tiny Montgomery wrote: ↑23 May 2021
The US Navy and The Pentagon evidently don't think they're nothing burgers.
You're right to keep your powder dry but the explanation of "oh its nothing, its just mental illness/hysteria/mistaken identity/weather phenomenon" for what is now 1000s of years of such stuff being reported is just being wilfully ignorant. My Dad says silly things that he thinks are zingers like "why do these things only appear to the Yanks" etc. To me these are weak arguments that are just appeals to an inherent normalcy bias
I smell sensationalism, in an age where people will do anything for attention or views.
I don't buy it.
Auryn wrote: ↑23 May 2021Dudes, I've been listening to this Bernardo Kastrup guy who makes a pretty compelling argument that the basis of the universe is not matter but consciousness. If that's true, then a lot of stuff we previously thought we knew is out the window. It feels like we might be headed toward a pretty significant paradigm shift. That, and Combinator 2 obviously.
Anyway there is definitely a shift going on as far as the UFO topic is concerned. I just hope Eat Static can get back together again in time for the welcome concert.
The US Navy and The Pentagon, together with the US government, have finally learned how to capitalize on these things, both monetarily and politically. It never hurts to give the public what they want.Tiny Montgomery wrote: ↑23 May 2021The US Navy and The Pentagon evidently don't think they're nothing burgers.
Absolutely.orthodox wrote: ↑23 May 2021The US Navy and The Pentagon, together with the US government, have finally learned how to capitalize on these things, both monetarily and politically. It never hurts to give the public what they want.Tiny Montgomery wrote: ↑23 May 2021The US Navy and The Pentagon evidently don't think they're nothing burgers.
Some clearly want UFOs to exist, others just don't mind.
Just on the "mental illness" point... I've worked for 10+ years in psychiatry. Most of our clients are schizophrenics of some variety. In those 10 years I haven't run into a single case where the hallucinations were about abduction or just alien-themed in general. I've encountered several patients who claim to have seen Jesus, angels, or (for example) claim that Michael Jackson or the Queen talks to them on the regular. It's never aliens. It's not a common subject of schizophrenic delusion at all as far as my experience goes.Tiny Montgomery wrote: ↑23 May 2021You're right to keep your powder dry but the explanation of "oh its nothing, its just mental illness/hysteria/mistaken identity/weather phenomenon" for what is now 1000s of years of such stuff being reported is just being wilfully ignorant. My Dad says silly things that he thinks are zingers like "why do these things only appear to the Yanks" etc. To me these are weak arguments that are just appeals to an inherent normalcy bias
Maybe so, yes.
Right, yes. I guess its the "abductees" that would deal with that accusation.Auryn wrote: ↑23 May 2021Just on the "mental illness" point... I've worked for 10+ years in psychiatry. Most of our clients are schizophrenics of some variety. In those 10 years I haven't run into a single case where the hallucinations were about abduction or just alien-themed in general. I've encountered several patients who claim to have seen Jesus, angels, or (for example) claim that Michael Jackson or the Queen talks to them on the regular. It's never aliens. It's not a common subject of schizophrenic delusion at all as far as my experience goes.Tiny Montgomery wrote: ↑23 May 2021You're right to keep your powder dry but the explanation of "oh its nothing, its just mental illness/hysteria/mistaken identity/weather phenomenon" for what is now 1000s of years of such stuff being reported is just being wilfully ignorant. My Dad says silly things that he thinks are zingers like "why do these things only appear to the Yanks" etc. To me these are weak arguments that are just appeals to an inherent normalcy bias
Not necessarily, I could easily imagine a schizophrenic who hears voices and attributes those to an alien intelligence. I've just never encountered a case in the 150 (guesstimate) cases of schizophrenia that I've worked with.Tiny Montgomery wrote: ↑23 May 2021Right, yes. I guess its the "abductees" that would deal with that accusation.Auryn wrote: ↑23 May 2021
Just on the "mental illness" point... I've worked for 10+ years in psychiatry. Most of our clients are schizophrenics of some variety. In those 10 years I haven't run into a single case where the hallucinations were about abduction or just alien-themed in general. I've encountered several patients who claim to have seen Jesus, angels, or (for example) claim that Michael Jackson or the Queen talks to them on the regular. It's never aliens. It's not a common subject of schizophrenic delusion at all as far as my experience goes.
I'd say there's also a fair % of people who do not want them to exist, right? (professional skeptics, fundamentalist religious people, etc etc)
Indeed. There are those (I seem to remember video of a character like this in one of Louis Theroux 90s BBC docs) who do say they are receiving communications. The guy I remember from this documentary was a risible crank and lived in a trailer park. Perhaps that's why he was included in the docAuryn wrote: ↑23 May 2021Not necessarily, I could easily imagine a schizophrenic who hears voices and attributes those to an alien intelligence. I've just never encountered a case in the 150 (guesstimate) cases of schizophrenia that I've worked with.Tiny Montgomery wrote: ↑23 May 2021
Right, yes. I guess its the "abductees" that would deal with that accusation.