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David Meadows
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Re: aliens
museum wrote:
There was another recent programme shown, where again a university did an experiment of building a UFO and flew it, to get reaction. They sure made the news regarding this.
In a similar event -- a late-night phone-in radio show I used to listen to announced that a caller had seen a "flying object" in the sky. He gave enough details to make it truly "unidentified" -- it couldn't be a helicopter, or the moon, or anything. Over then next two hours, DOZENS of people called in to confirm seeing it, agreeing with the details and occasionally adding new details (which later callers then confirmed).
Then the show's presenter admitted it was a hoax. There was no original caller and no object.
Which just goes to show that it doesn't matter how many people confirm a story, it doesn't automatically mean it's a true story.
It also shows that there are either a lot of people willing to go along with a joke or a lot of people so weak-minded that you can persuade them of anything.
Or maybe, by an incredible coincidence, the hoaxer just happened to describe something that really did appear in the sky a few minutes later.......
--- "I've never made plans - most of the things that have happened to me are accidents. All you have to do is put yourself in the way of a few."
Roger Glover
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9/Aug/04, 13:26
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Generalley Cool
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Registered: 08-2003
Location: -NO, YOU prove im NOT diana!
Posts: 483
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Re: aliens
i saw that crop circle thing and the ufo thing, they were cool, clever using that radio wave thing to make it slightly radio-active like the other crop circles. that UFO thing was funny too, they had loads of news channels on about it, but didnt they have to change direction? i think they did... i know they brought it in an army cover so that noone saw lolol.
ive done that 'flashmobbing' thing too, me and a load of friends aggreed to meet in town one by one to see this UFO in the sky. it wasnt real, of cource XD
we each like discribed what we 'saw' and soon this huge crowd had gatherd saying theyd seen a UFO and describing it.
i laughed so hard when later on the radio they had loads of people calling in about this 'small, silvery, rugby ball shaped object hovering over town' which was basicly what wed said.
so many people called and said theyd seen it!
i cant remember if we actually told anyone it wasnt there afterwards....
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22/Oct/04, 0:31
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Ahlyssah
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Registered: 07-2004
Location: Lost in a dream of mirrors
Posts: 830
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Re: aliens
hypnostar wrote:
People have spoken about fairy rings or other such things. Could what we call crop circles be a type of what ancient people described as a fairy ring or circle? What is your opinion on this?
Actually, hypnostar, you're not far off from one of the many theories concerning UFO's.
I'm sure that many of you (Addi in the very least ) have heard tales about fairies abducting people? Sometimes a mother will exchange her child for a human baby, a male will spirit off a young human woman as a wife, and many stories of regular Joes who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and get carried off to an underground city, and so on.
Well, then you almost certainly have heard stories from so-called "abductees" who claim they were snatched up from this planet and taken aboard a spaceship, where they were examined and later released. Who could forget Barney and Betty Hill?
The plots are rather different between the two, but some theorists believe that there is enough similarity to suggest that perhaps these "Extraterrestrials" (a stupid and impractical title, as they most certainly have terrain on their worlds) are not from other planets at all; they are in fact simply our friends from the long-lost past, the faeries.
Let the punishment fit the crime, and let the disguise meet the time. To avoid being forgotten altogether, and therefore being cut off from our world in some theories, the faeries simply evolved the form in which they appear to us. Whether they merely used glamour (a visual illusion) or have physically evolved, is yet unknown. Their simple tricks and jests disregarded as natural anomalies, or blamed upon innocent individuals, the faeries had to move on to more impressive fare, for instance the unworldly aircraft zipping about our skies, the embellished "operating rooms", the mutilated cattle (though this does not appear the work of faery-beings; legend indicates a strong bond between most faeries and animals, and even a tendancy for protection. It is more likely that such incidents were directed at the farmer instead, not a malignance toward the cows themselves) and of course crop circles.
As for the examinations, theorists believe they have taken the place of changlings; according to the myths, faeries are losing their grips in the world, due either to some flaw in their chemistry, or simply an inability to adapt to the changing tides. To steady the state of their race, they would on occassion steal the babies of their nonmagical but easily adaptable neighbors, to be raised as one of them and later wed to provide stronger children to continue the race. They may be doing the same thing right now, only without the snatching of children. By taking tissue samples and learning more about our bodies, they could be discovering ways to make their own bodies more complete. That is, according to theory.
So, off-worlders, or visitors from the dimension down the lane?
--- There are things which Man can not understand. For everything else, there's a lie.
Let's see if we can't get to the truth of the matter, hmm?
'Lyssa was here . . . and she'll be back
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19/Feb/05, 16:42
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Ahlyssah
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Registered: 07-2004
Location: Lost in a dream of mirrors
Posts: 830
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Re: aliens
Terra refers to "soil", "dirt," and "rock". At least it did last time I checked the biology books. "Earth" is more than the name of our planet, it's the abiotic factor upon which plants grow and animals walk. Haven't you noticed that our names for things around us are quite unimaginative? Mars has Phobos and Deimos, we have "the Moon." There's Rigel, Betelguese, and Belatrix (all in Orion), and then there's "the Sun". Same principal being appiled here; our ancestors saw no need to go beyond the obvious, so they named the planet (which was not then considered a planet) after what seemed predominant on the surface. Keep in mind that the old idea was that the Gods put the stars up there to make the sky pretty.
--- There are things which Man can not understand. For everything else, there's a lie.
Let's see if we can't get to the truth of the matter, hmm?
'Lyssa was here . . . and she'll be back
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24/Feb/05, 22:08
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