Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sriram on June 01, 2021, 04:44:31 PM
-
Hi everyone,
https://in.news.yahoo.com/t-ignore-ufo-sightings-spark-100116674.html
**********
When Daniel Drezner wrote about UFOs in 2019, he worried the column could tank his credibility, both as a professor of international politics and as a columnist.
He said the evidence had been mounting for a while. Among the most striking: a video showing a Navy fighter jet locking onto a mysterious target streaking across the sky as a pilot incredulously asked, "What is that, man?”
The video is authentic, the Navy said without offering an explanation.
That video helped prompt Drezner to join an increasingly mainstream group of academics, journalists, intelligence officials and politicians who say acknowledging UFOs exist doesn't mean embracing conspiracy theories or even believing in extraterrestrial life.
The view has been further bolstered by comments from high-level figures, including former President Barack Obama, who acknowledged that "there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are. We can't explain how they move, their trajectory."
That's led Drezner to conclude more bluntly: “What I do know is that UFOs exist … we can’t ignore this any more,” he said.
**********
Any views?
Cheers.
Sriram
-
They are trying to revive a subject which has yielded zero objective evidence so far, .and presumably those who are doing so are hoping to be financially rewarded! The UFO has now been updated to UAP - Unidentified Air Phenomena. Remember: until all other explanations can be ruled out and objective, independent, verifiable evidence is available there can be videos ad infinitum, but as you also know, the number of anecdotes does not a fact make.
Of course there are apparently objects of all sorts which are not available for independent, objective research and examination and until that position is reversed, the ufologists, however many other qualifications theymay have, will get nowhere.
-
Any views?
Well of course UFOs (unidentified flying objects) exist, in that there are all sorts of 'things' people have observed (apparently) flying about, that nobody has been able to identify.
As the chap from SETI says in the article "a number of UFO sightings don't yet have adequate explanations, but whatever the explanation is, it’s probably less interesting than an alien invasion".
-
Hi everyone,
https://in.news.yahoo.com/t-ignore-ufo-sightings-spark-100116674.html
**********
When Daniel Drezner wrote about UFOs in 2019, he worried the column could tank his credibility, both as a professor of international politics and as a columnist.
He said the evidence had been mounting for a while. Among the most striking: a video showing a Navy fighter jet locking onto a mysterious target streaking across the sky as a pilot incredulously asked, "What is that, man?”
The video is authentic, the Navy said without offering an explanation.
That video helped prompt Drezner to join an increasingly mainstream group of academics, journalists, intelligence officials and politicians who say acknowledging UFOs exist doesn't mean embracing conspiracy theories or even believing in extraterrestrial life.
The view has been further bolstered by comments from high-level figures, including former President Barack Obama, who acknowledged that "there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are. We can't explain how they move, their trajectory."
That's led Drezner to conclude more bluntly: “What I do know is that UFOs exist … we can’t ignore this any more,” he said.
**********
Any views?
Cheers.
Sriram
Yes its nonsense for credulous fools.
-
Report from US Intelligence agency on UFO's...
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/25/politics/ufo-report-pentagon-odni/index.html
-
Report from US Intelligence agency on UFO's...
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/25/politics/ufo-report-pentagon-odni/index.html
At least nowadays, there is a more sensible name for them, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, but until one is actually identified, recoverd and examined by independent, rational, qualified scientists, they are most decidedly not alien attackers etc etc etc.
-
Here's the actual report: Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (pdf) (https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf). Could be summed up as "we don't know".
-
Today's CNN video report...
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/07/23/ufo-report-national-security-threat-jm-gr-orig.cnn
-
An artefact, maybe?
Sririam, i can assure you I have never ignored a UFO and never well.