That Fuzzy Blob Is Not a UFO

Science writer Mick West examines alleged UFO sightings. He finds that they almost always have far more obvious explanations.

Natalie Dowzicky and Regan Taylor | 10.25.2022 11:40 AM

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"I'm kind of unpopular in the UFO community because…I have a bit of a negative outlook, and they prefer things to be aliens," says science writer Mick West. "All the UFO videos we have are blurry, and it's not because alien spaceships are blurry. It's because when you zoom in, you see that it's not an alien spaceship. At least so far."

West is the author of Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect, and he runs a popular YouTube channel where he takes a detailed look at alleged UFO sightings, finding that phenomena thought to be visitors from another planet almost always have far more obvious explanations.

In recent years, the UFO craze has migrated from the grocery store rag the Weekly World News to The New York Times, Time, Politico, and Forbes, and the government has sunk considerable money into studying the issue.

"The government knows more about everything that it's willing to tell us," West told Reason. But "it's dubious that it knows anything about UFOs being aliens."

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Music Credits: "A Moon Walk - Instrumental Version," by Yehezkel Raz via Artlist; "Memories," by Stanley Gurvich via Artlist; "Odd Numbers," Curtis Cole via Artlist; "Little Fire," by Palm Blue via Artlist; "Quiet Pull," by Palm Blue, via Artlist.

Written and narrated by Natalie Dowzicky; edited by Regan Taylor; audio post-production by Ian Keyser; camera by Isaac Reese.

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Vernon Depner 2 years ago

Fuck Joe Biden.

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  3. Granite 2 years ago
    
    Fuck mick “the shill” west. He has been repeatedly shown evidence that most all ufo’s are military productions, and each time he will literally delete and censor anyone who brings that up.
    
    He caters to the fringe so that he can perpetuate the bs red herring that ufo’s are either looney toon aliens or… weather balloons. I’ve concluded that mick west must necessarily be a military shill. He works his damnedest to keep any fingers pointed away from the military who - cmon now - are obviously the number one beneficiaries if all their new technology never implicates them.
    
    It’s not like the ufo’s are harmless. Hopefully someday there will be a class action for all the experimenting damage they’ve done to their own citizens, and fellow man around the world .
    
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    1. m40195971 2 years ago
      
      Show us on the doll where Mick hurt you.
      
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2. Ted AKA Teddy Salad, CIA/US Ballet Force 2 years ago
  
  Funny how they have the excess time to write this drivel, but still haven’t run a single article about the indefinite detention of the J6 protestors after nearly 2 years.
  
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Any beings smart enough to zip around the galaxy would be smart enough to stay the FUCK away from this planet anyway...

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1. InsaneTrollLogic 2 years ago
  
  +1
  
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  1. Public Entelectual 2 years ago
    
    The invading space aliens have proved their superiority by not opening Facebook accounts.
    
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2. Ted AKA Teddy Salad, CIA/US Ballet Force 2 years ago
  
  We have defenses, like UNIT, or that organization SHADO…..
  
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  1. VULGAR MADMAN 2 years ago
    
    I had the UFO lunch box.
    
    The future ain’t what it used to be.
    
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    1. Ted AKA Teddy Salad, CIA/US Ballet Force 2 years ago
      
      I long for futuristic 1980, and hot chicks with purple wigs.
      
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  2. TheReEncogitationer 2 years ago
    
    Damn! I was four when this came out, so I missed this! (And like Batman's Robin, I was "too young for that sort of thing.")
    
    The Ray Manzarek electronic organ, the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In soundtrack, and the low-budget spacecraft and sea bases are a scream! I see now where Trey Parker and Matt Stone got their inspiration for Team America: World Police!
    🙂
    
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3. TheReEncogitationer 2 years ago
  
  If there are extraterrestrial beings monitoring us, they probably were monitoring when Samuel F.B. Morse tapped out on his Telegraph: "What God hath wrought," then put it in their Universal Translator, then said: "Let's stay the Hell away from this bunch!"
  🙂
  
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SQRLSY One 2 years ago (edited)

No (if one uses data-driven but sometimes probabilistic analysis), that fuzzy blob isn’t likely to be a UFO driven by space aliens…

IT HAS BEEN PROVEN BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT, TO BE ANTI-TRUMP VOTER FRAUD AND A STOLEN ELECTION, Government Almighty DANG it!!!!

(This is what I have been told by “Team R”, AND the Amphibian People BOTH, so it MUST be true!!!!)

Let me give you a VERY prominent Amphibian Person with the CORRECT thoughts and attitudes! I give you Pepe the Amphibian Person, stolen-IP-4Chan-Frog! Racist frog, NAZI frog, yaya-yada!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepe_the_Frog

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1. Granite 2 years ago
  
  Shoo away.
  
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MWAocdoc 2 years ago (edited)

I think I might like to read the book, but it’s not actually about debunking false conspiracy theories so much as it is about convincing people not to believe them. On the other side of the issue are conspiracy theories that actually turned out to be true (e.g. the Wuhan Gain of Function theory), the Russian Disinformation theory and the Hunter Biden laptop theory; and some which have been studied massively and still have not been completely disproven (e.g. the Kennedy Assassination).

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1. Mike Laursen 2 years ago
  
  “Wuhan Gain of Function theory”
  
  Umm, that one has not been proven true.
  
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  1. VULGAR MADMAN 2 years ago
    
    Especially if you refuse to investigate it.
    
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    1. Public Entelectual 2 years ago
      
      Or it came from the University of Glasgow
      
      https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/oct/24/immune-system-evading-hybrid-virus-observed-for-first-time-rsv-and-influenza?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=4c012d72d0-briefing-dy-20221025&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-4c012d72d0-42607291
      
      With all the rain, they must have wet markets in Scotland
      
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      1. TheReEncogitationer 2 years ago
        
        Aye, but there dinnae be such a thing as Haggis Soup, M'Lad. 🙂
        
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  2. Granite 2 years ago
    
    https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-function-research/
    
    It’s not like anyone cares tho. The implications are that our own government killed millions of its own citizens. So that will never be prosecuted or even investigated. It’s better to just take it in the ass and pray you can get out of life without having to donate your blood to the streets when tshtf.
    
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Barnstormer 2 years ago

Can he explain the "tic-tacs"?

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1. Balloon maker 2 years ago
  
  Nope. He makes his living as a debunker, so he has to debunk whatever he can find to debunk.
  
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2. m40195971 2 years ago
  
  If you watched the video, read the book, viewed his YouTube channel, or visited his website, you’d know he already did.
  
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Libertariantranslator 2 years ago

Wire reports bristled with UFO sightings before cheap cameras, videotape and smartphones came along. Progress has been the opposite of tornado sightings. Rare, grainy B&W images of blurry tornados gave way to eyefuls of hi-res color videos of stuff being siphoned skyward. So the first reply to an alien sighting nowadays is PIX or it never happened!

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1. Zeb 2 years ago
  
  That's a good point.
  
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2. Vernon Depner 2 years ago
  
  The down side of that is that electronic pictures can much more easily be faked than with chemical photograph. Stereo film cameras are the gold standard among paranormal researchers. Stereo chemical photos prove there was at least SOMETHING there in front of the camera.
  
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  1. epsilon given 2 years ago
    
    The good news about fake videos, though, is there are lots of hidden "artifacts" from the manipulation of photos that can be used to determine that he video has, indeed, been faked.
    
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3. KerryB 2 years ago
  
  I've made this argument many times to the chagrin of the faithful. With an HD camera in every pocket if they were real we'd have some magnificent footage by now. Boil down to if you believe in religion, alien visitation, big foot, ghosts, probably a few I'm forgetting, you're just a gullible, easy mark.
  
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  1. Vernon Depner 2 years ago
    
    Next time you see an aircraft in the sky, whip out you phone and see if you can take "magnificent footage" of it with no preparation.
    
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Tom Morrow 2 years ago

Reminds me of when I was in the Air Force and only a few of us were in the office between Christmas and New Years Day. We had nothing to do since it was an engineering office and 90% of the people were off. So our technical expert dumped a bunch of classified documents on the table (we were playing cards) and told us to look through them. One was where they tried to make a flying saucer by mounting jet engines around the outside of a saucer-shaped vehicle to make it spin. When we finally stopped laughing, we declassified it. FFS, who thought this was worth wasting even 1 cent on?

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1. Granite 2 years ago
  
  Because if you can convince people that aliens from outer space exist and they are special for being contacted, you can control those people quite easily.
  
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Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf 2 years ago (edited)

I have “seen” one UFO, when I was about 20. Looked out a window and could have sworn I saw out of the corner of my eye a bronze 3-pointed star thingamajig spinning in the sky, by the time my eyes had swung back to look directly, it was gone. I remember most clearly how convincing it was for that split second.

I also remember several other times I have watched historical events, and my clear memory is absolutely at odds with recordings.

I have zero faith in eyewitnesses of anything which does not involves known acquaintances. Only someone who says “I spoke with my brother as he robbed the gas station” is halfway believable, and even then I wonder if there is some kind of family feud at play.

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1. A Cynical Asshole 2 years ago
  
  I once saw several "UFOs" ... that very quickly became identified flying objects.
  
  I was driving in to work early one morning when I saw what initially looked like ~4 or 5 bright white "orbs," for lack of a better word, dart across my field of view. It was hard to tell how close they were but for a split second they appeared to be much farther away than they actually were. Then the white "orbs" turned and I could see what they really were. They were birds with white chest feathers. That was it, just fucking birds. At first I could only see the morning sun hitting their white chests and for a split second I couldn't really tell what I was looking at, but when they turned I could clearly tell they were birds that were much closer than I first thought.
  
  TL;DR: the eyes can play tricks on you, especially when you see things for a fleeting second or out of the corner of your eyes. If those birds hadn't turned so I could see their outline clearly who knows, I might be one of those people who swears up and down to have witnessed "flying saucers" or some such nonsense.
  
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  1. Ted AKA Teddy Salad, CIA/US Ballet Force 2 years ago
    
    I don’t know about aliens, but any flying object unidentified is by definition a ‘UFO’.
    
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    1. A Cynical Asshole 2 years ago
      
      True, and I suspect most people have seen a "UFO" at some point in their lives, but they weren't alien spacecraft. Just something in the sky that they couldn't identify. Which I think is why the government recently changed the name to "Unidentified Arial Phenomena (UAP)." Although that still seems like it could apply to a lot of ordinary stuff too, so who knows. I think they like to change names of stuff just because the bureaucrats get bored.
      
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    2. Jerryskids 2 years ago
      
      If I take my glasses off, a lawn chair could be a UFO.
      
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2. Nemo Aequalis 2 years ago
  
  I also remember several other times I have watched historical events, and my clear memory is absolutely at odds with recordings.
  
  I had a similar experience in the '90s, when it became possible to download old movies I hadn't seen in decades. Almost never did the movies go the way I remembered them. Talking with other people my age, I found this was a common experience.
  
  Memories are fallible. After that experience, I realized relying on people's memories wasn't a great way to get an accurate account of events.
  
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Adans smith 2 years ago

I believe there is other life in the universe. That said, until they can prove faster then light travel is possible do not believe aliens have been to earth. The distances are too great.

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1. MWAocdoc 2 years ago
  
  To be fair, particle physicists have proven that FTL travel is possible for particles. As far as I can tell, all of the theoretical ways that particles can travel faster than light would destroy anything more complex than a particle - and maybe it also would destroy particles.
  
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  1. A Cynical Asshole 2 years ago (edited)
    
    Last year some DARPA researchers apparently created a tiny, nano-scale warp bubble by accident.
    
    Which doesn’t prove or disprove anything wrt alien life forms and whether or not they’ve visited here, but I suppose it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that an alien race with a several thousand year head start over us could have figured out a way to create a full scale war bubble to contain an interstellar spacecraft. That said, I’ll believe it when one lands on my front lawn and a grey steps out and says “Take me to your leader.” In which case I’ll respond, “I don’t think that’s a good idea, he’s kind of senile old fool who will most likely just try to sniff you before telling about his old pall ‘Corn Pop.’”
    
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    1. epsilon given 2 years ago
      
      Or, for that matter, for said alien to come out and say "A Cynical A*hole? You're a jerk! A real kneebiter!"
      
      But if that were to happen, I'd worry that the destruction of our planet is nigh!
      
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2. Nemo Aequalis 2 years ago
  
  When you think about how hard it is just to get from one planet to another, it seems kind of ridiculous that aliens would travel from one star system to another just to buzz a few fighter pilots. Pretty much any other explanation is more plausible than aliens.
  
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3. Vernon Depner 2 years ago
  
  The distances are too great.
  
  Too great for us. There's no reason to assume that a journey of thousands of years would not be feasible for other life forms unlike us.
  
  That said, I believe physical beings arriving in metal vessels is very unlikely. I think Contact got it right and Close Encounters got it wrong—a highly advanced race would not travel here "meat in a can". They would send the information necessary to create their presence here. If physical craft with physical beings inside ever arrived here, then District 9 would have been right. They would be coming as refugees rather than as explorers or conquerors.
  
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  1. Granite 2 years ago (edited)
    
    Bro, the chances are zero. There’s no way anyone could get to us – and even if they could the chances that they show up in the last 200 year window out of our 5 billion years – the possibility narrows to zero.
    
    But let’s not kid ourselves – they really couldn’t get here. You know what else? It’s an infinitesimally small chance that two civilizations could ever even communicate. They couldn’t even leave a signal that any other civ could stumble upon because ITS TOO GD FAR AND LS IS TOO GD SLOW.
    
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    1. Vernon Depner 2 years ago
      
      You are speculating without evidence that other beings share our limitations and perspectives.
      
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4. docduracoat 2 years ago
  
  To Adans Smith,
  There are at least three answers to traveling the incredible distances of space at less than light speed.
  Aliens could be incredibly long lived and live for hundreds of thousands of years. In which case they could make a 70,000 year journey in one lifetime.
  Aliens could build a generation ship and the crew would live and die in space until they arrived here 70,000 years later after multiple generations have come and gone.
  And there is the old trope of a hibernation ship where they’re preserved in some type of hibernation until they arrive at their destination after 70,000 years of travel.
  
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Ted AKA Teddy Salad, CIA/US Ballet Force 2 years ago

I think Jesus is an alien. Especially considering the hundreds of thousands of Jesus sightings every year across the southwest. Typically doing landscape or construction work.

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1. Brandybuck 2 years ago
  
  Elvis. Elvis is the alien who keeps getting sighted. Maybe Elvis is Jesus.
  
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  1. mpercy 2 years ago
    
    I think the book "Armageddon Crazy" included a theme where the Elvi were a prominent religion in that "near future".
    
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    1. Vernon Depner 2 years ago
      
      Perhaps blaspheming against Elvis is where we should draw the line on freedom of expression.
      
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  2. Ted AKA Teddy Salad, CIA/US Ballet Force 2 years ago
    
    Elvis is Jesus. In his seventh incarnation.
    
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2. Granite 2 years ago
  
  hE lIvEs
  
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BestUsedCarSales 2 years ago

I had a suck and fuck with an alien once. I know this is real. She had some big alien titties and it was pretty rad.

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1. Balloon maker 2 years ago
  
  You get her number?
  
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  1. Dillinger 2 years ago
    
    her?
    
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Sevo 2 years ago

Mick West is a bit late to the party; CSICOP has been debunking such claims on a regular basis since the early '70s.
And, not surprisingly, no one has yet to provide anything like real evidence of alien spacecraft, just unsubstantiated claims.

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Brandybuck 2 years ago

Unidentified Fuzzy Object.

Just because the photographer can't explain it does not mean it's not explainable.

Unfortunately, this shit is not limited to the yokels. Smart people are great at fooling themselves. A dumb person will say "wait, I'm dumb, let me ask someone smart about this", but a smart person will tell themselves "I'm smart so it must be true". I know a lot of smart engineers who believe the dumbest things.

And don't forget the Stanford Researchers studying psychic powers because a magician was fooling them with an obviously fake magic trick.

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Union of Concerned Socks 2 years ago

That Fuzzy Blob Is Not a UFO

Is it unidentified?
Is it flying?
Is it an object?

Then what the fuck is it? I mean sorry to be pedantic and all, but do you people employ any actual writers or editors?

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whcrumb 2 years ago

All true, but the recent press and government attention is largely not over the "fuzzy blob" part. It is over objects that keep showing up in the vicinity of carrier groups that can not be adequately explained by the full sensor suite of the US military, including experienced pilots from multiple simultaneous angles, the radars on their planes, the powerful shipboard radars on escort ships, and who knows what other space & sea systems may be available (few to none of which were designed with primary goal of taking photos for human enjoyment.)

I still don't get fuzzy green aliens from this -- I think earth-based powers are far more likely to be interested in US carrier groups -- but it does sound like we've under-focused on improving our identification powers here, perhaps in part over the stigma attached to UFOs.

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1. Granite 2 years ago
  
  That’s simply two different military’s interacting with each other. Black ops with normal ops. Black ops tests their shit out on the normal ops to see if their shit will work against the enemy. The whole “we don’t know what’s going on” is just a poker play. Also, Havana syndrome was likely either our own military’s doing, or god. Because those are the only two with a budget high enough to pull that kind of shit off.
  
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Dillinger 2 years ago

is too. qed

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jdege 2 years ago

I like to think of myself as a rational person, but I very much believe in UFOs. I am certain that many people, on many occasions, have looked up at something in the sky and not known what it was.

The world is full of weird confidences and unusual optic effects.

Rare events happen all the time. Remember - at any given time, a one-in-a-million event is happening to 7,000 people.

SF writer Arthur Clarke told of an event where he was sitting in the restaurant of the Sydney Opera House, and saw odd, flickering lights,far off over the bay.

Because this was the Opera House it had a number of those coin-operated telescopes along the water front. Using one he was able to identify the source of the lights.

It was sunlight, reflecting off the ocean, then reflecting off the bottoms of gull wings.

It was a rare event, for things to line up so perfectly as to create this effect. But rare events happen.

And seeing things you don't recognize or understand is perfectly ordinary.

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1. Its_Not_Inevitable 2 years ago
  
  There have been times around dusk when I've seen a ship far out on one of the great lakes and it looks for all the world like an object floating in the sky. My rational mind does deduce that it is, in fact, a ship on the horizon.
  
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2. TheReEncogitationer 2 years ago
  
  It's called paradolia, the phenomenon of finding patterns in random objects of Nature. Seeing images of Virgin Mary in the sunlight of Guadalupe or Medjugorje, Jesus in toast and tortillas, Krusty the Clown in a bundle of clouds.
  It's no different here.
  
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Think It Through 2 years ago

Pro tip for whoever put this video together: the constant underlying bass-heavy music made it difficult to understand what was said at times, especially by the main speaker with an accent.

Plus it was so annoying I just quit after a couple of minutes.

Why include that?

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Brian 2 years ago

"Science writer Mick West examines alleged UFO sightings. He finds that they almost always have far more obvious explanations."

But all you need is one of them to be an alien...

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Spiritus Mundi 2 years ago (edited)

Ufo =/= ET

100’s of UFO sightings in th 80s ended up being F117 test flights.

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Its_Not_Inevitable 2 years ago

That fuzzy blob IS an Unidentified Flying Object. Whether it's an alien spaceship is the question.

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NOYB2 2 years ago

This is a government that routinely caused countries to change their governments through revolution and mandates to sweep corruption and crime in a massive scale under the rug. I’m sure they can spread whatever misinformation they want on UFOs, and large amounts of blurry, ambiguous video is likely in their interest.

In other words, as an ordinary citizen, we simply don’t know either way. And, fortunately, it doesn’t matter in our day to day lives either.

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1. TheReEncogitationer 2 years ago
  
  Again, a lot of words for something that "doesn't matter."
  
  I guess if it's not in Stepford, it doesn't exist, right? 😉
  
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Liberty Lover 2 years ago

We are all alone, we have always been all alone, we will always be all alone. If I am wrong then the others don't visit us because they see us as such vile, destructive, violent warlike beings they have banished us to the furthest reaches of the universe. So we will remain all alone.

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1. Vernon Depner 2 years ago
  
  That's nothing but guessing.
  
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2. TheReEncogitationer 2 years ago
  
  Aw, don't be so sour-pussed! You'll never enjoy an Alien abduction, probing, and fondling with an attitude like that! 😉
  
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