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"credible eye witnesses"

This is a contradiction. Not that eye witness testimonies are completely without merit, but "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" and eye-witness testimony alone does not meet that standard....no matter who the witness is.




I am not saying we know for a fact that extra terrestrials have landed on planet earth. I agree with you, there is still not enough evidence.

However I am tired of reading so called skeptics dismissing people who come forward claiming they have seen UFOs as kooks or drunkards.

There is enough evidence by now that in my opinion it is within the realm of possibility that we are being visited by alien intelligence.

Video recordings that can't be explained, radar observations etc. Please also realize that most of what has been recorded so far is classified as top secret, according to testimony from people with direct access to this evidence and like I said in my parent comment, we also have plenty of credible eye witness reports.

It's sad that people aren't more curious - not everything is about distracting from Donald Trumps misadventures with classified documents...


> There is enough evidence by now that in my opinion it is within the realm of possibility that we are being visited by alien intelligence.

Nah. I'd wager it's more likely to be earthlings from an alternate reality or that time travel turns out to be feasible and it's our descendants, than that it's space aliens ("but one of those is entirely based on speculative physics and both require our model of the universe to be pretty damn wrong, to allow such travel" yeah, I know—that's how incredible I find the space alien hypothesis). I don't think those are credible guesses, either, but I'd say they're more likely to be true than "it's aliens". That explanation's got a lot of things working against it.




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