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In reply to the discussion: UFO Hearing totally erased all other coverage. Not. [View all]Disaffected
(4,555 posts)46. That analysis doesn't make sense to me.
eg. "Assume that Mr. Trent was standing roughly 16 ft from the nearby electrical wires which appear at the top of each photo."
Why assume that? What difference does it make here in any case?
"...if it were at a distance of about 1/2 km (not a hoax!; see Figure 5) it would have been about 14 m in diameter. "
If the distance? The distance is what we are attempting to determine is it not?? If the distance was 1 km, the diameter would have been about 28 m - so what??? The point is we don't know the distance and that is not possible to determine IMO from the evidence presented.
Can anyone explain it in different, perhaps clearer terms??
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The key to this whole question is a movie from 1950s, "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
Stuart G
May 2022
#35
When asked if any UAP reports included multiple types of data, they went dark.
Kid Berwyn
May 2022
#19
They have been here, & looked us over. Decided humans not "smart enough" to have contact with.
Stuart G
May 2022
#11
Ore to the point, public reports of UFOs and aliens tend to mirror the movies they've seen recently
brooklynite
May 2022
#64
Our phones are designed for portraits, close up pictures of us in everyday life
Mr. Sparkle
May 2022
#31
Unless there is an Alien invasion , the odds of a small number of professional photographers
Mr. Sparkle
May 2022
#57
Yes, posted before, But the key to this whole question is a movie: "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
Stuart G
May 2022
#36
Well, that's an interesting hypothesis - that films are convincing people they understand aliens
muriel_volestrangler
May 2022
#62
I don't know why it still surprises me how many people vehemently reject this topic
anarch
May 2022
#39
I think the government knows more than that, but the government is not going to tell it all.
Stuart G
May 2022
#55
I'm guessing people "reject this topic" because there's no evidence to support it...
brooklynite
May 2022
#56
Thanks, Kid, and hang in there! Amazing how "This is real" from the military (2017) gets forgotten
librechik
May 2022
#87