SocraticGadfly: Calling all stellar wingnuts — that’s just a cloud up there

May 07, 2006

Calling all stellar wingnuts — that’s just a cloud up there

An in-depth study by Britain’s Ministry of Defence says there is no information UFOs are anything other than natural phenomena.
“No evidence exists to suggest that the phenomena seen are hostile or under any type of control, other than that of natural physical forces,” the report said, according to extracts quoted by the BBC.

“Evidence suggests that meteors and their well-known effects, and possibly some other less-known effects, are responsible for some unidentified aerial phenomena.

“Considerable evidence exists to support the thesis that the events are almost certainly attributable to physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere,” it said.

Of course, the True Believer will certainly have non-real (Please, don’t trot out the phrase “alternative reality”) answers to this.

What could some of those be?

1. The aliens implanted engrams in the heads of Ministry of Defence members. As Jon Lovitz would have said years ago on “Saturday Night Live”: “Yeah, that’s it, it was the Ennngrraamms.”

2. Alien superpowers use cloaking devices to shield themselves from those in power while continuing to reveal themselves to John and Jane Doe.

3. The act of scientific measurement, as with the paranormal, homeopathy, etc., destroys or alters what is being measured so proper information cannot be obtained.

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