Ghosts are complete bs, but UFOs are real...now whether those UFOs are manned by people, aliens, or whatever...no idea. But there are unidentified flying objects and they have been looked into by various governments with evidence. There's also enough eye witness accounts from credible/trained people to say it's a legit thing. Something is coming up on radar, and something is being seen. I should mention I'm 100% a skeptic of most things and have had ZERO UFO or alien encounters...but I do think there's something going on there.

People don't worship them, but they are highly trained individuals. They are trained in observation and reporting. They have to be able to identify aircraft, ships, ext, ext. They also risk their careers when they open their mouths and say something. They're doing it now because the government has declassified a lot and has said 100% there's something out there and we don't know what it is. Yes, they should totally whip out their cell phones in the cramped space of a multi million dollar fighter jet doing 600+ mph while wearing a flight suit. If only they had thought of that instead of using extremely expensive Flir cameras that can see from miles away.

I don't have anything figured out, but at least I admit I don't know. That's the first step in any learning anything. The big issue I have is people saying they know.
I have had what some would chalk up as a ghost like experience. I moved into my Grandfathers house when I was 13. 2 months after he died...sitting on the pot. I felt a light breeze go by me and it moved the shower curtain. I don't think the AC was on at the time, but I don't buy most ghost related stories people have. Add the silly ghost hunter shows that never find anything and it's hard to take seriously. They never find anything or get evidence. Then there's the security camera stuff where it's clearly a bug flying by. It's possible, but I just don't see that as a thing. Even if half of UFO stories are BS, at least there's recorded information of radar and expert pilots accounts.

It's like religions saying what happens after people die. I don't know, but I know enough to know that the people saying they know...don't actually know. I don't have to actually know to know that someone else doesn't know. Dig?

Our minds create patterns from things and the eye can easily be tricked. The common factor in all stories...humans and a fear response. It's amazing that the people that don't believe in this stuff, don't have stories. So either it's a mystical "You have to believe to see" type thing...or it's a mindset that people have that causes them to see things that aren't there.

Would love to hear them. I'm down for a beer as well. May make more sense in person.

To further add confusion, I'll quote Donald Rumsfeld.

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.

In a nut shell I don't think there's as much validity to ghosts as there are UFOs. The most plausible "myth" is Bigfoot since we know there were giant apes back 100k years ago. More people believe in ghosts than bigfoot, but I just haven't seen anything that would help the case that they're real. I do like the ideas above about things poking through from other dimensions. It would certainly explain the lack of evidence. There was a great Star Trek Next Gen episode on "interacting" with another dimension would be like.

A few things to consider....Transporter tech is real. It can only do a small group of particles, but it can literally do what a transporter does in Star Trek. They also have force field windows that can hold back space. They're super tiny because of the amount of power required. My point is...these technologies exist to some degree. People just don't know about them because they're not yet practical and in the consumers hands. What was once impossible, has been proven on a small scale...and that's just so far.

There are a number of FTL technologies that may only be on paper, but the theory is there. Just because we don't have it in use now...doesn't mean it's not real or couldn't happen. I know most of us sound like fan boys about this, but if they have force fields and super basic transport tech...what's next?

Why is that so hard to believe? If we are made of stars...why is it so hard to believe that we just cease to exist and our body is spread around. Energy is not created or destroyed, it just changes forms....but that doesn't equal a constructed form(like a body or soul).
Just because something is important or meant something to you...doesn't mean that it's important on a grand scale. Sometimes there is no meaning in the things that happen. You can say free will, but religious folks often use that and "god's plan" at the same time. Logically you can't have it both ways.

I guess if it comforts you...go for it. There's just no evidence for it, and the philosophical nature of this below, also means nothing. Emotions aren't facts as much as we feel and experience them.

"All of our feelings, thoughts, fears, loves, hates, general experiences from birth to death. That all just, goes away? Poof. Just grey matter electrons. That would be a waste. I have no concept of where our collective life energies we lived will go, but to just fade to black and that’s it?"

I guess that would be A plan of sorts. I think when people say that, they use it for the little things in life. Like the things a deity is likely not interested in or actively controlling. Like the weather, or when someone dies. I suppose you can use it on a grand scale like that. That's a good question though man, even if you have freewill...are you apart of someone else's plan? Mind Blown

It's actually the opposite of magical thinking. Magical thinking is like religious ideas. Science is more based in fact.

We should definitely send David Duchovny down there as well. Good X-Files follow up episode.

I love the word "Exclusive" being used. Like there's many of them, but this one is special and hard to get in to.

100%. If anything it's for misinformation. Just the idea in other countries heads that we COULD have this type of tech would make them think twice. It's also not a UFO because it clearly looks aero dynamic. The front looks similar to a SR-71. Most of the UFOs we see in footage are saucer shaped, cigar shaped, or pill shaped.

When you consider how much the US spends on it's military budget and black budgets compared to other countries....It's very unlikely it's anyone else. We spend more than the next 11 countries COMBINED. If anyone has it, it's the US. I think they're keeping them a secret and will use them during the next major conflict. Yes, I said "Next". We all know history repeats itself.

I was with you to some degree, but this is silly. David Fravor is a fighter pilot. They are some of the most credible and well trained observers you can find on the planet. This isn't Cletus the slack jawed yokel spinning a story. To dismiss his eye witness account, and the video is just silly. He doesn't need to be an engineer or programmer to understand the systems he uses on a constant basis. I can't build a car from scratch, but I know enough about how they work to operate and troubleshoot basic issues. There's a saying, I don't need to be a helicopter pilot to know when one is crashing.

He also said he saw this thing with the naked eye moving in ways that defy our understanding of physics. That mixed with the lack of any heat from a propulsion system....it's about as credible as it gets. It's not proof, but everything added together paints a picture. Often times you don't need every single piece of a puzzle to see what that puzzle is. In this case, 30% of the puzzle has been revealed, and it's certainly something. Maybe we don't know what it is yet, but it's clear there's something happening. I just don't think it's fair to say it's all BS because we don't have a showcase of physical evidence in front of us.

For sure the Area 51 thing was a meme. I think it's easy to get a group of crazy people together for random "fun". I doubt anyone actually thought they were going to storm across a desert into a military base. It sounds like a bunch of bored people were looking for a reason to get together and act out.

I don't know about attention seekers, I'm sure there are many of them out there. Bob Lazar is pretty legit in terms of his story though. It hasn't changed since he started telling it. The people attempting to discredit him have been shown to be wrong multiple times. His educational background, his working as Los Alamos Labs. His description of the high tech hand scanners that measure bone length in the fingers(it's declassified now and there's info and pictures on them). Why would they be so desperate that they would cover up and hide his background? They clearly failed to discredit him...but why try to do that at all?

Even if he never saw UFOs while there, no one knew about those scanners unless they worked in a government facility that was using them. The general population knew nothing about them. Yet he described them back then when no one knew, and then BAM photos and information on this technology came out 25+ years later. It's interesting and it leads me to believe there's definitely something to his story.

I consider myself to be very skeptical, but there's a lot we aren't being told by the government(or whoever is in the know). Whether that's UFOs or the Kennedy assassination, there's information hidden from the public eye. In fact, they withheld the JFK information that was supposed to be released. I'm not sure why they'd do that...it sounds like they don't want people to pick apart the holes in their story. There would be no other reason to withhold that information.

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I think folding space is a more reasonable tech pursuit. Of course the power required it is literally ASTROnomical. That or the ole' favorite of bending gravity, light, and matter around a craft to move between matter. The Bob Lazar theory. Those make more sense than traveling at or over lightspeed. We can prove that time passes faster or slower depending on the speed something is moving at. So at the highest point on earth a watch will run slower than a watch at sea level. The earth is rotating at 1,000mph. Things farther would be moving faster than the things closer to the center. If you took a year long voyage at light speed and returned to earth, more time would have passed on earth than for you. It's super interesting stuff. I'm not sure what the numbers are, but it's been proven using repeatable experiments.

Morgellons is a mental issue. IF there was evidence of "synthetic parasites" we would know about them. People claiming to pull carpet fibers from their arms are just crazy, or misidentifying what it is.

Now I do know that folks say that Lyme disease is very closely related, and that is transmitted by a parasite(ticks). They don't fully understand what lyme disease does to the brain so I can see it possibly causing mental issues.

I did research it. Stop using buzz words like "fake news". I don't watch any mainstream media and even if I did no one is reporting on Morgellons....so it wouldn't be fake news if there's no news on it in the first place. Yes the MSM is definitely heavily slanted(why I don't watch it). They leave out information to push an agenda on a daily basis.
"Spare us your contradictory BS"....Translated..."How dare you disagree with my views!"
I'm not the person you're projecting me to be, but I'm getting a lot of information about who you are based on your comment. There's better ways to communicate and educate those who share different views. Shouting them down and insulting them has never been effective. Showing evidence and information is a more useful tactic.
You seem to paint people that disagree in a light that makes them a brainwashed individual who can't research or understand things.
These fibers have been studied and it's naturally occurring compounds the body produces(for instance collagen).

Do you know what Occam's razor is? Simply put, “The simplest solution is almost always the best.” We have to believe that it's either an understudied condition caulked up to a mental issue(most medical professions agree on this). OR we have to believe there's a grand conspiracy of scientists and medical professionals all over the world...that are keeping this a secret. Sorry, but I'm going with the simple answer until I have information that clearly shows otherwise.

I tell you what, I'm very fair when researching. Why don't you link me to the information you're referring to, because even using duckduckgo and other non Google search engines isn't really turning up much in the way of microscopic synthetic life forms. Ohh, and "You do it yourself" isn't a response. If you think you're better at researching information, show me the information you're looking at so I can look at it as well.

That's not what cognitive dissonance is. It's the description of the state of mind when someone is trying to process and reconcile two conflicting ideas/beliefs.
For example. My dad is religious and thinks I need to "get right with god". I say "Do you believe everything in the bible?". He says "Well yeah". I say "What about Psalms 14 : 1 (formatting edit, stupid smiley faces). It says that atheists are vile and can do no good. Is that what you think of me?". He paused and had a look on his face for about 15 seconds. That look, that mental state was cognitive dissonance. He knows I'm not a bad person, but he's also believed this doctrine since he was a boy.

I was what you'd call a "militant atheist" when I was younger. I used to debate religious people as a hobby when I was 16. Everyone else was wrong and I was right. They just couldn't understand these concepts because they were brainwashed when they were kids. I just had to make sure they got that through their head. I'm much older now and I know that it's silly to spend time trying to change people's views.

At the end of the day, all bs aside, we all want the same thing. We want life, liberty, happiness, and security for our family and friends. Approach every conversation with this in mind and you'll notice that people are more receptive. Pushing any idea in a forceful way is only going to make people raise their shields.

I think you're right just based on the military spending we do. We spend more than the previous 10 countries combined, that should tell you something. If all that money is going to futuristic tech, I'm ok with that.

100%. You can take something as simple as NASA to prove your point. How is SpaceX able to do what NASA can't? I know NASA got their funding cut, but even before that they were getting an insane amount of money...and never produced anything like what we see with these private companies.

"Man in Black #1 : Even the former leader of your United States of America, James Earl Carter Jr., thought he saw a UFO once. But it's been proven he only saw the planet Venus.

Roky Crikenson : I'm a Republican.

Man in Black #1 : Venus was at its peak brilliance last night. You probably thought you saw something up in the sky other than Venus, but I assure you, it was Venus."