Subject: Re: What level of PROOF is adequate proof//EXPLAINED AGAIN!
From: "KittyKat" <nospam@nospam.com>
Date: 22/02/2004, 20:43
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.alien.research,alt.paranet.ufo,alt.paranet.abduct,sci.skeptic

"tim gueguen" <tgueguen@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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"Sir Arthur C.B.E. Wholeflaffers �.S.�." <nospam@newsranger.com> wrote in
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What level of proof is adequate proof, then?

SF: I talk in terms of evidence. The legal profession recognizes certain
standards: in a civil court, "preponderance of the evidence;" in a
criminal
court, "beyond a reasonable doubt."

Which are not appropriate concepts for scientific questions.  One only has
to consider the people convicted of child abuse in the '80s and early '90s
on the basis of very questionable testimony to see cases where the courts
handled extraordinary claims poorly.

I think there is, right now, quite
sufficient evidence.

Nope.

Given the physical trace cases,

None of which have proven to be the incontrovertable result of non
terrestrial craft.

the radar sightings,

Radar returns are not a particularly strong form of evidence.
but then that could also be the case for planes that are in fact tracked by
radar. Do they then
'really' exist? If radar is that unreliable it should be scrapped.

the
photographs

None of which have been conclusively proven to be of non terrestrial
vehicles.
or for that matter they were of 'terrestial' origin. Just unknown.
and the eye-witness testimony from people all over the world,

Which is the weakest form of evidence without other corroboration.
yes. I guess the eye witness testimonies could apply to ANYTHING. Did the
WTC incident really happen?? I did not actually SEE it happen. So should I
be unconviced because others DID see it???
we
have quite sufficient evidence to conclude that our planet is being
visited by
manufactured objects behaving in ways that we Earthlings cannot yet
duplicate,
and that therefore were produced someplace else.

No we don't.
but now you are stating a FACT. A fact should have absolute verificiable
proof. Who produced them? Where and why??


 Now, the reason for that
little kicker about not being able to duplicate: every government in the
world
would love to be able to duplicate UFO flying capabilities. If we could
build
these things, we would be building them. So, if they weren't built here,
they
were built someplace else. There's nothing exotic about that. It's not
charismatic handwaving, it's perfectly good reasoning. We have an
adequate
amount of evidence today to clearly establish that some-I emphasize
some-UFOs
are alien spacecraft. And I would take on anybody who says we don't. I
would say
it's entirely because they haven't reviewed that evidence, which is very
different from saying there is no evidence.

Question: Give me some examples. What are some of the strongest cases on
record
that you know of, and why do you find them so convincing?

SF: I feel the Roswell evidence makes a very strong case. We've talked
to
more
than 240
(now over 350) people about that case; people at the Roswell Army Air
Force
base; people out at the rancher's site, including Mac Brazel's
neighbors,
his
son, his daughter, and his daughter-in-law. We've talked to people who
handled
pieces of the wreckage at the base; we've talked to the people who were
in
Texas
where it went; people who were crew members on the planes that carried
some of
the wreckage. I've talked to somebody who saw the bodies, people who
were
threatened by the government-that's being kind-to shut up about this
whole
thing. So that's an excellent case.

No its not.  Roswell has been heavily debunked.  Its too bad Stanton
Friedman, which is who this material actually comes from, is still kicking
that cowpie down the road.

This post is of course typical of Artie.  He posts the same stuff over and
over again, often without attributing it to its real source.

tim gueguen 101867

of course Roswell was 'debunked'. Do you seriously believe the government
would be giving
guided tours to prove otherwise that there is nothing to see? Why all the
secrecy and keep-out
mentality?? There is NOTHING there. Area51, Groom or Papoose Lake do not
exist. At least that is what we have all been told. So why 'protect' and
keep anyone out of someplace that is supposedly non-existant??? What are
they doing there??? Having orgies or drinking beer???Maybe its a 'government
employees' only summer resort. Maybe that is where they keep all the gold
and tax money.