Subject: Re: HOW TO GET PEOPLE TO BELIEVE JUST ABOUT ANYTHING/Even That Alien Craft
From: jeremy.vaeni@gmail.com
Date: 22/02/2006, 16:59
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.alien.research,alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic

Hi, Rick. Here's a question for you:

I once saw this craft with my mother and sister somewhere along the New
Hampshire/Vermont border. It was the typical
late-at-night-on-desolate-road routine I'm sure you've heard before.
Anyway, the craft was round or oval shaped. It had what looked like
porthole windows running across its middle. The entire object was
self-luminescent green and had red and blue blinking lights on it. The
top half of the craft spun one way and the bottom spun counter. It
hovered, titled on its axis, between mountain peaks just doing that. My
mother remembers it being there just long enough to see and then
disappearing. I remember watching it out the back window. She was
speeding and rounded a corner so it probably left her vantage point but
didn't really disappear. (We did!)

Assume for a moment that I'm not lying. What was it that we saw? It
wasn't swamp gas. It wasn't a mistaken planet. It wasn't a comet. it
wasn't a plane or a helicopter. It wasn't a blimp. It wasn't our
imaginations.

My innitial reaction to it was that it looked like a giant toy or had
to be some sort of lit flourescent ad or something. It looked totally
fake like that. It really took a long minute to comprehend what it is
we were (or, more accurately, were not) seeing.

Skepticism is healthy and necessary, but blind cynicism is just
narcissism in disguise. Don't fall into the trap of having a belief
system that says "This stuff is a load of crap" because that's every
bit as invalid as the "true believer's" take. Both are belief systems
based on nothing more than what makes you feel comfortable.

Of course I have the luxury of saying this to you because I'm not
lying. We really did see that craft. If we didn't, who knows?  I might
be taking your side.