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"Amanda Angelika" <manic_mandy@hotmail.com> wrote in
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In news:Xns98036B6881077kiwilovesomewherenz@203.109.252.31,
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"Amanda Angelika" <manic_mandy@hotmail.com> wrote in
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In news:4470ad27$0$29674$dbd49001@news.wanadoo.nl,
dre <b> typed:

neo schreef:

I wonder why UFO sighting reports always come from western rich
countries. Why don't aliens visit third world countries?

the sightings took of after the sf movies about
aliens and ufo's,so it's sheer stupidity if you
ask me...

The movies don't create the experiences, they simply supply a
possible interpretation in line with contemporary scientific
theories and awareness of our place in the Universe.

I'll guess UFOs are seen in all parts of the world, it's just that
in rich countries, people have more cameras and video cameras to
record them with, and the news media report them more, than in 3rd
world countries?
I don't know what the statistical count is?
eg.
Misidentified, terrestrial UFO, outerspace UFO - it may be hard to
separate the later two?

I would think the other problem is in a lot of Third World countries
they often appear to interpret UFO phenomena as a religious
experience so in the West we tend to write off such experiences as
delusional or as a result of mass hysteria. Rather than assume it is
the result of people actually seeing some real phenomena. Even in
the West certain incidents of likely UFO phenomena may have been
mis-interpreted in Religious terms. E.G the Fatima sightings. It is
interesting to compare the interpretation of the Fatima events with
the Flatwoods monster event. Which suggests the phenomena is real,
all that differs is the way it's interpreted by those that witness
such things. Of course assuming such phenomena is a result of ET
activity is a more Scientific approach than assuming that it's the
Virgin Mary.

Various descriptions in the Bible, can be read as UFO sightings and
not religious experience or religious sighting, such as that in
the Book of Ezekiel.
They probably were written that way to start off, but then the
original meaning got lost or confused in intervening centuries, such
that it's original meaning is lost today.

Well I think it's lost to Christianity, because they interpret the Bible
theologically and tend to interpret the events as miracles. But if you
interpret the events (if they occurred) more scientifically, then the only
conclusion you can come to is that the Bible is a record of
extra-terrestrial intervention in human development and affairs. For example
the Virgin Birth is not a miracle. These days we would call it artificial
insemination. If it were done by someone calling themselves an angel we
would call it alien abduction (or Mormons on Acid LOL). Even the story of
the creation of Adam and Eve makes more sense when interpreted as an account
of a cloning. In fact given that we know Human kind pre-dates the Biblical
account of creation by something like 100,000 years, if it happened when it
says it happened it could not have been anything else. :)
-- 
Amanda