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"Amanda Angelika" <manic_mandy@hotmail.com> wrote in
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"Amanda Angelika" <manic_mandy@hotmail.com> wrote in
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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. :) 

It is Christianity (as well as it's sisterly religions) that does keep
this world from advancing in knowledge scientifically and otherwise.
How long does Science say humankind has been on this planet?
And how much of that history is recorded?

There is an awful lot of history to be filled in, of which we know
nothing about - and to simply assume that it all was in a primitive
state, is I think to assume wrong.

We should take note of other historical text, that is outside the
Bible - and perhaps give them even greater significance...
eg. the Indian legends predate much of the Bible.

UFOs are not messengers of deception, rather they have been
hijacked - and made to appear 'bad' for political reasons.

Harvey