Aliens On Earth.com Resources for those who are stranded here UFOs | Paranormal | Area 51 People | Places | Random Top 100 | What's New Catalog | New Books Search... for keyword(s)   in Page Titles in Book Title/Author in Contents of Pages ---other searches--- Metacrawler Yahoo FAST Search Google Altavista Dogpile Inference Find Northern Light IWon.com MSN Search Las Vegas Sun Our Bookstore is OPEN Mothership -> UFO -> Updates -> 1999 -> Jul -> Here

From: Pat McCartney <ElPatricio@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 02:51:12 EDT
Fwd Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 17:41:13 -0400
Subject: Re: Sheffield UFO Incident 2?


 >Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 20:58:59 +0100
 >From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >Subject: Re: Sheffield UFO Incident 2?
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>

 >Witnesses in a court trial are usually dealing with events we
 >know can happen. Houses do get burgled. People do get murdered.
 >Fraudsters do rob unsuspecting marks. The evidence sought here
 >is to determine how plausible it is that a particular
 >individual commited any of these acts. However a case in which
 >I claimed that you teleported yourself into my house in the
 >middle of the night and stole my video recorder might not be so
 >straightforward. If I produced someone who saw you actually
 >disappearing through the house wall and appearing a few moments
 >later with the said video in your hand, that wirness might just
 >get as tough a ride as abductee witnesses get from the
sceptics.

Do you realize how ethnocentric your comparison is? Do you
honestly believe that humanity has reached the apex of
technological development, and that cultures which may have
existed for thousands or _millions_ of years longer than ours
may not have developed a trick or two that would seem magical to
us? Like muskets would seem to the Aztecs? Like cellular biology
would seem to medieval blood-letters? Or a Harrier jump jet to
the Roman legions?

Perhaps lack of evidence is not the problem for you. Perhaps
it's a lack of imagination.

Comtemplating the breadth of the universe and the ability of
life to survive no, _thrive_ in environments that humans would
find deadly, most people, scientists included, now realize life
is probably common throughout our galaxy.

What we "know can happen" is culturally determined, and the
cumulative testimony of UFO witnesses suggests our definition
is, shall we say, a trifle limited. To paraphrase Thomas Huxley,
we must sit before human testimony like a child before coming to
grips with the UFO phenomenom.

Incidentally, we were speaking of UFOs, not accounts of
abductions, which by their nature often do not lend themselves
to multiple witnesses or radar corroboration.

Regards,