1. Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisstilloutthere cc: @NYTimesDowd
— John Podesta (@Podesta44) February 13, 2015
Courtesy of Yahoo News:
Podesta’s longtime fascination with UFOs is well-documented, as his brief political hiatus following four years as President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff freed him up to pursue his otherworldly passion.
At a 2002 press conference organized by the Coalition for Freedom of Information, Podesta spoke on the importance of disclosing government UFO investigations to the public.
“It’s time to find out what the truth really is that’s out there,” he said. “We ought to do it, really, because it’s right. We ought to do it, quite frankly, because the American people can handle the truth. And we ought to do it because it’s the law.”
As some of you may, or may not be aware, the Air Force recently declassified 130,000 pages of UFO records.
However before anybody gets TOO excited you should know that conclusion by the Air Force is that they have not seen any evidence suggesting the sightings "represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge."
I know. That would have broken 13 year old me's heart completely. But these days I am more of a realist.
As you all know I kind of have a reputation for skepticism and that holds true in my private life as well.
I remember somebody once asked me if I believed in UFO's, and I answered "Yes, absolutely."
After that person finished running around the room telling everybody that I was a big phony and that I was just as gullible as the next guy, he came back to me to rub my nose in my "superstition."
At that time I calmly pointed out that the term "UFO" does NOT refer to a flying saucer from another planet, but rather an unidentified flying object, and reason dictated that there must have been thousands of those that nobody ever gathered enough data to completely explain.
I then went on to say that if he was asking me if I found the possibility that there was life on other planets, and that those lifeforms might have developed the ability to travel in space, then yes I did indeed think that possibility might exist.
As for having visitors here on earth I remain a hopeful agnostic.
Like I said the 13 year old that lives inside of me would be incredibly excited to learn that we had been visited by aliens, however the grownup in charge of this body today needs more than what has been offered so far to be convinced that such is the case.
So if John Podesta is correct, and there IS evidence to support the fact that we have had visitors from space, than I think the information should be declassified and the people of this planet should get the chance to examine and discuss it.
13 year old me awaits the information with bated breath.
I wonder if Podesta would agree that Panspermia makes more sense than Evolution.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think the two are mutually exclusive?
DeleteWhile I have packed away my X-Files action figurines, I (still) (want to) believe.
ReplyDeleteAnd have since late August 1960. My mother and I went up on the roof of our three story apartment house on Capital Hill in Denver. There were three or four other people on the roof and we were all there to try to see Echo, the first communications satellite. We didn't see Echo. Instead, we saw five very large "things" moving slowly in a vertical boomerang formation from southwest to northeast. We all stood there speechless. We were completely mystified and completely thrilled.
Hey, if they're here, they're here. :-)
Of course we've had visitors from other worlds. The marks they left are all around this planet. Do you really believe that the great pyramids were made by man?
ReplyDeleteYes I do.
DeleteUmmm yes.. Listen, if Sarah Palin can fake a birth and get away with it, a million damn Egyptians can build pyramids.
DeleteYes, it's been described with use of block and tackle and sheer manpower that the pyramids were built by humans. Aliens touched us in other ways, they didn't waste their time moving blocks of stones. We figured that out all by ourselves.
DeleteI'm a fan of the 'Ancient Aliens' series. On the third season and its still really interesting how history can be explained differently.
ReplyDeleteWe probably have been 'visited' but the aliens took one look at what we were doing to the planet and each other, and decided not to stay. Ahahahahah
ReplyDeleteJohn Podesta has been fascinated with UFOs ever since he played the part of ET in the movie The Extra Terrestrial.
ReplyDeleteNearest star (other than the sun) Alpha Centauri - about 4.3 something light years. Voyager space craft is the fastest moving vehicle to leave Earth (about 18km/sec). How long before Voyager gets to Alpha Centauri distance from Earth? Answer: about 80,000 years. The point is that interstellar travel isn't a weekend excursion. Note: I have rounded out the numbers a bit. But you can really do just a little research and get a really good idea of the vastness of space.
ReplyDeleteYou are looking at this from our current human abilities to travel to deep space. There are very likely civilizations in our galaxy and perhaps outside of our galaxy that have achieved the ability to travel at or near light speed, wheras we are still in our infancy regarding our knowledge of space and time. Hello, our best physicists have acknowledged that we are basically unable to measure 98% of our observable universe and we call it "dark matter". Suffice it to say, we know about 2% of what there is to know regarding the space outside of our atmosphere. There are undoubtedly civilizations within our universe that have cracked the code and have maybe visited us, or at least left their planetary systems to observe others.
DeleteHypothesis - space is bendy. Why go the long way if the math is correct and one can jump the fold? Or hasn't anyone figured out the math for that yet?
DeleteFor an alien presence look no further than Lake Lucille in Wasilla Alaaahska. A dimunitive creature with a large bulbous noggin, 4 eyes that can go in all different directions at the same time, hair that changes for no apparet reason, spindly spider like talons where a hand normally is, miracle pectoral muscles which expand and deflate, the jawbone of an ass and a gaggle of mutant offspring still being analyzed by doctors across the globe. Ailen Palien.
ReplyDeleteAliens came here to create exceptional intelligence. Mrs. Palin and her clan are more indicative of the people that the aliens did not imbue with supernatural intelligence.
DeleteTerrific definition. Thanks.
DeleteI witnessed a UFO or series of UFOs in the 1980s. To me they looked like colored lights, but they moved erratically and were unexplainable. They visited me at night off and on for about a month, then disappeared. There was no way to explain them than as unidentified flying objects.
ReplyDeleteJumping the time folds is the only way that any beings (including ourselves) can make visits to other beings. We should not worry about the math for meeting aliens, but put our minds on how to survive the looming climate crisis that we all face now.
ReplyDeleteTo think that humans on earth are the only beings in the universe is so damn arrogant. I have always believed that we are not alone. It's like that god thing, can you prove it? Nope. But that sure hasn't stopped millions from believing.
ReplyDeleteAnd as always, I believe that the never ending lying government has info. But you know, we're all so fucking stupid that we just couldn't possibly handle the truth, so they must protect us from ourselves. Question? Who will protect us from the lying, cheating government?
A suggestion to the others, if you're smart, and I believe you are, you'll stay away from the third rock from the sun. The humans have already damn near destroyed it with their greed.