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  • @brightstar65

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    The whole UFOs are aliens is the distraction and cover story. What Hap Arnold described and drew lookis just like a German Horton 229. Now what is more likely, that aliens flew all the way here from Sirius or that the U. S. military brought these jet powered flying wings back here and tested them and decided to keep it secret because the cold war made everything just as secret as WW II? Nothrup had flying wings as well including the YB-49. Avro and Vought had built actual flying saucers and then "abandoned" the program. The Nazis were experimenting with even more unconventional craft if the drawings and pictures are to be believed.

    Now why would aliens come all the way here just to drug, abduct, experiment on and probe people? That sound a lot more like something the military would do. After the nuclear tests in the fifties, wouldn't it be prudent to check the people downwind and would you want them to know about it?

    I have direct experience from when I was a kid and it wasn't space aliens, it was people. The lights in the middle of the night, the whooshing sound, the sensation of floating, the metal table, the people wearing surgical masks, the panic and desire to get away, the "probe", and that really funny taste that was left in my mouth afterwards along with a strange sensation in my throat.

    Years later, when I had surgery to remove whatever was placed in my sinuses, when I woke up, guess what? I had that same exact funny taste in my mouth and sensation in my throat from the anesthetic. Years later I found out that the whooshing sound was from NO2. A decade later I was watching PBS and found out what the "probe" was, a device used in animal husbandry. As a child I had no way of knowing what any of that was.

    If it was just night terrors, how come I got the technology right when I was just a kid?

    If you are drugged, isn't it possible that the people wearing surgical masks and glasses or other eyewear might be interpreted as "aliens"?

    I had another implant giving to me by a man in black while four goons held me down in October of 1978. Since iI don't want to deal with these scumbags, I have left it in. It is in my left index finger at the middle joint on the palm side. Give me a quarter and I will let you touch it.

    In 1997 I took a job reinventing the government for the web (after I posted pics of the "trailer park" on mars) where I came to the realization that I was being drugged and hypnotized while being paid 18 dollars an hour (Rockville Pike Building 2, second floor, High Technology Center). After they were done with me they chose not to pay me so I threatened to blow the whistle on the project. They paid me and told me to keep quiet about what happened. How many others had the same stuff happen to them? My two predecessors didn't fare as well as I, one going suicidal and one changing sex - at least that is what they told me.

    You do not need to worry about space aliens, the real monsters are people. Take a look at the history of governments and military experimenting on unknowing subjects. Tell me why they wouldn''t like to put the onus on ET.

    What about all the tv programs that explore the mythos from "The Pretender" to "Heroes" - specially modified humans and their struggle to discover themselves and find their true purpose in life? Hogwash. People have been doing this for thousands of years - "The Old Man of the Mountain" being the most famous progenitor of the current techniques.

    I beleive that their is life out there, I just don't see us as much of an attraction. Occam's razor puts the phenomena closer to home and easier to grasp. Who is likely to have advanced flying craft and an interest in drugging, hypnotizing and experimenting on people?

    I do computer graphics and video and just about everything on the web that looks like an actual UFO is CGI or something tossed into the air. The Haitian video was obvious without even looking at it closely, real cameras don't move like that - it is impossible to accurately track a flying object that flies overhead AND spin the camera around at the same time. I don't bother debunking because it just makes people like you mad.

    Dude, they want to to believe it's aliens.

    It isn't.

  • Leave the guy alone

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    He is a tool and a hack. General Betrayus is his boss and the responsibility lies with him so while you try to crucify the messenger the honcho is laughing his ass off.

    If you want to get rid of people like Boylan you will reduce the military by a dangerous degree and what do you expect them to do when they need a job? Would you want him working with you or for you and since he is a Colonel he probably would get a management job and just think of the poor folks who would have to report to him.

    At the top end, the military is an asylum, keep the inmates in.

    The troops that actually do the job are a different matter altogether.

    Also, if you push hard enough the guy might opt out the hard way and how would that make you feel? He's just a hapless bozo trying to please his boss who is certain that he will be well rewarded for his loyalty so cut the guy some slack because he has far more to worry about from his friends than from journalists and he probably is a clueless true believer.

    Put yourself in his shoes - "Hamana-hamana-hamana-hamana . . ."