8.9.5
UFO encounters are now a part of our culture. It is
obvious to me that people are experiencing some sort
of bizarre event, but is it all in their heads or is
it for real? It seems to me that there is enough
physical evidence to say at least some of these people
are experiencing some kind of real event. I know
debunkers will say there is no proof of UFOs, but what
constitutes proof? There are numerous photos and
videos that they dismiss. They always say something
stupid like “if they are real why don’t they land on
the White House lawn?’ It never occurs to them that
these entities may have no need or are not inclined to
do such a thing, that just maybe they don’t care if we
believe they are here or not.
As far as physical evidence goes, what about the
Cash/Landrum case? While it would be possible to argue
whether this was a alien craft or some sort of
Government project gone astray, I don’t see how anyone
could argue that nothing happened to these women and
the 7 year old boy because there is just loads of
physical evidence. The story goes like this -
On the night of December, 29, 1980, Betty Cash was
driving in a rural area outside Houston, Texas with
her friend Vicki Landrum and Vicki’s grandson Colby
when they came across a diamond shaped object shooting
out fire all over and blocking the road. They had to
stop the car and they got out for a closer look.
There was immense heat from the object and the two
women suffered burns. Betty received the worse burns
since she went nearer the object wanting a closer
look. They returned to the car when a large number of
black helicopters showed up and escorted the object
away. Upon getting back into the car Vicki made the
mistake of touching the dashboard and it is was so hot
that her fingerprints were melted into it. Both Betty
and Vicki suffered sever medical problems that seemed
to be associated with radiation poisoning. Betty Cash
and Vicki Landrum took the Government to court over
the incident, but the case was dismissed in 1986
because it was felt that the women couldn’t show any
proof that the object belonged to the Government.
Here you have a case with loads of proof, not only the
two women and their injuries (the boy was injured, but
to a far lesser extent), but also evidence of melted
fingerprints in the car. It is highly doubtful these
women caused these injuries to themselves. None of it
is proof of aliens, but it does seem to me to be proof
that there is something unusual flying around and that
not everyone seeing these things are delusional or
making things up.
I know most case do not have the amount of evidence
as the Cash/Landrum case, but that doesn’t mean there
is no evidence. I have heard of numerous cases where
burn marks are left behind in the soil by objects, as
I said there are videos and photos of crafts, there
are craft seen on radar and sonar that are traveling
far too fast to be a conventional crafts, there are
people who have strange things removed from there body
after claiming to have been abducted and having these
things inserted, there are scoop marks left on peoples
bodies, but none of these things make any difference
to the skeptics. Apparently it does take a UFO
landing on the White House lawn for them to believe
that such things could exist. They dismiss peoples
claims of being abducted by saying they were
experiencing sleep paralysis. I once had the
misfortune of experiencing that and I in no way
thought I was being abducted by aliens, though I was
very pissed off that I couldn’t move. After fighting
it for what seemed like forever I regained control
over myself. I can’t imagine this experience making
anyone think they are being abducted by aliens.
Skeptics often accuse people who claim to have been
abducted or seen a UFO of making things up so they can
make money off their story. It seems to me that this
is exactly how skeptics make a living, they make up a
story of why something didn’t happen the way the other
person says it happened and then they make money
spreading their story of how it didn‘t happen even
though they were never there to know if it happened
that way or not. It is kind of a silly way to make a
living if you ask me, taking someone else’s story that
you say they made up and then making up your own story
about how their story is untrue.
I don’t want to sound like I don’t believe in a true
skeptical inquiry. I mean if you can truly prove that
someone really is lying that is different or if
skeptics would just leave open the option that it
could have happened the way the person is claiming,
but is more likely to have happened a different way,
then they wouldn’t be quite as obnoxious. When I
think of obnoxious skepticism the Amazing Randi is the
first to come to mind. How I despise his attitude
that nothing amazing ever happens. He must live a
truly dull horrible life with no sense of wonderment
or miracles. I bet he is one of those people who
watch most movies and cannot suspend any of his
disbelief and just thinks they sucks because none of
that stuff could ever really happen. I think perhaps
his mother did not read him enough fairy tales growing
up and must have read straight from the encyclopedia.
I am not saying that I believe in fairy tales, but I
do believe strange and wonderful or even scary things
can happen to people and can be caused by things that
Amazing Randi does not have the imagination to believe
in. Yes, you have to have somewhat of a imagination
to believe that things you never have seen can exist
and he has none.
While I certainly don’t believe every story I hear on
c2c or anywhere for that matter, I do try to keep a
open mind. If I believed everything I heard on c2c I
would have jumped to my death years ago and if I
didn’t believe any of it then I would have quit
listening years ago because it wouldn’t have been any
fun. Somewhere between the Amazing Randi and delirium
is where I reside and although I sometimes cross the
line towards one side or the other (probably more
often to delirium) where I am I at least have the
freedom of imagination to wonder what might be instead
of living in a box like Amazing Randi. It doesn’t
hurt to wonder does it?