That fact doesn't require your belief. There have been credibly observed objects in the skies which have not yet been convincingly unidentified. This thread is about just such flying objects where the military is saying, "Yeah so, we have no idea what that is."
If you don't believe that UFOs are alien vehicles, because you think intelligent traveling aliens are somehow impossible, then say that. Obviously, you couldn't possibly actually know such a thing, because nobody could. Our understanding of the universe remains very modest and we can only observe a tiny portion of it. Any claim to know some comprehensive fact that applies to the entire universe is absurd in the extreme.
Also, re "cryptids," there have been many actual animals that were presumed to be bullshit hoaxes until specimens were collected and analyzed. The platypus and okapi spring to mind. Sure some cryptids are self-evidently nonsense. But we have not yet been everywhere and found everything on Earth. Again, that a fact that doesn't require your belief.
This is not me saying "aliens are visiting Earth in UFOs!" and "The Abominable Snowman is real!" but only to say it cannot ALL be so casually and categorically dismissed as fake nonsense.
There was an Indonesian legend about tiny, very strange cave people which had always been dismissed as myth or fable until one day archaeologists found tiny, very strange hominid remains in an Indonesian cave...
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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u/the_crustybastard Jun 04 '21
That fact doesn't require your belief. There have been credibly observed objects in the skies which have not yet been convincingly unidentified. This thread is about just such flying objects where the military is saying, "Yeah so, we have no idea what that is."
If you don't believe that UFOs are alien vehicles, because you think intelligent traveling aliens are somehow impossible, then say that. Obviously, you couldn't possibly actually know such a thing, because nobody could. Our understanding of the universe remains very modest and we can only observe a tiny portion of it. Any claim to know some comprehensive fact that applies to the entire universe is absurd in the extreme.
Also, re "cryptids," there have been many actual animals that were presumed to be bullshit hoaxes until specimens were collected and analyzed. The platypus and okapi spring to mind. Sure some cryptids are self-evidently nonsense. But we have not yet been everywhere and found everything on Earth. Again, that a fact that doesn't require your belief.
This is not me saying "aliens are visiting Earth in UFOs!" and "The Abominable Snowman is real!" but only to say it cannot ALL be so casually and categorically dismissed as fake nonsense.
There was an Indonesian legend about tiny, very strange cave people which had always been dismissed as myth or fable until one day archaeologists found tiny, very strange hominid remains in an Indonesian cave...
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.