I gave myself a haircut and beard trim today - all in order to look half decent for the family photos that were taken. For those in the know, I'm sure the pics will be posted by 'other entities' in the near future. Like always, I am dreading getting the pictures back because I have no doubt that I have ruined several otherwise fabulous pictures with my incredible ability to look like a tool in photographs. It takes talent to be so non-photogenic. I kid you not, even if I wasn't worried about anonymity, there's no way I'd ever post actual photographs of myself.
I saw this online today: Ex- Air Force officers calls UFOs and nukes a real 'security concern'. Apparently a bunch of officers who used to be in control of Air Force nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles have now come forward with firsthand reports of UFOs hovering over their silos and knocking out power to the missiles back in the 1960s. This is not the first, the second, or even the hundredth time that highly credible military officers have come forward with UFO stories, but of course this one will be quietly ignored by skeptics like all the others. No doubt someone will accuse these officers of being out for fame or glory (ridiculous - such stories never garner anything more than ridicule), or say that they were probably smoking weed in their command posts when said events took place. There's no way that skeptics would take the word of men who were trusted with the literal ability to end human civilization.
Of course, military officers have been coming clean about the 1947 Roswell incident in droves for decades (and ignored). Much more recently (2007 - National Press Club video), U.S. Air Force officers have come forward about witnessing a UFO at close range at the Bentwater air base near Rendlesham forest in the UK in 1980. They inspected a landing site for the craft and collected physical evidence, including radiation readings far in excess of the surrounding forest. Supposedly, according to skeptics, the deputy base commander was unable to tell the difference between highly dramatic UFO activity and a nearby lighthouse. After the British government officially declared the event to be irrelevant to British national security, Admiral Lord Hill-Norton , former chief of the British Defense Staff stated:
I have no doubt that something landed at this U.S. Air Force base and I have no doubt that it has got the people concerned in to a considerable state. The Ministry of Defense has doggedly stuck to it’s normal line, that nothing of defense interest took place. Either large numbers of people , including the commanding general at Bentwaters, were hallucinating, and for an American Air Force nuclear base , this is extremely dangerous – or what they say did happen. In either of these circumstances, there can be only one answer – that it was of extreme defense interest to the U.K.Of course Lord Hill-Norton was ignored too.
If you want an overwhelming deluge of military and high ranking defense officials going on record about the reality of extraterrestrial visitation, just read Disclosure. Of course, they're all kooks too according to the skeptics. In fact, even Gordon Cooper, one of the original Mercury astronauts (the most intensely scrutinized and thoroughly vetted group of pilots in all history), has gone on record (video) about two personal UFO experiences - once seeing one actually land at Edwards Air Force Base. He's clearly also a kook.
It's true, anyone who believes in UFOs is a pathetic kook. My question is, why are so many military men and women - the very people we rely on for our national defense - turning out to be total raving loonies? Clearly only skeptics should be allowed to serve in the military. We can do away with don't ask, don't tell, but we must make sure that our military servicemembers remain skeptics in the face of overwhelming evidence of extraterrestrial visitation. Skeptics we can trust. Military officers claiming UFOs are real? Those jokers are untrustworthy by definition. Arrrrgghhhh....
(People clinging to denial make my head hurt)
Other (Apollo) astronauts going on-record about UFOs (video):
Edgar Mitchell
Buzz Aldrin
The one thing that really frightens me the most about your post is the fact that I'm even less photogenic than you are. I know skeptics (such as yourself, perhaps) may dismiss that claim as ridiculous, but I will swear on any holy book you put in front of me that it is true.
ReplyDeleteWell yeah, if I looked like a freaky zombie-eyed demonic acolyte then I'd claim worse photo charisma issues too. However, I do have some pretty good photos of you in my personal stores.
ReplyDeleteI reported red, blinking, fast-moving, zig zaggy objects in the sky a long time before I read anything about UFOs. The sightings were always away from city lights and generally after a day of hiking or fishing.
ReplyDeleteWith maybe a half-dozen UFO sightings under my belt and exactly zero grizzly encounters, I'm thinking an upgrade in self-defense is in order.
Suggestions?
You are so far out in left field on this one - I can't believe you would write such nonsense.
ReplyDeleteWhat I mean is, you are very photogenic.
I still intend to read all the stuff on UFOs you recommended. This post is a good reminder to finish the five or so books I've started so I can get to them.
"Well yeah, if I looked like a freaky zombie-eyed demonic acolyte then I'd claim worse photo charisma issues too."
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize I looked quite THAT bad, but I see you understand my predicament.
As for UFOs, I have seen a strangely moving light in the sky such as what Jason describes except that mine was white and not blinking, and I saw it while standing on the sidewalk in front of Mom & Dad's house. So I need no convincing that the truth is out there.
I am less sure that they are little green men, although I don't dismiss the possibility.
But if we were to assume for argument's sake that they are aliens from Planet X, that would present some interesting theological questions for those who are religiously inclined. You and I have discussed this before over a game of Halo. If we are to believe the descriptions given by those who have claimed to see them, they do not appear to have been created in God's image. Do they worship Jesus? When the Second Coming happens what will that mean for them?
"You are so far out in left field on this one."
ReplyDeleteThat's Jason. At the risk of sounding pedantic, Ryan is always way out in Right field.
Left field was my preferred position in baseball as well. Of course Steph's comment wasn't directed at me but it's fun to poke the anthill.
ReplyDeleteDepending on the subject, Ryno can be found at any position. He even dives for the foul balls like a madman.
The Bible and the prophecies contained therein concern Earth's "natural" inhabitants. Illegal aliens will be deported.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if aliens serve as God's special forces? Hmmm ...
P.S. You can kick a hornet's nest (most are in the ground) or poke an ant hill (with a stick). So technically, neither is a mixed metaphor:
ReplyDelete"A mixed metaphor is one that leaps from one identification to a second identification inconsistent with the first. Example: "If we can hit that bullseye then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... Checkmate." - Wiki
Btw, Ryno was verrry photogenic when he posed for me.