The point of the myth is to keep people from looking through keyholes...it's damn rude. Beyond that, there's no real construct behind the myth. It wasn't created to explain anything. No one looked through a keyhole, saw something weird, and dropped dead.
In contrast, stories of giant sea monsters have persisted as long as men have sailed the seven seas. Legends of ancient mariners sighting humongous ocean creatures that devour men and even whole ships. Why? Because the ocean is full of large beasts that were a threat to people and boats.
Great white sharks, whales, giant squid...whatever, it's out there. Boats vanished. Sailors fell into the ocean and were devoured. Men on ships looked out into the sea and saw strange, strange things and decided that out thar be giant sea monsters, matey, go no further.
My point is that the current concept of greys, aliens, UFO's, flying saucers, etc. is a label for a phenomena that has existed since the dawn of human civilization and beyond. Of course, to strengthen this hypothesis it is necessary to use logic to do so.
That's why I suddenly started bouncing around history while mentioning things like informal fallacies and formal logical arguments. An Argument by Authority is a good basis for proving that there's something up with aliens and UFO's if people who are very qualified are the ones reporting them...people like military officials, highly trained military and non-military pilots, ancient historians, Alexander the Great, normal, sober people with absolutely no reason to report UFO's and aliens...you get it.
I also talked about logic because I wanted you to understand the concept of an Argument by Example. Over and over again, we see constant, reoccurring facts and circumstances that repeat themselves, often across vast gulfs of time, geography, circumstance and subjectivity. Different people from different places from different points in history, from vary different circumstances, all tend to report the same behavior. What's going on, here?
Let's say your Uncle Larry had left you millions in his will, but the both of you got into a drunken argument over soccer and he declared that he was going to cut you out, which means you'd lose that millions. To keep your uncle from calling a lawyer in the morning, you grab his.38, shoot him dead, attempt to make the whole scene look like a robbery gone wrong, and sneak home.
Unfortunately for you, modern criminal science is pretty thorough. Police detectives show up, find the body, find the pistol, send it to a forensics expert that finds your thumbprint on the barrel. They also find DNA evidence on the glass of whiskey you were drinking out of.
They also talk to eyewitnesses who all theorize that you might have killed your Uncle Larry, or who have facts that lead up to the conclusion. It turns out your Uncle Larry had already called an attorney to arrange the affair. A neighbor next door heard your loud argument. A jogger saw you leave the home acting suspiciously.
Finally, it turns out that a servant was downstairs, and he heard the argument, saw you go down the hall where the pistol was stored, saw you walk back down the hall, heard the gunshot, and then saw you leave.
The servant didn't see you commit the murder, but there's enough there for any court room in America to go on. The detective and the DA would get a pretty clear case that any jury could understand.
Aside from everyone having the same theory, that you shot poor, old Uncle Larry, your argument that it was the servant would hold no water because of forensics experts brought in on the case and the DNA you left all over when you fired the pistol.
The DA would know that the servant could have done it because modern forensics is powerfully accurate. At that point a lot of the case would boil down to your opinion versus the what the servant said.
But forensics experts could point out that cordite residue was found on your hand, blood was found on your shirt, DNA evidence was in the whiskey glass, and aside from that, everyone who declared you that you were in the perfect place to commit the murder were in the perfect place themselves to notice where you were at the time the murder happened.
Even the attorney's testimony, that your Uncle Larry suggested that you'd kill for your money, would be included in the court case against you.
The final nail in the proverbial coffin is that all of the witnesses would probably have statements that tend to describe you in the same way. If you were a white guy with dark brown hair wearing jeans and a black shirt, all of the witnesses would probably describe you the same way to the police.
If Uncle Larry told the attorney an evil clown with blue hair attacked him, and the servant reported that bigfoot walked down the stairs after he heard the gunshot, and a neighbor told the police he saw an attractive Swedish woman dressed like a cheerleader leave the house, the accusation just wouldn't look good to the jury. It's simply a stronger case if everyone involved describes the killer in the same way.
You can see how logic is applicable across a wide spectrum, whether it's related to the legal justice system, science or conspiracy theories. If you stick to the facts, keep an open mind and apply logic and reason, there's enough data out there to infer plenty from the UFO phenomena, without acting like everything related to aliens and flying saucers is purely for the loons.
However, there are plenty of loons on the Internet who are into UFO's, aliens, flying saucers and more. All the logic we went over earlier can help us filter out those weirdos too, but we must also understand the the Powers That Be, the People On Top who tell the rest of us losers how to suck it, they have expressed a vested interest in hiding the truth.
These government types also tend to control the distribution of information, including what's "officially true" and what's not, so we have to understand that as we explore the subject, there are lot of people doing their best to screw up the exploration...and sometimes they even kill the explorers to keep their secrets.
Now we're just going to talk about UFO's, aliens and all of that fun stuff. I'm going to bounce around here and there so don't expect me to keep going from WWII on in a manner that follows a timeline. What I'm going to do is take an aspect of the subject, show it to you, and attempt to infer the greater truth from that example, in the way that a detective can figure out a lot about a pistol from studying the bullet it fired. In that way, we can build our overall case and come to a decision.
But remember, in the words of Carl Sagan, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Until a fleet of flying saucers start flying around Washington, D.C. in full view of the entire city, it's pretty hard to believe that reports of UFO's are anything but delusional fantasies. We all want physical, concrete evidence, not words on a computer screen.
Ok, let's talk about foo fighters.
SECTION II: WORLD WAR II, THE FOO FIGHTERS, AND BEYOND
At the end of WWII many of the Allied Forces engaged in the conflict noticed a lot of spooky, unexplained things going on all around them. After the fight was over, soldiers, officers and intelligence types from both sides compared notes and realized that each two major groups fighting each other, the Axis and the Allies, saw a lot of the same things without knowing what they were looking at. It wasn't just the British pilots who saw strange lights following their planes, Italian and German pilots saw them, too.
After babbling to you for many paragraphs about logic, legal argumentation, police investigations and such, you can apply the same attitude (if you want) to World War II and the foo fighters (also known as "kraut fireballs"). One one hand, the conflict involved weapons, flying vehicles and aerial combat on a level never seen before that point in the modern era. Bullets, bombs, rockets, missiles, planes, jet planes, guys in parachutes throwing hand grenades, experimental weaponry, you got it...that's what was flying through the air above Europe, Africa, Australia, Asia and more during World War II. Of course there were reports of UFO's during that time.
Going further, at the beginning of the war we were using some pretty impressive artillery. The Nazi's had started creating all sorts of new ordinance that was beyond the toys everyone tossed at each other during World War I. We started with mortar shells and by the end we were using atomic weaponry. Of course anyone looking up in the sky at that time would have felt like they were watching a sci-fi fireworks display.
On the other hand, the personnel that witnessed the UFO's during World War II were highly qualified, extremely experienced, trained and technologically astute individuals. Military training is hard, and people who have that training can stay cool under combat conditions and still be aware of their surroundings in a somewhat sophisticated manner. What I mean is, a fighter pilot (or other military personnel) with years of experience can look over and tell if he sees an enemy plane, a friendly aircraft, a sun dog, weaponry or a weird ball of WTF?
So the people reporting the UFO's weren't just uneducated rednecks and some delusional amateurs. If brought on to the witness stand to corroborate eyewitness testimony about flying saucers, the court (and the jury) would give a lot of weight to their experiences and what they said about what they saw.
The term "foo fighters" actually originated from an expression used by the American P-61 Black Widow night fighter aircraft pilots to describe the weird, strange orbs, lights and other shapes that they saw while running missions in the dark sky over Europe during World War II. Pilots reported being followed by these lights, and even shooting at them with their weapons without effect. During that time a comic strip known as Smokey Stover was popular, so when the term was used in the strip it became popular, and now the word foo fighters is still around, although the slang term has since been retired and replaced with the term, "UFO's."
One night while cruising the Indian Ocean on September 1941 the crew aboard the S.S. Pulaski, a vessel that was being used by the British military to transport soldiers from Durban, South Africa to Suez, Egypt, saw a strange, luminescent object following their ship some 5,000 feet in the air. Crew member Mar Daroba described it as, "some strange globe glowing with greenish light, about half the size of the full moon, as it appears to us."
The object followed the ship for a half an hour and then abruptly vanished.
On February 26, 1942 the cruiser Tromp of the Royal Netherlands Navy, while going across the Timor Sea near New Guinea, had a similar experience. Crew member William J. Methorst. Later, in 1957 he reported the following in an official address to the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society of Melbourne, Australia, that:
"While on watch for enemy aircraft just after noon, I was scanning the skies with binoculars when suddenly I saw a large illuminated disc approaching at terrific speed 4,000 or 5,000 feet above us. This object proceeded to circle high above our ship, the cruiser, Tromp, of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
"After reporting it to the officers on the bridge, they were unable to identify it as any known aircraft. After keeping track of this object for about three to four hours, as it flew in big circles and at the same height, the craft suddenly veered off in a tremendous burst of speed (at about 3,000 to 3,500 miles an hour) and disappeared from sight."
We are not done talking about foo fighters. In my next post on this subject we are going to cover more sightings of UFO's, and then start investigating what the allies found in regards to Nazi technology and alien influence at the end of World War II. I'm also going to talk about where the Nazi's got their idea for flying saucers, and how the resulting discoveries by those evil weirdos went farther and stranger than the mainstream, filtered history books give them credit for.
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