UFO…

UFOs: True or false?UFOs: True or false?

***Start of Urban Legends***Start of Urban Legends

Why bother with SETI if UFOs are already here?

Flying saucers are popular in the movies…

When were flying saucers first sighted?

“…flying like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water."

The First "Flying Saucer" Sighting: Kenneth Arnold Mt. Rainier, Washington, June 24, 1947

What happened at Roswell in 1947?

Reportedly, an alien was found

The price of celebrity

Roswell is now an event

And of course there are books

"There are some books that everyone with an interest in UFOs should own. 'UFO Crash at Roswell' is one of them. The result is a mountain of proof which will delight the true believer, astound the open-minded, and hopefully give the debunkers a real run for their money.“

"The authors put forward a roster of eyewitness interviews and documents that may make the Roswell incident the strongest case of any for E.T. visitation."

"For decades, elite scientists, from Enrico Fermi forward, have looked at the night skies, and at the conclusion of their scientific research, asked: Why aren't they here? From the information gathered so painstakingly by Randle and Schmitt in this book, perhaps the answer to that question is: They are."

"Randle and Schmitt use scores of government documents and newspaper reports to show that the facts were hidden from the public for 40 years."

And documentaries…

And of course there is a movie

Which of these autopsies is real?

24 second clip from the alien autopsy film2.5 Megs ~ MPEG

20 second clip from the alien autopsy2.1 Megs ~ MPEG

Is the government covering up evidence of alien encounters?

What about area 51?

According to a 1995 report released by the Air Force, Project MOGUL was at the

heart of the Roswell Incident.

Or may be the government doesn’t really know?

UFO fever: Why do people believe weird things?

The parallel between the demons, angels, and fairies of the past with

the extraterrestrial aliens of today…

Analyzing evidence for UFOs

1. Direct contact2. Intelligent construction (e.g., spacecraft)3. Photographs4. Eyewitness reports

If this happens to you, you should be

suspicious

Eyewitness reports are notoriously unreliable

The eye can be fooled

True or false: It’s not just loonies who see UFO’s.

John Lennon, the Beatle, saw a UFO from the balcony of his New York City Apartment in August of 1974.

Lennon also took drugs.

The JFK conspiracy

Is Bruce Lee still alive?

Have you seen Elvis lately?

How about Sasquatch and the Loch Ness monster?

What about the Loch Ness monster?

The face on Mars: Seeing is believing, right?

Face on mars: Government cover-up

***True or false: Andrew Jackson predicted 9/11.

9+11 = 20!

Did Nostradamus predict 9/11?

Century 10, Quatrain 72: The year 1999 seven monthsFrom the sky will come the great King of Terror.To resuscitate the great king of the Mongols.Before and after, Mars reigns by good luck.

Century 6, Quatrain 97: At forty-five degrees the sky will burn,Fire to approach the great new city:In an instant a great scattered flame will leap up,When one will want to test the Normans.

•Villeneuve (“new city”) is the name of a town outside of Paris, near 45 degrees latitude.•Mabus => Usam B. or Subam

Do you see anything unusual?

Whenever you hear UFOs

mentioned, be very skeptical!

When and where are UFOs sighted?

sightings occur in:•in rural areas, small towns, and near military installations•around 9:00 p.m. with a secondary peak at about 3:00 a.m•in July

Big Picture on UFOs

•There is no credible evidence that extraterrestrials have visited Earth. •90% easily explained

•Venus or other bright stars and planets, airplanes and helicopters, searchlights and lasers, airships, satellites, birds, weather balloons, internal reflections of dashboard lights, ball lightning, or other phenomenon.

•5% requires modest investigation•trying to recreate the scene, examining photos, finding additional witnesses, and similar common-sense probing.

•5% remains unexplained.

UFOs are better explained in terms of the unknown irrationalities of terrestrial beings rather than by any unknown rationalities of extraterrestrial beings.—Richard Feynman

End

Roswell, New Mexico

Informal Pole

Roswell crash pic

***Why Roswell?

***saucer pix

Alien playing with remote saucer

Myths… Will they survive?Myths… Will they survive?

UFO…

Don’t fall asleep and miss the action

Alien abduction

Alien abduction2

***Support group for those who have not been abducted

UFOs: Mystery Airship 1896

Patrons got a good view of the "airship" from San Francisco's Cliff House.

An eyewitness sketch of the "airship" over Sacramento on November 17, 1896.

What is the natural object most commonly mistaken for a UFO?

UFOs: The Man from Mars 1897

Hoax journalism

Is it a question of politics?

Could aliens have populated ancient Earth?

UFO over Mary’s shoulder?

Alas, poor human…