sharkboy
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Joined: 26/9/2005 From: Belfast
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ORIGINAL: Ghidorah Evan Davis has the right to express his own opinion and who could argue as a whole the UFO subject is hard to stomach. What I do find foul that Mr Davis either ignore several elements of the story or wrote it off with a stroke of a pen. Surely someone writing a 'factual' piece to millions should includes the facts not to leave them out to make his opinion sounds correct. He openly state he doesn't believe in alien visitation yet he ignore the 'aliens' part of the story. Davis' piece may be a bit "tongue-in-cheek" for the true believer to stomach, but I'd argue that that was its intent - it's not meant to be a serious scientific or investigative piece in the first place. As for including all information, even your added accounts only give it from the believer's point of view. You've omitted the fact that the uncovered audio tape of the base commander, Lt Col Halt gives pretty conclusive evidence that what they were witnessing on the ground was indeed the lighthouse mentioned in Davis' piece (he notes every time the strange light flashes, which is at at 5-second intervals - the same interval as the lighthouse which was visible from his viewpoint). You haven't mentioned that the "burn marks" on the trees were identified as loggers' marks to identify which trees to fell, that an experienced forestry official identified the marks supposedly left by the landing skids as rabbit scrapings that had subsequently been covered with pine needles, or that there was an especially bright meteor recorded over England at the time the airmen were reporting seeing a "fireball". In the early-mid 80's there were hundreds of reports of strange angular craft in the night skies above England and the USA. Then at the end of the decade the USAF finally declassified the F-117A stealth fighter and a collective "d'oh!" was heard resounding from hundreds of UFO "witnesses". As Shifty says, UFO=/=little green (or grey) men. It just means something unexplained or unidentified. There's enough evidence out there about Rendelsham to call into question the alien craft theory. And I say this as someone whose bookshelves used to groan under the weight of books investigating UFOs and alien encounters. Like the programme says, I want to believe, but the more I look into it, the more I find that there are plenty of very terrestrial explanations for most of the phenomena.
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