Responding to an Email on Flying Saucers
August 21st, 2008
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I received the following email yesterday and I thought I’d post my response here since it related to this website:
Hi,
I just wanted to ask what you think of UFO sitings that have been happening for years and continue and whether or not you believe in them. I saw your page and a few of your enteries where you sound like you are putting down the whole idea but not offering any reasoning for doing it. I’m wondering if you think UFOs are just not real and why. By UFO I don’t mean unidentified flying object because I know that you and some others say that then it is real because any flying object when it is not able to be identified is a ufo. That is not what I am talking about but I really mean flying saucers as they are called or something like that which is not a plane or bird. Flying saucers are seen a lot and they are sometimes very clear and not in any way possibly something else. Why do you think these can’t be real? How can you be sure there is not life somewhere that is interested in us or maybe just our planet?
(I’ve omitted the name)
In response:
Flying saucers are absolutely real and I would not deny their existence because I have experienced them on several occasions. To understand the origin of flying saucers you need to understand a few things about my grandmother. She’s approaching the age of 90 and is very set in her ways about how she likes her tea. She wants her tea to be strong and she wants it to be hot. It is not that unusual for someone to serve her tea that is not very hot due to concern that, being an old lady, she might gulp the tea and burn her mouth. I believe that she takes special exception to cold tea because of this – she considers it something of an insult to her for not being able to handle a hot liquid.
This will naturally cause a flying saucer, generally on a ballistic trajectory in the general direction of the server of the tea. If she happens to be in an especially foul mood on that day it will be followed shortly by a flying teacup. Luckily, these saucers are generally subsonic and are preceded by a shriek. In general this will give enough warning to allow the server to duck or dodge the flying saucer.
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August 21st, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Dude! You’re black!?!??!!
I just assumed from they way you draw the Dr. Buzz0 character that you were white.
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August 21st, 2008 at 5:23 pm
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August 21st, 2008 at 7:05 pm
CBMTTek said:
No. It’s a representative stick figure. If it were white you would not be able to see it against the white background. I guess if the background were black that would work too.
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August 21st, 2008 at 7:26 pm
drbuzz0 said:
I know. Just having fun.
I quite like Nanna’s gray hair.
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August 21st, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Nobody sees flying saucers anymore. Flying saucers are soooo 1950. Now it’s all about the flying triangles and the flying blobs of light and stuff.
The only place you see flying saucers are when aliens get together for a classic UFO show or something.
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August 21st, 2008 at 8:14 pm
You wait, you lot, when on the receiving end of an extraterrestrial anal probe, you won’t be making fun of the poor folk that tried to warn you!
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August 21st, 2008 at 8:21 pm
DV82XL said:
When they probe you anally do they at least have the courtesy to tell you if they see anything? I would not mind as much if they at least said something if they saw a problem like “Oh gee, that looks a lot like a pre-cancerous pollop (sp?). You really bad better get that looked at.”
It seems like it would be especially bad if they actually saw that and didn’t even bother to tell you.
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August 22nd, 2008 at 4:25 am
Magic Donuts said:
I don’t think the alien anal probes have a camera on the end. I’m not sure about this and I’ve never had one. I think their probes are not actually related to any kind of measurement. They do it out of some kind of sick fetish if I understand correctly.
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August 22nd, 2008 at 4:59 am
After thousands of years of technological advancement, these higher beings have at last been able to dare the void between the stars to reach their younger peers in the cosmos to finally settle that burning question which has tantalised and plagued their thoughts and philosophies for so many aeons:
“So Earthling, what’s up your a**?”
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August 22nd, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Well to be a bit more serious
I always considered ufo’s as junk, but I came across the book detailing the project blue book investigation by Edward Ruppelt(the air force captain in charge of blue book), “the report on unidentified flying objects”. Its a utterly fascinating book and Ruppelt is completely unpartial, never trying to interpret the cases he describes. I dont think UFO’s are aliens, but it sure isnt possible to just dismiss the phenomenon out of hand. The green fireballs over new mexico is probably the most impressive part of the book.
The book can be found online here http://www.nicap.org/rufo/contents.htm
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August 22nd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
It is entirely true that the USAF did have an interest in UFO’s and collected UFO reports throughout the 1940’s and 1950’s often keeping them secret and investigating the situations.
This wasn’t out of a concern that they were alien. Rather it was out of a concern that they were Soviet. Lets not forget that this was the time when areospace technology was going places never before imagined. Exotic planes like the U2 and later the SR-71, the XB-70, the B-58, the X-15 as well as spacecraft rapidly developing from the early ballistic missiles of 1940’s.
The idea that exotic Soviet aircraft or spacecraft were invading US airspace was not at all far fetched. After all, we were invading their airspace with exotic aircraft.
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August 22nd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Yes I know, the air force where certainly not afraid of aliens
Im just saying that many of the reports gathered by project blue book is mindblowing. Especially the green fireballs over new mexico. Its very hard to try and come up with a satisfactory explanation for those phenomenon. No satisfactory explanation definetly does not mean aliens, but in some cases it would seem it might be natural phenomenon not yet explained. Kind of like how ball lightning was long belived to be a myth.
If you ever have time, read through Ruppelts book. Its probably the only book on UFO’s thats not in looney toons land. I dont think any scientists can read that book without feeling alot of curiosity.
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