• @[email protected]
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    92 years ago

    Our senses and brains are remarkably easy to fool. Stage magicians even make a career out of making us think we’ve seen things we haven’t.

    How many times have you seen a shadow, or a silhouette and thought it was a person/monster/whatever? Our brains are wired to see familiar things in unfamiliar circumstances, and it bases it on things we’re familiar with. UFO sightings follow predictable patterns based on what style or shape of “alien ship” are biggest in pop culture at the time. We conjure up monsters we saw in movies, or read about in books or magazines.

    • TheRealKuni
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      92 years ago

      Sad to see so many dots around newfoundland but I’m also not that surprised lol

      Not a lot of people know this, but until they invent interstellar jet engines the aliens have to stop in Gander to refuel before going on to the US.

  • @[email protected]
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    202 years ago

    Meanwhile the Netherlands chilling with the extraterrestrials.

    Maybe that’s where they got their terraforming abilities.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 years ago

      And very coincidentally and unrelated: gigantic military spending that unexpectedly can’t be fully accounted for. Strange!

  • mochi
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    322 years ago

    Because that’s where the freak show is.

  • m3t00🌎
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    52 years ago

    cause : effect; believing in things that don’t exist, seeing things that don’t exist. a casually religious friend says he’s not worried about dying. expects to just wake up in heaven

  • @[email protected]
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    182 years ago

    Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. “Mankind.” That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom… Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: “We will not go quietly into the night!” We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

    • ivanafterall
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      102 years ago

      He had his flaws, but I still think of him as our greatest president.

    • Flying SquidM
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      42 years ago

      Between him and Morgan Freeman, the U.S. has had some really good presidents.

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      The defining speech of President Whitmore. Right up there with the Gettysburg address.

  • @[email protected]
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    332 years ago

    This is my biggest problem with believing anything alien related; how come all of the video evidence is taken on a phone camera from 2001, and the fact basically all sightings happen in the US?

    The people making this shit up have to try harder than that!

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        Oh, our cultural colony follows in our footsteps?

        Quite the shocker from Airstrip One over there.

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      52 years ago

      There’s a somewhat rational theory that Roswell happened because it was the site of the nuclear bomb testings and aliens “only try to contact civs that are at splitting the atom tech level”.

      It has some merit to it, but yeah, look at that map. Hardly convincing when looking at the reported sightings.

  • @[email protected]
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    262 years ago

    That is because people are morons and don’t know how cameras work. Even the military thinks things like low flying geese are some how aliens, when clearly their evidence is to the contrary. I am not saying that there aren’t aliens. They probably do exist, but the evidence we keep getting shown for it is laughable.