[HN Gopher] I Created 'The X-Files.' Here's Why I'm Skeptical of...
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I Created 'The X-Files.' Here's Why I'm Skeptical of the New UFO
Report
Author : miiiiiike
Score : 25 points
Date : 2021-06-27 17:42 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| treeman79 wrote:
| https://youtu.be/0UYDdJN53ak
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| Spherical drones with lights would be able to produce tons of
| drama.
| mikestew wrote:
| I believe that's the weakest appeal to authority I've heard in a
| while: "Thirty years ago I wrote a mildly entertaining television
| show with subject matter around U. F. O.'s and conspiracies..."
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| I hesitate to be so dismissive, but the whole article came across
| to me as just a rambling collection of anecdotes, convincing me
| of nothing.
| temp22334455 wrote:
| To be fair to Chris Carter, he does illustrate that his
| position as creator of the X-Files made him a magnate for tales
| of extraterrestrial encounters during the 90s. I do agree,
| though, that he fails to convey how purported UFO sightings in
| the 90s are relevant to the current navy reports.
| ALittleLight wrote:
| I didn't see any reason to be skeptical of the UFO report in this
| article. The UFO report doesn't have strong conclusions and it's
| much shorter than I'd like - but I don't consider that a reason
| to doubt what it does say.
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| I think it's obvious the government does know more than they
| reveal. Trivially, they know the details of the encounters they
| summarize in the UFO report. I'd love to get a full description
| of each, any video or recordings, know if there is any similar
| evidence from the period of time before the report's coverage,
| and know if there is any physical evidence.
| rafaelvasco wrote:
| Even if I were to be completely skeptical and/or in denial about
| Aliens existence, on the contrary, no one can say there isn't any
| evidence. Apart from being mathematically completely unlikely
| we're alone in the Universe, if you go and read dozens of reports
| and accounts about alien encounters, most of them match with one
| another.
| goatlover wrote:
| > Apart from being mathematically completely unlikely we're
| alone in the Universe
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| That's a false assumption, since we don't know the probability
| of our existence. If the probability is low enough, then it's
| not "completely unlikely". Particularly if you limit it to our
| galaxy, since there's little reason to suppose aliens in
| another galaxy would know of us, let alone make a trip millions
| of light years.
|
| > if you go and read dozens of reports and accounts about alien
| encounters, most of them match with one another.
|
| You can say the same thing for similar religious experiences
| and various other paranormal phenomena. But what's more likely,
| that human psychology combined with Earth-based phenomena is
| the answer, or that aliens travelled light years to mess with
| us?
| gus_massa wrote:
| > _Apart from being mathematically completely unlikely we 're
| alone in the Universe,_
|
| I agree that the is probably life in other star systems. The
| difficult part to believe is that they made an interstellar
| trip to here. Anyway, pics or it didn't happen. But good pics,
| not bad pics at the border of the resolution where objects are
| difficult to identify.
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| > _if you go and read dozens of reports and accounts about
| alien encounters, most of them match with one another._
|
| Wikipedia has a list of like 9 classes of aliens
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alleged_extraterrestri...
| and subclases that cover all the range of the human
| imagination. The reports are not consistent at all.
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