Reddit mentions of UFOs, ETs, and Alien Abductions: A Scientist Looks at the Evidence

There was a time when I would have thought that same thing. Have you spent any time at all looking into this? Are you aware that people who are probably a lot smarter than you (or at least a lot more distinguished academically) have spent a lot of time looking into this, and have come to conclusions that are the opposite of what you're expressing here? If you'd like to form the basis for an intelligent opinion, you could learn about the facts the same way you learn about any other subject - by reading a book written by a professional, like this one by Professor Don Donderi, PhD, "UFOs, ETs, and Alien Abductions: A Scientist Looks at the Evidence".

The author, after graduating from Cornell University with a PhD in experimental psychology, joined the Faculty of Science of McGill University, where he taught psychology, trained PhD students and served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. He has written over one hundred basic research papers and technical reports dealing with the science of human visual perception and memory, co-authored one textbook and edited another. Other scientists who have examined the evidence (which is in fact quite a bit more extensive than 'people claiming to be abducted') include Dr. Rudy Schild, astrophysicist/emeritus research astronomer at Harvard, and Dr. John Mack, deceased Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Med School, who determined through years of clinical study that the people claiming alien abduction weren't suffering from mental illness.


> I hardly consider some nutjob or mentally-ill person talking about being carried up in an alien ship credible peer-reviewed scientific evidence, and no self-respecting intelligent person does.

given that this is what you think "evidence" is, I think it's safe to assume that you're just dismissing the subject with no investigation, so we'll go ahead and put you in the category of "people who think they're being smart by making judgments about things that they've spent no time investigating or learning about".


If you spent even a week looking into this subject you would change your mind and learn that there's an infinite amount of empirical evidence indicating that we're being visited by other forms of life, just as many scientists from prestigious universities with long and distinguished scientific careers have. You think you know what you're talking about, but you really don't. Empirical evidence is literally "sense experience", and is defined as information acquired by observation. Observation and recording/sharing those observations is a basic part of the scientific method, even when it comes to phenomenon that are rare or aren't readily controllable for study in laboratories - like UFOs which have been tracked on ground radar, pilot radar, and seen by thousands of people at one time, including the Governor of the state of Arizona, Fife Symington and alien abductee accounts.

Also, this type of thing could cause deterioration in the social order and institutional stability of nations, and there's literally no up-side to telling the public, so if an arm of government or the military knows this is happening, they have every reason (and even duty) to keep it totally secret. But, like all secrets, there are leaks, many leaks, and many documents related to those leaks. A great deal of them, more than I can list here, here, or here. These aren't 'mentally ill people', the last guy there was an air force pilot who was fit to carry nuclear weapons, many of those people were involved in nuclear weapons jobs - which seems to draw the interest of whoever is in the UFOs.


Something is going on here with this subject, you can be one of the people who ignores it/discounts it out of contempt while believing you already "know better", or you can be one of the people who looks into it and learns more. The choice is yours. People don't just believe in this for fun or because they're odd or mentally ill, they "believe it" because that's where the evidence leads, and alien visitation is one of the most reasonably explanations for the data we have available. If you spend time delving into that data instead of dismissing it out of hand because you think you already know better, you'd find out the same thing.

Either some power on Earth is in possession of technology far beyond anything we can imagine, and they're using that technology to mess with US ICBMs, or something else is going on.