The "ufology" movement gained traction and interest between the 1960's and 1980's, but then faded into a somewhat fringe status and its popularity among the wider public waned until almost nobody was really interested in it, despite a few sporadic attempts at popularizing the phenomenon again.
The 2020's saw a hugely renewed surge in popularity due to news stories about several declassified military training video footage seemingly depicting unexplained phenomena, which prompted several members and ex-members of the military to come out in support of the concept that these are extraterrestrial vehicles whose physical capabilities are well beyond what we currently are capable of (if not outright physics-defying).
Even more fuel was added to that fire just in the recent months (as of writing this) when an (alleged) former high-ranking government official who (allegedly) worked in the most secret parts of the airforce made an interview where he claims that the United States military indeed has recovered partial and even entire extraterrestrial vehicles as well as remains of extraterrestrials.
I must admit that I'm a bit surprised about how much skepticism there is among the general people about all this evidence. While there are, of course, boatloads of people who are swallowing all that wholesale, there's likewise a very significant amount of population who either don't really care or outright doubt that any of it is actually real. I'm a bit surprised because I would have expected the portion of the wider audience who are doubters to be much smaller.
But let us remind ourselves once again of some simple facts.
And those simple facts are: Words mean nothing. Blurry photographs and videos mean nothing.
It doesn't matter what someone says, it means absolutely nothing. That someone may be outright lying, or mistaken, or deluded, or a myriad of other reasons why what he is claiming does not correspond to actual reality. Words alone mean nothing. They are completely unreliable as proof or even evidence.
And the funny thing is that that guy who allegedly worked in the upper echelons of the United States military and vehemently claims that the government has recovered actual extraterrestrial spacecraft? Turns out he hasn't even seen those spacecraft, or any artifacts, or any aliens, himself. The only thing he is saying is the result of conversations with other people. He personally hasn't seen any of it. And this according to his own words.
But even that doesn't really matter. Even if he claimed to have personally seen, and touched, and studied those artifacts, and personally dug his hand into some alien's posterior, that would still tell absolutely nothing.
Why? Because words don't mean anything! They are useless. He can say whatever he wants, that doesn't mean anything. That's not proof. It isn't even evidence. It's just words.
Give us actual artifacts to study, not just words.
And no, blurry photographs and video are not any better. They are equally worthless.
(There's a very good reason why every single example of purported extraterrestrial physics-defying objects are just blurry pictures and video: Because when the image is sharp and shows clearly the object in question, it turns out to be something mundane. Those videos never get into the UFO compilations, only the ones that are so blurry that you can't tell what it is.)
We don't even need to give any explanations for the pictures and videos. Even if they are completely without explanation that still means nothing. It simply means that there's a blurry video showing something that we don't have an explanation for. Nothing less, nothing more. If we don't know what it is, then we just don't know. We can't jump to conclusions from something we don't know.
And that's assuming that the videos are unexplainable. The kicker is that they actually are explainable, and quite easily so. (As mentioned, even if they weren't, that still wouldn't prove anything, but the fact that they are is like a double whammy.)
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