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From: jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu (James W. Meritt)
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Subject: Re: ufology not a "pseudoscience" -- wake up folks
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Date: 15 Mar 88 15:00:28 GMT
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I have no problem with the existance of "ufo"s i.e. unidentified flying
objects.  There obviously are flying objects which are not identified.

I have a problem with non-human time/space craft visiting earth.  Not
that it has/is/could happen, but that the reports (?) make out like
we are in the grand central station of the galaxy.  That is what I
find somewhat difficult to believe.  The distances involved  should
preclude the "intense" interest displayed.  We are WAY out in the 
boonies.  

If we are the only (or almost only) intelligence (also hard to believe)
all these sightings would not be real, 'cause nobody there / close enough
to do it.

If there are lots of "others" (I find that reasonable) they shouldn't
be here - there are many closer interesting places / other intelligences
to observe / whatever ...

If it is something in the middle (they are there, but not many) I find it
statistically unlikely that "they" are next door, and just advanced 
enough to have recognizable spacecraft, yet the economic base to make
a bunch of different models and send them all here.

Based on these conditionals, I have the opinion that these things,
whatever they are, are probably not starcraft from other worlds.
Now, what NASA, CCCP, ... are doing....


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