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Originally Posted by Dave Lane
I have no interest in stupid aliens. If Roswell was true they would have to be reeruned aliens. No thanks we have a bumper crop here.
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If what about Roswell is "true"?
As far as possible crashes go, I don't think technological advancement precludes either the possibility of pilot error or of mechanical (or whatever the equivalent to "mechanical" would be for highly-advanced technology) failure. Accidents will always happen. It doesn't require stupidity or reerunation, just an unfortunate sequence of events.
In any case, I don't know what the "true" story of Roswell was. There are any number of possible explanations, ranging from balloons, to US aircraft, to foreign aircraft, to something more exotic, to nothing at all. At the end of the day, I'm not going to make any assumptions because I simply don't have enough information, other than to say
something happened there. I believe that's evident from the newspaper and radio reports, as well as the behavior of the Army and later the Air Force. But I have no idea what it was.
And the whole tenor of your post reminds me once again of how I am constantly disappointed by the dismissive attitude that so many scientists have with regards to this subject when they've done absolutely no research into it. Declaring something impossible without actually considering any evidence because it doesn't fit their pre-packaged world view is not science. But it is, unfortunately, reality, and we do, again unfortunately, live in a world where people are much more concerned about tenure and how they're viewed by their peers than they are in giving a legitimate mystery any semblance of honest evaluation.
The UFO research community as a whole has been polluted by crackpots and charlatans (hello Ancient Aliens and Steven Greer) and because of it the subject as a whole, as well as the people who actually do legitimate research into it are lumped in with the people trying to get the space brothers to land and take them away. And because of that, actual scientists who might actually come to some conclusions are left with very few options, basically to either mock the subject, hide any interest they may have from their peers, or be open about it and get labeled a maverick or worse.
It's a real shame, because there have been some very interesting anomalous events happening over the last century (and possibly longer).