On 9/11/01 I had been living in Manhattan all of 3 months after 10 years of open sky in Boulder, Colorado. I had taken a job transfer with SUN Microsystems and returned to the city believing it was time to go back to my friends and family on the East Coast. My new job was on the 25th floor of WTC2…
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Scientists need specimens to study, or hypotheses based upon observation(s). Witness testimony, regardless of the support of such by some UFO buffs, is useless, for scientific purposes. Sure, a credible witness might provide a clue that helps a scientist see an avenue for study, but witness testimony, all by itself, is generally useless.
UFO sightings nowadays are even more transitory that flying saucer reports of the past, those that supposedly left indentations (Socorro again) or radiation traces (the Desvergers, Florida tale), so science is even less inclined to get involved with sightings.
""The sight was simply beyond my capacity to describe fully, and so terrifying that I barely remember the sight – only the terror it struck in me. There were several people bunched up in a corner, a big amorphous heap of bodies. Some were conscious and yelled at me not to do anything that could startle the police, others lay still. Their bodies were all covered in blood, and a thick pool of blood extended at least a half-metre in all directions around them. The policeman across the hall was screaming orders at me, but he was screaming so loudly that I couldn’t make out his words at first."
— This Mind Intentionally Left Blank :: Utøya: English version
"[Le discours conspirationniste] commence par une accumulation de spéculations, de doutes mis bout à bout qui dessinent un récit alternatif. Ce qu’on remarque dans ce discours, c’est l’inversion de la charge de la preuve. On ne vous dit pas : « je vais vous prouver que ce que je dis est vrai » mais « démontrez-moi que j’ai tort, que votre théorie officielle est réelle ». Et en général comme l’hypothèse communément admise n’est pas une « vérité » mais simplement le récit le plus plausible des événements cela donne de l’eau au moulin des conspirationnistes."
— StreetPress lance son générateur de complots_2.0 | Lundi 12 Avril 2010 sur StreetPress.com
