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Have aliens visited Earth?

Jessica Cassyle Carr [ Tue Aug 12 2008 11:19 AM ]

“Just a weather baloon,” psshhh!

In this week’s Radford Files, Ben Radford shares pointers on surviving an alien abduction. Do you think extra terrestrials have made their way to our planet? Abducted humans? Log in to vote in the poll (little green box at left), and comment below.

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It sucks [ Tue Aug 12 2008 1:28 PM ]

that I can only vote once.
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Nick... [ Tue Aug 12 2008 3:13 PM ]

So what do you think about our ET visitors?
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I think [ Tue Aug 12 2008 3:18 PM ]

they're going to be voting "no" in the poll to preserve their secrecy.
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C'mon [ Tue Aug 12 2008 3:23 PM ]

Nobody votes in the poll!
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correction [ Tue Aug 12 2008 3:28 PM ]

No humans vote in the poll.
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I hope that's not a dig at us [ Tue Aug 12 2008 4:05 PM ]

We may not be human, but we know our civic duty.
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Why do you care? [ Tue Aug 12 2008 7:39 PM ]

Fuckin' machine. Gimme some stars, baby.
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If Roswell is the best evidence... [ Sat Aug 23 2008 12:49 PM ]

The poll on the left seems to be about red and green chile, not alien abductions....
I'm currently in the middle of reading every book written about the Roswell Incident, for a book of my own I'm co-writing, and I've got to say: great story, but definitely just a story. Read the books in order, and you can easily see how the new pieces of information get invented, get refined, and get fit into place. The mythology is more like a big, fictional Wikipedia entry written over decades by tons of UFO believers than it is anything like an example of real research or real history.
If Roswell is the best evidence there is for alien visitation, then the case for any visitation at all is pretty poor.
One more note--the above still from the so-called alien autopsy--that's been confessed to as a hoax by its creator--and its caption, although I suspect it was written with tongue in cheek--“'Just a weather baloon,' psshhh"--is kind of a straw man argument, as no skeptic really says it was just a weather balloon, they say it was a downed high-altitude balloon train used to spy on Soviet nuclear tests, part of the top-secret Project Mogul, which launched and lost balloon trains from Alamogordo shortly before the infamous Roswell UFO debris was found on Mac Brazel's ranch.