Dec 20, 2025 02:40 PM
(Dec 20, 2025 02:16 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]Quote: Stryder said: The US was the main source of UFO sightings starting of course with Orson Welles radio adaption of H.G.Wells "War of the Worlds" which lead to hysteria.
UFO sightings did not begin with the Orson Welles radio broadcast of 1938. They started with the report of private pilot Kenneth Arnold flying over Washington State in 1947. A real and compelling sighting, and not a bogus hysterical panic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01sVLTO8xmo&t=143s
Isn't it curious that the skeptics of uaps are always the ones who have never studied the actual reports and know the least about the history of their sightings? Now why would that be?
Welles broadcast paved the wave for hysteria.
The following war didn't help much either, as there was Japanese balloon bombs and RAND projects occurring with an ever tightening shroud of secrecy. Which lead to official denial and misinterpretation of events.
Any R&D would of been played down and made those that observed operations as looking stupid (in the name of national security).
As for studying reports, I guess the problem is the reports themselves aren't necessarily smoking gun evidence. A report can be written to mislead those it's written for (specifically the public) just to keep people in the dark (again mostly for secrecy).
I'm skeptical about "other worldly appearances" as it took the comet that people got hysterical about about 8,300 years to travel to the centre of our star system. It means anything travelling long distance would be playing a long game, considering the number of civilisations that have been born, lived and died over just that time period. Anything piercing the distant vale of space would have to either be frozen in time, live on a generation "ship" or be completely inorganic (and thats a lot of straws to clutch at, considering the simplest answer to the problem is that it's man made.)
