The Impossible Must Be The Truth
Steve Bass
June 29, 2008
I have a belief in UFO´s, which is a belief in the existence of Unidentified Flying Objects. Like a police investigator believes in the existence of crime, as a UFO investigator, I believe in the existence of UFO´s. They are an aerial phenomenon that has not been identified at this time. At the mention of UFO´s, some people automatically assume you speak of aliens from another planet. UFO´s do not automatically mean aliens from another planet. I don't believe that all UFO's are intelligently controlled, but some are. To be technical, these should be referred to specifically as AFC's (Alien Flying Craft), a term posed by Dr. Bruce Maccabee in his foreword to nuclear physicist and UFO lecturer Stanton T. Friedman's new book, Flying Saucers and Science.
The UFO phenomenon itself is real, but we have no answers as to what they are, what the entities on board are or where they come from, or what their purpose is.
Not every report of a UFO will stand up to critical scrutiny. Ninety percent of "sightings" of UFO´s do turn out to be weather phenomenon, aircraft, swamp gas, the planet Venus, or outright deceit by the witness. That leaves ten percent of sightings unexplained. You may not believe in UFO´s, but if you have no other explanation, I turn to a quote from Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson, "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
If you ask yourself, "What type of person would it take to witness a UFO and testify to that affect to make me believe?" that person has already done so! People from all walks of life have witnessed and reported unidentified aerial phenomenon, from carpenters to police officers to medical doctors to astronauts to congressmen and Presidents. Which would you believe?
To discount UFO´s as a reality, you have to make several leaps in judgment. You must disqualify all personal anecdotal accounts as being mistaken, exaggerations, or out-right lies. All UFO witnesses must, of necessity, be untrustworthy. Some of these very same individuals have testified in courts of law on unrelated civil and criminal cases, and are deemed by the courts to be credible. To facilitate discounting all personal accounts and testimonies, you would also have to believe the same of all witnesses testifying in all court cases around the country. Either a witness is trustworthy, or they are not. It cannot be both.
You must discount all photographs of UFO´s as misinterpreted or altered, despite all scientific analysis and validation to the contrary.
You must discount all trace evidence recovered in the field as hoaxes or misinterpretations, despite scientific validation. These highly educated scientists must, of necessity, be naive or dishonest, despite their years of education and experience and despite staking their professional and personal reputations on these outcomes.
You must continue to discount all biological evidence and assorted historical studies, turning what must be a blind eye to the possibility of an alien intelligence behind some unidentified aerial phenomenon.
As an investigator, you enter with no preconceived notions, no bias. You simply collect and preserve the evidence and allow researchers to validate it. If you enter without preconceived notions, you automatically allow for the possibility of the reality of unidentified flying objects and the possibility of an as yet unknown intelligence governing them.
In my studies of UFO´s, I have noted that their actions seem consistent with the actions of visitors to a zoo. They watch random points of interests, possibly human beings, their activities, their environment, or maybe Earth itself. Humans are egocentric to a fault. We believe that whatever is happening in this world must center around us. Maybe human beings are considered no more than wild animals by these visitors. Maybe humans are thinking above themselves and do not even warrant attention in the eyes of the intelligence behind UFO´s. This egocentricity does not allow for the possibility that we may be very low in the scope of importance to these entities. I believe that humans have a tendency to deny the reality of an entity that does not focus on them as the singular point of interest in this universe. If humans are not the focus of these entities, that would open an extreme range of possibilities.
Think of how we feel on an individual basis when we are ignored by someone else. We all need a level of recognition, good or bad, to validate ourselves. The easiest way to affect someone´s emotions negatively is to pretend they do not exist at all. We cannot accept being a non-person with no perceivable level of importance. I believe this lack of perceived importance leads humans to discount these entities.
UFO´s exist, but before we can determine any motives to be attributed to UFO´s, we must first believe in their existence. Although their existence is substantiated by extremely methodical investigation and peer-reviewed research, there are still those who discount and ignore. A blind eye, though, does not remove reality.
The UFO phenomenon itself is real, but we have no answers as to what they are, what the entities on board are or where they come from, or what their purpose is.
Not every report of a UFO will stand up to critical scrutiny. Ninety percent of "sightings" of UFO´s do turn out to be weather phenomenon, aircraft, swamp gas, the planet Venus, or outright deceit by the witness. That leaves ten percent of sightings unexplained. You may not believe in UFO´s, but if you have no other explanation, I turn to a quote from Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson, "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
If you ask yourself, "What type of person would it take to witness a UFO and testify to that affect to make me believe?" that person has already done so! People from all walks of life have witnessed and reported unidentified aerial phenomenon, from carpenters to police officers to medical doctors to astronauts to congressmen and Presidents. Which would you believe?
To discount UFO´s as a reality, you have to make several leaps in judgment. You must disqualify all personal anecdotal accounts as being mistaken, exaggerations, or out-right lies. All UFO witnesses must, of necessity, be untrustworthy. Some of these very same individuals have testified in courts of law on unrelated civil and criminal cases, and are deemed by the courts to be credible. To facilitate discounting all personal accounts and testimonies, you would also have to believe the same of all witnesses testifying in all court cases around the country. Either a witness is trustworthy, or they are not. It cannot be both.
You must discount all photographs of UFO´s as misinterpreted or altered, despite all scientific analysis and validation to the contrary.
You must discount all trace evidence recovered in the field as hoaxes or misinterpretations, despite scientific validation. These highly educated scientists must, of necessity, be naive or dishonest, despite their years of education and experience and despite staking their professional and personal reputations on these outcomes.
You must continue to discount all biological evidence and assorted historical studies, turning what must be a blind eye to the possibility of an alien intelligence behind some unidentified aerial phenomenon.
As an investigator, you enter with no preconceived notions, no bias. You simply collect and preserve the evidence and allow researchers to validate it. If you enter without preconceived notions, you automatically allow for the possibility of the reality of unidentified flying objects and the possibility of an as yet unknown intelligence governing them.
In my studies of UFO´s, I have noted that their actions seem consistent with the actions of visitors to a zoo. They watch random points of interests, possibly human beings, their activities, their environment, or maybe Earth itself. Humans are egocentric to a fault. We believe that whatever is happening in this world must center around us. Maybe human beings are considered no more than wild animals by these visitors. Maybe humans are thinking above themselves and do not even warrant attention in the eyes of the intelligence behind UFO´s. This egocentricity does not allow for the possibility that we may be very low in the scope of importance to these entities. I believe that humans have a tendency to deny the reality of an entity that does not focus on them as the singular point of interest in this universe. If humans are not the focus of these entities, that would open an extreme range of possibilities.
Think of how we feel on an individual basis when we are ignored by someone else. We all need a level of recognition, good or bad, to validate ourselves. The easiest way to affect someone´s emotions negatively is to pretend they do not exist at all. We cannot accept being a non-person with no perceivable level of importance. I believe this lack of perceived importance leads humans to discount these entities.
UFO´s exist, but before we can determine any motives to be attributed to UFO´s, we must first believe in their existence. Although their existence is substantiated by extremely methodical investigation and peer-reviewed research, there are still those who discount and ignore. A blind eye, though, does not remove reality.