How to debunk UFOs
Belgium… a UFO hot spot?
In the year 1989, my little home country, Belgium, became a UFO hot spot in no time. Thousands of Belgians reported seeing gigantic triangular platforms cruising silently over the roofs of their homes. Many more witnesses, including military personnel, police officers and scientists were describing a variety of incredible machines performing out-of-this-world flight manoeuvres:
- The ability to perform extreme accelerations and decelerations
- The ability to initiate sudden and abrupt stops
- The ability to make 90 degree sharp angle turns at supersonic speeds
- The ability to make sudden and abrupt altitude changes
- The ability to appear and disappear instantly
- The ability to hover silently
Why it didn’t happen…
Was it exciting news? Well, I am pretty sure that many UFO researchers and witnesses were extremely excited, to say the least. Yet, I happened to be a die-hard UFO skeptic at that time, and a fully qualified commercial pilot as well. I was constantly observing the Belgian skies whenever I had the chance to do so. But amazingly, during these countless hours, I never saw anything unusual or unexplainable. So no, at the age of 24, I considered myself perfectly sane: I wasn’t buying that UFO stuff. I didn’t see a UFO. Neither did my closest friends and family members. So it didn’t happen. Period!
and why it DID happen…
On April 4, 1990, one hour before midnight, … for the first time in my life, I had to believe what so many thousands of Belgians reported seeing : I was watching what appeared to be an extremely bright, quadrangular craft with 4 rounded corners, less than a mile away from where I was. It moved very slowly at very low altitude, just a few hundred feet above the treetops. It didn’t make any noise at all and made no effort to hide itself from the surrounding landscape. Those lights… man, they were so bright… that whole machine was brighter than anything I ever saw. I was very impressed.
What I discovered…
More than twenty years later, that sighting continues to puzzle me. But by doing some research myself, I discovered something amazing : most genuine UFO sightings are debunked by people who refuse to study the facts about UFOs.
To give this unscientific behaviour a bit more attention, I have created a top 10 list of very effective (and very recognizable) techniques to debunk real and genuine UFO evidence…
Top 10 Techniques for Debunking Real UFO Evidence…
- First, try to sympathise with the subject of UFOs by saying how much you would love to believe in UFOs.
- Then, use the weapon of ridicule: “If UFOs are for real, why haven’t they landed in front of the White House yet?”
- Argue that “high-quality” pictures and videos of UFOs actually prove nothing. It’s too easy to fabricate such footage.
- Insist that “low quality” pictures and videos prove nothing as well. That “evidence” could be anything.
- When confronted with a very strong UFO case, magnify one inaccurate element of the actual case evidence. Usually, revealing a single flaw invalidates the whole.
- Claim that extraterrestrial lifeforms can only exist light-years away from earth. After all, you’re the expert!
- If that doesn’t help, invite a skeptic to back you up and start talking about mass hallucinations, imperfect video equipment, hoaxes, etc…
- Still no luck ? Expose a couple of fraudulent UFO cases to debunk them all. That usually works.
- If the evidence refuses to go away, attack the researchers. Accuse them of profiting financially from their UFO research (that hurts)
- Still unsuccessful? No worries… people have a short memory. That UFO in Chicago O’Hare ? Psst… Don’t mention that one anymore… We all forgot!
My conclusions…
When we are looking for an answer to the UFO question, then most likely, that answer is already present in our mind: we either accept or reject the whole idea of a possible alien visitation…
Sadly, in our quest to find the truth, whenever we find a new element that “agrees” with what’s already present in our mind, we continue to accept or reject the whole idea of a possible alien visitation.
All too often, it is our own mind that dominates and sabotages the very truth we are all after.
