Aw, my friend Muhammad. Though your question seems sincere, I am not confident that you truly seek answers, but might prefer an argument.
I love your name. It reminds me of a boxer poet, who floated like a butterfly, but stung like a bee. Did you know Muhammad Ali, the boxer, stated belief in UFOs? "Muhammad Ali on UFOs - September 7, 1973." Johnny Carson show. People laughed at him. He saw one. So, for him, was it a matter of belief, or a knowing direct experience.
Many people have had direct experiences. Military professionals have had direct experiences, the best most recent known was the 2004 Nimitz TICTAC incident. If you are truly wanting evidence, I highly recommend the Lex Fridman podcast interviewing David Fravor. I recommend the 2017 New York Times piece, written by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean. If you really want evidence, these are seriously good places to start.
If the name you have taken on is a pseudonym, paying homage to the boxer, I would recommend reading him more because he was kind and open minded. If it is your name, and I am not saying it isn't, I might assume you are Islamic? Please correct me if you aren't. Also, if you are, please correct me if I am getting this wrong- Islamic folks believe in God, angels, demons, and the Jinn? There is evidence for the Jinn interacting with folks, which technically would be evidence of a "non-human" intelligence interacting with humans.
There is nothing I am going to give you that will deter you from your particular perspective. If you prefer the position that you are more reasonable than the millions of people who had experiences, I would love it if you were to volunteer for MUFON, or NUFORC, so that you can employ your wisdom and discernment in revealing how people are wrong. You would benefit society if instead of arguing with people you disagree with. you simply look into the matter in a very professional, scientific sort of way.
I am not a 'believer.' My position on UFOs, aliens, and non-human intelligence has been clarified in writing, which is something you would know if you weren't doing a hit run survey of my writing. That's not meant to be disparaging. I am super happy you dropped by, read this, and contributed! Thank you.
My position on UFOs is that they are real. I was saying that before the Government acknowledged they're real, in 2017. It is my position that some UFOs are driven by non-human entities. Whether that be terrestrial or extraterrestrial in nature, or spiritual in nature, or all of the above, well that part is open for discussion. Quite frankly, given the number of people who had experiences, and the wide range in diversity of these experiences, it is most likely all of the above, including some humans driving around in technology we've obtained as gifts from non-human entities, or from backwards engineering these craft.
Finally, I would say it is not the enthusiasts us holding back, but it is the US government that is holding humanity back as evidenced by way too many UFO hearings are conducted behind closed doors, FOIA requests come back heavily redacted, if not flat our denied with no explanation other than 'security' reasons, and obfuscation continues to be a part of the game.
As to your lamenting that given the number of cameras and the lack of quality photo evidence being a reason to not believe, I will give you that has some validity. It is certainly a point that Neil DeGrasse Tyson champions. I suspect you adopted this position as opposed to coming up with an opinion of your own, and you adopt this position, perhaps out of fear or laziness, so that you can maintain a level of ignorance on the subject that allows you the luxury of dismissing other humans who have had experiences that don’t align with your own. If you were aware of the degree to which the phenomenon is happening, you might be very uncomfortable.
An easy explanation is that clarity in photos has gone down as the number of cameras became digital. All digital cameras, especially your cell phone, have wireless capabilities, but even if they didn’t, advanced technology could still hijack every phone within their sphere of influence and make the camera stay out of focus. You’d be surprised how many people have said, the focus quit working for the duration of the event. Heck for that matter, there are people who have stated very clearly they were influenced to not take pictures! People have walked away, or walked closer, but not on their own volition. NHI manipulate people the same way people drive remote controlled vehicles.
Doctor Travis Taylor and Doctor Gary Nolan, like PhD level scientists in multiple domains who have worked for the government are saying it’s aliens. Robert Bigelow and Haim Eshed, the latter being a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at various space technology research institutions, and head of Israeli Space Defense ministries say it’s aliens- and the US military is in cahoots. Are you saying you know more than they do? Quite frankly, I am going soft on you because I like you. I don’t know why, I just do. That’s genuine. You can argue with me. I am just a dumb old white guy who can barely spell to save his life. But quite frankly, you have not read the books on this I have, you haven’t put in the conference time that I have, you have not spoken to the same number of people who have had experiences that I have, and you definitely have not walked in my shoes, seen what I have seen, questioned your life so thoroughly that you went through one of those long, dark teatime of the soul moments, which makes Harvard Doctor, of psychiatry, John E Mack’s books that clearly state UFO and alien experiences are not evidence for mental illness a Godsend!
Do you really want to know, or would you like to banter some more, maybe call me names? We can go round and round all day, and if you’re in Dallas, I will buy you coffee and talk to you for hours. Please forgive the verbosity of my response, but I wanted to try and respond to your concerns in the best, most honest and direct way I could. Forgive me if I came across too confrontational. Just one of my character flaws is arrogance. I have many, I assure you. There are lots of reasons you could find not to read another thing from me, but being ignorant on UFOs and aliens isn’t going to be one of them.
To conclude, I didn’t buy into this. It came and got me. It forced itself upon me. You will find that most people who have had experienced didn’t invite this, but then again, you can find those folks, too. DOCTOR Steven Greer and CE5. Give that one a serious go for a year if you really want to know what you can summon towards you.
Not everything you invite will be as kind I. Good luck!
