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More than Aliens
Bryce Zabel and David Bates, in a conversational essay breakdown of the book Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders’ Account of the Government Secret UFO Program, by George Knapp, Colm Kelleher and James Lacatski, explore the possibility that aliens may bring the paranormal to the table. Yes, another book that needs to be on my table. There is a reason the term Unidentified Flying Object became Unidentified Aerial Phenomena- and not just so the government can obfuscate the fact they’ve been continuously researching UFOs since the 1950s. There is so much more to this story that if it all came out, the skeptics would be scrambling to convince you ‘it’s just aliens’ flying nuts and bolts interstellar spacecraft with tech so advance they’re messing with the human mind by making us believe in ghosts.
And why not? Don’t we love stirring up ant piles to see how the natives respond?
Here’s how science works. You collect or generate data. As consistency and coherence of data goes up, you gain confidence in your explanations. Confidence is the equivalent of a belief. It is not a knowing. You can have high confidence, faith even, but still not know a thing in any absolute way. Yesterday’s fiction is today’s fact. There was a time the atomic structure model was comparable to a…
