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... hundreds of photos from every angle and high-res video to boot.
But we don't. There's an obvious explanation.
An effective but temporary alien Freeze Ray?
Witnesses could see the UFO, but not lift their phone for a photo as their extremities were immobilized?
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Most people aren't lying, they're just mistaken.
This is of course possible, that my acquaintances are mistaken. However their stories of the encounters still gives me "chicken skin". Actual UFO's and aliens or not.
The story I was told over and over again was more than just spotting a UFO on the horizon: A large and eerily
quiet flying object following her vehicle at a close distance on a dirt road. Scared the piss out of my sister and her friend that was with her one night in the early 90's. Both with the same story after the event and no reason to lie. She later revealed to me that was part of the reason she moved out of Puna and off the big island. She didn't want to experience that again.
The ex-gf's experience was even more frightening, a close encounter for her, and also involved her family members on her property and was more than a one time thing. Could the whole family be lying? Maybe but absolutely nothing to gain. In fact everything to lose with the fact that the story is hard to believe. Risk losing your integrity and trust with anyone you share the story with. That's part of the reason that more people don't come forward. Who is going to believe them? Sounds too far-fetched. They'll just be labeled as nutty. So they just keep it to themselves and know what they know while they let other people believe what they want to believe. Existence of UFO and extraterrestrial life or not.
Meanwhile you guys can just joke, talking about fingerless aliens and galactic passports and freeze rays. All good. In fact it is expected because it is so hard to believe.
When someone you know very well with nothing to gain from lying confides with you it can change your opinion and perspective.
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I believe you - they're not lying. But wouldn't you agree it is far, far more likely that they are mistaken than that some as yet unknown vehicle appeared in the skies above them?
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The ex-gf's experience was even more frightening, a close encounter for her, and also involved her family members on her property
OK EW, you have definitely sparked my interest.
How close was the encounter?
Did a craft land?
Did lifeforms emerge from the ship?
Did her family interact in some way?
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Yup to those things you asked HOTPE. Her, her mother and her brother together in discussion and also separate in other discussions all shared a wide-eyed frightening story of an encounter with some humanoids in their home at night. Sounds absolutely crazy, but unlikely they all had a psychotic break at the same time. Aliens in Puna? Maybe. Kids with really good makeup in alien suits with the ability to speak telepathically? Maybe. That's right, they all said there was conversation with no mouth movement, no audible words.
Now it's possible their collective aim was to beguile me into believing a foolish story for their own purpose, (I acknowledge that), I choose to believe they weren't lying. There were never any lies or pattern of lying with them in the past and just not in their character to pull such a stunt. I knew them for years.
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If I were an alien visiting Earth, Puna would be pretty far down the list of sights to see. Also pretty bereft of natural resources. I wonder what they were doing here.
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an alien visiting Earth, Puna would be pretty far down the list
And if they asked any of us the customary alien request, “take me to your leader,” most of us would reply, “really? You know you landed in Puna, right? What would be the point?”
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I think a lot of these stories are people having fun making up tales for the gullible. A lot are just nut cases. A lot are probably drug enhanced. I always wanted to see one but I suspect my chances of seeing a UFO disappeared when I gave up drugs in the 70s.
However, I also realize there are some truly unexplained incidents. My cousin, that I have full faith in, reported an incident back on Jan 5, 1965. I spoke with him about it briefly many years ago (25+). He declined to speculate on the origin of what he saw. I don't recall much else about our conversation. Maybe I'll ask him about it again someday. Here's a book mention if the link works and you're interested. (Edit)Well it won't work. Well it might. Who knows! If it doesn't copy the following mess and paste in your browser. It goes to a Google Books link for page 109 of a book titled Project Blue Book:
https://books.google.com/books?id=A3mBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=Jan.+5,+1965;+Wallops+Island,+VA&source=bl&ots=nYrqqgPOY0&sig=ACfU3U3nwdNL1vKUau3Xb5PSX1iD03Kkgw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjggufj29PiAhUJKK0KHY7JCKMQ6AEwBnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=Jan.%205%2C%201965%3B%20Wallops%20Island%2C%20VA&f=false
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