[Help me graduate!] Research. X-Files, conspiracy, and your experiences.

[Shadowdancer]

I take it you believe that UFOs visit the earth, then? It sounds like you're saying that people have revealed the truth about the aliens at Roswell, yet I'm unfamiliar with anything more concrete than the stuff bandied about in that TV Movie with Kyle Maclachlan.

I think some of the people involved have revealed what they know about what happened. Some of it was in that movie. I don't think a clear, exact, concise story has been revealed yet.

Yes, I believe that UFOs visit the earth, but I am undecided whether they are extraterrestrial or extradimensional.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Barney and Betty Hill - the first reported 'abduction/tested' story. This was the seed for many, many stories to follow and set the basic pattern: aliens land, take people, experiment on them or take samples, the people are returned sans memory of the event, memory begins to return often as form of nightmares. The major branch-off for this is the 'implant' story, where aliens implant tracking or transmission chips (Remember Scully finding her own chip?)

I think the Hills are one of the few legitimate abduction stories. I think that most stories are influenced subliminally by theirs, and what people are really experiencing is a sort of "waking dream."

Every now and then, you get a 'new paradigm' come out. Crop Circles are one; no-one before the Ninties had ever heard of a crop circle. Now you have 'cerealogists' (I swear, I am not making this up) who study the things despite the substancial claim made by the people who suppossedly hoaxed the whole thing.

Yes, hoaxers came forward who were responsible for *some* of the crop circles in England, but there are others in England and in other parts of the world which these people could not have been responsible for.

Probably the UFO case I'm most familiar with are the sightings at Bentwaters AFB; a friend of mine was stationed there at the time, and she knew some of the principals involved; she swears they encountered something damned unusual out in those woods.

Probably as one of the better depictions of a recent 'crash' would be the Sci-Fi channel's depiction of the Kecksburg, Pennsylvania incident in 1965.

I didn't see the Sci-Fi channel's story on Kecksburg (wanted to, but missed it), but I feel it involved military technology and/or satellite technology that crashed and the military covered it up because they didn't want the Soviets to know about it.

As for Bentwaters, that is one of the most compelling incidents to support arguments in favor of UFOs existing, be they either extraterrestrial or extradimensional.

 

[RangerWickett]

It's odd. For the life of me, I can't find a solid, large, current fan site with a message board devoted to The X-Files. I was hoping to find some folks to talk to, and the going's getting tough.

 

[kirinke]

truth as the wise man once said is subjective and open to interpertation.
facts are objective and also open to interpertation. ^_^
its all how you see it.

I think that 99% of all the paranormal, ufo, ghost related phenomena can be explained rationally by science. It's that 1% that makes you wonder. And personally, I think that's a good thing. Everyone needs to a bit uncertain about life the universe and everything, cuz, that's a big place. no?