POLL - The Fourth Kind, Alien Encounters

[doublehelix]

So... The Fourth Kind is coming, opening soon. I'm still planning on seeing it.

We posted a poll last week, here. And here's another one for you!

I'm positive I have not had an alien encounter, though I did see a curious light the other night. Sometimes I wonder...

That being said, would you even remember if you had one?

-dh

[origin]

Is the 5th kind when you have an alien baby. I have seen many alien babies in the enquirer, but they never detailed the number sequence for this type of encounter.

[jim48]

An alien encounter? Take a good look at me. What do you think?

[DisruptiveTech]

Why is SPACE.com killing its own credibility this way? Does it imagine it's buying itself any more eyeballs? Does it dream it's currying favor with that sponsor (the movie)? Ride the back of the tiger and you usually end up inside.

[origin]

Why is SPACE.com killing its own credibility this way? Does it imagine it's buying itself any more eyeballs? Does it dream it's currying favor with that sponsor (the movie)? Ride the back of the tiger and you usually end up inside.

Welcome. This is the unexplained section which means it is the conspiracy and nut job section (to put it delicately). The posters are people who visit the site and want to post something but it cannot make it into the science sections of the forum.

Don't take this sections so seriously, it ain't suppose to be taken all that seriously.

[origin]

VOTER FRAUD, VOTER FRAUD

I think there is a possiblilty that this poll may not be scientifically based. The thread has been accessed ~115 times and there are almost 400 votes!

Now it is certainly possible that familys gather around the computer and each individual from the family votes; yeah that's probably it....

[netarch]

VOTER FRAUD, VOTER FRAUD

I think there is a possiblilty that this poll may not be scientifically based. The thread has been accessed ~115 times and there are almost 400 votes!

Now it is certainly possible that familys gather around the computer and each individual from the family votes; yeah that's probably it....

It's not voter fraud. The software for the poll is supplied by Premier Election Solutions (a.k.a., Diebold). The software is correct, secure, and approved by corrupt, er, honest - yeah, that's it! - honest politicians all over the US! You don't want to verify the source code by looking at, do you? We have it stored over at the sub-terrainian alien propulsion testing facility at Wright-Patterson Air Base, you see. Not easy to show it to you - but trust us, it's clean as a whistle and secure enough for government work!

[Goldmoon]

There is an event coming, it will be staged. But they're readying the world populations to believe this coming deception, and 95% of the world will be taken by it.

Just remember to seek truth, not much time remains.

[hewes]

There is an event coming, it will be staged. But they're readying the world populations to believe this coming deception, and 95% of the world will be taken by it.

Just remember to seek truth, not much time remains.

Do I have time to pick up my dry cleaning?!

[helipilot]

I am convinced that Aliens have not been visiting our planet. However, I am not positive that Earth has never been visited by someone. I believe the most likely scenario is not a question of "where" said aliens supposedly came from, but "when". Everyone reporting close encounters describes the aliens as having essentially the same anthropomorphic structure as us. This is statistically improbable. I think it is much more likely that these would be space time travelers from Earth's future than anything else. Its safe to say that the majority of UFO reports are, at most, top secret military test flights. Most of them are simply people with big imaginations and a need for attention. Some ARE unexplainable without contemplating the unlikely. Most people that say they have been abducted are dreamers. Many believe what they are saying, but I don't. Take crime scene witnesses for example. All it takes is someone to see something kinda spectacular or weird, have a desire to believe, and a bit of suggestion to put the whole thing over the edge. There are many things about our universe that we do not understand accurately or completely. People do have some crazy stuff happen to them, but I don't think it is "aliens".

[Wellington1114]

I am convinced that Aliens have not been visiting our planet. However, I am not positive that Earth has never been visited by someone. I believe the most likely scenario is not a question of "where" said aliens supposedly came from, but "when". Everyone reporting close encounters describes the aliens as having essentially the same anthropomorphic structure as us. This is statistically improbable. I think it is much more likely that these would be space time travelers from Earth's future than anything else. Its safe to say that the majority of UFO reports are, at most, top secret military test flights. Most of them are simply people with big imaginations and a need for attention. Some ARE unexplainable without contemplating the unlikely. Most people that say they have been abducted are dreamers. Many believe what they are saying, but I don't. Take crime scene witnesses for example. All it takes is someone to see something kinda spectacular or weird, have a desire to believe, and a bit of suggestion to put the whole thing over the edge. There are many things about our universe that we do not understand accurately or completely. People do have some crazy stuff happen to them, but I don't think it is "aliens".

Really? I don't think thats it at all. How exactly is it more probable for the ufos and aliens to be from future earth, than just come from someplace in the universe. Actually what other animal is as succesful as a human? Maybe being bipedal with arms is the best possible solution for intelligent life. It deffinatly is however more statistically possible than humans from the future, (when the future doesnt exist) and traveling backwards in time to do strange experimentation on their ancestors.

[MeteorWayne]

Really? I don't think thats it at all. How exactly is it more probable for the ufos and aliens to be from future earth, than just come from someplace in the universe. Actually what other animal is as succesful as a human? Maybe being bipedal with arms is the best possible solution for intelligent life. It deffinatly is however more statistically possible than humans from the future, (when the future doesnt exist) and traveling backwards in time to do strange experimentation on their ancestors.

really, and on what statistical basis could you make that conclusion? Because you say that impossible physics makes sense to you?

[ZenGalacticore]

I seriously doubt any ETs capable of spaceflight would look like anything resembling humans. Take a look at all the forms, appearances, epiderma, behaviors, and ways of locomotion on our relatively small microcosm of Earth. Eight-legged spiders; six-legged insects; quadrapeds; bipedal humans and even bipedal opposable thumb dinosaurs in our past; tube fish that propel themselves like jets, and multi-tentacled squid, octopus, and other creatures, etc.

The only reason aliens always look like humans in the movies is so that the human audience can relate to the facial expressions of the aliens. That, and a lack of imagination. Whatever ETs might look like, I would wager that they will indeed look 'very alien and exotic' and bizarre to our eyes.

They might see the Universe in radio for all we know. Why not, bats 'see' in sonar.

[USS_Voyager]

I am neither sure or unsure of my situation but I find it borders the realm of possibility.

Many years ago I was attending summer school. I had flunked HS Geometry my sophomore year. Instead of wasting gas I walked to school which took me about 15 minutes. This particular day was no different from any other. I started my trip at 7:30AM CST and aside from the gigantic bumblebee I found dead on the side of the road, everything was normal.

I remember stopping to examine it since it was the largest bumblebee I had ever seen. I must have stopped for no more than 2 minutes before I decided to continue to school. My very next memory is of being at the field directly behind the school. Confused, I shrugged it off as just being so deep in thought that I do not remember the walk.

Upon nearing the school I noticed that there were no other classmates outside, that it was eerily quiet. I pressed on and into the building. Once inside I noticed the clocks all read 10:15AM CST. I just thought that due to it being summer time they had shut off the power to the school and the clocks had not been reset. Now summer school rules were if you weren't in your seat by the time the doors closed you missed the day because you wouldn't be let in by the teacher.

I get to my class and the door is locked and the class is underway. My teacher comes up to me, comes into the hallway and begins to preach about the importance of being on time. Before he finished he had about as puzzled a look on his face as I had on mine. I asked what time it was and he gave me the same time as what were on the clocks in the halls. Now I know I didn't sit for two and a half hours looking at a damn bee. The teacher asked me what was wrong and I simply told him that I don't remember how I got here and that I left with plenty of time to be here before class started. Like every good "parent" he checked my forehead and cheeks to see if I was running a temperature, which I wasn't. He let me in but I think it was because he was concerned and probably as baffled about the whole thing as I was.

I have undergone hypnosis and other "memory" recall tactics to try and remember the 2.5 hour gap in my memory but it is simply a blank.

Anyway that's my story. What do you think?

[ZenGalacticore]

USS Voyager- I think that you should learn to write in paragraphs, with transitional sentences demarcating each end and beginning paragraph. It's not that difficult. State a general idea in each 2 to 6 line paragraph, and end with a transitional sentence.

Begin your next paragraph with a sentence that continues your central idea, while not repeating your last end sentence in the previous paragraph. It makes for not only easier perusal by your readers, but eventually leads to more concise and logical free-writing thought by the author.

The reader is just as important as the writer, for if no one reads what the writer writes, then his purpose is cancelled out. As you can easily see, this arrangement is much easier to read. Don't you agree?

[USS_Voyager]

USS Voyager- I think that you should learn to write in paragraphs, with transitional sentences demarcating each end and beginning paragraph. It's not that difficult. State a general idea in each 2 to 6 line paragraph, and end with a transitional sentence.

Begin your next paragraph with a sentence that continues your central idea, while not repeating your last end sentence in the previous paragraph. It makes for not only easier perusal by your readers, but eventually leads to more concise and logical free-writing thought by the author.

The reader is just as important as the writer, for if no one reads what the writer writes, then his purpose is cancelled out. As you can easily see, this arrangement is much easier to read. Don't you agree?

Thanks Zen. I'll keep this in mind next time I decide to post anything in the frivolous sections of this website.

I'm glad you found my story so riveting and exciting that you chose to share your opinion on how practical or impractical you believe my encounter to be. As if it was nothing more than self induced amnesia to repress a seriously tragic event or memory.

Oh wait. You didn't.

[ZenGalacticore]

Well I've read it now. And thanks for editing your post into a readable format with paragraphs. Not only was it more readable, it was well written. By the way, it doesn't matter if you're posting in "The Entertained" (that's mostly what 'The Unexplained' forum is) or in the more serious fora, or writing for the local newspaper. Logical, easily readable paragraphs should always be used.

So somehow you lost two hours of time on your way to school? I agree that it may have been a temporary case of amnesia. On the other hand, you might have studied the bumblbee for longer than you think. In either case, are you suggesting that because you lost track of time somehow or another that you were abducted by aliens?

At any rate, it might be best in such cases to rule out the more plausible explanations for your time loss.

[USS_Voyager]

So somehow you lost two hours of time on your way to school? I agree that it may have been a temporary case of amnesia. On the other hand, you might have studied the bumblbee for longer than you think. In either case, are you suggesting that because you lost track of time somehow or another that you were abducted by aliens?

At any rate, it might be best in such cases to rule out the more plausible explanations for your time loss.

Well as I said in the beginning, I am neither sure or unsure of the situation. Hence the reason for the post here. All I know is that I have been to neurological doctors and my mind is an utter blank for the 2.5 hours that is the time gap I spoke of.

I am very aware of the time I spend on any number of daily activities and am pretty accurate as to "how long" something will take me to complete.

What I do remember is very distinct in that I was hunched down examining a bumblebee and the very next is standing up to be behind the school. There in lies the question.

Why is it that I do not have any memory between the two points? What happened in this point that caused me to erase it so completely that even under hypnosis I do not recall anything?

[MeteorWayne]

I guess the other significant question is why do you attribute it to alien abduction, when some kind of normal amnesia would be the better explanation?

[USS_Voyager]

I guess the other significant question is why do you attribute it to alien abduction, when some kind of normal amnesia would be the better explanation?

Well I don't. It just seems plausible since the neurologists I saw didn't consider it to be any form of amnesia.