I was going to make a longer post and then I thought – why? There’s enough people pissing in the ocean as it is and adding my two pints changes nothing. Some people just have to sit on their horns in a traffic jam because, you know, that helps. I suspect Seth Shostak is one of those …..
I’d hope by now it would be considered fair to say that the majority of UFO reports can be explained and that some small percentage remain anomalous. When I look back at ’70 years of UFO reports’ I’m not necessarily looking at that small anomalous percentage, I’m looking at that other big gorilla in the room that seems to get a little lip service but that’s about it. That’s the one that honestly misidentifies, lies for its own benefit, is delusional, plain old nuts, etc. That’s the one the public at large perceives with this issue, and it could be argued rightfully so.
I was listening to an interview with Jim Lovell speaking about his impression of Earth from lunar orbit. He said he covered up the whole of humanity, everything we are, ever was and ever will be with his thumb. And he looked around to the vast Everything Else and was humbled. Made the differences that divide us seem petty by comparison. Of the two dozen men who have had this Total Perspective Vortex experience virtually all of them returned with a profound sense of how infinitesimally small we are and how fragile the life on our planet is. We think rather highly of ourselves to be the subject of the attention many think we are, whether it’s an occasional vehicle zipping through or part of the whole panoply of races with various intentions.
Maybe TTSA is on to something. Maybe not. But realistically if you had to lay out real money on a real bet then based on 70 years of experience the bookies would see TTSA as a long shot.