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Old 21-February-2006, 10:48 AM
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I think the phrase "Do you believe in UFOs" is fatuous. Of course I believe in UFOs; in my time I have seen many flying objects, some of which I have been personally unable to identify.

Do I believe the accounts of people who claim to have been abducted and/or annointed by hyperadvanced, demonic or messianic aliens? Well, since there is usually no physical evidence to back up their accounts, I am left only with a rather subjective evaluation of their characters and motives. I am sure there are people out there of unimpeachable character and sober and skeptic turn of mind who honestly believe that they were abducted, but the ones who come to light that I've seen have usually resulted from highly imaginative and fantasy-prone people led on by hypnotists, or from deliberate fabrication.

Given that three percent of people have claimed to have experienced symptoms of abduction, that would require, at modern population levels, (assuming the phenomenon is global) the abduction of 180 million people. Even granting every alien ship the capacity to experiment on a thousand unfortunate individuals, that would require a fleet of 180 thousand ships, or one every hour for 20 years. I suppose that isn't impossible, but one would have to wonder why.
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