http://www.abc15.com/content/news/we...c-66bc5ff51e75



Is Aliens really "invading"? or visiting the earth soon???

what are you thoughts about this

No.

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No².

Yes, Aliens is invading.

And they is stealing my grammar.

No, aliens is not invading after all.

I read a survival book way back in high school. There was a section in there about what to do about an alien encounter as well as avalanche survival and how to jump around a car rather than being hit by one. That doesn't mean I will be hit by a car or trapped in an avalanche. Nor does it mean that aliens exist. I guess it's just something to get you thinking, just in case.

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I think it could just as easily have been recommendations for zombie attacks. It would mean no more and no less.

I can't imagine much that could be usefully said for ET procedures, except perhaps this: Whatever you do, don't shoot Klaatu!

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I had a first aid book that had first aid tips for a nuclear war, like taking care of wounded, signs of exposure, so far I haven't had to use that either.

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Not sure what the health and safety overkill is like over there but on top of that, should it ever come out over here, the same person that would have that written up would be looking to to wrap cotton wool in cotton wool. Dangerous stuff, have your eye out if you roll it to a point and freeze it.

I guess the firefighters want something more interesting to say at dinner when their spouse asks "So, how was work?"
"Oh, we trained for alien encounters."

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I wonder how "crashed UFO" became "alien encounters."

The article looks to me like the standard attempt to make something out of nothing on a slow news day. The principal informant to the story seems to be the local MUFON guy, who is obviously groping for credibility -- "I'm not a crackpot; really I'm not. Normal people talk to me." Despite his claims that professionals must now be taking UFOs seriously, the actual firefighters say they don't train on the UFO scenario and the authors say the UFO enthusiasts are missing their point.

The only excerpt from the chapter appears to prepare the firefighter for the possibility that some unexpected event may render his radio, generators, and vehicles inoperative. Those are good things to prepare for, and have nothing to do with little gray men.

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From the very limited information available, it does seem to me like they threw in the "alien spaceship made my electrical system quit" cliche. But we shouldn't weight their opinions on UFOs any more than any other members of the general public. I for one have had hundreds of hours of training, and none of it covered UFOs.

As to the general question in the OP, there's no convincing evidence that we've been visited by spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin. I'd love for it to happen, though - assuming they are friendly, or at least amenable to thermonuclear reasoning.

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The only excerpt from the chapter appears to prepare the firefighter for the possibility that some unexpected event may render his radio, generators, and vehicles inoperative. Those are good things to prepare for, and have nothing to do with little gray men.
I seem to recall that happening in some kind of event oh, maybe, 6 and a half years ago. And I seem to recall the post-event critisism for not haveing a better procedure in place incase of communications failures.

Also wonder how much if it is grasping at the fancifull verson of an ordinary term. Firefights would probably have training in how to deal with a crash of a UFO--meaning an object that crashed that they don't know immediately what it was, or what potentially hazordous materials may be involved. A plane falls from the sky, chances are they'll be on scene sooner than someone can call and say, "Oh, by the way, there were toxins on board being sent to New Jersey".

But...who am I kidding. The term unidentified obvously can only mean alien! Silly me.

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Hmmmm....Gort vs. Rotary Sawzall.

My money's on the Sawzall.

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This is old news. From what I recall this has been around for at least 10 years. I used to chat with an astronomer friend in San Diego that also had a skeptical interest in UFOs. He was a firefighter at the time (since retired) and laughed at the story when it was brought up. Nothing new here. Somebody put a "just in case this really happens" into the manual.

Hey! I read that same book! Back in the 70's! Did you go to South City High? (no, I went sober...)

Though if you recall most of the advice they gave is the exact same lecture they give people on those gorilla encounter safaris, less the pretending to forage part.

Though if I was alone, spotted and obviously outmanned I just might pretend to forage so they think I'm just part of the local fauna. Hopefully they wouldn't recognize clothing as an artifice. Though I think mooing would be a bit much.

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I don't think so

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Yeah, overseas we used to laugh at your and other nations NBC Gear...

Actually, I laugh at anybody's NBC gear. Especially anywhere hot.

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