> -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 12:06 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: ALIENS! > > A video that purportedly shows a living, breathing space alien will be > shown to the news media Friday in Denver. > > Jeff Peckman, who is pushing a ballot initiative to create an > Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver to prepare the city for > close encounters of the alien kind, said the video is authentic and > convinced him that aliens exist.
I'd be much more intrigued if this guy wasn't a loon. I can't see anything in a video, especially as they describe it, as convincing enough for something as monumental as extraterrestrial life visiting earth. Just from the top of my head: +) Any footage of anything "looking through a window" should be suspect. Animal? Tree branch? Peeping Tom with mask? Outright hoax or prank? What evidence compels them to move to one of the least likely explanations? +) Infrared cameras are very difficult to use correctly and even more difficult to interpret correctly. Ghost hunters get this very wrong constantly - drafts, latent heat, heat from sub-surface sources (hot water in pipes for example), dryer vents, spots of inadequate insulation - they all show up as anomalies. It's also nearly impossible to resister a "blink" on an infrared camera. (Although in this case I'm guessing that they may actually mean a "low light" camera - "night vision" rather than an actual infrared "seeing heat" camera... but if they do that's already a knock on their precision.) +) The details are sketchy but throw up some red flags. They say the alien "popped up" in a window but also claim to know it's height. So it's very likely that they either have full-body footage (in which case why lead with the "popping up") or their reading more into the footage than can reasonably be assumed (like assuming that the "face" in the window was atop a humanoid frame and standing on the ground). It's really the same old story: proof which compels a single person to believe is rarely rigorous enough to compel a broad scientific consensus, especially when then claim is so extraordinary to begin with. I'm curious to see the footage... but I don't have my hopes up (having "been here" before). Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:260915 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
