Just for the sake of playing the devil's advocate... It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it.
Jones sez: > LOL - where is Geraldo? > > It would be slightly more plausible if: > > 1) the encounter was recent instead of many years old Why so? Actually, I think one could just as easily rationalize the fact that the video could be more authentic precisely because it IS older, meaning digital fakery would have been more difficult to have pulled off. > 2) NOT an 8 foot high window (ladder? anti-gravity?? > or very tall alien) Heck, we all know the lil' buggers > are shorter than Randy Newman.... > > 3) circumstances involving teenagers vs cranky father, > where pranks would be expected. They would know the > father (Romanek) was a nut-case who had claimed to > have seen many, many UFOs in the past, and use that as > part of the prank. This appears to be a reoccurring issue for many who claim to have been afflicted with pesky alien infestations. Once you get "buged" it's likely that you will be revisited countless times. Of course, it's easy for most rationalists to rationalize this condition as being due to some anomaly of the "observers" brain. To be honest I find myself rationalizing the same conclusion as well. But then, who knows. As Baudette informed us, all it takes is just one "Dolly." > 4) publicity motives for Peckman > > 5) profit motives from many including the media (the > Geraldo effect) > 6) This patent: > http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4690653/description.html > > which describes the blinking eye effect etc. and a > company in LA which makes the masks for props > > All in all, my odds of it being either media scam or > teenage prank, instead of real alien, are about > 10^20:1 ... yet at the same time, I would say the odds > of there being intelligent life elsewhere in the > Universe are just as high the other way -- but the two > situations are not connected in any way. I'd personally peg the odds closer to 10^19:1, so as you can tell I'm more open-minded on these celestial matters than you! ;-) Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
