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Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings

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This is a great piece of work Paul, a real classic.

I was struck by Stan's use of the phrase "Flying Saucers" instead of the term U.F.O. or U.A.P. which would have been more accurate. As it has been discussed several times on the paracast and in the forums the terms aren't interchangeable and to do so only brings more confusion to the issue. This is understandable of course and its probably due to Stan's predisposition or perhaps more correctly prejudice that U.F.O.s are interplanetary craft. I was disappointed to hear him put it that way. While I too think that some U.F.O.s may be vehicles from other inhabited planets I try really hard to keep the term "Flying Saucers" out of the mix.

Having said that I recently received a copy of The Saucer Fleet (apogee Books Space Series) V.2 and realized that my interest in U.F.O.s probably extends from watching The Day the Earth Stood Still as a kid as well as The Interrupted Journey. Don Eckers old co-host Dwight Schultz actually makes an appearance in the book in The Forbidden Planet chapter of all places. It's worth the price just for the blue-prints of the C57-D alone.
 
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This is a great piece of work Paul, a real classic.

I was struck by Stan's use of the phrase "Flying Saucers" instead of the term U.F.O. or U.A.P. which would have been more accurate. As it has been discussed several times on the paracast and in the forums the terms aren't interchangeable and to do so only brings more confusion to the issue. This is understandable of course and its probably due to Stan's predisposition or perhaps more correctly prejudice that U.F.O.s are interplanetary craft. I was disappointed to hear him put it that way. While I too think that some U.F.O.s may be vehicles from other inhabited planets I try really hard to keep the term "Flying Saucers" out of the mix.

Having said that I recently received a copy of The Saucer Fleet (apogee Books Space Series) V.2 and realized that my interest in U.F.O.s probably extends from watching The Day the Earth Stood Still as a kid as well as The Interrupted Journey. Don Eckers old co-host Dwight Schultz actually makes an appearance in the book in The Forbidden Planet chapter of all places. It's worth the price just for the blue-prints of the C57-D alone.
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Glad you enjoyed it.

Stan will use the term UFO, although I've never heard him use the term UAP. He's old school, having come to the subject in the 1950s when "flying saucer" was widely used. He uses it today because, as he puts it, he's not really interested in UFOs, but rather those UFOs which he is convinced are extraterrestrial... i.e. flying saucers. I get his point, but I've half-jokingly and half-seriously told him more than once that he should at least consider "alien" or "extraterrestrial" spacecraft.

On the other hand, I have to admit that there is a sort of cultural poetry to "flying saucer" - after all, I can't imagine anyone writing a song called "UAP Rock 'n' Roll"! ;)

 
I discovered Robert Gordon in the cutouts in a WalMart or something back in the late 70s. I quickly proceeded to hunt down and buy all of his albums that I could find. Fun stuff.
 
Wow :exclamation:

Thanks for posting this. Saw the excerpts on your blog and have been looking for the film with no success.

One more time I mystifyed by the Roswell obsession, when cases such as these (and others subsequent) are far more compelling and substantiated.

My list would have had Shag Harbour nearer to Number 1, but that's purely subjective.
 
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