Burnt State
Paranormal Adept
I don't think there's a same basket at all for these. I belive the original post that commented on this strange feature of portholes in the ships merely used the Adamski knock off as a comment on what actually entails a progressive ship. There's a huge gap between your discussion with Marduk regarding possible propulsion systems of advanced craft and the retro design features we have of supposedly alien craft. How can we reconcile these theoretical examinations of what drives these ships when reports of ships contain such surreal and bizarre features in shape and motion that appear to be generated specifically by witnesses in a time and place. Aubeck's work also speaks to this notion in that what colours the UFO craft is very sociological. If we are to take the motions of ships into account of what they are then so must we account for what they look like as both are driven primarily by witnesses. And witnesses in disparate locations do report similarities but also vast differences. In listening to The Paracast we are often reminded that in some sightings by groups of people some in the crowd don't even see the ship.I wouldn't put into the same basket proven fraud trying to make money, with a genuine witness who was reporting incident out of a sense of civic duty. Billy Maier and Adamski were proven frauds. While in numerous other cases we hand multiple witnesses, radar tracks, material evidence, officer on duty etc.
Genuine cases are extremely important and can give us valid clues in reconstructing these crafts. There are numerous features of these crafts that were observed independently by witnesses separated in time and geography.
So all I'm saying is that before we start elaborating on design potential the whole miasma of strange sighting reports and all their complex differences and weirdnesses must also be accounted for. How can we begin to name a propulsion system when differentiation and surreal aspects of what the ship looks like and does originates most often from the same source - a witness.