Mindsky said:
Citizen vids have no weight these days since anything can be faked just about.
Well, that is one of the 'issues' that has bothered me for a long time - the 'credibility' of the source.
If NASA had released the very video that you linked at the top of thread and categorically stated that the 'object' was indeed an ET craft, everyone would accept that explanation. In a way, organisations like NASA maintain what is an acceptable 'consensual' reality.
Until officially sponsored organisations, with a large degree of credibility with the general public, admit that some of these sitings are indeed ET craft then that explanation remains firmly outside what is accepted as 'rational'. In effect, the 'reality' that we perceive as a society is directly defined by the institutions at the core of our educational and news media structures.
How many times have we heard pseudo-skeptics and debunkers looking for 'rational' explanations for UFO sitings? If we truly are being visited by ET craft and that is proven beyond all reasonable doubt to the general public (which I believe could be proven today if 'those in control' would allow it), then at that point, ET craft becomes part of the 'rational' explanations. The concept of 'ET craft visiting the Earth' would finally be part of the 'consensual' reality.
The way you perceive reality is established early on in your childhood. For example, if your parents bring you up to believe in and to worship a god, then that becomes your reality. It's almost impossible to consider the alternative - in affect you've been conditioned to believe in something and never to question the rationality around that belief. You then pass the same beliefs down to your children and cycle begins again. Personally, I think that if this process ever broke down then organised religion would disappear within 2 or 3 generations.
Anyway, I think similar processes are at work to keep the 'lid' on the whole UFO debate - except this time the 'reality' is defined by the educational institutions and the news media organisations. By keeping the idea of ET on the outside of what is 'rational' ensures that when 'genuine' cases are investigated, any findings that may point to ET involvement are generally ignored by the general public. It is literally outside their defined 'reality'.
So if NASA say they landed on the moon and have the video to prove it then we all buy into that - no further 'proof' is required. But, if John Doe has a video of an 'ET craft', then most of us will scream 'fake' while some of us may say 'that is interesting, I hope it's genuine'.
Finally, I think the important point is that, in end it
does not matter whether the video is 'genuine' or 'fake' - what
does matter is the perceived credibility of the source and the extent to which the person viewing the video has been conditioned to accept/reject the idea of 'ET craft visiting the Earth'. And even then, because a UFO siting is a transient event, it's very difficult to investigate in any meaningful way - the best you can hope for are corroborating witnesses and even then, their credibility can be undermined...
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I'm still not happy that I have got my entire point across, but there you go - hope some of it made sense...