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The retired astronaut Edgar Mitchell who was the last man to walk on the moon, has created quite a stir by publicly prcolaiming that UFOs are real and that we are not alone in the universe. This has received wide coverage in the media - including the following stories on CNN and Livescience to name just a few.

The coverage in Livescience and elsewhere of course set off a heated debate - as it always does - among debunkers, skeptics, believers and self-confessed alien abductees, among others. I do not proclaim to be an authority on UFOs, although I will say that I am keenly interested in this phenomenon and have possibly read more books, articles and websites on this subject than I can remember - all in the interests of learning what is really going on. The important point I want to make in this post is not whether one believes or does not believe in UFOs - but how we form an opinion or come to have this belief. I have learnt that most of us believe in things that continue to reinforce our current world view and we unconsciously - or sometimes conscisouly filter out stuff that violates this world view. This is just human nature - and not even the people whose profession calls for objectivity: scientists, media reporters, et al - are immune to this.

So for the skeptics and debunkers of the UFO phenomenon, I have just one question : How many of you have actually done any research on this subject, before making up your mind about UFOs ? How many of you have actually heard the eyewitness testimony under oath of over 400 former Government officials, Pentagon & NASA, FAA employees, former chief of the FAA, pilots and police officers? Not to mention the over thousand of unexplained cases of UFOs since the fifties ? In fact for someone willing to spend the time there is overwhelming evidence in favor of what Edgar Mitchell is stating. Just one of the hundreds of thousands of reported cases has to be true for the UFO hypothesis to be true - while the debunkers have to disprove every one of the millions of cases. Do not debunk something and call people insane for something that violates your current world view. You may remember someone else who was persecuted for violating the prevailing world view - and in that case as well, the other side refused to look at the evidence : Galileo when he was persecuted by the Church. Famously, Galileo pleaded with the Pope to just look through his telescope and see for himself but the Pope refused to.

For those of you who want to listen to some of the eyewitness testimony on UFOs from top military and government officials see this video from the disclosureproject project :
Also, here is another great website with tons of scientific background, possible reasons for UFO secrecy : Spend time and read up on the stuff - this is what Edgar Mitchell said in the conference and you will be amazed at what you find. In my experience, the true skeptics take time to examine the evidence, not make up their minds before debunking something - no matter how outrageous and impossible it may sound. Remember the famous quote (I think by Einstein): “Reality is not only stranger than you imagine, it is stranger than you can imagine. ”

Let us put things in perspective here : The harsh truth is that no matter how advanced 21st century mankind thinks it is - it is nothing more than a very, very primitive tribe in a cosmos that is over 15 billion years old. Our most advanced theories of reality - quantum physics and relativity - are less than a hundred years old. Scientists who assumed they had figured out most of the secrets of the cosmos were rudely shocked to learn just over a decade ago that more than 70% of the matter in the universe is unknown and dark. No one has yet figured out what the heck dark matter and dark energy is. So when the same scientists debunk the existence of phenomena that topples their current world view they should remember they do not always had a monopoly on knowing everything. Imagine what a civilization that is just 10,000 years ahead of us may be capable of.