[ngcles]

Hi Peter M & All,

Agree 100% with your last post Peter where you wrote among other things:

" ... And if the answer is "oh it's atmosheric phenomena that we can't explain" then I will fall off my chair. UFO is a leading "word" it conjures up exactly as I have said. If we could replace it with "have you ever seen something you couldn't explain while looking at the sky" I would accept that (the must believers simply won't let this happen -it is also a money making industry) ..."

Could hardly have put it better.

Yep, the likes of Erich von Daniken, Zecharia Sitchin & Nancy Leider (the Nibiru silliness) et al have made a whole heap of cash out of it and equally have a hellava lot to answer for in "mystifying" the whole subject.

That is precisely why in the last paragraph of my first post (#67 on 3rd page) in this thread I wrote:

"The one other problem I have with the whole subject is this: They should not be called "UFOs". We have no proof on a vast number of occasions they are reported that they are "objects" nor that they are "flying". Instead, they should be called "Unidentified Ariel Sightings" or "UAS"."

If they were referred to as a "UAS" or some-such similar title, it would take a lot of the heat and controversy out of the whole thing and hopefully lessen the possibility of people making the leap-of-faith that it is LGM in a saucer every time something is seen that does not appear to have a readily apparent explaination.


Best

Les D