Peter Bergen and Erik German write that last year’s congressional testimony by a former Pentagon official about a coverup of crashed alien spaceships deserves to be treated as nonsense. They talk to a Pentagon investigator who headed a team that looked into UFOs in great detail, including the infamous 1947 Roswell incident, and found that all but a tiny percentage can be fully explained
  • oDDmON@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Final paragraph.

    Although Kirkpatrick concedes that for those who truly believe that there are alien visitations here on Earth, little will convince them otherwise: “There is absolutely nothing that I’m going to do, say, or produce evidentiary that is going to make the true believers convert … It is a religious belief that transcends critical thinking and rational thought.”