This document is my response to the alien hysteria that is sweeping the nation. It always amazes me how many people actually believe everything they hear and see on television. When I am confronted with beliefs about UFOs or, for that matter, just about anything - I use these three basics principles;

1. Extraordinary claims require evidence (Yes, I'm a doubting Thomas). The discovery that there are other intelligent beings in the universe - and that these beings are visiting Earth on a semi-regular basis in spacecraft that seem to defy the laws of physics as we now know them, would most definitely be an extraordinary claim. Therefore, in order for me to accept it, you must produce evidence. What might this evidence be? For one thing, the aliens themselves. Not some story where someone says that someone says that someone says that they saw aliens, but the actual physical aliens themselves. In other words, I want the aliens to reveal themselves, where there can be no reasonable doubt as to their existence. Stories about "lights" or "things" in the sky do not impress me.
2. The burden of proof is on the positive. If you are making an extraordinary claim, the burden is on you to produce the evidence to prove that you are correct; the burden is not on me to prove that you are wrong. Furthermore, you must prove your case by providing the direct and compelling evidence for it; you can't prove it by saying, "Well, what else can it be?"
3. If one is confronted with a series of phenomena for which there exists more than one viable explanation, one should choose the simplest explanation which fits all the observed facts. It is an undeniable fact that many people have seen, or at least claimed to see, objects in the sky and on the ground for which they have no explanation. But it is also an undeniable fact that people can make mistakes about their observations.  It is an undeniable fact that a person's preconceived notions and expectations can affect his/her observations. It is an undeniable fact that some people will lie and will create hoaxes for any one of various reasons. Taking all these undeniable facts together, the simplest explanation -- to me, anyway -- for the UFO phenomenon is that every report is either a hoax, mistake of some sort, or a spiritual entity.  Yes, I said spiritual entity.  The Bible speaks of such an image in Ezekiel chapter 10, for example: "I looked, and I saw beside the cherubim four wheels, one beside each of the cherubim; the wheels sparkled like chrysolite.  As for their appearance, the four of them looked alike; each was like a wheel intersecting a wheel.  As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the cherubim faced; the wheels did not turn about as the cherubim went. The cherubim went in whatever direction the head faced, without turning as they went."  By todays standards this description would be called a UFO.

1. NBC "Unsolved Mysteries" - The show, which aired Sept. 18, 1994, was an hour-long program about the Roswell "crashed-saucer" incident. The editors of the program were given TOP SECRET government documents dating back to December 10, 1948 that showed top Air Force and Navy intelligence officials then believed that UFOs might be Soviet spy vehicles. However when the program aired it spent 20 seconds interviewing the person who submitted these documents and never once showed or talked about the documents.
2. TNT "Larry King" - This show aired Oct. 1, 1994 and was titled "UFO Cover-up? Live From Area 51.". This program was a two-hour show and the audience was exposed to less than three minutes of skeptical views on UFO's, Crashed saucers, and government cover-ups. However, the program spent a full hour interviewing UFO promoters. Larry King ended the program with these words: "We hope that you learned a lot tonight and that you found it both entertaining and informative at the same time."
3. Learning Channel "Science Frontiers" - The program aired in Spring 1997, a one-hour program titled "UFO". Not one of the many "UFO experts" interviewed on the program was a skeptic. The host of the program assured the viewers: "There is indeed a cover-up."

In summary, I consider it possible that there are alien races somewhere "out there," and I remain open to the possibility that, unlikely as it may seem (read  this ), one or more such races could be visiting Earth. But if so, where are they?  Instead of "Just Believing" I look for better explanations.  I believe that the public have just fallen victim to todays powerful TV media and vivid imaginations.  I also believe that "like most other countries" the UFO phenomenon is actually spiritual in nature and not physical.  After all, the greatest deceiver of all time would do anything to distract and confuse the world so he might have greater control.

Disclaimer:

Please remember that I am writing this to influence your thoughts. I will use subliminal messages and an old alien mind trick to alter your sub-conscience mind in a plan for Global Domination. If you are reading this disclaimer you have already been affected.