Slate takes a look at amateur UFO footage on YouTube. So much for photographic and video evidence. I hope the same standards are applied to government arguments for going to war.
BTW, I feel like it’s necessary to say that I think there is a false dichotomy in our culture between the rational and kooky, with the belief in UFOs as being the borderland between the two. The term UFO should be taken literally: unidentified flying object. Would it shock you and discredit everything I say and write about if I told you that I saw an UFO in Mexico? Or that a strange light in the sky once spoke to me in a Brooklyn accent?
But, what of a belief in aliens? I think it’s so ethnocentric to think we are the sole inhabitants of this universe. Even so, I won’t deny that there is a crazy strand that obsesses about aliens instead of dealing with the reality that is front of them (in some cases, that is the reality in front of them). And in all fairness to Dennis Kucinich, who was ridiculed for saying he believed in UFOs, he was not treated as fairly as the other presidential candidates (perhaps it’s because of his call for impeachment of Dick Cheney?). Shouldn’t all so-called Christian politicians be treated with the same kind of skepticism? After all, given the UFO litmus test, isn’t mass organized religion and its belief in immaculate conception and miracles equally as absurd? Just a thought.
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