**update after 17 years**
It was really interesting to read this thread from 17 years ago, sort of like a time capsule
And even better, I can bump and update what I’ve discovered because there was a lot of hope expressed that in the future (now) there would be greater clarity, and the good news, on a personal level, is, there is extreme clarity, which I’m happy to share with anyone reading this.
Compared to exchanges I sometimes have and read online today, I’m actually impressed by the quality of this thread. I guess now, the Internet is infested with bots and it’s hard to tell if you are talking to a real person, but back then it’s probably fair to think, most of the people in this thread were real and giving their honest opinions.
Obviously the evidence in the op, in the form of videos will no longer be available, however, I did figure out the alien / ufo issue as it has been an interest of mine for decades and I never stopped digging through every book and piece of evidence I could find.
My overall conclusion, all these years later is that UFOs are sometimes alien space craft, which are sometimes manned and sometimes unmanned. It turns out that ETs have been present in Earth orbit for millennia and today the space near our planet is crowded with their craft. Although the recent buzz about tic tac, which were videos made by the Navy around 20 years ago, despite being hearlded as the best evidence of ET presence are actually human made drones. So I’m not saying everything is alien, not even that which is widely considered the best evidence. Just like in the Cold War, when they are suggesting UFOs are ET spacecraft, they are covering up a black project, in those days Blackbird. Tic tac is actually a Raytheon made unmanned reconnaissance drone called Blackraven. They like their black prefix!
One way that my knowledge has developed is that I’m not so interested in UFOs, once I established some of them were alien, I wanted to know about the aliens of course, because that’s the really interesting question, to know something about their culture and in the process to learn more about humanity. One of the main highlights is that many ETs look human (many do not), and step down to the surface to live as humans, carry out their missions or simply go shopping for the day, because it’s easy enough to resupply from Earth’s surface for some things.
Before I present a list of updated evidence bear in mind, I’ve seen all the evidence that is publicly available over the past few decades, most of which isn’t available to view anymore. So the evidence I present now, has already been vetted through my personal filters, which have developed over the years due to everything I have learnt and all the criticism I have read. That said, I don’t expect anyone to believe any of the evidence I present, or agree with me, I’m just doing this for completion, to update the time capsule. It’s so refreshing to see this post still exists, if it makes it through this round (because censorship is greater online these days), then maybe I’ll update it again in another 20 years and we’ll see where we are again.
As for me, I wrote the op just after I completed my first degree; in the summer of 2006, with a degree in Psychology. Several months later I met the woman who today, is the mother of our 2 children. The year after I was a medical student and I have now been a doctor for 12 years. I specialise in anaesthetics, which I started in 2015. I’m writing all this because I just want the reader to know that I’m a grounded (family) and functional (tax payer) member of society, and this is my hobby. It’s not an addiction, as you can sense from my post count, I’m highly selective with my time.
And finally, I’ve already told you my conclusion, so some of what I’m going to share is very alien, to the point that it is understandably hard to believe. When I wrote the op, at the end of my science degree, I was a proud eliminative materialist, but this subject has totality reshaped my understanding of materialism. I now view the material world as something which can be explored and manipulated just as scientists and engineers do, but that exists because of something more fundamental, that being consciousness. And the more you learn about aliens, the better this point is understood. So from now on, what I share is going to seem especially weird to a group of, mostly guys, who like technology. I find this sort of group, just like my colleagues in anaesthetics are heavily materialistic. So prepare yourself, this is going to get really weird, however, if you think about it, it couldn’t really be any other way!
I’ll get started shortly, maybe today, maybe in the coming days, in the meantime feel free to post and show me what the views are, on this forum today, share the insights, and breadth of your own views. Sorry for any delay but the young children require a lot of my attention.