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        Thats the point of the phrase. The idea is so unbelievable that it needs to be personally verified before it can be taken seriously…

        Not to mention, you can see something and still not ‘know’ - stage magic, for one.

        See also: ‘it has to be seen to be believed’; ‘i cant believe my eyes’; the word ‘unbelievable’

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        Bruh. Literally thousands of studies out there demonstrate the principle of evolution. You need only look at dog breeding or crop breeding to see it in action, albeit human induced instead of natural.

        We dont believe in evolution because one guy said it was true. And dont give me that ‘hurr durr but Darwin said it was true’ nonsense. He did (as did other contemporaries of his time) but it wasnt accepted until overwhelming evidence from countless observations and studies made it obvious.

        Now lets look at this situation. One guy says he heard the government has non human remains. Not exactly the analogy you thought you were making.

        And Ill cut this off at the pass because the next argument I always hear usually boils down to ‘we can only know what we see’ which is basically a solopsist argument. Which is self defeating because then you absolutely cant argue there’s merit to this guy’s testimony because you cant be sure of anything.

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          Except it’s not just one guy saying aliens are here, it’s hundreds, and these three said it under oath unlike the scientists you speak of. Yet you believe the word of the scientists and not the word of these men. You don’t see the hypocrisy there?

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    Good to see AOC asking decent questions, and the non partisan nature of the hearing was really interesting. No political point scoring whatsoever except for one republican at the start.

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    That title leaves room for speculation, my guess:

    ““A boomerang of unidentified ownership has hit the presidents dog on the head, it succumbed to its injuries” - secret service member says”

    Oh wait its multiple “non-human” bodies

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      A fraction of Anonymous apparently hacked into secret NASA servers and obtained massive amount of documents containing UPOs and UFOs. Soon to be revealed.

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        Oh come on. Anonymous, apparently, soon … classic bullshit cocktail if I‘ve ever seen one. All they do is ddos websites these days.

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      Remember “Alien Autopsy” back in the 90s?

      Presented with a completely deadpan face by Jonathan Frakes from Star Trek: TNG, I thought at the time just what a coincidence it was that this “bold” bit of “journalism” came out at precisely a time when Hollywood had developed its’ makeup and prostheses technology enough to make a visually believable fake video on the subject.

      A very large coincidence indeed. Wouldn’t you say?
      And so it always is and has been with this subject and the people that swirl around t.

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      He heard of all the evidence from another dude and he said “trust me bro”, this has to be valid!!!

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          Why would the DoD be immune to having crazy people? 90% of the crazy people I’ve met in my life have served at some point. It’s not like the DoD is known for their robust mental health screening and/or treatment facilities.

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            Because we rely on them for our military and infrastructure. And yes the DoD is known to mentally screen people before hiring them.

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              like the guy recently who was obviously mentally unstable and was still allowed to work with and eventually leak sentitive info on fuckin discord? hows your “”“screening”“” going?

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          Honestly it’s probably just bullshit they made up because if they didn’t find something else to do the gov would have to help regular people.

          I actually think it’s bullshit to try and trick China into thinking the ship based laser missile defence system is able to create sustained plasma interactions at high altitude, they used to do the same to the Soviets all the time - push fake news so they’d waste r&d money. They hope china sees how much effort they’re going to with this farce and assumes it’s to hide the experimental anti missile defences which are the actual source of the tictac videos and radar recordings.

          But I think that’s just me being hopeful, I wouldn’t be surprised if the US gov doesn’t know if they have probably the biggest and most important discovery in centuries being kept secret by shadowy secret agencies so they need to hold hearings with obscure and clearly oddball whistle blowers to try and find out…

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      Nah see that’s the “best” part. Supposedly, the UFO crashed into Fascist Italy in the 1930s and the Vatican, of all things, found out and back-channeled the information to the US, and the US only, for whatever reason. It then apparently just chilled in Mussolinis lockbox for a decade until the US supposedly retrieved the craft in 1945 after wars end.

      This is some Indiana Jones shit. Ark of the Covenant whistleblower, where you at?