I will paraphrase a remark by top SETI scientist Seth Shostak, (in fact the Senior Director of SETI) which I saw in an interview recently. When you dig a little deeper into it, reading words between words, it's a rather troubling and pathetic one.
"There is not one shred of believable evidence that extra-terrestrials have ever visited Earth... There is not one shred of evidence that UFOs are anything more than the product of an over-active imagination."
I've heard this sort of thing before, many times, from like-minded scientists, academics, and intellectuals. I say like-minded, because they all appear to be of the same mind, or at least reading from the same script, and who always use the same vaguely condescending language when speaking authoritatively on this sort of 'controversial' topic. Shostak is one of a little coterie of television personalities rolled out regularly to comment on 'fringe' stories covered in the news, or feature variously on Discovery Channel specials. Their line being that UFOs do not exist; there is no cover-up; the Ancient Alien hypothesis is bunk; abductees are just fantasists; there is no human soul, and NDE's occur only in the frontal lobe, and are the product of a dying brain, and so on and so forth... Anything even slightly 'out there' is crushed, and these and many other phenomena are reduced to prosaic explanations.
Chief culprits of pushing the very narrow, rigid slot of mainstream scientific coverage (which in my opinion is nothing more than a slur campaign against anything mysterious, miraculous or paranormal) include Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku, Astronomer and Physicist Dr Brian Cox, Parapsychologist Dr Susan Blackmore, and Psychologist Dr Chris French. And there are others. Some of them make the blood boil, others make it simply run cold. I wonder what is wrong with these supposedly intelligent people? Years ago it was the infuriating and slightly chilling God-of-Sceptics himself, Phillip Klass, if anyone remembers him.
I would find it highly amusing if, for instance, a large UFO descended from the sky and hovered over the SETI installation to say "here we are!" I wouldn't be surprised if Shostak was so busy staring at his monitor looking for 'signals' from deep, silent space, that he completely misses it. BTW Seth, you're wasting your time. The extra-terrestrial civilzations you're looking for do not use radio. They're like a million years ahead of that, just so you know...
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Stanton Friedman vs Seth Shostak
Whenever a story about UFOs or life on other planets crops up, which it does regularly, these so-called specialists are the first ones the media runs to. The sheeple listen to them, because well, they are TV Personalities! They have the smarts because they have letters after their name, so they must be right, right? Wrong. We hear the same thing from them every time. I wonder, are they purely shills, paid (or coerced) to pedal the official (false) narrative of denial?
I assume that they have to be, and I think many here will agree. Because surely the only alternative to being a plant, is that they are just plain stupid. But clearly they are not stupid people. Shostak for one, by his own admission, is driven to discover the existence of extra-terrestrial life, therefore I cannot for one second believe he has gone that whole life of his without picking up a single book on UFOs. The seminal 'Above Top Secret' by Timothy Good was perhaps (back in the 80s) the most seriously down to earth, most publicized and critically acclaimed book on the subject ever written. It's a must read for anyone who has even a passing interest in the subject. It's a must read even for those who do not, yet are compelled for reasons of conscience to inform themselves of something very, very important. If Shostak really did have one iota of interest in alien reality, then that book could not have passed him by. Still "not one shred of evidence", Seth? Are you serious? He cannot be ignorant of the obvious truth. Judging by his credentials, nor can he be stupid. Therefore he must be a shill. Same can be said I think for his cohorts in the popular media.
On another note, just lately I've noticed that particularly Shostak and Kaku are promoting the Exo-Planet theme more and more. Not a week goes by without a new and very promising Exo-Planet making the headlines. With it, some of their talk is beginning to change. Now it's more along the lines of extra-terrestrial life being 'quite likely' to exist on one of these newly discovered, and potentially earth-like planets. So I have to wonder, are they now being pushed to talk in this direction? Is the kind of disclosure TPTB are working towards more along the lines of picking up signatures, such as oxygen and methane (evidence of alien life), from an Exo-Planet, rather than ETs already being here?





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