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Jason Barker
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 01/20/2006 : 13:49:02
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Amusing MUFON "statistic".
From the UFO "Facts" section of the MUFON homepage.
http://www.mufon.com/fastfacts.htm
One of their "myths" is "Very few people have really seen a UFO".
Their answer? MOST people have. A whopping 1 in 7.
However, from there, it's downhill.
Where does this info come from?
""According to a Roper poll conducted in 2002 for the SciFi channel, one in seven Americans say they or someone they know has had an experience involving a UFO...""
It really seems like The Onion in real life when MUFON, a supposedly respectable UFO group that likes to think of itself as a reliable source of information, quotes a sci fi channel poll.
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Homer: He thinks he's so big, with all his money and wealth. But there's one thing he can't buy with his money.
Marge:What's that?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 01/20/2006 : 14:51:32 [Permalink]
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| I admit it here: I have often seen unidentified flying objects. Often, things way up in the sky have been too far away for me to identify. That doesn't mean that what I saw were vehicles with space aliens riding inside, though. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Jason Barker
Skeptic Friend
USA
55 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2006 : 17:02:29 [Permalink]
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Well, I suppose thats the result of having two different definitions of UFO.
In high school, me and someone else once drove out to a lonely stretch of road looking for UFO's. We didn't see any.
We saw one on the way back.
It was pretty uneventful seeing it. |
Homer: He thinks he's so big, with all his money and wealth. But there's one thing he can't buy with his money.
Marge:What's that?
Homer:........a dinosaur. |
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UncleJ
New Member
41 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2006 : 17:51:14 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Jason Barker
Amusing MUFON "statistic".
From the UFO "Facts" section of the MUFON homepage.
http://www.mufon.com/fastfacts.htm
One of their "myths" is "Very few people have really seen a UFO".
Their answer? MOST people have. A whopping 1 in 7.
However, from there, it's downhill.
Where does this info come from?
""According to a Roper poll conducted in 2002 for the SciFi channel, one in seven Americans say they or someone they know has had an experience involving a UFO...""
It really seems like The Onion in real life when MUFON, a supposedly respectable UFO group that likes to think of itself as a reliable source of information, quotes a sci fi channel poll.
I know this is snobby of me but…
I've always wanted to see a study correlating intelligence (or lack thereof) with people who believe they have had an encounter with a UFO (the kind with the little green guy inside).
Any bets on the outcome?
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"The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church." - F. Magellan
"I can't be a missionary! I don't even believe in Jebus!" - H. Simpson |
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