QUOTE (hazzard @ May 16 2008, 10:19 AM)

Thats your "get out of a tight spot free card". Forget the balloon, or no balloon, at Roswell. A skeptic being wrong and you right about no balloon still doesnt make you right about ET.
Actually, it goes even further than that in addition to the test dummies and accident victims of the 1950s as well, which only took common sense, but the guy who was part of the test dummy experiments made it public that his operations were not responsible for the Roswell incident.
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Dummies Weren't Classified, Says Retired Colonel
The Associated Press
GRANTS — A retired Air Force officer says he worked with high tech crash test dummies in the 1950s, and that there's no way they'd beconfused with aliens described in rumors arising from the Roswell Incident. Lt. Col. (Ret.) Raymond A. Madson said he isn't buying the latest Air Force explanation of what occurred in Roswell in July 1947.
The Pentagon issued a report this week saying the Air Force believes crash test dummies used in the 1950s were mistaken for the rumored 1947 aliens and suggesting that UFO buffs just got their dates mixed up. Madson, 66, who now lives near Grants, said he was project officer for Project High Dive at Holloman Air Force Base for four years starting in the 1950s. He told the Grants newspaper, the Cibola County Beacon, that the Project High Dive dummies were used to test problems pilots might encounter with the ejection mechanisms for bailing out of new generation jet aircraft.
Madson said he sent photographs of Project High Dive dummies to the Pentagon for inclusion in the Air Force document issued this week, 'The Roswell Report: Case Closed.' But he said the dummies do not match the descriptions of the very small, almost childlike beings purported to have been seen in 1947 near Roswell.
* There were those who were also claiming that UFOs were not written up in science literature, and they were proven wrong when I posted a list that prove that UFOs were written up in scientific literature.
* I told them that the Belgian UFO was not a the result of plasma, and they were proven wrong. Didn't they think that atmospheric conditions were already checked and found not to be a factor? And, it was obvious that the description of the UFO excluded plasma anyway!
* I've told them that it wasn't even an F-117 after they suggested that it was, and they were proven wrong, which only took common sense to dertemine that the object couldn't have been a F-117 anyway and the Air Force released more than enough information to prove that it wasn't a stealth fighter, but the nature of the strong radar returns was proof that the object couldn't have been any stealth fighter.
All it takes is simple common sense in that case as in others, to see that the objects are not ours.
* I've told them that the UFO that maneuvered near a DSP satellite, wasn't an SR-71 nor a satellite, which should have been evident, and now, Aerojets engineers are confirming that NORAD is in fact, tracking UFOs from deep space, and has been for a very long time. Dr. Carl Sagan was aware that the Air Force was also detecting UFOs at altitudes much higher than aircraft and made an appeal for that data from the Air Force at the UFO symposium before congress in 1968.
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SYMPOSIUM ON UNIDENTIFIED
FLYING OBJECTS
HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NINETIETH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
JULY 29, 1968
Dr. Sagan. I just wanted to underline one point that Dr. Baker made. Congressman Roush, in his detailed presentation of the various Air Force systems, I am afraid that the main point won't come across to a lay audience, and that is that with relatively little expenditure of funds, it would be possible to significantly improve the available information.
Apparently what is now happening is that the Air Force surveillance radar is throwing away the data that is of relevance for this inquiry. In other words, if it sees something that is not on a ballistic trajectory, or not in orbit, it ignores it, it throws it in the garbage.
Well, that garbage is just the area of our interest. So if some method could be devised by the Air Force to save the output that they are throwing away from these space surveillance radars, it might be the least expensive way to significantly improve our information about these phenomena.
Dr. Sagan wasn't talking about weather balloons either.
* I've told them that the Washington UFOs were not the result of temperature inversion, but they didn't believe me, so I posted where the Air Force's own 1969 study proved that it was impossible for temperature inversion to have been responsible for those incidents, especially since mirages caused by temperature inversion
can't be seen more than 2 degrees above the horizon anyway, which was a very big
HINT that they were wrong.
* I've told them that the UFOs in questiion cannot be any secret aircraft because that is not how it is done in the real world when secret aircraft operations are taken into an account, but they argued with me regardless so I posted a message from the Air Force on the way secrets are handled involving aircraft when they crash.Besides, it only takes common sense to determine that if a secret aircraft crashes, you are not going to tell the whole world that the crash was that of an alien spaceship!!
* I've told them that a lighthouse was not responsible for the Rendlesham UFO incidents, but they didn't beleive me, so I posted a map and a close photo of that llighthouse to prove them wrong once again.
* I've told the others that no police car was involved in hoax involving the Rendlesham incidents, but they didn't believe me, so I posted where the policeman in question admitted that his police car wasn't involved. All it took was common sense to determine that the police car couldn't have been responsible for either the UFO in the forest nor the multiple UFOs in the sky over multiple nights.
* I've told them that the Lakenheath UFO wasn't a tethered balloon, but they didn't believe me, so I posted the report which shows the object traveling at hypersonic speeds, which by common sense alone, excluded a tethered balloon.
* I'veI told them the CIA was involved in the cover-up UFOs, but they didn't believe me, so I posted where the CIA was taken to court in the late 1970s to where a lot of UFO documents were released by the CIA after the court battle.
* I've told them that the CIA's claim that the U-2 was pushed off as a UFO, was false, but they didn't believe me, so I posted where the U-2 was actually explained away as a
high altitude weather aircraft, not a UFO.
The list goes on and on, but I tnink by now, you've got the hint as to why the skeptics are on the wrong side of the fence in regards to UFOs.