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Argument from ignorance.
The claim that aliens must have careened out of control above the New Mexico desert simply because some classified government documents sport a bunch of blacked out text. How does the latter prove the former?
Since the documents were related to flying saucers, as indicated in the headings of some of those government documents, then the government doesn't want the public to know the rest of the story and why they covered the document with a lot of black ink.
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Sure, the missing verbiage is consistent with a government cover-up of an alien crash landing. But its also consistent with an infinitude of other scenarios, not all of them involving sloppy alien pilots.
The aliens may not have been sloppy at all. There could have been a number of reasons why crashes occurred that the public is not aware of, but known only to government officials. Their safety record might be even better than ours by a thosandfold or even more.
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While these beliefs of yours,...
Remember, it is not just a matter of belief on my part, for I know they exist based on what I have seen and know.
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If youre going to believe, or for that matter, claim as a fact, that extraterrestrials are strafing the cities,...
That has been clearly evident by the number of reports from around the world of flying saucers overflying cities and other areas, and many of those from military sources. In fact, there are over 100,000 reports on record.
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...then I suggest you find evidence that leaves no doubt among the professionally skeptical community, known as the world of science.
Are you aware that there are those who have stated that ET visitation are a reality, were those from the scientific community? In fact, were you even aware that that scientific community has been involved in UFO investigations and could not find any terrestrial explanations for up to 1/3 of its cases???
In other words, many of the UFO reports could not be explained by those scientific investigators because there were no natural phenomena explanations for those case files and that the scientific investigators could not find any conventional aircraft that fitted the descriptions of those objects that could tie in their performance characteristics to those flying objects.
The scientific community was also involved in UFOs back in 1968 and met before congress. It was at that session that Dr. Carl Sagan revealed that the Air Force had been tracking UFOs with its surveillance assets and he sought to obtain the data on those flying objects from the Air Force. The UFOs were found to be operating at altitudes not assessible to conventional aircraft and that is why Dr. Sagan wanted the Air Force surveillance data on those objects.
I am sure that the Air Force wasn't going to just give the data to Dr. Sagan because of who he was, much less to anyone else.