Discussion: Alien Land: The UFO Capital of the World Has an Identity Crisis

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Malone’s a Christian now, and he no longer believes aliens abducted him—he thinks demons are responsible for the terrifying recurring visions of his childhood and adolescence.

Well, I’m glad he got that sorted out.

(Someone needs to get the CSS police to work on this story. Quite a formatting mess.)

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Ditto on formatting.

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Fixed, thanks for bringing it to our attention!

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““I’ve never seen one, but that doesn’t mean they’re not there,” he says. “I’ve never been to Australia, but they tell me it’s there.””

Suzy says hi…

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i lived in roswell for twenty years.
it’s boredom that is hurting roswell.

everyone knows that the aliens are its bread and butter.
even the Christians.

they really need another alien siting…

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Obviously demons make so much more sense than aliens.

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As Roswell seeks to modernize by bringing in new sources of tourist revenue, more residents are questioning the UFO festival’s place. Religious Christians think it’s blasphemous; UFO researchers are disgusted with the event’s streetfair-esque, money-driven ethos. These groups inflame and incite each other in a battle for the city’s identity.

Wow. So the only choices they have for an identity lie between two factions who take their silly beliefs far too seriously? Bummer.

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I could use scientific logic and the laws of physics to explain why it is extremely unlikely aliens would give a damn about Earth but if someone has it in their noggin to believe claptrap there’s nothing I can do to dissuade them.
Proxima centauri… 4.5 light years away
It would take thousands of years to get there at the best speed humans have ever attained (50,000 mph) for a space probe. And it is highly unlikely there is a sentient life form capable of space travel that close to us.
I hate the program “Ancient Aliens” for the constant false pseudoscience they offer. It’s offal and should never be broadcast. Even as entertainment one suspends disbelief for.
There are people who ardently believe aliens crossed the vast reaches of space and came to Earth just to create humans so that we would be slaves to mine gold for them. People believe and broadcast this bullshit as truth. It’s disgusting.

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hahaahahah it’s funny there is more evidence of aliens visiting this planet that there is of a god, all the christians have is a 2,000 year old book written by people with a definite agenda…to control people tru fear of hell and reward tru heaven…like a dog who gets a reward for not humpin the neighbors leg…the evidence for alien visits have numerous witnesses of cops, the military, airline pilots and, ordinary people…no such luck with their god unless you count the piece of toast with a the image of their jesus on it…

Yes, that’s more like it!

So that’s what the beatles meant by strawberry fields forever!

UFOs and Jesus have a lot in common.

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There is a little town in England that reminds me of Roswell called Glastonbury. There the odd mixture is both standard and off beat Christianity (the holy grail is said to be buried in a church garden which has a flowing stream people treat as holy water) and the occult (the locals believe they are on top to a gate to hell) with a thriving art scene thrown in. Maybe Roswell should go full Glastonbury and try an an annual music festival. I understand aliens like heavy metal.

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With the waning of the world wars, those great union busters, and the continuation of the nation’s war footing, fresh, new enemies were needed to spice up traditional American racism…Aliens, Communists and artists all popped out of the late 40s American nightmarescape but only Communists and artists lacked the perceived technological and economic heft to become regulars in the ongoing and highly effective fear pantheon. Aliens, as movies later showed, have potentially bigger guns and larger economies.

Here’s a guy named Tim who wants to warn you that open-mindedess can be too much of a good thing:

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Every place wants to think it is special. Roswell had it handed to them, but now they want something new. Ungrateful gits.

Someone should get Piyush Jindal on the line, because Aliens will not visit until the Demons have been eradicated. They’ll overlook the presence of Sprites and Pixies, though.

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There is FAR more evidence of Aliens existing than there is of Jesus Christ having ever existed
Yet, one is called Crank Belief and the other is capable of creating and maintaining thousand year old multiple billionaire-bureaucracies and of inciting people to war, abuse, slavery, and to kill and burn each other at the stake in His Name.
Humans sure are stupid.

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I had these stereotypical alien abduction experiences when I was a kid,” Guy Malone tells me. “Little creatures with big black eyes were raping me and trying to eat me and trying to operate on me.”

Those are called bedbugs, Guy.

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