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Robert Bigelow has been interested in aliens and UFOs for most of his life and has essentially dedicated his life to amassing the resources to start an aeronaut
by Teever 9y ago
Robert Bigelow has been interested in aliens and UFOs for most of his life and has essentially dedicated his life to amassing the resources to start an aeronautical company.
Hiring him to do this is like hiring Robert Ballard to find the Titanic.
- volgo 9y agoI've been into finding magical unicorns my entire life too. Can I get start a company and get $600 million from the Pentagon for my research too?
- gf263 9y agoHyperbolic.
- arkades 9y agoOh, was their budget smaller than that?
- tzs 9y agoAre there numerous creditable sightings of unidentified animals that are consistent with unicorns? And if there are, are unidentified animals something the military has an interest in? There are numerous creditable sightings of unidentified things in the air. Are they aliens? Almost surely not. But no matter what mundane phenomenon is responsible for unidentified things in the air, it is of interest to the military.
- krapp 9y ago>Hiring him to do this is like hiring Robert Ballard to find the Titanic. No, because the Titanic could be proven to have existed before Robert Ballard tried to find it.
- fapjacks 9y agoTo deny that something unexplainable has been happening in the skies is really disingenuous. We have very expert, specialist organizations whose primary responsibility it is to know what's happening in our skies. You take these two things and remove the context of "UFOs" and suddenly it's not crazy that they're doing something about it, but crazy that they're not doing something about it. The context of "UFOs" is laden with plenty of bad rap, but that doesn't absolve these organizations from their responsibilities.
- krapp 9y agoRobert Bigelow doesn't believe "something unexplainable" has been happening in our skies - he believes the explanation for those things is alien spacecraft. He isn't interested in seaching for truth, he has an agenda. It's also disingenuous to skip over more plausible explanations, including hoaxes, the memetic effect of UFO culture, classified military aircraft and disinformation campaigns, and misidentification of other mundane aerial phenomena, to assume that anything unidentified in the sky is likely an alien spacecraft.
- pfisch 9y agoThis is not a hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_O%27Hare_International_Airport_UFO_sighting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_O%27Hare_International_Ai... I'm not saying it was an alien craft, but there are a limited number of plausible explanations for an event like this and none of what you listed is a plausible explanation.
- valuearb 9y agoToo bad no one at an entire airport had a camera or took a picture.
- jsmthrowaway 9y agoTo be fair, it was 2006, and "everybody's phone has a great camera" was several years off. The article does mention someone may have snagged it on a plain digital camera. Not taking a side, just pointing that out.
- nwah1 9y agoYea, you can't fault the credentials across the board. Their new private organization, To the Stars Academy, seems to have lots of interesting people on board, including a former program director at Lockheed Martin's skunkworks. There is a lack of transparency and obviously Bigelow has way more connections than a typical person, but it seems plausible to me that they really are sincere. And 22 million to fund this program does sound somewhat reasonable, although granted we'll probably never see an audit of how the money was spent.