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You seem to be sarcastically suggesting that it'd be dumb to dismiss such sightings because we have those planes today. It'd still be correct to dismiss the sto

• droithomme 7y ago
  He mentioned uncontacted stone age people. That's a reference to tribes today who choose not to connect with the outside world. For example, the Sentinelese are said to not even have fire. They have metal now only because a few years ago a big freighter crashed on their island, which surely was perceived the same as a UFO crash would be to us.
  • eitland 7y ago
    There's a story that reaches the front page of HN from time to time of a Russian family that fled from Stalin into the Taiga sometime before the space race and were only found I think in the late 70ies. One of the observations they had made from the wilderness was satellites, and IIRC they had figured out the objects had to be man made. That story always touches me in more than one way.
• narrator 7y ago
  I'm just saying that if E.Ts who can traverse interstellar distances are visiting us, they are using technology that we have absolutely no understanding of or conception of how it might even be possible. The only analogy for this is comparing this to the interaction between uncontacted stone age tribes and modern civilization.
  • humble_engineer 7y ago
    No you're not you are mocking all of it, that's why you included the section about this "tribe" smoking too much of the pipe, fortunately we have F35 pilots who don't agree with you.