Friday, December 7, 2007

Coast-to-Coast Speculation on Photos (Archive)

There is not a lot of news available today of fresh or compelling interest. UFO stories tend to come in clusters, where people look up and tell their neighbors or people call news reporters and suddenly, there is a spike in stories. Then the interest wanes and there is a period of time when things tend to lag. The reasons for this also include a kind of periodicity, which is a topic for another column, since people have speculated and bring meaning to even the timing of sightings.

Recently, there was a large amount of excitement when some new photos were placed on the Coast-To-Coast AM website by a listener. There was a huge reaction among the fans of the show via phone calls, and here are some of their e-mailed comments about the photos that were submitted. As with some other major UFO "flaps" the source of the information and photos was minimal, so the reaction tends to be either skepticism or "how did they do that" to explain the object depicted. In either case, it is something to stretch the mind's boundaries about the limits of knowledge, and how many categories a phenomena can fall into. The comments are indicative of the kind of thinking that goes into evaluating the phenomena. It is instructive for newcomers to review this, since it shows the many ways the same set of photos can be interpreted by a large group of people.

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