You've got to be joking. U2s don't hover, and they certainly are incapable of rendering a nuclear warhead-tipped ICBM in a hardened missle silo inactive- much less in multiples in the former USSR, as well as the US. Moreover, the UFOs were observed by multiple numbers of USAF security force personnel, and they certainly know what a helicopter looks, sounds, and acts like. Please think about what you're writing before you post it, and quit wasting space with such stupidity.

Cool your jets, Bramboy-- just follow the many entries in the ongoing discussion.

FWIW, I'm a retired USAF security forces officer-- 25 years, Lt Col, TS ATOMAL clearance. I can tell you freely that the USAF doesn't promote myths and rumors. I can also tell you that "strange occurrences" definitely took place at Malmstrom AFB Montana and at RAF Bentwaters/ Woodbridge (Rendlesham Forest) in the UK, among other locations that involved USAF Security Force personnel, among others, who witnessed and interacted with certain unexplainable aerial phenomena. As I noted in previous postings, the information has been documented and is freely available to anyone with an ounce of curiosity and sub-basic computer research skills. Beyond that, believe whatever the Hell you want.

Just to let you know-- Walmart is running an after-Christmas on blinders- half price! Hurry!

Have you even bothered to look? Duuhuuu....

You're mis-reading me. I have no quarrel with the creation and who/ what brought it about. Indeed, only a supreme power or being could accomplish such. On this much, at least, the world's many religions agree, and science is at a loss to explain it otherwise.

As my previous postings clearly indicate, the probability that life has evolved and exists elsewhere is overwhelming. That we have been visited is also without question. The real questions are who, how many, from where, for how long, and why.

There is so much more to this debate. We have mastered the science of anti-gravity. Don't believe it? Check out the patents on file at the US Patent Office. How did we discover it? Reverse engineering, in part, but from where? Don't know about that? Check out a guy by the name of Bob Lazar. We've never been visited; there's no such thing as UFOs or aliens? Read up on comments by our own astronauts. UFO reports come from nut cases and idiots? How about police officers, military pilots, airline pilots, and more.... and the last six US Presidents. UFOs don't exist? It wasn't "helicopters" that buzzed the White House in 1952, and were observed in 1967 and beyond by our security forces hovering over SAC's Atlas missles armed with nuclear warheads and on alert in their silos scattered across the northern tier, as well as nuclear armed missles on alert in their silos in the former Soviet Union-- all of which were suddenly and remotely rendered inert and inoperable. People have never been abducted, experimented on, etc? Read the many case file sand books that reflect the opposite.

Only the grossly uninformed and ignorant continue to insist that UFOs are nothing more than swamp gas, misinterpretations of natural occurrences and figments of the twisted imaginations of the delusional.

Like I said, don't believe it? Fine, that's your prerogative. But before you slam the your mind's door mentally on your intellect, do some research- the information is readily available.

And you couldn't tell from the content of my text?

With all due respect, I would have thought that rather obvious......

None are so blind as those who refuse to see. Do yourself a favor-- do some serious research into the subject and become informed before you go off half-cocked. The body of continually growing evidence is overwhelming. And please keep your ignorance under wraps- it doesn't become you.

How arrogant and ignorant for us to conclude based on one brand of faith's interpretation of the creation of the universe, that we are alone in that same immeasurable expanse. We can't even account for 95 % of what makes up the universe (i.e., dark matter and dark energy.) We barely understand our own origin on this planet, and are only now unlocking he many mysteries of our DNA. When one considers the hundreds of thousands of UFO sightings around the globe, including personal interactions, abductions, military encounters, (much less the several instances of UFOs neutralizing US and Soviet nuclear-armed missles on launch alert in hardened silos,) etc., etc., etc., it is sheer idiocy to conclude that we're the only beings out there. Hell, we are only now just able to see the so-called edge of the remnants of the original big bang. A word of advice to nay-sayers: be careful how far you stray, lest you fall off the edge.....

As Carl Sagan noted, there are billions of stars in just our Milky Way galaxy, and billions of galaxies in the universe- many much, much larger than ours, and the probability that there are other life-supporting planets like Earth is beyond question-- it is rather a matter of trying how to estimate their numbers- no doubt at least in the hundreds of millions.

And the legend lives on. Simply phenomenal. (What were you doing when you were 15?) You gotta know, Pavoratti is smiling with pride and showing her to all off on his side.

One, or two, or three, or four independent allegations might be dismissible as exploitation, but that is not the case here. Statute of limitations and the presumption of innocence until proven otherwise not withstanding, the now 20-plus separate independent accusations certainly give strong support to the supposition that Cosby is guilty of the accusations- much less his sorry response to date. And if you're still unsure, consider the multiple victims accusation civil case in 2005 that was settled out of court for substantial sums.

Try Karachi, Pakistan-- downtown has an intersection referred to by Americans and Europeans there as "Breathless Corners." The smell is absolutely noxious and extends for blocks. The nickname comes from the fact that no one is able to hold his breath long enough to avoid it when passing through. It is in the center of a residential area composed of apartment buildings, and nearby is a river with makeshift shelters on its banks inhabited by Bangaldeshi refugees, who drink, cook with, bathe in and defecate in the same water. The river is septic, of course, and the smell is absolutely awful. I went there on a government assignment- and I would never go back again.

There are other places in the Mid-east almost as bad. I landed in Istanbul, and as soon as they cracked the plane hatch, I knew immediately I was back in Turkey. That stench permeates throughout the city. By contrast, while in Tehran, Iran- when they were still on our side- I didn't notice anything near such aromas while exploring the market district and downtown districts. Go figure.

Boy, our vaunted President really showed that old asshole, Putin, this time! No doubt the whole world will take notice! No more "red lines" this time- no, sir! We're imposing tough punitive actions that will really make the Russians and the rest of the world's bad boys to sit up and take notice (well, at least the 21 or so Russians that the sanctions apply to-- can't wait to see them squirm when they find out they can' travel to the US or do any business here.) Guess old Putin will have to retire to his shirtless horse farm and wrestle tigers, or something. Hear tell, too, that Wall Street has already jumped a thousand points or so in jubilation. And the EU is pushing a recommendation to lengthen Obama's term in office.

No, sir! No world leader has shown the moxi or the intuitive foresight of our intrepid leader to deal with such vexing issues. I understand also that Israel's Knesset has initiated a proposal to allow itself to be re-designated as a Palestinian free state, to include adoption of Islam as its new official state religion- complete with Sharia law; likewise, South Korea wants to re-unify with the North as a super socialist state just to demonstrate what is possible with such insightful leadership-- and all due to Obama's unchallengable lead on resolving world crisis issues. I can only wait in wonder to see what our future next holds in store.