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	<title>Comments on: The things that people believe&#8230;.</title>
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		<title>By: David C.</title>
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		<dc:creator>David C.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m normally quite sceptical about these things as well.  While I believe that the stories that you hear about alien abductions are most likely based on dreams, I have had one experience that is difficult to explain and that I know was not a dream because my sister can confirm it.  Actually, given that I suffer from bipolar disorder I&#039;m well aware of how my vivid dreams can sometimes get jumbled up with reality.

Anyhow, this incident occured about 2 and a half decades ago in the local park where I grew up in Brisbane.  My sister and I were playing on swings and slides when she spotted something in the sky and drew my attention to it.  It looked like a gridiron, with the pointy ends aligned horizontally and a vertical stripe towards each end.  Because at first I thought it was a football, I immediately looked to the ground to see if anyone was under it but there was nobody in the park.  The object moved across the sky in a perfectly straight line and at a constant speed and was visible for no more than 20 to 30 seconds before it disappeared over the trees and houses.  I&#039;ve not seen anything like it since.

I know it is not tangible evidence of anything, just an unusual experience.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m normally quite sceptical about these things as well.  While I believe that the stories that you hear about alien abductions are most likely based on dreams, I have had one experience that is difficult to explain and that I know was not a dream because my sister can confirm it.  Actually, given that I suffer from bipolar disorder I&#8217;m well aware of how my vivid dreams can sometimes get jumbled up with reality.</p>
<p>Anyhow, this incident occured about 2 and a half decades ago in the local park where I grew up in Brisbane.  My sister and I were playing on swings and slides when she spotted something in the sky and drew my attention to it.  It looked like a gridiron, with the pointy ends aligned horizontally and a vertical stripe towards each end.  Because at first I thought it was a football, I immediately looked to the ground to see if anyone was under it but there was nobody in the park.  The object moved across the sky in a perfectly straight line and at a constant speed and was visible for no more than 20 to 30 seconds before it disappeared over the trees and houses.  I&#8217;ve not seen anything like it since.</p>
<p>I know it is not tangible evidence of anything, just an unusual experience.</p>
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		<title>By: turkey101</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice tip o&#039; the hat to Mr George Hrab there, Richard!!  ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice tip o&#8217; the hat to Mr George Hrab there, Richard!!  <img src='http://scepticsbook.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: BastardSheep</title>
		<link>http://scepticsbook.com/2009/04/20/the-things-that-people-believe/comment-page-1/#comment-1213</link>
		<dc:creator>BastardSheep</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have to disagree with the first few lines.  UFO&#039;s definitely do exist.  UFO&#039;s have been documenteded hundreds if not thousands of times.  Fortunately, most UFO&#039;s that are documented later become IFO&#039;s.  IFO of course stands for Identified Flying Object, as opposed to UFO which is nothing more and nothing less than an Unidentified Flying Object.  Neither term is (or at the very least should be) synonymous with alien space ships.

Speaking of alien space ships - believing in them, that&#039;s just plain nuts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to disagree with the first few lines.  UFO&#8217;s definitely do exist.  UFO&#8217;s have been documenteded hundreds if not thousands of times.  Fortunately, most UFO&#8217;s that are documented later become IFO&#8217;s.  IFO of course stands for Identified Flying Object, as opposed to UFO which is nothing more and nothing less than an Unidentified Flying Object.  Neither term is (or at the very least should be) synonymous with alien space ships.</p>
<p>Speaking of alien space ships &#8211; believing in them, that&#8217;s just plain nuts.</p>
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