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    Advocatus replied to the topic Research Enquiry in the forum Pseudoscience and the Paranormal 5 years, 9 months ago

    That’s weird, Patrick, because I got an e-mail notifying me of your reply and including the full text.  Let me see if I can… AH!

    Patrick D’s reply —

    Perhaps we may be given more information.

    I remain fascinated by the question, in which I’ve had an interest for over 40 years.  I still believe that it’s logically impossible that we are the only intelligent life in the entire universe (multiverse?) .  Of course, that does not prove the reality of that conclusion .  I have yet to come across any credible evidence of alien visitation.

    I first came across a ‘photo of a flying saucer’ in about 1960 ,in a magazine article about another fraud, George Adamski.  His “flying saucer ‘turned out to be the top of a 1950’s drink cooler

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski

    Next was the report of  ‘Project Bluebook’ done by US air force, over years

    https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos.html

    I first came across the notion that ‘God is an alien’, in an article in old copy of one of the Sci Fi magazines,”Astounding” I think.  in about 1970. The article was by ‘A Russian Scientist’.  In the article the scientist deconstructed the Book Of Ezekiel. He claimed the description of Ezekiel’s experience described a space  ship and aliens.

    A full book “The Spaceships Of Ezekiel” was written by a NASA scientist, Josef M Blumrich, in 1974. This  proved that being a NASA scientist is no guarantee  of sanity.

    This  was the era of the charlatan and pathological liar, Erich Von Daniken, with his best selling nonsense “Chariots of The Gods. His books were so successful that they  formed their own  genre. I must have read close to a dozen of them.

    I proved to myself Von Daniken was a complete fraud; as a personal project ,together with a friend, we checked EVERY claim in ” Chariots Of  The Gods” this took 2 years, and included writing to India to buy a special book he mentions. He claimed this book gave instructions to build flying craft. It didn’t.

    Pathological liar: from an interview he did with Playboy in 1974.  Can’t find the article. Below are a couple of articles which are interesting

    http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/playboys-1974-von-dniken-interview-part-5-admitting-fraud

    https://malcolmnicholson.wordpress.com/tag/erich-von-daniken/“