Yes!
Exactly. Ever since our planet got up-to/close-to 1 billion people walking around with HD cameras in their hands, the consistent blurriness of any/all physical/visible UFO sightings can no longer be excused as it could 50-100 years ago. I think we're either dealing with something non-physical, or extra-physical to our current scientific detection.
But are we really that separate? My first wife knew exactly when she would be getting a phone call. She would hustle to the telephone and pick up the receiver the very second before it would normally have rung for the first time and begin talking. She always knew who was at the other end as well. It freaked me out a bit at first but I finally accepted the fact that she had exceptional intuition. It's worth adding you don't mess around on a woman like that.
We're not. Hence the "illusion". Plus the fun of forums and social media, because we're all different and having different experiences, but people use them as debating or arguing platforms, so... HILARIOUS.
I have good hearing, and I notice that our modern (ish) electronic telephone emits a small noise just before it rings. I wonder if your ex was picking that up - I suppose the noise I am aware of lasts for maybe a bit less than half a second, however if she was aware for a longer period, that sounds interesting! Did she regularly call out the name of the person on the other end of the line before answering it?
Aside from her sharp intuitive sense she had no other way of knowing a call was coming, She could be at the other end of the house from where our dial phone was. (This goes back to the 1970's). For her to also know who was calling... I began to reason that once she got to know someone she somehow made a (Binding?) psychic connection with that person. Distance was no obstacle. Her good friend Yvonne lived 70 miles away yet she would catch the phone before it rang even once. She explained that she couldn't stand to hear it ringing. Admittedly, phones rang louder back then. It's kind of nice that some of us have extra sensory abilities. Many probably know someone who can divine water, in other words sense aqua-firs. Drilling a well is more rewarding if water is found.
Whether ETs have physical bodies is a fact to some, such as Whitley Streiber, who says he's had sex w/ them. Remote Viewing has revealed to Pat Price that ETs have many bases on the Earth; a current investigation of one of these is The Skinwalker Ranch series on the History Channel. To sum it up, watch the Utube videos, such as this one
I knew a family that learned a technique to use telepathy to contact each other so they wouldn't have to call or write. I never pursued it b/c nice ppl, but come on! I wish I had now!
The thing about the UFO phenomenon is that it has always tended to mirror the worldview of the experiencers, on an individual, cultural, and even to some extent, a technological level. So we shouldn't be too surprised to see UFOs exhibiting characteristics like stealth and active camouflage. I imagine that they've had such tech all along, but just haven't needed it as much until the Modern Era in ufology began in 1947.
I do wish you had gone into more detail on some of the people you had disagreed about with Rich. You did a pretty good quick overview of James Randi and why you found his credibility questionable. I wish Rich could have done the same thing for people like Whitley Strieber, Richard Dolan, the Bledsoe family etc. And could you clarify what recently came out with the Travis Walton case?
