That's right. I haven't made any specific claims and you are already hostile and forming conclusions based on your own expectations and biases. So after recieving your hostile pm accusing me of lacking a backbone, I decided to take look. I do respond to these threads, I just don't choose to waste all my time arguing with people who are irrationally hostile.
By "irrationally hostile," you mean "someone who makes me back up my bluster?" Because that's all I've done. You talk a lot of facts--who has them, who is ignoring them--but you never get specific. I'm simply asking you to get specific.
I linked to the thread where you simply ignore the facts. If you are incapable of understanding the problem with your position on even this simple matter, then it isn't worth wasting my time trying to talk with you. I provided not only a link to a famous "encounter" in Africa, I also pointed out that there are many thousands of hits for African UFO reports. Your assumption is that these don't exist. That is simply irrational. You can say they're all crap, but the reports still exist, which was the point.
Again, what "facts" did I ignore in that thread? This is what I'm asking you. To review, someone posed a question (the entire topic title was halved, so the question was not fully realized) essentially why we see certain urban myths in some parts of the world but not others. He cited as an example, which I do not hold to be accurate, that we "see more ghosts and evil spirits in Africa than Europeans and Americans."
I replied that it was because these things (specifically UFOs) are a cultural phenomenon, not unlike the Chupacabra of South America, or Bigfoot of the US.
What facts am I ignoring here? Are you contending that UFOs aren't a cultural phenomenon?
As for the Ruwa "incident," it reeks of hoax. All one has to do is look at the children's drawings to know that they're just drawing what they think UFOs are supposed to look like--there's no continuity to them, no similarities that would make you think that they represented a shared experience. You had traditional saucers, bubble-top saucers, upside down bowls, roundish things with jagged legs, etc.. It's a hoax.
Are you denying the reports exist, or not?
I would like to see some independent confirmation of these reports before I agree to anything (considering that, from what I can tell, they all seem to come third-hand from crackpot UFO blogs or shows like "Sightings," which you linked to in another thread.
But if you're asking if I think it's possible for UFO sightings to occur in Africa? Sure I do. There are lights in the sky, and people on the ground (in certain areas) who have seen movies and TV shows depicting aliens and their spaceships. I would not be surprised if people "saw" things like they do here.
