VRob,
My perception of what happened has "developed" into this answer, I didn't just take someones story for granted, in fact I looked into this from many different angles previously.
I looked at the angle of Aliens, but I ruled it out, for a very simple reason "Why should it be alien, when it could be man made". This statement doesn't mean I thought it must be man made, but actually means I thought about what a man/men could make that would "fool" people and why.
This allowed me to generate a number of varying versions of events, each of them extremely wild and increasingly more devious but more and more ludicrous in nature.
I got to the point of generating theories, designs and plans for the creation of a craft that could transcend through timespace with Android test pilots. (thats the simplest definition, although there was a little more to it,like the craft didnt actually have engines as the android passengers powered it.)
However it brought up many different theoretical problems, like the grandfather paradox of a creation from a future point in time going back to before it's inventor existed and the shear matters of speculated cost and manhours were beyond the capacity of just myself or a university and if were developed by a military would probably eat a budget far in access of all their blackbudget funding put together.
I felt by this point that I had pretty much covered all the ludicrous options, all the options that went beyond what skeptics would believe and decided that it was about time I started looking at a different angle, the angle of "What if what was said about it being a balloon was correct? but it was a half-truth?" this tied with discussion on the Manhattan projects movement to test grounds throughout New Mexico and the departments that were at Los Alamos started to generate a picture of events that can actually be seen to be more genuine than a green space invader or my first treck into the the Scifi of timetravel.
Chunky was just pointing out that you placed yourself into hipocrasy by suggesting not to listen to military statements but to listen to someone who was one of those military people on their deathbed.
The mind is a funny thing, if you line it with enough lies and deceit to cover the truth, you can start believing it is the truth. So perhaps he was use to lieing about what he saw, perhaps he was telling the truth, but If someone was dieing I wouldn't suggest they were in the best mental health for genuine statements.
My perception of what happened has "developed" into this answer, I didn't just take someones story for granted, in fact I looked into this from many different angles previously.
I looked at the angle of Aliens, but I ruled it out, for a very simple reason "Why should it be alien, when it could be man made". This statement doesn't mean I thought it must be man made, but actually means I thought about what a man/men could make that would "fool" people and why.
This allowed me to generate a number of varying versions of events, each of them extremely wild and increasingly more devious but more and more ludicrous in nature.
I got to the point of generating theories, designs and plans for the creation of a craft that could transcend through timespace with Android test pilots. (thats the simplest definition, although there was a little more to it,like the craft didnt actually have engines as the android passengers powered it.)
However it brought up many different theoretical problems, like the grandfather paradox of a creation from a future point in time going back to before it's inventor existed and the shear matters of speculated cost and manhours were beyond the capacity of just myself or a university and if were developed by a military would probably eat a budget far in access of all their blackbudget funding put together.
I felt by this point that I had pretty much covered all the ludicrous options, all the options that went beyond what skeptics would believe and decided that it was about time I started looking at a different angle, the angle of "What if what was said about it being a balloon was correct? but it was a half-truth?" this tied with discussion on the Manhattan projects movement to test grounds throughout New Mexico and the departments that were at Los Alamos started to generate a picture of events that can actually be seen to be more genuine than a green space invader or my first treck into the the Scifi of timetravel.
Chunky was just pointing out that you placed yourself into hipocrasy by suggesting not to listen to military statements but to listen to someone who was one of those military people on their deathbed.
The mind is a funny thing, if you line it with enough lies and deceit to cover the truth, you can start believing it is the truth. So perhaps he was use to lieing about what he saw, perhaps he was telling the truth, but If someone was dieing I wouldn't suggest they were in the best mental health for genuine statements.