Oh boy, ok, one by one:
And I did substantiate it for you. Would you like me to do it again?
mostly not 'high level' people as you claim
This is obvious from the list.
http://www.disclosureproject.org/aboutexecsumm.htm
Those are not high-ranking people, you say? Let's see now, NASA, CIA, NSA, USAF, UN(Navy), Astronaughts, scientists. It is astounding, how you can deny their positions. Your credibility is now questionable, itself.
many had a history of making stuff up
Really? Let's see then:
Sgt. Cliff Stone - claimed to have recovered a craft and aliens at Indian Town Gap, Pennsylvania. Also saw crashed saucers at the Pentagon. Also claims to have recovered a B-52 in Vietnam which was 'set down' by a UFO. Funny how one man has had so many encounters with ETs.... and always happens to be in the 'right place'.
So how is this evidence, that he made it up?
Larry Warren(USAF) - Claim debunked at
www.ufoworld.co.uk/v14.txt. Claims to have seen a video of the Apollo astronauts on the Moon pointing out artificial alien structures, which the astronauts deny.
The link does not even work.
Astronaut Gordon Cooper - This one is kind of sad. He has made MANY claims, most of which have been debunked -
From the link you posted, the claims was not made by him, but were misrepresented by others, for which he filed a law suit as well. The site's conclusion is the following:
This candor and cooperation has been met with exploitation and misrepresentation from UFO promoters and publicists. From Beckley's "Hangar 18" fantasies to the Columbia Pictures Industries false advertisements to Dr. Hynek's explicit endorsements , Cooper has found himself on the receiving end of frauds and fabrications attached to his name. His usefulness to UFO proponents is based on his honest advocacy of serious UFO research (a desire shared by many serious researchers in the field, including myself) and on the UFO stories associated, not always accurately as we have seen, with his name.
So how does that malign Cooper's character, and his actual claim?
Thomas E. Bearden (US Army) - Makes MANY MANY unsupported claims. The worst of which is probably his MEG 'invention'
He makes a claim of a free energy machine, as usual, there are sceptics, tearing him apart. Much like sceptics have tore angi-gravity machines apart, but now are actually being proven. Now wether his claim is bogus, I would not know, and producing one vague sceptical account, is not going to make much of an argument.
Gene Mallove - cold fusion activist, who repeatedly makes unsupported claims which other scientists can not reproduce
Yet cold fusion research rakes in millions, and some very compelling results are produced:
METHODS CLAIMED TO PRODUCE CANR OR LENR (COLD FUSION)
Note: AE = anomalous energy, NP = nuclear products.
1. Electrolysis of D2O (H2O)-based electrolyte using Pd, Pt, Ti, or Ni cathodes. (This is the orginal Pons-Fleischmann method, which has been replicated hundreds of times to produce claimed AE and NP in every country where the method was used.)
2. Electrolysis of KCL-LiCL-Lid (fused salt) electrolyte using a Pd anode. (Several attempts at duplication have failed.)
3. Electrolysis of various solid compounds in D2o(proton conduction). (This method has been duplicated in the United States, Japan, and France to produce AE.)
4. Gas discharge (low energy ions) using Pd electrodes in D2 (H2). (Variations on this method have reported AE and NP in the United States, Russia, and Japan.)
5. Ion bombardment (high energy ions) of various metals by D+. (Variations on this method have reported NP in Russia and Japan.)
6. Gas reaction (H2) with Ni under special conditons. (Replicated independently several times in Italy to produce NP and AE.)
7. Cavitation reaction involving D2O and various metals using an acoustic field. (This method has been replicated in the United States to produce NP and AE.)
8. Cavition reaction in H2O using microbubble formation. (Several attempts to duplicate variations on the method have failed.)
9. Reaction of finely divided palladium with pressurized deuterium gas. (Variations on this method have produced AP and NP in the United States and Japan.)
10. Plasma discharge under D2O or H2O. (Variations on this method have produced AP and NP in the United States, Italy, and Japan.)
11. Phase change or a chemical reaction, both involving deuterium. (NP production has been reported in the United States and in Russia.)
12. Biological systems. (This method has produced NP in Japan, Russia, and France.)
Independent laboratories have duplicated all of these methods, and the reasons for failure when using commercial palladium metal are now understood. The reason for the failure while using commercial palladium is that the required properties of the palladium are neither uniform, nor easily duplicated. Only rare pieces of palladium, which do not crack when reacted with high concentrations of deuterium, are suitable. Apparently, having very fine particles of a suitable material is another essential condition for this phenomenon to work.
I would like to keep my reservations about the ridicule of these claims of new technology. As I am well aware, how in the past, whenever these claims were made, they were ridiculed then too, and they turned out to have merit. Simply saying, such and such, says it's not possible, does not mean evidence. Scepticism is not evidence.
Donna Hare - Claimed to see NASA airbrush over a UFO in a photo. She also saw "trees and their shadows on the ground"... which is impossible from an orbital photo.
Where is the evidence?
Glen Dennis - A 'witness' to alien bodies which has been debunked extensively (<http://www.csicop.org/klassfiles/SUN-31.html>)
http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/klassvufo.htm
Oh please, the opinions of Klass? This guy is a moron. He makes rubbish scepitical arguments, and the doctorine to which csicop subscribes to, makes me sick. They tell people to ridicule people who make extraordinay claims, laugh at them, not even bothering to investigate their claims. They spew rubbish, and often to to pass of their opinions as evidence. How can one forget where Klass wrote a book, UFOs - Identified, which sought to explain many UFO reports in terms of plasma physics, and it was recievely coldly by Plasma physcists. They thinks they know how to use occams razor, when they really don't, and nor is occams razor that popular among people. It is like all the morons have come together, to just "debunk" everything and anything, when none of their explanations are convincing, and they are scientific in any way, they are more like lawyers, dragging in morals and politics of those involved, rather than the actual issue,and have frequently been shamed. I've not read one argument from Klass, that is serious, all I see, is ridicule, verbal abuses, and mocking the issue. If this "organization" cannot be serious, then we won't take them seriously.
I would rather you produce your arguments from more credible sources. A sceptic using a pro- sceptic web site to debunk something he is sceptical of, is like me using a pro-christian web site to debunk atheistic arguments.
Anyway, let's say, I give you the benefit of the doubt, and say 4 of the ones you talked about, cannot be trusted, that leaves more than 36 that are not counted for from the list I gave you. You have not even produced half of these "rebuttals" for these people. Do you expect to make a case for the integrity of DP as a whole, by considering under 5% of the witnesses?
several didn't even want to be associated with the project
several didn't even want to be associated with the project
John Callahan
Edgar Mitchell
Don Phillips
Robert Wood
Where is the evidence?