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10 Reasons Not To Believe in UFOs 25 10 Reasons Not To Believe in UFOs 25 10 reasons you wouldn't be anywhere near as funny if UFOs 10 reasons you shouldn't believe in were real spacecraft carrying real alien visitors. shouldn't believe in That's not supportive of my position, I'm just UFOs saying. Tick-tock, people: This debate has been UFOs going on for eons and the pro-UFO crowd hasn't by Paul McNamara been able to make a case that the anti-UFO by Paul McNamara crowd will buy. Speaking for the latter, it's not Former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington that we don't want to believe or cannot be and his band of others are out beating the drums persuaded, it's that the evidence - which as Carl so loudly about UFOs that they might be heard Sagan famously said needs to be extraordinary - on another planet. I just watched this Larry remains extraordinarily weak. King interview ... and the stories these men tell We can't find them. Not for a lack of are remarkable; just not remarkable enough to trying, mind you. SETI, to cite only one convert me from a lifelong skeptic into a example, has been around since 1960 and believer. SETI@home has been crowdsourcing this baby Here are 10 of my reasons why, which like nobody's business since 1999. Nada. I you should consider yourself free to adopt: understand that our means of searching are No alien monkey wrench. This is not primitive compared to what it would take to an original thought, but I've always found it a transport an alien being from a distant planet to compelling one. Earthlings have littered the Earth, but we're a lot smarter than we used to be solar system with tons of space junk and yet no and still unable to find anyone out there. By the one has come forward with anything that we can way: Not believing that aliens have visited here all agree had to have been left behind by one of isn't the same thing as not believing in them these multitudes of visitors from other planets. period. I'm willing to take it on faith that there's There are no secrets. You say the space something life-like out there somewhere. junk exists but it's being kept hidden by It's not my job; it's not your job. We governments including our own? Phooey. First have real lives to live, and besides, you can't of all, our leaders would never do such a thing prove a negative. The onus here is on the true (don't make use an emoticon). Moreover and believers. I'm not saying that every last skeptic much more seriously, people who cling to this needs to be converted - after all, some believe belief simply do not understand how lousy the Earth is flat and that O.J. was innocent. We'll governments are at keeping secrets. Those who settle for the reasonable-man-or-woman think the media is involved in the cover-up - like standard. I'm reasonable: Start with convincing my own brother, for crying out loud - have no me. idea how many journalists would trade one of I've never seen a Star Trek movie. GET YOUR their own children for a scoop of this Again, I'm not saying this constitutes evidence ‘X’ ZONE iPOD magnitude. And remember, the cover-up needs of anything, just that it might help explain why AT to have been ongoing flawlessly for generations I don't believe. [] www.xzoneipod.com now to support the theory. No indisputable visual evidence. That kind of proof is necessary to overturn a ref's call ‘Dare To Believe’ in a football game, so it's necessary if we're going to believe in alien visitors. Ah, but what about all the fuzzy pictures and grainy footage, In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada you say? Well, the fact that we're going to argue People Listen To People Listen To about whether any of it is indisputable means The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show those pictures and home movies do not amount The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show with to what's needed here. Geraldo Rivera posing with with a foot up on a spacecraft bumper: That I'll Rob McConnell Rob McConnell believe. on on This is indisputable: Dreams, AM 580 CFRA hallucinations, pranksters and optical illusions AM 580 CFRA are unquestionably real. Alien beings are too quiet. They can get here, but do not communicate, especially with world leaders or journalists? I know, I know, they're afraid of spooking us. Guess what? We're already spooked and they should be plenty smart enough to understand that fact. (By the way, I'm available for an interview, should any alien be reading this blog. I will not, however, give up one of my children.) My pet South Park theory: The episode of South Park where Cartman gets - well, I have to worry about spam filters here - The ‘X’ Zone Websites The ‘X’ Zone Websites www.xzoneradio.com www.xzoneradio.com www.xzonetv.com www.xzonetv.com www.xzonestore.com www.xzonestore.com