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urbancartography:

Blockbuster Movies and UFO Sightings:

There’s certainly a UFO peak in years with a big Will Smith sci fi movie out - particularly 1996 with Independence Day and 1997 with the first Men in Black movie.

David Clarke, a UFO expert (he’s also the UFO consultant at the National Archives) has spent years immersing himself in Freedom of Information requests to get whitehall to release the UFO files and he has supplied us with this data.

See the original data set here:
www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/aug/17/ufo-sighting…

underpaidgenius:

Matthew 14 : 22-33 (by 9 0 0 0)

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Death : Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan : With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death : Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan : So we can believe the big ones?
Death : Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan : They’re not the same at all.
Death : You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
Susan : But people have got to believe that, or what’s the point?
Death : You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become?

UFO Sighting Convincibility Over Time | MakeUseOf.com

Careful Data-Crunching Reveals Two Alien Agendas - io9

ufo sightings will gain legitimacy when accompanied by charts drawn with markers.