So at the beginning of this year, the FBI released a load of documents confirming the existance of ETs interacting with the human race, but no one cares.
Why is that /sci/?
This is imperical evidence, and yet the media will not touch it with a barge pole - even after the claims were made official by the FBI.
https://vault.fbi.gov/UFO/UFO%20Part%201%20of%2016/view
>>8301189
because of all the people trying to make a quick buck by talking about being abducted by aliens combined with all the retards on /x/ who believe them, talking about aliens in a serious manner is next to impossible.
> confirming the existence of ET's interacting with humans
No, they do not prove anything of the sort. This is just some letter written by some guy. It's not even classified.
And this was released before 2012.
>>8301198
This is not what holds it back. If there were zero frauds and zero nut cases, mainstream scientists still would not risk all future income to go down this path. The crazies are the only ones who can do this, so it's good we have them. Eventually we will break free of this era of political correctness and SJWs and people will be allowed to have a discussion about anything, and arrive at the conclusion, "there is something here" or "there is nothing here", without being shouted down and shamed for even bringing the topic up.
>>8301216
If there were zero frauds and zero nutcases, pursuing this path would not risk all future income. The whiff of fraud is what contaminates fields of inquiry and taints people's perceptions of them - simply being very divergent from mainstream thinking only makes you seem a bit fringe because you're pursuing research in directions that look unpromising. It's only when a field begins to look wholly content-free or actively dishonest that it becomes *embarrassing* to be associated with it.
Parapsychology was once a fringe but fairly respectable field of inquiry, with some results that seemed hard to explain and thus were legitimately worthy of investigation. It accumulated its reputation as a field for kooks after the steady stream of fraudulent or botched research began to make it seem like everyone pursuing it was chasing phantoms, noise without signal.
Same goes for cold fusion - it wasn't crazy when Pons and Fleischmann announced it; it was the embarrassment of their announcement failing to replicate that tainted the field.
And frankly, same goes for UFOs. People took them quite seriously, once; but if you get enough examples where it seems like the evidence was faked or simply misidentified, it starts to look more plausible that the really weird, hard-to-explain examples are just more of the same.
>>8301216
>SJWs are stopping us from having discussions about aliens
Your fear of women is showing, anon.
>>8301189
>>8301198
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>>8302356
because aliens do not exist.
any argument to support aliens is usually theoretical math equations and faith that "they must exist" because the "universe is big" because some professors told you so. There is no evidence of extraterrestrial life. And then the argument goes to that "aliens maybe follow a code of rule of conduct" and that we could be "under observation" because "humans are violent". Its the same argument of creationism, except that creationism has more evidence supporting them, like DNA.
>>8301198
People can't talk about this subject seriously because of either the idiots who lie about them or the idiots who dismiss others based on the other idiots who lie about them. It's an endless cycle if you continue to justify the dismissal of any subject like this.
>>8301189
The CIA site also has material about UFO history.
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol10no4/html/v10i4a07p_0001.htm
"This material may not be suitable for all ages."
https://vault.fbi.gov/UFO
OP, can you read?
>>8301189
>This is imperical (sic) evidence,
No it is not. Have you even read the contents of the document outside of the red box?
>>8302427
>like DNA
>hasn't taken bio 1000