Friday, January 11, 2008

No, You Are Stupid

Ha, had to use that title, especially since it was so fitting.

The CIA released their site search data. And topping the list...'ufo'. hey, at least 'area 51' came in at #20.

November, 2007:

ufo: 2115

korea: 1517

iraq: 1507

December, 2007:

ufo: 1831

korea: 1705

brazil: 1606

Of course the CIA are no dummies, 'Intelligence', so they wisely capitalized on this topical interest by creating a Nav item and special section called 'UFOs: Fact or Fiction'

You can also learn more in this long piece 'CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90', yes authored by the CIA. Notable quotes:
An extraordinary 95 percent of all Americans have at least heard or
read something about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), and 57 percent
believe they are real.

the Air Force soon concluded that UFOs were real but easily explained
and not extraordinary. The Air Force report found that almost all
sightings stemmed from one or more of three causes: mass hysteria and
hallucination, hoax, or misinterpretation of known objects.


UFOlogists had long argued that, following a flying saucer crash in New
Mexico in 1947, the government not only recovered debris from the
crashed saucer but also four or five alien bodies.

Yes, thats a word:
u·fol·o·gy (yōō-fŏl'ə-jē)

n.
The study of unidentified flying objects.

[UFO + -logy.]

u'fo·log'i·cal (yōō'fə-lŏj'ĭ-kəl) adj., u·fol'o·gist n.

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