-=> Quoting Ivy Iverson to Matthew Scruggs <=-
 II> THAT I will agree with 110%!  There is NO DOUBT in my mind that
 II> it was _N-O-T_ any balloon from ANYWHERE!  The givverment HAS to
 II> know what it is, and has OBVIOUSLY been covering it up for over
 II> 50 years now!
   You're not exactly leaving yourself much maneuvering room. What
happens if somebody finds proof beyond reasonable doubt that it *was*
a Mogul balloon? Or are you just planning to ignore any new
information that might give you doubts?
 II> If it were some then-secret project, it would
 II> almost certainly have come out in the open by now, just as
 II> most/all the other stuff out of the black projects of that era
 II> have
   Let me see now...
   US GOVT: We confess. It was a secret project for spying on the
            Russians with high-altitude balloons.
   IVY: Keep it coming, I've got a garden to fertilize.
 II> so I do not believe that it was anything - military OR civilian -
 II> from our technology of 1947.
 II> In my mind, that only leaves one source for whatever-it-was,
 II> which leads to the virtually inescapable conclusion that the
 II> Givverment is scared s#|][ess that if they tell the truth about
 II> it, it will cause panic (and rioting) in the streets, because
 II> "the public couldn't handle the fact that 'someone else' _IS_
 II> visiting us!"
   Summary of Ivy's argument:
   I don't believe the government when they say it was Project Mogul.
   Therefore, it wasn't anything from America's technology of the
      time.
   Therefore, it could only have been aliens.
   Therefore, the Government is hiding aliens because it is afraid of
      how the public will react.
   I dunno... There seem to be a few holes in that argument...
 II> My _OPINIONS_ are my own, and may just be the ravings of a
 II> lunatic... but I don't think so.   ;->
   I agree with you there; I think "well-intentioned but misguided"
fits better.
Paul
... faster than a speeding ticket ...
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