Alien Visitations or Previous Civilizations by Walt Barrett

Introduction to our new topics.
   I would like to start off by saying that in my lifetime I have had two solid UFO sightings.  I did not have a camera handy either time.  One of them was at night and a photo would have been useless.  The other sighting was in broad daylight, but like I said, I did not have a camera with me either time.  My first sighting was in Rhode Island in 1945 and in broad daylight.  Two dart shaped craft flew right over our property at an extremely low altitude. They were totally silent and solid black in color.  My second sighting was in 1967 in Vernal, Utah at a campground on the west side of town.  The craft was a large black triangle the size of several football fields and flew right over us.  It blacked out the sky. We saw it approaching for several miles.  It had a very bright light on the point of the triangle shape.  When it got to the edge of town it went dark leaving only its huge silhouette in the semi darkness.  It never made a sound.  
   Any time  you turn on a TV today you can find a program about ancient civilizations, alien visitors, alien abductions, UFOs, SFO's, etc.  They are doing it to death.  The problem with the TV shows is that it's getting more and more difficult to separate the facts from the distortions, fiction and the fake photos from the real stuff.  This is especially true when the filmmakers do not clearly indicate that they are  reenactments.  The made for profit hacked out shows that repeat the same old worn out footage week after week have made it virtually impossible to believe anything that you see on the TV, or the Internet for that matter.  It's the old anything for a buck TV and the book/magazine for profit game.  One thing I know for sure is that when cash comes into play, science goes out the window.  Space Aliens are now an industry! Having said that I would also like to say that if people want to watch that kind of entertainment it's their prerogative, but remember that it is entertainment with no hard scientific evidence to back it up.
   So what do we really know?  Well hopefully, we know what we have actually seen with our own eyes in real time.  There is also the video footage from very reliable sources who have had nothing to gain by faking it.  There are many possible explanations to all of these mysterious sightings.  We are going to explore them all including the possibility that Aliens are indeed visiting our planet, but keep in mind that there are several other explanations possible including time travelers from our own planet's future, hidden civilizations in remote areas of the earth, parallel universes, or under the sea civilizations and inter dimensional space and time travelers.
   We will also discuss the fact that over the centuries there have been many individuals that have unexplainedly gained advanced knowledge far beyond their own time.  We will continue this conversation again soon and follow each subject to its logical conclusion.
To be continued.