Revisiting My UFO Video Post
It's getting pretty close to a year since I captured some unknown object on film in S. Philly using a camcorder I had just received as a gift to film the birth of my second child.
After looking over the footage, I decided to put it up on YouTube partly because I was just really learning about YouTube but also because it was a free video hosting site and I figured if I was going to post it anywhere where it might stand a chance of actually being viewed more than three times via this site, YouTube was the place.
I'm glad to state today that since I posted it on YouTube on May 30th, 2006, it has been viewed almost 24,000 times, favorited 17 times, embedded at four other sites aside from this one, has had a relatively steady 3 out of 5 star rating, and has accumulated 125 comments to date, with many of them being my responses to those who have commented themselves since I keep both a keen eye to it's status since it's a true account of what I saw but also because I enjoy seeing what people have to say (for the most part) and feel it's my honor to reply.
So why am I writing about this? Well, there's a number of reasons.
1. For some reason, there's been a flurry of comments on the video recently and I can't explain why. I don't know if more people simply have been searching for UFO footage or what but...they keep coming.
2. I'm reading this article about Former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington saying that 10 years ago, he saw mysterious lights in Phoenix, AZ. and believes that what he saw was extraterrestrial.
3. France is making 3 decades worth of UFO research, including police reports, witness sketches and maps publicly available. That in itself is pretty cool.
Reading over the comments on my video is pretty fun, actually. You've got your die hard UFO fans, people who don't know what's really on the video and are willing to speculate on possible ideas, including weather balloons, birds, clouds, and/or some truly Unidentified Flying Object, and your regular assholes who want to call me names and scream fake, all while typing in a mix of capital letters and misspelled words.
I don't know what I saw that day. I wish I had taken better footage of it but since it was a new camcorder and I'd never really used one, it was the best I could manage at the time. Oddly enough, I recently got a comment which read:
Try holding the camera still next time...
The only reply I could come up with was:
Right-o! I'll remember that...
"next time..."
At least I was being honest, right? I mean...how often do you see something that you cannot explain, yet are able to get on camera because you just so happen to have a camcorder available, and subsequently make it available for all to see? All the time right?
Sigh...
Do I believe in UFO's? Sure, why not? Does it make me crazy? I don't think so, not when probably half the population of the Earth believes that some 2000 years ago, a man named Jesus was crucified and yet somehow rose from the dead three days later after being staked to a cross and left to die and that's just...
...perfectly acceptable?
That Jesus talks to people and that his father, an omniscient being that created everything everywhere, watches over us from Heaven which is...someplace...above us (I think) and that Jesus, while he was still alive, went around walking on water and performing miracles like curing blindness and still manages to be very real to people today, although no proof of his existence after his death exists except in the hearts and minds of those who believe in him who can simply state that he's all around us and that they feel his presence.
I'm not saying their wrong. I'm just saying if they have a basis to make those claims, then so do I with regards to the existence of UFOs.
Yet here's a question for all the naysayers. If tomorrow, UFO's with little green men and big heads visited major cities around the world, declaring they come in peace and want to help and learn from mankind, and all that other mumbo-jumbo, would that verify the existence of higher beings than man?
Or would it simply verify further the existence of God to those who believe in God since they believe that God created everything anyways.
If God created us, the Earth, the universe, all that...
...wouldn't he have also created the aliens too?
There's some food for thought. So I'll just repost the video here and you can watch it yourself if you haven't seen it already. If you want to leave a comment on the video itself, please hit the YouTube link if you have a login for YouTube. Otherwise, drop a comment here. Or drop a comment on both, if you want. Either way, enjoy the clip. It's just over 3 minutes long, shaky for roughly the first half as I keep losing sight of and reclaiming the object in the sky, and including a top notch Vietnamese (I think) band that happened to be playing in the background.
Enjoy! :)
