Steve, sorry for being a party-pooper and perhaps my reasoning is biased, but why so many people affirming to having seen aliens and rests of aliens, for decades, but no Alien is really showing up?
Maybe there is a reason for that, maybe it's all a hoax, I chose to apply a healthy dose of skepticism until irrefutable proof is provided.
But you cannot seriosuly say that a picture from somewhere proves anything. We can just choose or not to make that leap of faith and believe that it is a proof. We have a legitimate right to believe anything, yet to prove something is a totally different issue.
Mccoy some of my ‘experiences’ were not always seen as beneficial by some one that you and I may believe together as ‘proof’. I remember asking for a consultation with Brother Bhaktananda and when we sat down at the Hollywood Temple, I asked him about a personal experience I had been having….
I had a girl friend who regularly saw ghosts and spirits. At first I was somewhat skeptical and wondered if she might have been experiencing hallucinations, as you mentioned….
Steve, these facts are very rare, so when they happen people tend to rationalize and discard them as hallucinations.
For example, I who have always been receptive to the supernatural, only had a couple of experiences that went beyond the laws of physics, in my whole life.
I asked the Brother about such experiences and if her common spirit friend who always seemed to be around was real. He replied slowly; “yeess” and i was rather surprised by his response which was so affirmative and then asked; “What should I do about it?” And as usual he had an answer for that as well…..
He said that ‘such spirits should be encouraged to move on since they, like us, will be leaving this material world when we pass away.’ Implying that their progress was not beneficial to stay on here.
