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·        What did you learn about the topic that most surprised you?

o   – I learned that the Navy Pilots support the movement for belief in UFOs and alien life.

·        Provide a real-life example of how this topic is relevant or interesting for you.

o   – this topic is interesting to me because of my personal belief in extra terrestrial life.

·        Which research did you find most interesting?  Why?

o   – the videos showing UFOs or what are believed to be was interesting to see what reactions people had.

·        What are you most likely to remember from this research?

o   – that everyday we are working closer to find the trust behind alien life.

·        Having completed all the course content, which pseudoscience belief do you think is most harmful?  Which is least harmful?

o   – Confirmation Bias is the most harmful pseudoscience belief because it depends on one person not being able to listen and feeding false information to society. Patternicity is the least harmful pseudoscience belief because it is something that will always happen even without any prompting it will never change, we have all looked for patterns in our lives whether its looking at clouds seeing a face or a rock formation and seeing something familiar. Patternicity helps us recognize things we might not have before.

·        If you could pass on your knowledge to a family member or friend, what do you think is the most important thing to pass on?

o   – never doubt what you see follow your instinct don’t let authority or a word of one scientist change your beliefs further your learning and make the decision on your own.

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Description: This picture shows a glowing ball of light going across the sky in the middle of the day. The people seeing this called it a UFO.

Connection: the connection to this picture and reason for belief are Unexplained and Agenticity. The reason I believe this picture connects to the Unexplained is we can’t tell what this is by just looking at it its an unexplained energy. To me I would say it is a meteor. That is where Agenticity comes in others assigned the meaning of this to be a UFO, where I have assigned it to be a meteor to make sense of what I believe it is and that’s all we can really do when we see things we do not understand. We do the same thing with sound sitting at home we hear a noise and we say it’s the house settling to make ourselves feel better because every other possibility isn’t as good of a feeling. This is why I believe Unexplained and Agenticity capture this picture.

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Description: This picture shows a black square flying through the sky and has been said to be a UFO

Connection: The connection to this picture is reason for belief Patternicity. The reason I believe the connection between this picture and reason for belief is Patternicity is the sightings of UFOs are a widespread phenomenon it also spreads like a virus when one person claims to see a UFO more follow. This is why it connects to Patternicity when more and more people see the same imagine in different objects around the world when none of them connect except on one level, they all read a story on a possible UFO sighting. This is why I believe this picture relates to the reason for belief Patternicity.

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Description: This picture shows an encounter with and unidentified flying object and a Navy Pilot.

Connection: This picture connects with the reason for belief Agenticity. The reason it connects with Agenticity because it is an unidentified object that no one knows what it is but it was given the meaning of being an alien aircraft or UFO. We do this so we can understand what we see and maker sense of it without making sense of what we see we can sometimes go a little crazy. This is why I believe this photo to connect with Agenticity.

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Description: this video is Bill Nye talking about the Navy pilots seeing UFOs and how it may be the Marines messing around with there gadgets but the two do not always communicate about one and other are doing.

Connection: the connection to this video is red flag Conformation Bias and reason for belief Unexplained. The reason I believe this video connects with the red flag Confirmation Bias is Bill Nye undoubtedly says its not a UFO even with other facts out on the table he only talks about opinions that benefit his side of the story. This is what happens when someone is Confirmation Bias, they dismiss any possibility of the other sides truth to make their argument stronger. Reason for belief Unexplained connects to this video because we are not sure what the Navy Pilots saw Bill Nye could be right the Military does not always tell the pilots when they are testing something, so it is hard to know for sure what it truly was. Being that the Navy Pilots are under tremendous pressure even when just testing planes it is a dangerous job, so the eyes can sometimes play tricks on us in certain situations. A situation where a pilot encounters something unknown can be nerve racking so saying it is a UFO to try to explain it is a logical option. This is why I believe the red flag Confirmation Bias and reason for belief Unexplained connect with this video.

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bill nye's explanation for strange ufo sightings - cnn video

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Bill Nye's explanation for strange UFO sightings - CNN Video

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With UFO sightings by Navy pilots back in the news, Brian Stelter asks Bill Nye what might be going on. Nye says "it's probably one part of the military not telling the other part of the military what they're up to, for a good reason."

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Description: this video shows glowing balls of light in the sky in the middle of the ocean with no land in sight. People that have seen this video believe them to be UFOs, but the government has said it was a missile test.

Connection: this video shows connections to a red flag and two reasons for belief in the same way. The red flag being Suppression by Authority’s and the reasons for belief being Agenticity and Patternicity. There are many factors in this video the reason I believe Suppression by Authority to be a component in this video is because not long after this video came to fortition the government came in and said it was just a missile launch. This is them changing the view on the glowing lights in the sky to set an impression on people that it is missile with there authority it also goes into Patternicity with them suggesting the lights are missiles it puts the imagine in peoples minds and that shifts the belief away from UFOs. Agenticity comes into play with the assumption that the glowing lights are UFOs no one can confirm or deny it but the first person to see them had no clue what it was, so it was assigned the meaning of being UFOs to explain what it was. This is why I believe the red flag Suppression by Authority and reason for beliefs Agenticity and Patternicity sum up this video very well.

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The video posted on YouTube Sept. 28 shows several lights hovering in the sky around sunset off North Carolina's Outer Banks. The original poster claimed they were UFOs, but others have suggested they might be military in origin.

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Video of glowing orbs off N.C. sparks debate over UFOs | Watch News Videos Online

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The video posted on YouTube Sept. 28 shows several lights hovering in the sky around sunset off North Carolina's Outer Banks. The original poster claimed they were UFOs, but others have suggested they might be military in origin.

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Description: this video shows US Navy Pilots encountering an unidentified flying object or UFO very shocked with what it was it also shows US President Donald Trump shutting down the belief of UFOs

Connection: the connection to this video is red flag Suppression by Authority. The reason I see this connection is during the video about halfway through the US President Donald Trump is in the video saying he does not believe in anything that he has read or seen connected to the incident. It also touches on the reason for belief Confirmation Bias from Donald Trump being presented with lots of information and not really taking it into account what his own soldiers have seen and what they as eyewitnesses have seen instead, he dismisses them and the idea of UFOs on national television. Lastly, I think it hits the reason for belief Agenticity perfectly with and unknown object the US Navy Pilots made it out to be a UFO of Alien life without any proof, giving meaning to something they know nothing about. This is why I believe red flag Suppression by Authority and reasons for belief Confirmation bias and Agenticity fit this video perfectly.

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us navy confirms ufo videos are the real deal - cnn video

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US Navy confirms UFO videos are the real deal - CNN Video

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The US Navy has confirmed that certain UFO videos made public over the past several years do indeed show "unidentified aerial phenomena."

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Description: This website talks about the authenticity of UFO sightings, after several years of debate the Navy Pilots have come forward saying the existence of UFOs is true.

Connection: this website is using the red flag Appeal to Authority as a way to give a definitive answer and credibility to the answer that these UFO sightings indeed happened. I believe the navy seals that confirmed this are believers that UFOs do exist and took to the biggest platform they could in the middle of a debate that had been going on for many years. This website also falls under the reason for belief Perception and Observation. The reason being that navy seals are under tremendous amounts of pressure everyday in their line of work that seeing something flying around could have been anything, but the mind plays tricks on us to make us think we see something not there or twist memories into fiction. Therefore I believe the red flag Appeal to Authority and reason for belief Perception and Observation capture this website.

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UFOs are real: US Navy confirms existence Photo: Reuters

The authenticity of UFO (Unidentified Flying Objects) sightings has been the topic of much debate for innumerable years. Now, it has come forward that the existence of UFOs maybe true and the US Navy confirms it.

Yes, you read that right.

According to a report in Huffington Post, the US Navy confirmed the authenticity of a series of three videos about UFO sightings recently. Reportedly, the videos which were leaked over the last two years should have not been made public the Navy said.

The spokesperson for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, Joseph Gradisher told Black Vault, a website dedicated to exposing secrets and revealing government documents, "The Navy designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP)."

The military goes with the term UAPs instead of UFOs as UAP "provides the basic descriptor for the sightings/observations of unauthorized/unidentified aircraft/objects that have been observed entering/operating in the airspace of various military-controlled training ranges," Gradisher said.

In one of the videos, which were made public, two pilots can be heard talking about spotting an unidentified object flying off the East Coast in 2015. Now it has come forward that the object in it may have been a UFO. In fact, one of the pilots can be heard saying in the video "Wow! What is that, man? Look at that flying!" in the video.

In the second video, a Tic Tac shaped object was spotted around the coast of California in 2004 descending from 60,000 feet to 50 feet in a matter of seconds. It even created a disturbance on water which was the size of a football field, the report said.

This is the first time that the existence of UFOs has been confirmed by the navy with an official statement.
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UFOs are real, videos should never have been released: US Navy

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UFOs are real: US Navy confirms existence Photo: Reuters The authenticity of UFO (Unidentified Flying Objects) sightings has been the topic of much debate for innumerable years. Now, it has come forward that the existence of UFOs maybe true and the US Navy confirms it. Yes, you read that right.

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Description: this website talks about the now-famous Nimitz UFO encounter and the Navy Pilots publicly speaking that UFOs are real.

Connection: the connection between this website and Reason for belief is Agenticity. The Navy Pilots working the test run in 2004 had no idea what was around them or what they had encountered so they assigned meaning to it by calling it a UFO something to explain what had happened without truly knowing what it was. I also believe it falls under the reason for belief Pattericity. Once one navy seal came out and reported it to be a UFO more followed saying they themselves believe that to be true when they might not have until it was brought up. This means once the idea of it being a UFO was brought up they to saw it which is a regular occurrence with UFO sightings once one is seen more and more people come forward saying they to have seen a UFO. This is why i believe Agenticity and Patternicity to fit this website perfectly describing the reason for belief.

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(Image: © To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science)

Several Navy officers who witnessed the now-famous Nimitz UFO encounter in 2004 say "unknown individuals" showed up after the event and made them turn over data recordings and videos, according to Popular Mechanics.

For several days in November 2004, a Navy missile cruiser sailing around 100 miles (160 kilometers) off the coast of southern California detected strange radar signals emanating from an object in the sky. The signals were erratic and didn't seem to match those given off by known aircraft. The Navy then deployed fighter jets to catch a closer glimpse of the strange object, and one succeeded in recording a blurry, black-and-white video that was, to the government's chagrin, publicly released in 2017along with two other videos of UFO sightings from years later.

Five Navy veterans recently spoke to Popular Mechanics about what they experienced at the time. The veterans were part of the Navy's Strike Carrier Group 11 and were sailing on the USS Princeton on a training mission prior to their upcoming deployment in the Arabian Sea.

The strange radar signals came from an object that would quickly change altitudes, sometimes lurking at 80,000 feet (24,000 meters) and other times hanging around at 30,000 feet (9,000 m), they told Popular Mechanics. The UFO (an "unidentified flying object," which doesn't necessarily belong to aliens) became known as "Tic Tac" because of its shape. Tic Tac gave off a phosphorus glow at night and would dart around in various directions, said one of the veterans, Gary Voorhis, who looked at the object through binoculars on the ship.

Voorhis recalled that sometime after the officers recorded these strange radio signals, two people showed up on a helicopter, and 20 minutes later, Voorhis' chain of command (a higher-up authority figure) told him to turn over the data recordings. His chain of command also told him to delete the recordings on the ship. "They even told me to erase everything that's in the shop - even the blank tapes," he told Popular Mechanics.

Similarly, Petty Officer Patrick "P.J." Hughes, who was an aviation technician, claimed that his commanding officer and two unknown men asked him to turn over the hard drives from the plane.

However, Cmdr. David Fravor, one of the pilots who got a close view of Tic Tac on a fighter jet, told a different story. In various past interviews, Fravor said the videotapes of the UFO disappeared - not because of any "men in suits" but because people had unintentionally recorded over them.

Fravor previously told The New York Times that he and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight spotted the object, which was about 40 feet (12 m) long. As they descended in the fighter jet, the object ascended to meet them but then abruptly veered away and disappeared, he told the Times.

The details of what happened in 2004, both in the sky and down below, remain ambiguous. To learn more about what these Navy witnesses had to say, read Popular Mechanics' original feature.
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Navy Officers Say 'Unknown Individuals' Made Them Erase Evidence of 2004 UFO Encounter

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(Image: © To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science) Several Navy officers who witnessed the now-famous Nimitz UFO encounter in 2004 say "unknown individuals" showed up after the event and made them turn over data recordings and videos, according to Popular Mechanics .

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Description: this website talks about what UFOs are from a technology standpoint and the fact that the g-forces for such a craft couldn’t be survived by someone with our biological makeup.

Connection: the connection to this website coincides with the red flag Mystical Energy being as it talks about the ability of UFOs and “such craft would have to travel at impossible speeds or with patience that staggers the imagination.” The fact is it is an energy we do not have the ability to measure yet with all the scientifically thoughts dedicated to finding alien life and discovering alien technology it still falls under the reason for belief unexplained. Red flag Mystical Energy and reason for belief Unexplained tend to go hand in hand with many anomaly’s in the world this being one with the amount of unknown variables the abilities of UFOs are still unknown to us so the measurements of energy and performance are truly unknown which is why Mystical Energy and Unexplained fit this Website perfectly.

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You glimpse a light in the night sky -- not a star, not an airplane, but something radically different. It moves with baffling speed, pulsates with radiance beyond anything you've witnessed. Three letters immediately enter your mind: U-F-O.

Technically an unidentified flying object can be anything when you get right down to it, but the term has become synonymous with extraterrestrial spacecraft. Alleged sightings began popping up in the 1950s and continue to this day throughout the world. Exact descriptions of alien spacecraft vary with each telling, but witnesses often describe a lighted object capable of hovering silently and zigzagging in midair.

The technology for such a craft and the ability for a living passenger to survive its g-forces are well beyond humanity's modern technology [source: Kaku]. Additionally, given the massive distance between habitable star systems, such craft would have to travel at impossible speeds or with patience that staggers the imagination.

What else does science have to say on the matter? Not much. From a scientific standpoint, there's insufficient evidence to make a case for alien visitation. Most UFO sightings depend on fallible human accounts, imperfect footage and conspiracy theory. All of this tends to crumble under the scrutiny of scientific method, humanity's best sieve for separating reality from fantasy.

After all, scientific inquiry hinges on something called the null hypothesis, which means the burden of proof is on anyone making a positive claim. A dog ate your homework? Great, where's the testable evidence? You saw an alien spacecraft? Excellent, let's test and validate the story.

In other words, it's up to so-called ufologists to convince the scientific world that UFOs are alien spacecraft, not for scientists to prove them wrong. Along the same lines, the scientific world doesn't go on the defensive every time someone sees a ghost. Even in the presence of testable evidence, perfectly terrestrial claims demand rigorous testing and a high degree of certainty in the results [source: Shermer].

Although the scientific world remains unconvinced, countless individuals continue to witness unexplainable things in the sky, sights that haunt or inspire them until their dying days. In rare cases, whole crowds glimpse such phenomena. What are we to make of such claims?

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You glimpse a light in the night sky -- not a star, not an airplane, but something radically different. It moves with baffling speed, pulsates with radiance beyond anything you've witnessed. Three letters immediately enter your mind: U-F-O. Technically an unidentified flying object can be anything when you get right down to it, but the term has become synonymous with extraterrestrial spacecraft.

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