Agree/disagree: Lack of evidence doesn't mean there weren't alien landings in Roswell, New Mexico?

Answer 1

In addition, lack of evidence doesn't mean that we don't share the world with six-foot-tall invisible badgers.

Answer 2

Disagree: Lack of evidence means that there were no alien landings.

What confuses this issue is that something did happen there, there was a lot of activity and rumor and conspiracy theories flourished.

So many of the eye witnesses may actually have seen something weird, or something normal but interpreted it as weird, or over time convinced them selfs that it was weird.

Given a few more paragraphs, we could draw similarities and contrasts between both the life of Jesus and Roswell but that's beyond the scope of this question.

Answer 3

Actually, your question is a Pascal choice. In fact, there is too much evidence from both sides at the time of the occurrence, but the military carried away all the physical evidence and what was left was witnesses and releases to newspapers and radio news that began in one way and were proclaimed wrong by the military. In this situation government statements trumped eye witnesses.

We will probably never know the truth. There have been a number of requests for the remains of whatever physical evidence the military have to the public domain. The military has refused. Why? We will never know.

Answer 4

Agree - of course lack of evidence doesn't exclude the possibility. It is very possible yet highly improbable. Taken how bad the US government is with covering up anything, I cannot believe they would be able to cover a true alien landing so sufficiently.

Answer 5

Believing that there were UFO landings in Roswell in the absence of evidence is only a posibility for the extremely paranoid and super suspicious. Without evidence and without some plausable reason for evidence to be absent, it would take a looney to think the reverse is true.

(I wonder how many you'll find with this question... It looks like two so far.)
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Answer 6

Agree, though it was Corona, not Roswell. The debris and corpses would have been taken to Roswell AFB, and the recovery of them would have been performed by personnel from there.

Answer 7

That's a lot of double negatives in there, but yeah, it's true.

But the burden of proof always lies on the one making the extraordinary claim.

If you claim you live in Texas, and I have no evidence to suggest otherwise, I might accept your claim because it's a normal, everyday occurrence.

But if you claim aliens visited you in Texas, even if I have no evidence to suggest otherwise, I have no reason to accept your claim until you provide evidence, since this is an extraordinary claim.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Answer 8

Can't prove a negative. . .in fact your question may be a triple negative? Can you prove a triple negative?
In any case, if an alien space ship crashes in the desert and no one collects evidence, that doesn't not mean that the ship may or may not have crashed and/or not made any noise.

Answer 9

That's like saying lack of evidence doesn't mean there aren't invisible people all around us.

You need to take some logic and critical thinking courses.

Answer 10

I completely agree. What good ever came from limiting what one thinks to satisfy someone elses idea of logic. If I had a penny for each and every idea, circumstance, or event that is deemed impossible by the nay sayers to all thing unproven then I'd be a multi millionarie. Anything and everything is possible. I'm living proof of the adventure!