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Beliefs about alien visitation, and specifically why it's considered to be a pseudoscience, these ideas.
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So the popular beliefs are that ufos are actually alien beings visiting the earth, flying around, aliens in spacecraft, visiting the earth.
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There's also a belief that aliens have visited the earth in the past is a secondary belief and very popular shows based on ancient aliens.
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And going with that idea is that they left us technology.
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So let's consider why these ideas are considered pseudoscience.
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So remember that a pseudoscience is based on some observations.
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So there is some observations.
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There's usually some wording that goes with that sounds like somebody knows what they're talking about or is an expert in some scientific field.
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And of course, the observations that go with the alien visitation are ufos themselves.
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No one denies the existence of ufos.
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And people have been collecting evidence, so to speak, on things in the sky that cannot be explained.
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So no one will deny that there are things called unidentified flying objects.
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I think the latest term is unexplained aerial phenomena, uaps.
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So whatever you call them, there are things in the sky that appear to move and we don't know what they are.
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What is true is, number one, many of them have been explained.
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Many of these phenomena have been explained either as natural things, such as venus, mars, planetary phenomena, meteors going through the sky.
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Many of them have even been explained by normal human craft, such as balloons, the infamous weather balloon idea, or kids launching rockets, or kids just playing around with funny things that they can maneuver in the air.
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So that's the thing to realize is there is still a subset, though, that has been unexplained.
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But what has not occurred is evidence that the unexplained objects are associated with aliens...