{"id":18,"date":"2007-04-30T06:35:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T14:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/wordpress\/?p=18"},"modified":"2007-06-11T05:03:02","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T13:03:02","slug":"ufos-over-mexico-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"UFO’s over Mexico City?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently saw a show on the travel channel which mentions a sighting of UFO’s by millions of people in Mexico City during a solar eclipse<\/a>. They also mentioned that there were about 17 videos of the object, and one was shown. It would make sense to see lots of reports if a UFO was visible near some prominent event in the sky. On the surface, this sounds like an important sighting and possibly worthy of belief. It actually reminded me a lot of the Miracle of Fatima<\/a>, which was also seen by many people at once, and which I believe is a convincing miracle.<\/p>\n

So I thought I’d look into it a bit further. I was a bit disappointed to discover that the UFO sighting is easily explained and is the result of low quality videotaping of Venus<\/a>. Certainly it would be nice to believe the little green men are out there. Fortunately, however, I have not heard any particularly convincing debunking of the Fatima Miracle. Here is a brief summary of interesting characteristics of the Fatima event:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Sun was seen to dance in the sky, change colors, etc.<\/li>\n
  2. The time of this “sign for unbelievers” was foretold by the visionaries, but they did not reveal what was to happen. People did not know to look toward the sun.<\/li>\n
  3. 70,000 people witnessed the event.<\/li>\n
  4. Atheists who came to heckle the believers were converted on the spot.<\/li>\n
  5. The visionaries also predicted the onset of WWII (there is some slight controversy here, regarding the exact dates)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Friends of mine who don’t believe in God, however, think that the Fatima event should be explained by UFOs. So this story has a nice circular quality.<\/p>\n

    The interesting point here is that my standards for evidence (the ones that I used when considering Fatima) seemed to apply in another area, and that caused me (for a short time) to reconsider my general belief that aliens have not visited the Earth. I hope some of you out there give similar consideration to the Fatima story.<\/p>\n

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