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Robert Bigelow convinced of alien visitation to Earth

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If he's spent "millions" researching this, I'm curious what that was spent on. Also, if he is so convinced and he doesn't care if people know, why wouldn't he publish his (very expensive) results? At the very least under a pseudonym?

"Also, if he is so convinced and he doesn't care if people know, why wouldn't he publish his (very expensive) results?"

My guess is that his "knowing" is emotion-based and at best his results are inconclusive.

The alternative would be that he has clear evidence supporting such visitation, and I find it difficult to believe that such a thing could be kept under wraps.

Personally, I don't care if Robert Bigelow believes in the Loch Ness Monster as long as his company can produce viable habitats for orbit and beyond.

Maybe he is thinking of something like waterbears and thinks he has evidence they came from somewhere else. It's the interviewer who brings up ufos. Also bigelow says et is "under our nose". If he is being literal I'd wager he is thinking of either some lower life form Or panspermia

The US government has been deferring all FAA UFO reports to Bigelow Aerospace for a while. So perhaps he knows something.

The UFO idea is the main cover for experimental stealth aircraft programs. So its probably just kind of his side business to hype that stuff as being real and take reports, to help the government out.

If not joke, source?

One source, not very official, but...

"The FAA confirmed to us that for years, it referred reports of UFOs and other unexplained phenomena to a company Bigelow owns. He told us he's had his own close encounters, but declined to go into detail."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bigelow-aerospace-founder-says-c...

R. Bigelow, just stop those god damnable red towers ok

Possibly crazy, but if so it's the good kind of crazy that we should be encouraging to see what comes out of it.

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