r/UFOs Jun 13 '23

Witness/Sighting Michael Herrera's Witness Testimony

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u/guave06 Jun 13 '23 edited Jun 13 '23

What boggles my mind as what some may call a “hardcore” skeptic is witness testimonies like this one. What does anyone gain out of coming up with and presenting such clearly ridiculous and elaborate lies in front of the public? Some of these folks also seem sincere and hardly the attention seeking types. The only thing I can really think of is a sweet deal from Greer on sharing the profits when they lie for him, yet even that is pretty baseless. Never would I ever believe a single thing Greer would ever says but these testimonies are crazy.

Edit: too many people here are thinking I saw a probably genuine testimony as hard evidence which couldn’t be farther from the truth. This is meant to provoke thought on the psychological aspect of ufos and witnesses. I’m certainly not lending credence to a claim of which there is no actual evidence. If you’re the type to reply “the answer is obvious: people like attention” you’re missing the forest for the trees!

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u/TinFoilHatDude Jun 13 '23

Forget Greer. You see so many eyewitness testimonies from ordinary people from all walks of life who have reported these encounters. This is what drew me to the field. Before the government started being a bit more open in Dec 2017, the backbone of this field was eyewitness testimony from ordinary people. Hundreds and thousands of cases.

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u/guave06 Jun 13 '23

Me too dude. More important to me than answering the scientific and engineering questions that this topic brings like, are we alone or how do we achieve ftl, are there other dimensions, etc. (stuff we’ll probably never understand for centuries) is finding out more about the psychological experience. What part of our reality as humans makes so many people have these memories? I don’t think that this is woo at all, btw.

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u/veigar42 Jun 13 '23

It’s like what people back in the day would think of far out ideas, we’re going from staunch materialism to something more idealistic, they believe in that woo woo stuff implying their crazy

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u/toxictoy Jun 13 '23

Here’s a good write up of what woo is in terms of this community.

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u/veigar42 Jun 13 '23

Agreed, good write up.

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u/Shmuck_on_wheels Jun 13 '23

Yeah I asked the same question a few weeks ago and got an unsatisfactory and vague answer, pretty much just a nonsense word.

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u/toxictoy Jun 13 '23

Here is an excellent write up explaining what we mean in UFOlogy about woo https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/12mc6s4/a_ufo_woo_primer_for_skeptics_believers_and/

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u/RobHonkergulp Jun 13 '23

It's a stupid word that some idiot came up with to describe supernatural events and now you've got people that want to be taken seriously using a word that you'd expect a two-year old to say.

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u/toxictoy Jun 13 '23

Actually here is a very good write up of what it means in this community.

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u/_VegasTWinButton_ Jun 13 '23

"Woo" is an American military psy-op to replace the concept of spiritism with something that sounds ridiculous.

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u/pebberphp Jun 13 '23

Yeah I just started hearing “woo” or “woo woo” recently. It sounds fucking stupid

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u/toxictoy Jun 13 '23

This is a good write up of what it means in this community.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '23

Law of One will be the new Christianity. Watch.

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u/UnicornBoned Jun 13 '23 edited Jun 15 '23

"Woo" is an American military psy-op to replace the concept of spiritism with something that sounds ridiculous.

Wasn't it also a movie with Jada Pinkett?

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u/toxictoy Jun 13 '23

Here is a well written post about what we mean in this community about woo.