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the "footsteps" were meteor debris. Beining in a scared state; the rest of the story is an invented hallucination due to the adrenaline fear. Or it's a Hoax. Then the group dynamic takes over; "well if you say you saw something; then I must have seen something too in the shadows" Then the media gets to work, with it's terrible journalists....
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Well, like 90% of us did
Jacoby365
(516 posts)Regarding this story. Including this New York Post video.
StClone
(11,869 posts)A kid makes an alien claim and it is picked up by click-bate artists who posted it for revenue. Excluding George Knapp, is anyone who posts on the internet or makes a post on the internet a "journalist" now?
I have long suspected that George Knapp walks too close to the edge and often misleads about Area 51, Bob Lazar, aliens, ufos, and other phenomena to be trusted.
The problem with this video here is it gives the impression that UFO and alien reports are much like this incident, a hoax or similar yarn. They are not.
Jacoby365
(516 posts)the teenager is lying because his dad was wearing a robe and therefore could not have been in the yard earlier when the incident happened. The teenager, Angel, posted a video of the entire family (the father was fully dressed) in the backyard looking through the gate into the back lot. They were all clearly frightened by what they were seeing, or by what had happened.
StClone
(11,869 posts)There may be more to this story IF you uncouple the meteor/meteorite occurrence from the incident. The circular print should be disassociated from the observation of the alien sighting also seeing it was just an assumption later proving incorrect. Which, there again, does not mean they did not see something.
Not to say the kid and family could not be mistaken, but they could have really had an encounter. Cops often write off these occurrences without proof. Tracks and other witnesses would have helped, not to mention images.
Without more info, the NY Post vid wins the debate as smug as it is.