But the marker is now one of at least 15 that say, without hesitation, that aliens have come to visit Earth.

They join more than 180,000 other historical markers dotting the country’s landscape, and NPR found they wouldn’t be the first to claim something that may, or may not, be true.

There’s a marker in Massachusetts that claims the town was once home to a real, live wizard. New York has a marker about a ghost that plays the fiddle on a bridge in the moonlight.

  • Philo@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    UFOs are real and I’ve known that since I was a child. I am surprised that NPR involves itself with this bullshit article though. The U stands for UNIDENTIFIED and if they are claiming they are alien, that would mean they have been identified and are not UFOs.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      You do know that’s not what most people mean when they say UFO, correct? Not everything is thought of as its literal meaning.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          8 hours ago

          Do you also argue that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a democratic republic? Was the German National Socialist Worker’s party actually a socialist worker’s party?

          Or do maybe sometimes people not use the literal meaning of things even if they are capable of thinking critically?

          In fact, I would suggest that the critical way to think about this is to accept that sometimes people use terms to mean things other than their literal meaning.

          • Philo@lemmy.caEnglish
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            8 hours ago

            Actually, the critical way to think about this is to keep the subject on UFOs not to change it. That is why the name has been changed from UFO to UAP.

              • Philo@lemmy.caEnglish
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                7 hours ago

                I’m not policing it. I’m saying it’s wrong. I can do that and I did do that. If you think that’s policing, I don’t have any idea what to tell you.