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They edited it to make me sound uncertain about what I saw. That's worth a formal complaint to the BBC, honestly.
Grace G. in Personal Encounters 4 months ago thumb_up 4
Or - and hear me out - when something sounds genuinely daft, humans naturally react with skepticism?
linda_wilson in General Chat 4 months ago thumb_up 1
Have you got the article? Could probably put together a proper detailed post here with the actual information.
Rory R. in Sightings & Reports 4 months ago thumb_up 1
Which podcast, if you don't mind me asking? Want to make sure it's not one of the dodgy ones before you go on it.
Yuki H. in Personal Encounters 4 months ago thumb_up 1
This is exactly why I've never gone public. The moment you let mainstream media have your story, you lose control of it. They'll twist it however serves their narrative.
RetiredSoftwareDeveloper in Personal Encounters 4 months ago thumb_up 1
That's rough, mate. Radio and telly need to sensationalise or dismiss - anything in between won't work for their format.
Sandra E. in Personal Encounters 4 months ago thumb_up 2
The US government admits it can't identify objects in its own airspace and flies around them. That would be catastrophic if it were any other military threat.
Avery V. in Alien Contact & Abduction Accounts 4 months ago thumb_up 4
It's 100% institutional. News outlets get their credibility from being seen as rational and serious.
Leeds Seeker in General Chat 4 months ago thumb_up 2
Why aren't this bigger news? Because the mainstream media has spent 70 years ridiculing UFO believers, and now they'd have to eat humble pie. Easier to ignore it and hope it goes away.
I've noticed something over the years and I'm wondering if anyone else has clocked it. Whenever - and I mean whenever - a news outlet covers anything paranormal-adjacent, the presenter does this...
Ash J. in General Chat 4 months ago
Because they don't care about accuracy - they care about a good story. And "local man sees something he can't identify" is less interesting than "local man nearly hit by mystery object" or...
Jonesy731 in Sightings & Reports 4 months ago thumb_up 5
Right, so I submitted a report of a sighting I had near Whitby on the North Yorkshire coast about three weeks ago. Thought it was interesting enough to share, nothing too dramatic.
I've done three podcasts and they've all been brilliant. Podcast audiences are genuinely interested in the subject rather than wanting entertainment value out of it.
Daisy Carter in Personal Encounters 4 months ago thumb_up 4
Had a meeting with a producer from BBC Radio Suffolk about my encounter on the Mendips in 2019. Thought it might be nice to get the story out there, raise awareness, maybe get other witnesses...
Sofia U. in Personal Encounters 4 months ago
I watched it too. The important bit for me was the question about recovered materials. That's not just «we see things in the sky» - that's «we have physical evidence.» If that's true, it changes...
full creative input on how it's presented Get that in writing before you record anything. "Full creative input" is vague. Does that mean you can veto the edit?
Blair C. in Personal Encounters 4 months ago thumb_up 2
Because the average person doesn't know how to process it. If a government official said "we've found aliens," that would be massive.
There was coverage of the latest US Congressional hearing on UAPs (they'll never call them UFOs, will they) on Sky News yesterday morning.
The Mandela Effect thing is genuinely weird though. Not every false shared memory is explained by confirmation bias. Some of them are genuinely strange.
Rosie O. in Simulation Theory & Reality Glitches 4 months ago thumb_up 3
BBC's job is to present things as normal and explicable. They'll never seriously engage with simulation theory or reality glitches because that's outside the Overton window.