Ever see a UFO?

Kele wrote:

But it's also foolish to discount how ridiculously unlikely the development of life is, especially to the extreme level that we have on this planet.

Even if there is life elsewhere, not only would it be improbable that they would be close enough to reach our planet, but it would be just as unlikely for them to pick us as a target. I don't think there is a whole lot that would distinguish our planet from others when you're scanning from light years away. Yeah we have some man-made radiation floating around, but none of it is of a high enough intensity or in a direct enough fashion to be noticed very easily from huge distances.

Back on topic though, I have not seen anything that could have been considered a UFO.

They may have picked our planet because it was the first one found with life on it. well to be more precise intelligent life. its unlikely yes but could very easily be the reason.

Forget UFO's

The real topic should be USO's - Unidentified Submerged Objects. Thats real scary. There are just as much stuff on this topic as UFO's ... I saw a documentry about it on the History Channel

Of course that doesnt mean its true just because I saw it on TV

When I lived in rural Georgia in the Appalachian mountains, I was abducted and anally probed by aliens. It was a frightening experience. The aliens had amazing technology: they were able to transform themselves to look just like my neighbors, Billy Joe and Bobby Rae. Their spaceship was an amazing replica of the toolshed behind my house, and their probing implement was a spot-on imitation of an ordinary garden hoe.

With such sophisticated technology, it seems like it would be impossible to ever catch one of these aliens. I agree with others that the government may be involved.

Lots of things can fool us into thinking we've seen evidence of extraterrestrials. What is a UFO to one pair of eyes is readily identifiable to another. Here are a few stories of mine.

Just after dark one summer night, I spotted an ink-black triangular shape hovering about 30 degrees above the horizon. It seemed motionless for awhile, then it quickly moved forward with a jerky, pausing motion. Then it stopped for awhile and actually began moving backwards in the same lurching fashion. It never moved up or down; always forward or backward. I was only 12 years old and thought for sure this was an alien spacecraft. I was really getting excited about it when I felt a rush of air from something whizzing by my head. The triangle shape was still there. It wasn't that that had buzzed me. I ducked and thought "They must have spotted me watching them and they're sending tiny spy thingies toward me!" Then I had the idea that "they" might actually be flying those little spy thingies and "they" were teeny little creatures! After all, whoever said super-intelligent aliens had to be any bigger than a man's thumb? Maybe we could squash them if we ever caught them! There it was again! That whizzing thing next to my head. I ducked again and ran away. I was really freaked out about this UFO experience ... until the next day when I saw a kite - that's right, nothing but a lousy kite - flying close to the same spot I had seen the UFO. It might not have been the same kite, but I knew right away that what I had seen really was a kite. It was just too dark to identify it and it never crossed my mind somebody would be flying a kite at night. What had buzzed my head then? A bat, I'm guessing. It was summer and I had seen bats overhead from time to time just after dark. It was probably just a coincidence that one whizzed by my head while I was watching this "UFO."

Then there was the time I saw a meteor that had broken up as it careened through the sky and it looked exactly like an extremely fast-flying cigar-shaped craft with a bright "cockpit" light at the front and several "windows" following the main light. Of course, the "windows" were just trailing fragments of the meteor. This also could have been misidentifed as a large craft with some smaller crafts following it, since a couple of times the smaller fragments seemed to move slightly closer to and farther away from the central trail of the meteor, giving the impression they were being "steered" to stay in the group. It really did fool me at first, and I thought it might be a plane crashing, but it was moving way too fast and the smaller lights moved around a bit. Plus it all fizzled out in the sky within a few seconds, the smaller bits burning up first.

On another cloudless night, I was lying on my back looking up into the sky for no reason. Just by chance, I focused on a section of sky that contained a tiny dot of light that I thought was a faint star. But as I stared up at that area for several minutes, I got the impression that the one dot had slowly creeped a bit compared to the surrounding stars. After a few more minutes, I was sure of it. The dot had shifted position relative to the other objects. I figured it couldn't be a conventional aircraft. It was at least 20 times too slow-moving to be a plane unless a plane was somehow flying at several hundred miles altitude. I also chuckled at the thought that if this was a sighting of some extraterrestrial craft, it was about as boring as one could be. Then the obvious dawned on me. I was probably looking at a communications satellite that was positioned above the Earth and the motion it seemed to show was only that of the Earth rotating, so the satellite looked like it was moving at "mid-day shadow speed" among the fixed stars.

On still another occasion, I saw a blue-green fireball shoot silently across half the night sky at a low trajectory and disappear somewhere on the horizon, only to "rise" again and fly off into the sky. This was probably a large meteor that gave the illusion of landing and rising when it neared the horizon, owing to the greater refraction of light nearer the horizon than directly above.

Since it is near impossible to prove a negative, I'll leave the burden of proof to you, so I'll take your bet. Now prove that life exists on other planets.

xcrunner34 wrote:

They may have picked our planet because it was the first one found with life on it. well to be more precise intelligent life.

And what exactly is it about our planet that would suggest to any aliens that it is inhabited by intelligent life? Internet message boards?

Asterix wrote:

And what exactly is it about our planet that would suggest to any aliens that it is inhabited by intelligent life? Internet message boards?

haha its definitly the message boards...

well like that guy said before about how they can possibly age much slower and live to be much older, maybe they were just out takin a stroll in their ships and came across earth with some life on it...

im not saying they definitly come here or they even can yet but im saying its not impossible by any means. i think we can all agree its nearly impossible for there to not be life anywhere else in the universe. but as far as them having enough technology to fly huge distances(ie. their planet to ours) thats a little more unlikely. and as far as them picking our planet more unlikely. but it isnt impossible. yes many of the stories, actually most of them, are more likely made up then true. but what if a couple are true. i believe they are out there but i dont believe in things like the x-files.

I never used to, until that I watched that blockbuster documentary "Men In Black". That was all the proof I needed

We not only know about them, we ARE them. Remember I invented the internet and I will save the earth.Your pal, AlP.S. I was born 9 months after Roswell. I have a sister named Hillary Clinton who was born a bit premature but we have amazing technology to save our young. One day, when you earthlings can handle it, you will be illuminated.

they are out there wrote:

Yeah I believe in them, that the government knows about them and that they are all over the places, probably a lot more infiltrated on earth than most people know.

I saw one getting pimped out on "PIMP MY RIDE" today. But a few channels down they were showing the new 2008 model thats U shaped. Much better! Pretty cool stuff.

Art Bell wrote:

So do those little green people ever talk to you? I bet you still believe in Santa Claus too.

Yes of course. No, don't be stupid.

When I was a young child I was out playing in a field about 200 meters away from my house. It was me and next oldest brother, I think we were playing with Matchbox cars or something. So all of a sudden it was like the air all around us came to a complete an utter stop, almost like we were in a bubble. I also got a strange feeling like if I wanted to yell something that no one within earshot would've heard me....I can't describe this feeling well enough though. Then I noticed a shadow directly where we sat getting fatter and fatter as if coming down upon us. When I looked up I saw something out of this world. I was maybe 6 yrs old at the time but somehow I knew this thing was not "from here" and I just sat, staring...frozen with fear. That's when things got weird. As I peered into a window on this thing I saw Bigfoot driving and right then I knew this shit was a hoax cuz there aint' no such thing as Bigfoot!