UFO Sightings

If they come they will be coming for a better life and their no doubt rich cultural heritage can only serve to benefit America.

Once they have been here 5 years, if they pay a fine and back taxes I support amnesty for our intergalactic friends.

I saw the Larry King episode as well and thought that they seemed very credible. I personally haven't seen a UFO before, but I've heard too many stories from seemingly credible people (the governor of Arizona being one) to discredit the whole thing. I'm sure over 90% of the sightings are either bogus or can be explained, but the sightings that can be corroborated from multiple independent, seemingly credible eyewitnesses are the one's that I find interesting.

Are aliens out there? You betcha. The universe spans 90 billion trillion miles. Our planet is just one of many (probably billions) of terrestrial planets in our galaxy alone, and there are billions of galaxies in the universe. New planets are being discovered almost daily now and we are learning that our sun is a pretty ordinary star. Our planet (and the building blocks of life)was made from the same matter that other planets were made of.

Yeah but how would the aliens get here? Seriously, everything right now that we know about science tells us that is impossible. In order to go at the speed of light you have to have no mass. And even at light speed, the trip from the closest planet would take years. It is highly unlikely that we will ever see an alien. End of story!

a little prespective.

The universe has 300,000,000,000 galaxies.

Our galaxy has 200,000,000,000 stars (solar systems) in it.

Do I think aliens exist? Yes

Do I think they've found us on this planet? No

Alien life probably won't be as exciting as everyone makes it out to be. People always use the size of the universe as reason for their existance, but remember that size is also a limiting factor in their ability to search if they've even gotten off their own planete. Alien life will be a few microbes here and a few there. Nothing like what you'd expect.

Souper Tuesday wrote:

People always use the size of the universe as reason for their existance, but remember that size is also a limiting factor in their ability to search if they've even gotten off their own planete. Alien life will be a few microbes here and a few there.

I agree that based on everything we know today that it is incomprehensible how aliens (if they exist) could find us, but I don't know why you would think alien life will only be a few microbes here and there. All of the conditions that are here on earth led to the evolution of man. With the number of planets out there, why don't you think there would be lots of other planets out there with similar conditions and complex evolved life?

When I think about it, I really, really want there to be life out there but I'm just not certain and, of course, there's really not a way that we can be certain. The creationists biggest argument about life on earth is always something along the lines of "the probability of evolution happening is so unrealistic..blah...blah...blah...ad infinitem." But, you know, it kind of makes sense. I'm an atheist, but I do think agree that the chances of life developing elsewhere in a similar manner to that on earth are slim to none. The odds are simply incredible. I don't know and I'm always willing to see other sides of the story. This is just something I've been thinking about lately.

Perhaps aliens are time-traveling humans from the future, the products of millions of years of evolution. [cue the Twilight Zone music] They'd have to be kept secret to avoid the butterfly effect.

Hillrunner33 wrote:

I agree that based on everything we know today that it is incomprehensible how aliens (if they exist) could find us, but I don't know why you would think alien life will only be a few microbes here and there. All of the conditions that are here on earth led to the evolution of man. With the number of planets out there, why don't you think there would be lots of other planets out there with similar conditions and complex evolved life?

I don't think there are other Earth's like the one we're on with abundant life for several reasons. Mostly though the conditions that are present on Earth are quite unique. I think people assume that other planets should be similar. However look at our own solar system. Mars is the closest thing to Earth and life couldn't live their under present conditions. Most planets of the universe either orbit REALLY close to stars making temperatures uninhabitable, or are large gaseous planets. Basically the mild temperatures, the perfect orbit, the necessary life supporting elements, water (which seems to be rare), and the perfect gravity to keep the proper atmosphere to not freeze the planet, but not allow a large quantity of sunlight through....all tell me that the chances of this exact thing occuring somewhere else are slim. Life on Earth was almost destroyed millions of years ago with the extinction of the dinosaurs. The same "Earth" planets would need all of the exact requirements and would've had to survive at exactly the same time frame. I just think it's unlikely to find weird evolved beings on another planet, microbes, maybe.

There might be life out there somewhere but it might not even be anything we'd recognize as life, so ...whatever.

I did not see the show being discussed here but I have seen other shows by allegedly reputable newsd outlets exploring the UFO question and have been nowhere near being convinced by any alleged UFO sightings. I mean, lights in the sky that you cannot explain might just be lights in the sky that you cannot explain, you know?

Agree that it's unlikely, certainly most planets that are being discovered today are either too close to the sun or gas giants (some several times the size of Jupiter), however when you consider that the number of planets in our universe is likely over a trillion, it seems like there could be some planets conducive to life, perhaps even more than earth.

Life in other galaxies does exits and has contacted us - it would take thousands of years at the speed of light for species from the closest possibly inhabitable planet to reach us, so, without the use of worm holes, etc, how do they get here?

Answer: They don't. They've transmitted holographic images of space craft etc to communicate their existence to us, hence the lack of hard evidence...this is my theory and you can read more in detail when I'm published.

UFO's have been an issue since 1947 or was it 1948. Google 'Kenneth Arnold' and you'll get all the info you want.

UFO sightings go back to ancient history.

If UFO's do perform abductions I have a list of people for them.

The debate over the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life is an interesting one. Read a bit into the Fermi Paradox if you haven't heard of it.

Not likely wrote:

Yeah but how would the aliens get here? Seriously, everything right now that we know about science tells us that is impossible. In order to go at the speed of light you have to have no mass. And even at light speed, the trip from the closest planet would take years. It is highly unlikely that we will ever see an alien. End of story!

First, UFO does not equal aliens.

Second, if UFOs came to the U.S. and have been repeatedly seen here, how come they never stop to say "hello," ya know? How come they never freaking stop long enough to engage contact?

Good post; it's an incredibly astonishing mix and match of the just right conditions that created earth and hence humankind as we know it -- even considering the unreal number of stars (suns) and probably planets that are out there, the likliehood of our circumstantial happening being replicated somewhere else in the universe is very unlikely.

We're unbelievably lucky SOB's to be experiencing the here and now on earth within this universe at this moment in time. Tru dat.

Now I need a shot of whiskey...

Hard to say how much life is out there when we're still getting stronger telescopes and finding exoplanets. No matter how much there is though, they're incredibly far away. It's hard to think they could travel here. If they can, they have insane technology. With it, they would decide to destroy us, or help us. Both things requiring contact.

I remember one show about UFO's talking about the increased sightings over military bases and how they must have an interest in those matters & technology. Or... maybe the UFO's are From the military? nah

There are no such things as aliens, ghosts, bigfoot, lockness monster, etc. and anyone who thinks otherwise is stupid.

Any alien being with the technology to travel all the way to earth would also quickly be able to tell that human life poses absolutly NO threat to them and would make obvious contact.

Think about the military angle:

When I was much younger, a group of friends and I saw a UFO at dusk. It was the real deal - flying saucer and all. Absolutely blew us away. We weren't the only ones to see it, either: there were reports in the local news for several days of people seeing things at dusk.

Fast forward a few years, and there was our "UFO" in Popular Mechanics: a vertical take-off design tested and abandoned by the Air Force.

Oh, and yes, we lived only a few miles from an active Air Force base.

It was amazing how many triangular UFO's were seen in the 80's; how many of them do you think were 'stealth' fighter tests?

If you want to believe in UFO's, you are going to have to solve some very difficult engineering and physics issues. Relativistic space flight is a pretty big hurdle to overcome.

Something is going on in the sky. Hard to deny that.

phoenix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhAQrR8Jhkk

Mexico

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvWRrf__XA

Japan Government spokesman - UFOs definitely real

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=3436

Personally, I wonder at times if it's the spiritual realm involved. Satan, demons?

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/5977/gord/ufo.html