Why do most people with AS believe in UFOs?

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07 May 2009, 1:15 pm

I can't stand it when someone throws an object and as it's in the air you can't quite make out what that unidentified object is flying past your face but once it lands, it's quite obvious that it was a ball or some household object.



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07 May 2009, 1:43 pm

I beleive in UFOs primarily because any object in the sky that isn't readily identifiable is classified as such. As for aliens with advanced technology coming to earth to mutilate cows, make 'grain grafitti' in the form of crop circles, and anal probe the populace.... Well that's a wee bit of a stretch.

There certainly is life in the universe, most likely it is quite abundant. I would think that intelligent life should prove a much rarer find, but most certainly there are many intelligent civilizations.

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07 May 2009, 2:40 pm

Earth is actually a hot tourist spot for extraterrestrials from different galaxies. They come here to check us out, because of curiosity. Wouldn't you do it if you discover a planet with other life? If you are way ahead technologically than then, would you study them, or destroy them?

We may also be in some kind of reality show, maybe we are part of pop culture in some uber alien civilization.

Maybe the universe is already conquered, though we don't know it, we actually live under something's ruling, and they keep or send a couple of crafts now and then to check us out. I

Think about this. The universe is infinite, or at least very very big. History doesn't start when humans appear, the universe and evolution of life have existed for millions of millions of millions of years on other planets all over the universe. They have evolved, been destroyed, conquered. So it's not weird of a species is controlling the universe already, a species we call GOD.



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07 May 2009, 3:22 pm

I don't believe in UFOs. There might be life on other planets (possibly) but I don't see why we think they'd have UFOs.


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07 May 2009, 4:42 pm

Life on other planets is possible. I'm not going to deny a possibility like that. Why would I? What do I have to gain by saying, "There is no life on other planets"?

What I do know is my own personal experience, shared by my older brother. We were both heading outside during the summer to sleep. Always great sleeping outside on a hot summer night! What we saw, we both have talked about several times over the years and our stories are both fairly similar. As we headed out a large circular object (how large I cannot accurately remember, but not extremely large, maybe as wide as 3 regular helicopters) with your stereotyped lights (I remember them mostly being on the bottom) came down from the sky. It was actually very close to us, probably no further than 30 feet, almost above our heads. It made no sound at all, at least none that I or my brother remember. It hovered there for a few seconds, then moved over to our neighbors house, and hovered there. After a few moments there, it went up, towards the forest we lived near, and went out of sight flying over a hill.

Now, I don't know what that was! Either some kind of government technology or alien spacecraft or what! How could I know though? There are a lot of things that go on without my knowledge. All I know is after that, for years when I slept outside, I would stare intently at the sky waiting for more.

Nowadays, I don't care. I saw what I saw, but I'm not looking for more. What will happen will happen!


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07 May 2009, 5:32 pm

hermanChess wrote:
Think about this. The universe is infinite, or at least very very big. History doesn't start when humans appear, the universe and evolution of life have existed for millions of millions of millions of years on other planets all over the universe.


It's a bit more complicated than that. The universe hasn't been especially complicated - or at least not as complicated as it is nowadays - for all that time. The heavier elements - basically, everything except the very lightest elements - are formed only in stars and dispersed into the universe (broadly speaking) only when the star goes kaput. The proportion of elements needed for life (in any form even vaguely resembling our own) has only been "right" for a fraction - admittedly, still billions of years - of the age of the universe; however, while life was pretty quick to take advantage of this in the only example we know - call it a billion or so years to get started - it then took another three billion years before we ended up with the internet. Our development as a species has been quick enough, but getting to the point where we started was paralysingly slow, and if there are other species "out there" that are like us they've had to go through the same process: wait many billions of years for a place to form with the right mix of elements, wait a billion years for life to start, wait another few billion years for evolution to work... the universe isn't necessarily filled with aliens just because it's big and old. :)

(It's my personal hope that it is filled with aliens, because that'd be so cool. I'd love (as would any scientist) to see decent, concrete evidence of aliens, FTL travel, antigravity drives and so on, so if any Reticulans are reading this, please come visit; leave your probes at the door, mind.)


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07 May 2009, 5:33 pm

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UFO’s are not something you can believe in or not believe in. Anything a person sees in the sky and is unable to identify is a UFO, even if is a bird or balloon or something


I don't believe in aliens atm, but I did see something very creepy once. I was looking out the window, and there was four orange lights floating in formation in the sky, in a rhombus shape. Me and my family went out and looked at them, and after about a minute they just dissapeared. Weird



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07 May 2009, 6:23 pm

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I have something interesting to add for those of you who want to do some research on UFOs.

In the USA (I can't speak for other countries here), the first mass UFO sightings occured around the 1890s in the midwest, western states. People would report seeing an inflated kind of craft with a gondola underneath it. Some people said they would see a ladder drop and a man descend the ladder. Interesting is that in twenty years, airships came into being as passenger transportation.

In the USA in the 1940s many people saw UFOs that looked like saucers. Interesting again is the fact that the military was working with a saucer shaped flying craft (though it was never said to fly well). Hollywood also portrayed UFOs as saucers.

In the USA in the 1950s-1960s, many people saw boomerang shaped UFOs with lights. Again, interesting because this was the time the military was working with the "Flying Wing" which became the Stealth Bomber. (Work on the Flying Wing, which was thought to be a good passenger aircraft idea, may have begun in the 1940s).

Now, many people see individual orbs of light that behave erratically. Could we be seeing military experiments?

For those who believe in alien life, it could be that the military gets its ideas from other worldly places.

Well...it is fun research.

I heard this once about Area 51. Suppose they are testing top-secret experimental aircraft. What better way to get the curious people to quit trying to spy out these experiments than to spread a rumor that Area 51 is working with crashed alien craft? The public then turns their attention on alien cover-ups rather than experimental military aircraft.


I didn't hear about the airship deal, but the US said there WAS no area 51! Still, most airships require a group of people to restrain it, and their description sounds good and reasonable.

TO THIS DAY area 51 is officially its own country and doesn't exist! Various maps show it as a black spot, and US environment and other laws DON'T affect it! Thanks BILL CLINTON! EVENTUALLY they at least acknowledged that it is known as groom lake and AREA 51. The US STILL denies anyone even the ABILITY to LOOK. Montel williams CLAIMED that it was garbage and that he had TOP LEVEL clearance, and said he would go there. He was turned away at gun point!

Anyway, The sr 71 was RUMOR! The stealth bomber was RUMOR! When they where first released, they WERE UFOs! In fact, the Stealth bomber is NOT invisible on radar! It merely looks like a flock of birds, so people misidentify it. HEY, how will people react to the SR75?



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07 May 2009, 8:19 pm

Emor wrote:
Inventor wrote:
There is no such thing as UFOs.

We are the only life in the entire Universe.

They are not green, they are gray.

You can't say that without any certainty.
There's already a lot of evidence saying that life was(and maybe in the future is[http://google.com/virgle/]) sustainable on Mars, due to high levels of methane which can only be explained by living organisms.
Also, if they 'don't exist' then how can you specify what colour a non-existent object is?(You can't).
EMZ.


I think Inventor was joking.


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