U.F.O.'s

[Snoogans]

I'm an aircraft nerd and I was an amateur astronomer when I was a kid, so I've got a pretty good idea of what most lights in the sky should look like. I've seen a couple of mysterious lights - including one in daylight- and also one of those "Black Triangles". Like others here, I'm convinced that most of them are military aircraft. As Twisteramps said, the A12/SR71 was operational in '61, your F-117 is a child of the '70s, and the B2 was in development in the '80s, so WTF have they got these days?
However some reports are so "out there" that maybe there are others coming in from somewhere else...

[Extant]

I don't believe in UFOs. Mostly because if I was an alien, I'd have better things to do than fly around totally conspicuously on a (comparably) hideously low-tech planet and anally probe people. Unless, of course, it's the alien version of getting drunk and joyriding.

Same reason I find ghosts highly skeptical. If I was a ghost I'd abuse my intangibility to go around and spy on naked chicks or manifest in guitar stores and steal shit. Not hang around all day in a decrepit house or toilet and go 'whoo-whoo'.

[dd3keegs]

We would have to be pretty arrogant to think that we are alone. As Carl Sagan says "There are billions and billions of Universes...." The thing that creeps me out is how far advanced these beings must be to master interstellar travel. I bet Einstein would just love to pick their brains for a while if he were alive today. Makes you wonder. Do you think the general public would be able to handle the fact that we are not alone...and we are not the top dog on the food chain? Bedlam would probably ensue.

[CharvelRocker]

I don't believe in UFOs. Mostly because if I was an alien, I'd have better things to do than fly around totally conspicuously on a (comparably) hideously low-tech planet and anally probe people. Unless, of course, it's the alien version of getting drunk and joyriding.

Same reason I find ghosts highly skeptical. If I was a ghost I'd abuse my intangibility to go around and spy on naked chicks or manifest in guitar stores and steal shit. Not hang around all day in a decrepit house or toilet and go 'whoo-whoo'.

I'm an aircraft nerd and I was an amateur astronomer when I was a kid, so I've got a pretty good idea of what most lights in the sky should look like. I've seen a couple of mysterious lights - including one in daylight- and also one of those "Black Triangles". Like others here, I'm convinced that most of them are military aircraft. As Twisteramps said, the A12/SR71 was operational in '61, your F-117 is a child of the '70s, and the B2 was in development in the '80s, so WTF have they got these days?
However some reports are so "out there" that maybe there are others coming in from somewhere else...

+1.

[shreddermon]

Also agree with the military aircraft connection. That probably explains a lot of sightings. That and drugs.

I also agree that the universe is just too damn big for us to be all alone out here. But that doesn't necessarily mean I believe that we've actually been visted by aliens or had our sphincters prodded by them. The universe is only so old, and they could be just as @ss-backwards as we are, technology- and developmentally-wise.

So I guess that I'm open-minded enough to believe that it's possible. But I'm highly skeptical that it's actually happened. I have yet to hear a credible experience and/or see true proof.

[nateb]

Good information here....

-Nate

[Cleveland Metal]

If I was an alien, I'd have better things to do than fly around totally conspicuously on a (comparably) hideously low-tech planet and anally probe people. Unless, of course, it's the alien version of getting drunk and joyriding.

Bwahaha... Too funny...

Yeah, it's like "Hey, lets get drunk and go "anal probe" some humans!" Prolly some sort of hush hush jollies for teenage aliens.

"Honey, the neighbors called and said Zor went over to earth again and was doing bad things to those humans, I think it's time we grounded him from the spaceship for a bit till he gets some manners"

Just face it kids. We're an alien ant farm.

[OnlineStageGear]

Also agree with the military aircraft connection. That probably explains a lot of sightings. That and drugs.

I also agree that the universe is just too damn big for us to be all alone out here. But that doesn't necessarily mean I believe that we've actually been visted by aliens or had our sphincters prodded by them. The universe is only so old, and they could be just as @ss-backwards as we are, technology- and developmentally-wise.

So I guess that I'm open-minded enough to believe that it's possible. But I'm highly skeptical that it's actually happened. I have yet to hear a credible experience and/or see true proof.

I think the last estimates put the universe at around 16 billion years.

[shreddermon]

I think the last estimates put the universe at around 16 billion years.

I know. And look how far we've come.

[fett]

Ah, poppycock. If there were ET's out there and they had the ability to book a flight to Earth, they would have been all over South Florida and other garden spots. They would be like the" Coneheads". Or the" War of the Worlds". Or something in between. Like Britney Spears.

[ABSOLUT CHARVEL]

Alien Probe: I don't want to talk about it .....

[finnman]

[Alvin_Wilson]

What about the depictions of space crafts in paintings hundreds of years old? Even thousands of years old found on some cave paintings?

Alvin

[delt]

> Just face it kids. We're an alien ant farm.

My point of view is: WHO. THE. F¤¢K. KNOWS.

Maybe all life on earth is the end result of some kind of genetic experiment conducted by superior beings from another planet? Or, maybe time travel will actually be possible some day, and these are actually our descendants from the future? (assuming we don't blow up the planet and all kill everything on it first)

Hey, maybe Jesus was an alien disguised as a human? Unlikely, but possible - if he/she/it ever existed that is =)

As for UFO sightings occuring more often in north america/europe, maybe other people see UFO's and interpret them as a manifestation of the god(s)? and maybe they're not too far from the truth?

We only have 5 very limited senses. Who knows?????

[delt]

^ Reading what i just posted, it reminds me of a song by Chris de Burgh, called "A space man came travelling".... anyone heard this song?

"When two thousand years of your time has gone by,
this song will begin once again... to a baby's cry."