Are UFOs real? And what are they?

Question

Why do people find it so hard to believe that there is other life in the universe?

Answer 1

i have seen a UFO -- it was something that i hesitate to call aliens b/c the implications are enormous. however, there are no other explanations for exactly what i saw...

Answer 2

I think ppl find it hard to believe that there is other life in the universe because it goes beyond their imagination and their understanding. A good example is when it was considered a fact that the Sun revolved around Earth and that our world was not only the center of the galaxy, but the universe as well! Any other explanations were considered hierarchy or insanity. Though science and discovery proved them wrong. Today, it is still the same, yet the questions are more vague and obscure. But the bottom line is that most ppl can only think within their own reality and anything outside of that would be considered ridiculous and absurd.

Answer 3

Unidentified Flying Objects. Of course they are real, but that doesn't mean they contain alien life or are from an alien planet. It simply means they are objects that fly and can't be identified. Most UFO's in the past have ultimately been identified, but there remain many instances where people have witnessed them and they remain unidentified.

People find it hard to believe because there is no proof. Same principal as life after death...you believe in it but you don't really know for sure. Given that our solar system is but one of thousands, it's probably that life exists somewhere else on a planet that has formed in a similar way to earth that can support life. And given that we have made many manned and unmanned ventures into space, it's probable that other civilizations have also ventured into space.

Answer 4

It is just human not to believe in UFO, what you see is what you get.Stop bothering yourself Leave the Sci-fi movie makers to continue tickling our imaginations for now.

Answer 5

people say they r and some say no it is a maybe what r they it is a ufo which has aliens

Answer 6

I don't know if they are real, but they are unidentified flying objects, and there are also unidentified submerged object. USO's,, and people believe that they exist in the Bermuda and Dragons triangle. many people say that they have witnessed these, but they could all be crazy, i myself, don't WANT to believe in these.

Answer 7

yes i belive in ufo's and they are circles dpace ships mostly area 51 knows alot about it i think i heard many people spreading rumours they have alien ships and test it out

Answer 8

can be can be not no one knows some say they are just some air force test planes being tested some actualy 'claim' to see 'aliens' but i think that they are not real............

Answer 9

A UFO or Unidentified Flying Object is any real or apparent flying object which cannot be identified by the observer and which remains unidentified after investigation.

Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but reports of UFO sightings started becoming more common after the first widely publicized U.S. sighting in 1947. Many tens of thousands of such claimed observations have since been reported worldwide, and it is very likely many more go unreported due to fear of public ridicule because of the social stigma created around the UFO topic.

In popular culture throughout the world, UFO is commonly used to refer to any hypothetical alien spacecraft but the term flying saucer is also regularly used. Once a UFO is identified as a known object (for example an aircraft or weather balloon), it ceases to be a UFO and becomes an identified object. In such cases it is inaccurate to continue to use the acronym UFO to describe the object.

Ufology is a neologism coined to describe the collective efforts of enthusiasts who study UFO reports and associated evidence. While ufology does not represent an academic research program, UFOs have been subject to various investigations over the years, varying widely in scope and scientific rigor. Governments or independent academics in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, and the Soviet Union are known to have investigated UFO reports at various times. No national government has ever publicly suggested that UFOs represent any form of alien intelligence. Perhaps the best known study was Project Blue Book, previously Project Sign and Project Grudge, conducted by the United States Air Force from 1947 until 1969. Other notable investigations include the Robertson Panel (1953), the Brookings Report (1960), the Condon Committee (1966-1968), the Green Fireballs/Project Twinkle investigation (1948-1951), the Sturrock Panel (1998), and the French GEPAN/SEPRA (1977-2004) and COMETA (1996-1999) study groups.

[edit] Physical evidence
Besides visual sightings, cases sometimes have alleged associated direct or indirect physical evidence, including many cases studied by the military and various government agencies of different countries. Indirect physical evidence would be data obtained from afar, such as radar contact and photographs. More direct physical evidence involves physical interactions with the environment at close range—Hynek's "close encounter" or Vallee's "Type-I" cases—which include "landing traces," electromagnetic interference, and physiological/biological effects.

A list of various physical evidence cases from government and private studies includes:

Radar contact and tracking, sometimes from multiple sites. These are often considered among the best cases since they usually involve trained military personnel and control tower operators, simultaneous visual sightings, and aircraft intercepts. One such recent example were the mass sightings of large, silent, low-flying black triangles in 1989 and 1990 over Belgium, tracked by multiple NATO radar and jet interceptors, and investigated by Belgium's military (included photographic evidence). [5] Another famous case from 1986 was the JAL 1628 case over Alaska investigated by the FAA.[6]
Photograpic evidence, including still photos, movie film, and video, including some in the infrared spectrum (rare).
Recorded visual spectrograms (extremely rare) — (see Spectrometer)
Recorded gravimetric and magnetic disturbances (extremely rare)
Landing physical trace evidence, including ground impressions, burned and/or desiccated soil, burned and broken foliage, magnetic anomalies, increased radiation levels, and metallic traces. See, e.g. Height 611 UFO Incident or the 1964 Lonnie Zamora's Socorro, New Mexico encounter, considered one of the most inexplicable of the USAF Project Blue Book cases). A well-known example from December 1980 was the USAF Rendlesham Forest Incident in England. Another less than 2 weeks later, in January 1981, occurred in Trans-en-Provence and was investigated by GEPAN, then France's official government UFO-investigation agency. [7] Project Blue Book head Edward J. Ruppelt described a classic 1952 CE2 case involving a patch of charred grass roots. [8] Catalogs of several thousand such cases have been compiled, particularly by researcher Ted Phillips.[9][10]
Physiological effects on people and animals including temporary paralysis, skin burns and rashes, corneal burns, and symptoms resembling radiation poisoning, such as the Cash-Landrum incident in 1980. One such case dates back to 1886, a Venezuelan incident reported in Scientific American magazine. [11]
So-called Animal/Cattle Mutilation cases, that some feel are also part of the UFO phenomenon. Such cases can and have been analyzed using forensic science techniques.
Biological effects on plants such as increased or decreased growth, germination effects on seeds, and blown-out stem nodes (usually associated with physical trace cases or crop circles)
Electromagnetic interference (EM) effects, including stalled cars, power black-outs, radio/TV interference, magnetic compass deflections, and aircraft navigation, communication, and engine disruption.[12] A list of over 30 such aircraft EM incidents was compiled by NASA scientist Dr. Richard F. Haines.[13] A famous 1976 military case over Tehran, recorded in CIA and DIA classified documents, resulted in communication losses in multiple aircraft and weapons system failure in an F-4 jet interceptor as it was about to fire a missile on one of the UFOs. This was also a radar/visual case. (Fawcett & Greenwood, 81-89; Good, 318-322, 497-502)[14][15]
Remote radiation detection, some noted in FBI and CIA documents occurring over government nuclear installations at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1950, also reported by Project Blue Book director Ed Ruppelt in his book. [16]
Actual hard physical evidence cases, such as 1957, Ubatuba, Brazil, magnesium fragments analyzed by the Brazilian government and in the Condon Report and by others. The 1964 Socorro/Lonnie Zamora incident also left metal traces, analyzed by NASA.
Misc: Recorded electromagnetic emissions, such as microwaves detected in the well-known 1957 RB-47 surveillance aircraft case, which was also a visual and radar case; [17] polarization rings observed around a UFO by a scientist, explained by Dr. James Harder as intense magnetic fields from the UFO causing the Faraday effect. [18]
These various reported physical evidence cases have been studied by various scientist and engineers, both privately and in official governmental studies (such as Project Blue Book, the Condon Committee, and the French GEPAN/SEPRA). A comprehensive scientific review of physical evidence cases was carried out by the 1998 Sturrock UFO panel.[19]

Attempts have been made to reverse engineer the possible physics behind UFOs through analysis of both eyewitness reports and the physical evidence. Examples are former NASA and nuclear engineer James McCampbell in his book Ufology online, NACA/NASA engineer Paul R. Hill in his book Unconventional Flying Objects, and German rocketry pioneer Hermann Oberth. Among subjects tackled by McCampbell, Hill, and Oberth was the question of how UFOs can fly at supersonic speeds without creating a sonic boom. McCampbell's proposed solution of a microwave plasma parting the air in front of the craft is currently being researched by Dr. Leik Myrabo, Professor of Engineering Physics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a possible advance in hypersonic flight.