Now that France has opened its UFO files and the former Governor of Arizona has admitted that he, too, was a witness to the unexplained phenomenon of 1997 - which they tried to blow off to avoid public panic - how do we explain that SETI has, apparently, heard nothing?
2007-04-02 11:21:30 · 6 answers · asked by Sels 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Hi,
SETI is attempting to identify and locate extraterrestrial signals...so far without (we are told) success.
UFO's by their very name are unidentified. many 'sightings' have been explained and subsequently identified and merely become added to the 'evidence' of those who do NOT believe there are other beings in our universe.
Many, of course remain 'unidentified' and are subsequently added as 'proof' that such beings DO exist.
Governments in several countries, including the USA, have suppressed evidence of alleged sightings. The reasons, or possible reasons for this are legion.
Perhaps there really IS evidence of extraterrestrial life and they don't want us to know.
Perhaps the sightings are military craft being tested that they don't want us to know about.
Perhaps there really are extraterrestrials here already and it is THEY who are suppressing the 'evidence'...perhaps?
There are a lot of 'perhaps's' few people 'know' and maybe no-one knows, so...you take your choice.
Keep looking,
BobSpain
2007-04-02 11:39:39 · answer #1 · answered by BobSpain 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you know how huge space is?
For every grain of sand on the PLANET there are a MILLION galaxies, all the size of our own Milky way. With the resources that SETI hasn & the fact that if aliens decided to contact us thier signal will take time to reach us, we can only really say that a tiny percentage of just the Milky way (a tiny percentage of 1%) doesnt have alien life trying to contact us in a way that we would recognise.
I read somewhere that if only 1% of the stars in our galaxy had planets capable of supporting life, 1% of those planets had life on them, 1% of those life forms are developed into sentient life forms, 1% of those are civilised & 1% of those are as or more developed than ourselves, there would be over 100000 such in the milky way.
The numbers & percentages are on an unbelievable scale.
Our first radio broadcasts will have only just reached the nearest star, so if there are alien civilisations out there, they probably dont know that we are here yet to be able to send us a signal back.
2007-04-02 11:43:29 · answer #2 · answered by gimbert 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just because France opened files an a politician saw something he didn't understand doesn't mean we have people from outside the earth doing wheelies in our skies. SETI has just not heard anything yet.
2007-04-02 11:27:08 · answer #3 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a HUGE difference between being a "witness to the unexplained phenomenon " and actually finding extraterrestrial life.
2007-04-02 11:26:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there is nothing to hear, at least that we are able to recognize. None of the evidence in the UFO files actually suggests that extraterrestrials are involved.
2007-04-02 13:12:06 · answer #5 · answered by Astronomer1980 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
UFOs are unidentified. The idea that these are spaceships from distant civilizations out among the stars is an unwarranted conclusion.
2007-04-02 11:29:23 · answer #6 · answered by cosmo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋