Do you believe in UFOs?

Question

You still believe in them?
No one doubts that there might be extraterrestrial life, but how can they get here....isn't it impossible?

Remember guys, I forgot to mention that the universe has been created to forbid us to do interstellar travel. E=mc^2 just kills all my hopes of UFOs and that thing about opening wormholes b/c space is not flat and it is streched , cmon.... might be possible...but sounds way too weird to manipulate it.

Answer 1

There are many problems with stories about extraterrestrial aliens and UFOs. “UFO” means “unidentified flying object” and all that means is an airplane that has not been identified, a bird or an insect, a cloud, a balloon, a bit of paper or perhaps something else. It is well known to police and many other investigators that eye-witness accounts can be unreliable.

Though about 250 planets have been detected outside our solar system, none of them appear to be suitable for life as we understand it, they are mostly too large and too close to their stars.

Biologists hypothesise that even if life develops on some planet, it does not have to go past the bacterial stage. It stayed that way on Earth for more than a billion years and multicellular life forms are actually recent here by geological time. That means that among the planets that do have life, the chances of any of them having anything smarter than fish or cows could be low. Even intelligent extraterrestrial aliens might still be in a stone age like we humans were for most of our history. So a space faring civilisation may be very rare. This could mean that any space faring civilisation on another planet is likely to be an extremely long way away.

There is no clear way of traveling at speeds close to that of light. So a space ship setting off from planet X which we will say is relatively close at 70 light years away, could take well over 350 years to arrive here. This would be at the expense of an enormous amount of energy. That might not be a problem to very advanced beings with very long life span, but it might be.

The first strong reports of a UFO incident are from Roswell, 60 years ago. Before that there were sightings of odd things in the sky, here and there, sometimes identified with “airships” and so forth. There are no reports of mass sightings by people in towns and cities across the world, not only in the past 60 years, but in all of recorded history. Any beings capable of crossing 70 light years could have detected any of the Earth’s cities in the past 2,000 years if not longer. But the biggest groups to have reported something rarely number more than 12 people.

Now if you were an intelligent extraterrestrial alien and had crossed 70 light years and taken 250 years to do it, then found a civilisation with farms, towns, roads, radio, aircraft and so forth, would you mess about in isolated areas or would you head for the nearest town of any size and report your presence? It would not have to be Washington or Paris, it could be Peoria or Glasgow or any of thousands of fair sized towns around the world.

UFO conspiracy buffs often go on about the US and some other governments hushing up visits from extraterrestrial aliens. They forget that there have been hundreds of sightings from people all over the world and not every government is capable of hushing these things up, especially for ten, twenty or more years.

The stuff about UFOs and aliens is so improbable that it is impossible to "believe" in it.

Answer 2

No, I don't believe in things that require faith, and thus far, without hard, incontrovertible evidence, it's entirely a matter of faith.

Yes, there might be extraterrestrial life.

Whether then can get here is another issue. If they can, we'd better be careful - they would be far more evolved than us. If so, they might be coming to us from a solar system far older than ours, and perhaps getting close to the end of its useful life. And if that's the case, they might want our planet and not be willing to share it with us in our present state, they might decide we need extermination. Now wouldn't that be a scary situation?

Answer 3

Only short sighted people can believe that something is 'impossible'. Other planets can be billions of years ahead of us in technology. To think that 100 years ago, people said that manned flight was impossible. Never dispel what can be accomplished by anyone, any race, any culture.

Einstein even contemplated the 'worm hole'. A culture of beings with billions of years of a head start could easily be able to bend, stretch or even tear the fabric of space and time.

Answer 4

I believe in them. However, I don't think they've abducted people from earth. People who say that tend to be crackpots. I do think, though, that they've visited the earth. If space is as old as they say it is, and life is as easy to make, they've probably visited the earth thinking to terraform it, like we plan to visit other planets someday to terraform them-looking for planets we might survive on. Who knows-we might even be descendants of aliens who terraformed the earth a long time ago.

And while it's impossible for US to leave our planet, that doesn't mean it's impossible for THEM to leave theirs. They could be far more advanced than we are, and certainly would be able to visit other planets. It's concieted to assume we're the only creatures in an infinite universe.

Answer 5

I can't "believe" or "disbelieve" in something that is logically ridiculous.

If a group of aliens have mastered interstellar travel, don't you think they would have better things to do than appear to us in grainy photographs and abduct us for anal probing?

If they WANT us to know about them, they probably would have revealed themselves with a lot more certainty. And if they don't want us to know about them, they would probably have the technology to be completely invisible, and at least have the decency to erase an abductee's memory after an anal probe.

Answer 6

Have you googled UFO sightings...how can you not believe so many witnesses???? When I saw the shuttle take off on tv just now....I thought "That's impossible !"...but look at all the witnesses!!!!!.

Answer 7

I believe theres life out there , but it's on the same level as us . So I can say that no , I don't believe in UFO's

Answer 8

i don't think so. there are all kinds of conspiracy videos on the net that discuss the advances in technology and how a lot of it has come from extraterrestrials. i see it as they are the jetsons and we (earthlings) are neanderthals.

Answer 9

I saw one when I was a kid. No one believed me because I was...a kid. It was floating around in my backyard at night. My brother and sister witness it too. Nobody believed us and we lived in Dallas, TX!!!

Answer 10

Yes, and there is probably more to them than we know.