If UFO's exist, wouldn't scientists be able to spot evidence in the solar system of strange sightings?

Question

all the sightings so far have been on earth, not in the solar system or galaxy. Surely if something existed it would be visible outside of Earth and not just in the sky.

I wish somebody would shoot a UFO and then we can really kick that alien butt.

Answer 1

Your question does make a lot of sense, especially for all of the technology we have today. First off, our planet is huge, physically speaking, even though it does not seem that way with planes, email, internet, etc. Being able to monitor what flies in and out of our atmosphere would be a huge task that no one really wants to deal with. As far as the numerous telescopes around the world, many are looking for a specific object or space in the universe. They are not just pointed randomly into space, at least the big expensive ones aren't. I am sure that someone, somewhere as spotted a UFO around our universe, but just dismissed it as a comet, meteor, etc. Maybe one day there will be proof though! How sweet would that be!

Answer 2

Has to do with the magnitude of the search area. A telescope can only see a small portion of the sky at a time. The odds of a UFO flying through that field of view while the scientist happens to be looking are extremely slim.

Way back before we had traffic cameras, there were practically no pictures of car accidents as they happened. Why? Because no one was focusing a camera at that very spot as it happened. Same thing about finding UFOs.

Answer 3

I disagree. It's a common misconception that we have satellites out in space just watching the space around Earth, we do not. Satellites that we have for observation are extremely expensive and sensitive equipment and so their resources are dedicated to a certain function. Trying to use the Hubble for example to focus in on the immediate area around the earth is impossible, the optical systems were not designed for this. If UFO's were in space the harsh reality is we would not see them. The only way I know of that a UFO in space could be detected is with the system that NORAD uses to track space junk and satellites (both domestic and foreign). And what are the chances that the military would ever admit to picking up a UFO buzzing around in Earth orbit?

Answer 4

If Extraterrestrial beings exist we should have some evidence of them, on the Earth (weird drawings on wheat fields are not), in space, or in other planets, but what have we found?
1, Mercury: desolation, craters and heat.
2. Venus: Heat, heat, sulfur acid rain, pasty volcanoes, and desolation.
3. Mars, rocks, deserts, valleys, emptiness, not a little doggy, not a little plant of Maggy. Just desolation too.
4. Asteroids: Rocks devoid of life as we know it.
5. Jupiter: Giant gaseous sphere but without a platform to set our feet on it. The same with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
6. Titan, the satellite of Saturn is an special case: It has lakes, it has mountains, but there is a tiny, little, slim different with Earth. The lakes are not formed by water, but by liquid methane. Imagine a lake of gas for your car!
The temperature is minus 230 degrees, so cold to be a statue.

7, At what about Pluto, little mischievous Pluto. Although its not a planet any more, we could descend on its surface and find: ice an desolation.

So, where are they? In other solar systems?
in other galaxies? underground? in space?
Where are they? Why the Solar System is NOT teeming with mercurians, Venusians, Uranians, and Plutonians. Why it has to be so?

Are we afraid to be alone. Surprise! We are alone in at least a 10 light years circle, maybe more, maybe 100 light years circle.

Answer 5

We actually dont need telescopes we have a wide range of listening scopes and they do cover most of the sky. All energy consumption puts off a noise on the atomic scale and we would hear it before we saw it, and to relate to the story of the user who witnessed a lite move too fast to be a jet then stop and go the other way. I saw it to in 1978 and it was followed by two jets that could not keep up or maneuver so well. I wouldn't say it was an alien though, the jets didn't fire or vear off when it flew right between them, they did however turn again to follow. Our gov. would love for us to believe we were being invaded, give them a reason to declare marshal law. What ever you see in the sky, if its not american made its euopean.

Answer 6

We are talking about scientists and astronauts here. These people are trained to recognise all the known objects in the sky. If they do see something that is currently unknown, the MOST likely explanation is proposed for it.

Compare this situation to what generally happens. Someone sees something in the sky that they don't recognize. Apparently, the tradition is to invoke the LEAST likely explanation. Ie it must be aliens come here to sharpen their proctology skills.

Perhaps when the general public starts travelling in space we will see more reports coming in from that realm.

Answer 7

Do we as the general population get all the information from organizations like NASA and the Air Force? I think not, and so we are left in the dark on many many subjects because of National Security reasons. There have been sighting that have not been explained and some of the explanations offered do not measure up. For instance the crash in Roswell, NM was explained as weather balloons. I don't buy that for one minute.

Answer 8

Most UFOs are rather small. It would be just about impossible to see one with any instrumentation while it's in outer space.

Unless it was one like the mother ship in "Independence Day".

On the other hand, there just seem to be no UFOs that are actual alien craft. They are from Switzerland.

Answer 9

I'm going out on a limb, and tell HOW I feel about this. FIRST, the government is peeing on our shoes, and telling us it's really raining outside. Don't be conned. WE ARE!! I want truth. EVEN if it hurts me!! If it's something important, and you're in the inner circle, you're not ratting out. You're being supportive. Case in point, back to your question. I live in Springfield, Mo. BEAUTIFUL, clear nights. I've witnessed strange lights. With the 'naked' eye. An object streaking across the sky, at a speed no plane of ours could do. HOWEVER, still able to track it with the 'naked' eye. INSTANTLY STOP, and perform a perfect 90 degree turn. THEN, INSTANTLY, take off, and still trackable. THIS WOULD make it untrackable, by any telescopic help!!! THIS leads to POINT #2. EVEN if they had the knowledge, and OOHHH, they do, they WOULDN'T TELL US!! It would cause a wide spread panic!! You know how you grow a quality MUSHROOM?? Same as US!! Keep it in the DARK, and feed it lots of B/S!!! Check it out, if you don't believe me. We're treated the same!! IF you were my friend, don't ever get caught, in the metafore, "PEEING on my shoe, and telling me it's raining outside."

Answer 10

I tend to think that if a society can decide to fly trillions of miles for no real purpose but to study some backwards planet they can do it without being seen. That would probably say something about how rare life really is in the galaxy.