Does anyone believe in UFO’s ?
Published 1 year, 8 months ago in Making News.The recent joke news item about UFO’s got me thinking - does anyone believe in them.
I have two opinions - is there other life out there somewhere? Definitely YES. I have raised this with some astronomers and their view, and mine, is that with millions of galaxies each containing billions of stars then it is almost a statistical certainty. However, life has existed on Earth for millions of years in some form or another and it would be most unlikely if life elsewhere in the universe would be in the same cycle as ourselves. Which means that they would either be ahead or behind us on the development scale.
Do UFO’s exist ? I’m a real sceptic on this. There have been sightings for dozens of years with no firm proof. If these beings have travelled across light years of space to observe us unnoticed they are making a very poor job of it - why don’t they just use Google Earth? If they have the technology to travel such vast distances I’m certain they would have the technology to observe us undetected. I know there are lots of unexplained phenomena but that just makes me doubt it more - they’re all different! Surely if they were trying to contact us there would be some consistency. No, it just doesn’t add up.
Anyone else any thoughts ?
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I think you hit the nail on the head again here ….
UFO means - Unidentified Flying Objects. so the literal answer is Yes. there are many unidentified flying objects around because not all of whatever is floating around space has been identified.
your argument about life (in whatever form)existing elswhere well that is for people to have whatever opinions.
also your argument about beings from somewhere observing us. that is also a matter of opinion. but they are not strictly speaking Unidentified Flying Objects.
If you mean aliens from out of space or time, then No I don’t, we are alone.
Are you suggesting that Local News is nothing but a joke nook?
With the apostrophe in UFOs, do I take that to mean that UFO has possession of something that you have forgotten to put in?
Sorry I seem to have misread the heading.
Still, no harm done. Not to me anyway.
I am open on this subject. I personally have seen 2 Unidentified Flying Objects, in fact the entire audience of a drive in theatre saw one at Yarrawonga when it streaked behind the screen while tranversing the entire horizon in a 5 degree upward trajectory , ie fast moving lights that were not planes or meteorites or satellites. I have also heard from total sceptices who witnessed strange lights in bass straight that had them completely bamboozled. Keep looking.
I beleive in Flying Spaghetti Monsters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
Local News a joke nook ? Laughable suggestion !
Touche on UFOs - I can see in future I will have to watch my p’s and q’s but, as you say, no harm done.
Many years ago I was travelling on the train to a football match in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Near our destination I looked out the window and saw, very close by, a Flying Saucer which seemed to be stalking me! It was silver and cylindrical, noiseless, without markings or wings. I was stunned, looked around the carriage but no-one else was reacting. Had I fainted at that moment I would have gone to my grave preaching the existence of “life on Mars”. But, after what seemed like ages but was probably seconds, the picture changed and I realised that what I could see was a US Airforce plane coming in to land at their base in Ballykelly just outside Derry. The “UFO” was cigar-shaped because it was parallel to the train, apparently silent against the railway engine noise, unmarked as it wasn’t a commercial flight and travelling at the same speed as the train momentarily as it came in to land.
This experience made me very skeptical of UFO claims, even when made by people who sincerely believed in what they had “seen”. And I always bear in mind the old dictum “You cannot prove a negative”
I believe that there are indeed strange phenomena’s out there, not necessarily from any form of alien life, but just naturally occurring events that have yet to be explained. The phenomena that causes Minmin lights for instance may also be the cause of many of these ufo sightings
onya Localnews and hannahsgranpa! you certainly have stirred the pot. (or was it a flying saucer?) (perhaps with the cup following?)
I saw a few in my youth but I also took a few psychotropic substances so I can’t vouch for the reliability of my observations.
It is statistically quite likely that there is other life out there. There are upward of 400 billion stars in the Milky Way and about 140 other galaxies that we think we know about. Life is a tricky thing to get going but that many possibilities makes it quite, well possible.
Space however is big, unimaginably big – it is really quite impossible to imagine how big space is. I sometimes try and it hurts.
If there were other clever beings out there, chances are they’d be a long way away – say about 200 light years. I’ll come back to how far that is in just a tick but lets assume that intelligent beings are watching the Earth through a telescope from 200 light years away. They’d be watching the end of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
Light travels at 300,000km per second. There are a lot of seconds in a year, a touch over 31,000,000 of them. Multiply that by 300,000km and you get 9,300,000,000,000km - 9.3 trillion Km. In a year. Now double it and add a couple of zeros. 1860 trillion Km.
I told you it hurts.
Anything capable of traveling that far isn’t doing it just to freak out some crazy kid on acid.
They mean business and we would know about it. I think.
well what about the bumuda triangle thing seem to go missing there is there something there ???????
I thought the Bermuda triangle was the bottom half of a bikini. Things go missing there too.
NO SUCH THING AS UFO”S!!
I can see I’ll have to rethink my position on the Loch Ness Monster
Logically there is other life out there, it would be sheer human arrogance to thing otherwise. As for UFO’s well I’ve seen them, whether they were visiting alien life forms or some other phenomena I don’t know so I’ll keep an open mind.
I think it’s ignorant for us to believe that we are the only living beings in the universe. Alien by definition is something foreign, of all the other planets and stars etc out there, we can’t possibly be the only living organisms. Whether they be actual advanced life forms such as our selves or just bacteria, of course there is something else out there! Like vivavoce, I like to keep an open mind…in this day and age, anything’s possible..
Of course if you were being really open minded you would not be so quick to assume that we are advanced.
One of my relatives claimed to have seen the Lockness Monster while rowing on Lochness. I would suspect that a fine Scottish single malt whiskey can make you see many things after you have indulge in way to much of it.
A friend’s father (model of sobriety and native Invernesian) has also claimed to have met with the the Loch Ness Monster. Not sure where that leaves us on the UFO issue, but people do claim to see and believe strange things.
I think the world would be a poorer place without Nessie don’t you?
It would be an even poorer place without crazy people to see her - and them.
You know aliens are probably that advanced that we are not much more than the equivalent of ants to them. They would observe us as we would observe an ant colony and could no more communicate with us than we could with ants, and as we loom in the ants world they may occasionally loom in ours.
Still got the ant problem Vivavoce?
Yes! smart enough to shape change. lots walking with us. Don’t want to say much as goverment has proved it’s self to kill while investergating. As I said they walk around with us every day. We are being studied. We are the ones being looked at. We cause no harm to those we see the same. The goverment knows of past landings, and look what happened to the captured!!! Think about it.
backing out of the room, avoiding eye contact.
What? What happened to the captured?
Aliens have definitely infiltrated our world to observe us and even experiment on us. I have evidence they are using mind-altering rays on select members of our community - namely Torben. Judging by the results, they clearly have a sense of humour.
yeah him and a number of other people seem to have been experimented on ….
although the electro shock stuff is more evident in torbens hair..
My theory is that sightings of Flying Saucers are real enough for witnesses to believe. However these are just inter-stellar reflections from other planets, that manifest themselves as a transmogrified burst of matter, projected onto our stratosphere with the aid of solar radiation.
It’s simple and probably true! My friend from outer space, Zmag Buupilmanka, told me that his people sometimes create frenzied reports of groups of geese flying over remote outposts. We know this can’t be really happening, since Geese are completely alien to his world. So my theory pretty much stands up.
Has anyone else noticed how hannahsgranpa starts these things then disappears? spooky.
Years of practice , mate. Just get six kids, give ‘em one toy and let them sort it out amongst themselves.
I didn’t know I was supposed to respond to every comment and so far I haven’t seen anything controversial enough to fire me up (until now of course!).
I just think it’s great to get people debating, who knows what might come out of the woodwork - perhaps someone watching is an alien (Dr Fell ?).
Didn’t mean to fire you up granpa. Just makin’ an observation. I’m a natural interventionist myself. Can’t let the kids play on their own for more than hour or so. I’m also something of a chatter box and can’t help responding to the slightest provocation. I will try to exercise more patience. Later.
Parallel universes -UFO’S could just be monentary leakages from their universe into ours.
well done thirty two hits old chap just on u,f,o, well im still in limbo on them regards big fella
UFO’s… haven’t seen them. Haven’t seen PROOF of them.
I don’t think that the concept of UFO’s and the possiblity of aliens should be related foundationally in any hypothesis theories.
I like to think that it probably makes sense that there is life out there. I suspect it is highly different to ‘life’ as we percieve and understand it.
Space travel may not be on their agenda. Maybe there is life but it’s very ’simple’ in comparison. Maybe the life intelligence ‘out there’ is extremely sophisticated and is interacting with Earth right now.
They may not even know they are doing it.. I’m into scientific theories, don’t get me wrong.. but we cannot assume that our science, our technology, our knowledge, our perceptions, even our vision or logic - can really know much about the nature of ‘alien’ life.
It’s very interesting to us though, possibly more than religion by the quantity of replies!
Man! I still don’t know what happened to the captured!!!!
I think they were all returned to Earth, suitable re-conditioned, as heads of government.
I had an email from a chick at work who warned me that aliens had invaded earth and were taking away all the sexy, good looking people. She informed me that I had nothing to worry about and she just wanted to say goodbye!