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Do you believe in flying saucers?

Do you believe in flying saucers?


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There have been to many sightings by reliable people to at least not question it. I hope there are and wish they would contact us.. Can you imagine the technology they could give us.......If they wanted to destroy us they could have done that long ago.
 
I don't think we are alone in the universe

We probably aren't. But the universe is an unimaginably big place and intelligent life not from this world is very very very very very far away. And it probably doesn't know that we're here, since we haven't been transmitting information beyond our planet for very long, and so hasn't traveled very far. I think our transmissions have traveled about 70 light years from Earth, which is a tiny distance on a galactic scale. It is extremely unlikely that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials. And this is probably a good thing.

There have been to many sightings by reliable people to at least not question it. I hope there are and wish they would contact us.. Can you imagine the technology they could give us.......If they wanted to destroy us they could have done that long ago.

If an alien species visits Earth and is anything like us, they will probably kill us all and take our resources. That's what we did whenever a group of humans with superior technology encountered another group without it. They would have no more interest in trade than we would if we encountered a tribe of Neanderthals here on Earth. And they certainly wouldn't have an interest in giving us all manner of technological gifts.
 
What do you think?

Boy! How I wish you'd have asked if I believed in UFO's! Then, my answer would be yes.

Flying saucers...hmm...I'd have to say no. I don't believe any legitimate photographs have been taken. I don't believe eyewitness accounts of "flying saucers."

UFO's, on the other hand, I'm with ya' or whoever else believes in them ;) I sincerely believe that there have been sightings of flying objects we cannot yet identify. Whether they are secret government trials or from somewhere in space, I can't say.

It's interesting to ponder. I've seen one myself...a flying ball of light that couldn't be explained by my husband and I -- and calls to the Police Department yielded nothing. Same with a call to the Adler Planetarium (thinking that some phenomenon had taken place).
 
There have been to many sightings by reliable people to at least not question it. I hope there are and wish they would contact us.. Can you imagine the technology they could give us.......If they wanted to destroy us they could have done that long ago.

Don't forget about the Prime Directive. ;)
 
There have been to many sightings by reliable people to at least not question it. I hope there are and wish they would contact us.. Can you imagine the technology they could give us.......If they wanted to destroy us they could have done that long ago.

What is the benefit to them?
 
It's a long, long way between the stars and if by a miracle another sentient species found us and then bore the cost, whether in labor or materials to create a FTL ship, they probably would announce themselves instead of scaring Kansas farm wives.

The universe is teeming with life of many kinds. But quadrillions of stars so far from one another makes contact likely, eventually. Maybe tomorrow, maybe in a million years but not yet.
 
Remember when William Jefferson Clinton became President ? I dol.

Clinton's first agenda wasn't Hillary Health Care or to start over downsizing the U.S. military which would result in a five year long war in Iraq but UFO's.

That many Presidents / Cn'C are kept in a need to know position by the CIA or the military. The current Cn'C is a perfect example, if a military flag officer or general were to tell Obama the truth and that truth isn't politicaly correct he will be relieved from his command or forced in to early retirement.

Those of us who remember when Clinton became POTUS was that he wanted to know if there were ET's or if the Romulans have taken control of the GOP ?

That question was one of President Clinton's first orders as Cn'C. As we all witness, Clinton never got back to the American people.

Did the Clinton Administration Uncover Any UFO Mysteries?
The president may have obtained information about the 1956 Jasper Incident, the subject of "The Top Secret UFO Project,"


>" (Press Release) - Oct. 21, 2006 - William Jefferson Clinton had always been curious about the existence of UFOs. After taking office in January of 1993, he was suddenly in a position to gather information that most could not. The president was determined to find out if tales of flying saucers were simply hogwash, or if the government did, indeed, have many secrets hidden away somewhere in a well-secured vault. One of the UFO stories that the government covered up was the Jasper Incident of 1956, or so the legend goes in "The Top Secret UFO Project," "<

In respect olf POTUS Clinton. no link.
 
Of course I believe in flying saucers.

My ex wife had quite the temper and the tea set was cheap enough to afford the breakage.

Should have married a trailer park that registered for plastic.
 
Seeing as how there's not any scientifically verified evidence of them

I'm not exactly sold on the idea, but it seems our knowledge of the universe is still rather a bit limited to support the above claim

PS going back and reading the OP I'm figuring you're talking about 'flying saucers" in particular?
 
To assume that we are alone in the universe is arrogant in the extreme... IMHO...
 
To assume that we are alone in the universe is arrogant in the extreme... IMHO...

...though statistically forgivable, considering how many requirements had to be met for life on this planet to flourish.
 
i believe that there is life out there. i also believe that this life has jumped in a disco light-equipped saucer and traveled across endless distances to visit us exactly zero times.

if a civilization that advanced wanted something from us, i suspect we wouldn't be debating it. we'd know for sure, and quickly.
 
Absolutely believe in them. I threw one of them the other day and it was in the air for at least five seconds. I missed the person I was throwing it at, probably because he didn't believe in them.
 
Remember when William Jefferson Clinton became President ? I dol.

Clinton's first agenda wasn't Hillary Health Care or to start over downsizing the U.S. military which would result in a five year long war in Iraq but UFO's.

That many Presidents / Cn'C are kept in a need to know position by the CIA or the military. The current Cn'C is a perfect example, if a military flag officer or general were to tell Obama the truth and that truth isn't politicaly correct he will be relieved from his command or forced in to early retirement.

Those of us who remember when Clinton became POTUS was that he wanted to know if there were ET's or if the Romulans have taken control of the GOP ?

That question was one of President Clinton's first orders as Cn'C. As we all witness, Clinton never got back to the American people.

Did the Clinton Administration Uncover Any UFO Mysteries?
The president may have obtained information about the 1956 Jasper Incident, the subject of "The Top Secret UFO Project,"


>" (Press Release) - Oct. 21, 2006 - William Jefferson Clinton had always been curious about the existence of UFOs. After taking office in January of 1993, he was suddenly in a position to gather information that most could not. The president was determined to find out if tales of flying saucers were simply hogwash, or if the government did, indeed, have many secrets hidden away somewhere in a well-secured vault. One of the UFO stories that the government covered up was the Jasper Incident of 1956, or so the legend goes in "The Top Secret UFO Project," "<

In respect olf POTUS Clinton. no link.

I actually have a theory about this kind of thing. It doesn't involve the actions of actual aliens, but it is a conspiracy theory that I subscribe to.

Basically, the government's doing with aliens what they did with 9/11 in that one episode of South Park. During the Cold War the government was testing a lot of aerospace technology that they wanted to keep classified. One of the things they did to make it look secret was give a few winks and nods that they were covering up actual aliens. This probably would have never fooled the Soviets and was probably mostly for the benefit of keeping it out of the mind of most Americans, but it wouldn't require a great deal of resources. They probably figured that they just had to drop the idea, and it would spread so fast in the public consciousness that most people who would care about government spy planes would forget about them and focus on aliens.

After the Roswell Incident, I do remember reading about the military saying that it was a flying saucer the day after it happened, and then they quickly retracted the statement. It turns out that it was a type of spy balloon, and without any real evidence, I think that the first statement was made just because of how ridiculous the original statement would have been without hard evidence. Later in the 1950's, the Air Force created Project Blue Book, a research group devoted to investigating and debunking UFO sightings. The group was pretty heavily criticized for shoddy research. This can largely be chalked up to the fact that the Air Force didn't really give much of a crap about UFO's and barely funded them, but it did provide the side benefit of fueling conspiracy theories. Now, obviously I don't really have any hard evidence for this, and conspiracy theorists don't seem like a huge threat to the government now, but our government has certainly funded resources for more innane things and gone after non-threatening groups. Many military officials might have felt that public attention was inevitably going to focus on any new technology that they tried to build, and that this would be a cheap, easy way of diverting public attention.

Factsheets : Unidentified Flying Objects and Air Force Project Blue Book

Project Blue Book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Roswell UFO incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
...and you know this to be a fact how? There are an estimated 300 billion stars in our relatively minor galaxy. There are an estimated 17 billion "earth size" planets. Pirate MK and Specklebang claim to be from Mars, which is just a short ride away - are you calling us liars?
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We are alone in this PART of the universe though. There is nothing for 100's of light years around.
 
I'm not exactly sold on the idea, but it seems our knowledge of the universe is still rather a bit limited to support the above claim

PS going back and reading the OP I'm figuring you're talking about 'flying saucers" in particular?

Our knowledge may be limited, but that doesn't mean they exist. To date, I've read zero journals regarding flying saucer verification - then again, not like I really look for them. However, I do read physics journals somewhat regularly and haven't read anything about them.
 
Our knowledge may be limited, but that doesn't mean they exist. To date, I've read zero journals regarding flying saucer verificatio

I don't believe in flying saucers..

I was lying on my back in the woods staring at the sky..

A bright light darted across the sky....then stopped...hovered..and took off again at an amazing rate..

was it a flying saucer...naah!!
 
Our knowledge may be limited, but that doesn't mean they exist.

Of course, but if we have a very limited knowledge on a subject, we can hardly make a reasonable declaration, either way.

To date, I've read zero journals regarding flying saucer verification - then again, not like I really look for them. However, I do read physics journals somewhat regularly and haven't read anything about them.

My post concerned ET life, in general. If your remarks concerned flying saucers in particular, then I agree
 
Of course, but if we have a very limited knowledge on a subject, we can hardly make a reasonable declaration, either way.

My post concerned ET life, in general. If your remarks concerned flying saucers in particular, then I agree

A reasonable declaration would be that, if we don't have evidence of the flying saucers (or ET life) and claims about them have been disproven previously, they likely don't exist yet the claim is open were counter-evidence to be presented.
 
A reasonable declaration would be that, if we don't have evidence of the flying saucers (or ET life) and claims about them have been disproven previously, they likely don't exist


Seems like you're appealing to ignorance. Being that the amount of the universe we have explored is extremely small (the amount of potential evidence we have reviewed doesn't lend itself to a "reasonable" declaration on the matter), especially when we are talking about individual planets and possible eco-systems on those planets.
 
I'd love to try one of those in the future. I've had some great trips before with space cakes.
 
Yes, they are evolved humans from our own future exploring history the same as we explore history now. If the human race does not become extinct, that is inevitable.
 
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