Aliens?
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truckemup97
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I was about to say "Where is Gatorfarmer when you need him????"
Steve
Wearing his tinfoil hat while sitting in his Faraday cage?
(me too, BTW)
RYNO
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I'd guess that the probability of alien life exist somewhere, coming here...doubtful.
Years back I was flying from L.A. to Denver, as the fasten your seatbelt lights came on, a rather large woman sits next to me and ask "Do you believe in aliens?". The next couple hours are her telling me all about how her sweetie was a pilot and the things he's seen...I bought a walkman before I flew again.
Years back I was flying from L.A. to Denver, as the fasten your seatbelt lights came on, a rather large woman sits next to me and ask "Do you believe in aliens?". The next couple hours are her telling me all about how her sweetie was a pilot and the things he's seen...I bought a walkman before I flew again.
I can see that you have never met my wife's family.
You too, huh?
Some balloons were released about 25 miles north of the sighting. Maybe?
Mount Vernon school principal: "UFO" sightings in NYC likely balloons from teacher's engagement party | LoHud.com | The Journal News
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pilgrim6a
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"I come in peace, take me to your Lizard"
Mule88
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Its hard to believe as vast as our universe is, that we'd be the only ones to share it.
windjammer
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Steven Hawking.......maybe the greatest mind around sez they are real and we should avoid contacting them.
I agree that there must be other planets with life on them. Maybe some more advanced and some less.
I agree that there must be other planets with life on them. Maybe some more advanced and some less.
Walker45
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Personally, I would consider myself very narrow minded if I believed we (Planet Earth) were they only form of life in the Universe. Before Columbus the World was flat too... Only time and advancement in science will tell.
BTW, there is a movie coming out in late Fall call "Skyline" which shows the World what could happen if we continue to ask, are we alone?
Skyline (2010) - IMDb
BTW, there is a movie coming out in late Fall call "Skyline" which shows the World what could happen if we continue to ask, are we alone?
Skyline (2010) - IMDb
Folks, in the interest of informing this thread a bit, I suggest reading "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. It's actually a "trilogy" of five books and answers many of the questions raised here.
What Max Brooks' "Zombie Survival Guide" is to Zombie threads, "The Hitchhiker's Guide" is to threads about aliens and space travel. You do have to read it with a British accent, though.
Hope this helps, and Semper Fi.
Ron H.
What Max Brooks' "Zombie Survival Guide" is to Zombie threads, "The Hitchhiker's Guide" is to threads about aliens and space travel. You do have to read it with a British accent, though.
Hope this helps, and Semper Fi.
Ron H.
GatorFarmer
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For those interested, the forthcoming films "Battle of LosAngeles" (taking the name from a real and unexplained WW2 incident) and "Monsters" also deal with the subject. The latter can be seen on I-tunes and OnDemand already and takes places some years on from the aliens being here. The former is ground level "Blackhawk Down" style combat between the USMC and the aliens in Los Angeles.
When asked about what to do if aliens invaded, the official response circa the time that Independence Day came out was to "Dial 911". Not the most reassuring answer, however...
Plans for such things do exist. They aren't necessarily good plans mind you, and some are out dated, but they exist. (The same as if Canada invades, we'll dust off the old war plans from the 1930s I suppose.)
Information to the effect of what to do actually made into some fire fighting manuals approved of by FEMA for a time.
First responder wise, there's also the matter of dealing with outbreaks from alien bacteria surviving a meteor ride to earth.
The grays and reptoids meanwhile continue doubtless continue their war against the Nordics and time traveling space Nazis. The reptoids might not even be aliens per se, as they could well have evolved right here on earth long before mammals came along. To them, we're sort of the "Planet of the Apes" future I'd imagine.
Dr. Drake of "Drake Equation" fame was still alive last I knew. That's who's numbers Sagan used to crunch.
There are a number of ways, even with the physics we know today, to either travel FTL or eliminate the need for such.
Things become even more complicated if the multiverse theory is correct, and travel between alternate universes becomes possible. Then it becomes open to debate whether or not someone from a variant earth is an alien or not.
Jesse Marcel Jr? I can't remember if he's still in the reserves or not. He actually made it all the way up to Brig. Gen. if I recall.
When UFO Hunters put him and a guy that had claimed to pick up debris at the time (and who records showed was certainly there) in a room and had them look at metals and such, they both picked a type of mylar as being very close to what they remembered handling.
When asked about what to do if aliens invaded, the official response circa the time that Independence Day came out was to "Dial 911". Not the most reassuring answer, however...
Plans for such things do exist. They aren't necessarily good plans mind you, and some are out dated, but they exist. (The same as if Canada invades, we'll dust off the old war plans from the 1930s I suppose.)
Information to the effect of what to do actually made into some fire fighting manuals approved of by FEMA for a time.
First responder wise, there's also the matter of dealing with outbreaks from alien bacteria surviving a meteor ride to earth.
The grays and reptoids meanwhile continue doubtless continue their war against the Nordics and time traveling space Nazis. The reptoids might not even be aliens per se, as they could well have evolved right here on earth long before mammals came along. To them, we're sort of the "Planet of the Apes" future I'd imagine.
Dr. Drake of "Drake Equation" fame was still alive last I knew. That's who's numbers Sagan used to crunch.
There are a number of ways, even with the physics we know today, to either travel FTL or eliminate the need for such.
Things become even more complicated if the multiverse theory is correct, and travel between alternate universes becomes possible. Then it becomes open to debate whether or not someone from a variant earth is an alien or not.
Jesse Marcel Jr? I can't remember if he's still in the reserves or not. He actually made it all the way up to Brig. Gen. if I recall.
When UFO Hunters put him and a guy that had claimed to pick up debris at the time (and who records showed was certainly there) in a room and had them look at metals and such, they both picked a type of mylar as being very close to what they remembered handling.
imjin138
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Never seen any, except those on october 31st. I remember watching the Invaders as a kid scared the crap out of me. Now I just let the high school kids do that to me. You should see the way they dress.
OK, seriously.
I think it's possible that we ourselves (i.e., the human race) are descended from aliens who may have visited our planet long ago. Our existence may be the result of a deliberate attempt to colonize earth in ancient times. Our abilities as humans far outstrip those of other life forms here; the magic ingredient may be cross-pollenization. I don't doubt that we are constantly being visited - the sightings so far seem to confirm beings that are strangely humanoid, with large almond-shaped eyes and bodies that mimic those of humans. It wouldn't be a stretch to think that they are just checking on their experimental progeny from time to time. Perhaps they found the DNA in pre-humans suitable enough to implant their own to create a hybrid species (us) for their own purposes in the future.
I also think the so-called "Roswell incident" of 1947 was a fact that has been covered up to this day by our government so as not to precipitate a panic in the U.S. It may be that technology recovered from those two crashes is even now being developed secretly by our armed forces in sites such as (and including) Area 51 in Nevada.
I think we all have to be open to these possibilities and not dismiss them out of hand. Just based on mathematical probability, we are NOT alone in the universe.
People once believed the world was flat. Conventional wisdom still rules, unfortunately, so the majority will be doubters. All I'm saying is be open to the possibilities and press for the answers to these questions. The results will be intriguing, for sure.
John
I think it's possible that we ourselves (i.e., the human race) are descended from aliens who may have visited our planet long ago. Our existence may be the result of a deliberate attempt to colonize earth in ancient times. Our abilities as humans far outstrip those of other life forms here; the magic ingredient may be cross-pollenization. I don't doubt that we are constantly being visited - the sightings so far seem to confirm beings that are strangely humanoid, with large almond-shaped eyes and bodies that mimic those of humans. It wouldn't be a stretch to think that they are just checking on their experimental progeny from time to time. Perhaps they found the DNA in pre-humans suitable enough to implant their own to create a hybrid species (us) for their own purposes in the future.
I also think the so-called "Roswell incident" of 1947 was a fact that has been covered up to this day by our government so as not to precipitate a panic in the U.S. It may be that technology recovered from those two crashes is even now being developed secretly by our armed forces in sites such as (and including) Area 51 in Nevada.
I think we all have to be open to these possibilities and not dismiss them out of hand. Just based on mathematical probability, we are NOT alone in the universe.
People once believed the world was flat. Conventional wisdom still rules, unfortunately, so the majority will be doubters. All I'm saying is be open to the possibilities and press for the answers to these questions. The results will be intriguing, for sure.
John
GatorFarmer
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You might enjoy Cremo's "Forbidden Archaeology". There's some reason to believe that humans (in their current form) have been on earth for much longer than presently thought. This would leave open the possibility that, at least in the case of the so called "Nordic aliens" that "them" is "us". As would the possibility that such things are in fact time travelers rather than aliens. (You can go back in time and shoot your own grandfather, there's no paradoxes since the timeline simply splits. But that's another story.)
Kenneth Arnold's flying saucers weren't actually saucers. 60 odd years on, they actually look like dead ringers for Go-229 (flying wings), a late war project that the Germans never finished. Jets were novel in 1947 and most pilots had never seen them in flight, hence one could think that they were much faster and unusual than we'd think of them today. Prototypes of such might have fallen from the conventional record of aircraft development for a variety of reasons, including the underlying details via Project Paperclip with less than savory types to bring those to fruition.
Most people look for their answers in the wrong place regarding "contact". Such wouldn't be found with the AF, it would be found with the State Department and to some extent that real catch all of nefariousness the Department of the Interior.
Belfastman
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Good one Handejector I saw two in my life time first one on way home from mass,second while flying Cessna 172 near twilight.Even had air traffic controller ask if I see any object in my flight path.I told him Yes but had no clue what it was.He told me they had picked it up in area with their radar.No transponder code assigned to the object
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As the case for UFOs, yes I believe there are things we can't explain that have been seen and documented.
As for aliens arriving and abductions, no, I believe that by now there would be some hard evidence out there.
But then again, maybe they have landed in a place like Detroit already, and just wrote us off as a lost cause.
As for aliens arriving and abductions, no, I believe that by now there would be some hard evidence out there.
But then again, maybe they have landed in a place like Detroit already, and just wrote us off as a lost cause.
