Ufo

[ELECTRA]

Here is a topic that has not been discused here. No, I have never seen one but someone I know has seen a flying craft that she could not explain.
So here is the question. Have any of you seen a UFO? I don't mean the ones you see when you Lets be serious....is there something you saw that you could not explain and that seemed out of this world??

[Beachnutt719]

I have never seen one myself. However my mother and my friend claimed to have seen the same thing go over their houses (several blocks apart) at approximately the same time. They both told me about it (independently) the next day. This was about 12 years ago.

Though I have never actually had any proof, their stories were just too similiar and they could not have conferred on it as they hadn't spoken in several years.

[Mikey]

In 1983 myself and two friends were sitting in a parking lot after a rehearsal that had gone late into the morning....We were sitting in a camaro convertible talking about the opening of the show in a couple of days....All of a sudden above us was a saucer shaped ship with softly colored lights around the edge....It made no sound and floated for a minute over us then went off in to the sky....Myself and two friends Darrel and Amy saw this and told several people the next day but no one believed us....We were not on and drugs, alcohol, whatever....Anyone who thinks we are the only living things in the universe is sadly mistaken....

[sctx]

Originally Posted by ELECTRA

Lets be serious....

I've seen the Marfa lights..... not exeactly UFO's, just individual cosmic beings with no map to get them home

[playabum17]

Originally Posted by Mikey

In 1983 myself and two friends were sitting in a parking lot after a rehearsal that had gone late into the morning....We were sitting in a camaro convertible talking about the opening of the show in a couple of days....All of a sudden above us was a saucer shaped ship with softly colored lights around the edge....It made no sound and floated for a minute over us then went off in to the sky....Myself and two friends Darrel and Amy saw this and told several people the next day but no one believed us....We were not on and drugs, alcohol, whatever....Anyone who thinks we are the only living things in the universe is sadly mistaken....

I would agree. There's a line from Contact with Jody Foster that hits it on the head for me.
[last lines]
Ellie Arroway: [to a group of children] I'll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?

[sctx]

awaiting post of denial by Rissask

[cuffedlinks]

Driving across the desert in California in the early 1980's well after midnight in the early AM hours I noticed a moving triangular shaped object blacking out areas of a star-filled sky...I guess there's an AF Base in the area....later when the Stealth Bomber was rolled out, I thought to myself that must have been what I saw doing some flying that evening...I think that's about as close to a UFO as I've been....even though I lived in Indiana (aren't they always claimed to be landing in Indiana for some reason?), and now not far from Devil's Tower (of Close Encounters fame)...

[UGAplaya]

Originally Posted by Mikey

In 1983 myself and two friends were sitting in a parking lot after a rehearsal that had gone late into the morning....We were sitting in a camaro convertible talking about the opening of the show in a couple of days....All of a sudden above us was a saucer shaped ship with softly colored lights around the edge....It made no sound and floated for a minute over us then went off in to the sky....Myself and two friends Darrel and Amy saw this and told several people the next day but no one believed us....We were not on and drugs, alcohol, whatever....Anyone who thinks we are the only living things in the universe is sadly mistaken....

As much fun as it is to believe that there are others out there.....I hate to break it to you but we ARE the only ones. Kind of funny how people always see these things in remote places. Why doesn't one just land in broad day light and say hello? They simply don't exist. Now....I do believe that the gov't test different types of aircraft in secret. But there are no little green or grey men.

[trog]

There are a small number of sightings that cannot be explained away as experimental aircraft or known natural phenomena. It seems logical that there are many other solar systems with planets that can support life. Maybe we are just an experiment or a kennel of pets for a higher order of being. Or not. It seems strange that we are essentially animals with a large brain.

[Rissask]

So here is the question. Have any of you seen a UFO?

Sure! I have seen lots of Unidentified Flying Objects ...but I am fairly certain they were just satellites, planes, wierd cloud formations or reflected sunlight off of wierd cloud formations, weather balloons, birds, flocks of birds, reflected headlights in the sky, planes, helicopters...etc.


I agree Mikey it is pretty arrogant to think we are the only life in the universe...but when you consider intelligent life, of course the chances go way down (considering how miraculous and time consuming it was that we evolved with intelligence).


But I do agree there is most likely intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, I do think it is likely fairly rare, although still *likely* though. SETI hasn't heard anything yet, after all- of course they have a lot more of the sky to search for signs still.


And we have only been pumping out radio signals that could reach into space for what, 80 years? So no one who IS out there, could even know we are here yet- if they are listening like we are, of course.


But- when you consider the chances that there are aliens who regularly visit earth and somehow we don't know it....and you think of how many light years away the nearest star system that possibly *could* have intelligent life...why would they travel all that way to just 'observe' us secretly? It's doubtful.

[Heather]

Once again, I have to break out my favorite Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes quote: "I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life on other planets is that none of it has tried to contact us."

[Flash]

Originally Posted by sctx

awaiting post of denial by Rissask

[Mikey]

Originally Posted by UGAplaya

As much fun as it is to believe that there are others out there.....I hate to break it to you but we ARE the only ones. Kind of funny how people always see these things in remote places. Why doesn't one just land in broad day light and say hello? They simply don't exist. Now....I do believe that the gov't test different types of aircraft in secret. But there are no little green or grey men.

Lets agree to dissagree....What are you basing "We are the only ones" on....Because you have never seen the little green men or women....Imagine all the things in the world that would have never been created If everyone said it could not happen or it could not be done....I think its arrogance on anyones part who thinks this small blue marble that we live on is the only life sustaining planet out there....

[Rissask]

I would hate to disappoint you Scott!

Originally Posted by playabum17

I would agree. There's a line from Contact with Jody Foster that hits it on the head for me.
[last lines]
Ellie Arroway: [to a group of children] I'll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?

I love that movie- but the book is better, it's by Carl Sagan...very interesting and much more detailed and informative about the movie, which changed a lot of the premise.

[Mikey]

Originally Posted by Heather

Once again, I have to break out my favorite Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes quote: "I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life on other planets is that none of it has tried to contact us."

Now thats good stuff.....