The UFO Phenomenon

You have the floor my friend...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...we wait with baited breath.

That about covers it.

 

LOL....yes, and  I'm glad I started this thread since it obviously gave Dean something to do.

There are certainly UFO's by definition; unidentified flying objects. The question is are any of them due to a non human presence. Some are undoutedly weird phenomena we might  not yet understand and others covert govt projects and still others are merely misidents. 

I  also think it's unlikely they would travel light years just to mutilate some cattle, buzz around in our skies, make crop circles, or abduct humans for some genetic agenda. 

As you mentioned if they have a prime directive ala Star Trek then they are doing a poor job of staying hidden and not interfering but then Kirk could never follow that damn directive either.

 

Yet... credible people; police, military,etc  including several astronauts, claim to have seen ufos that did not look like anything they could identify and some of these credible people believe ufos are alien in orign. Other credible people over the years have had not only sightings but close encounters with seemingly unkown beings.  So are we then to assume they are all lying or just plain crazy or seeing things...? IMO it's naive to simply dismiss all of the sightings and events over the decades if not centuries with out a good investigation . Sadly no one has done this on a proper  level so we are left with ufologists and others who with little funding have been unable to get very far. That's bad science. And the problem is that science due to academic politics and other reasons are simply afraid to tackle the subject  due to the 'giggle and ridicule' factor. They don't want to lose their tenure...sad comment on science these days when no one cares enough to dig into an unknown phenomenon.

It's easy to take the null hypothesis road  and just dismiss it all as 'silliness' and people seeing things but then if we had looked the other way on many events in the past and those few brave souls hadn't bucked the prevailing system back then , which was one of relgious bias,  we might still be living in the Dark Ages.

 

I'm also skeptical about ufos being ET for some of the same reasons  mentioned above as well as others, but I'm not skeptical that people have genuine weird experiences that imo are not just hallucination and misidents but interaction with something unknown. After weeding through all the noise and years of reading and talking to people who have had very strange experiences  I believe there is a signal here.  For me the question is what does this represent? An unknown phenomenon affecting human consciousness or  an unknown sentience screwing with our consciousness or perhaps a new sociologica/psychological l phenomenon tied into human consciousness...?

Saying it's all just loonies will get us about as far as those in the past who said rocks could not fall from the sky or man would never fly.