UFO's

[bad aim]

Car manufacturers often work with tech that's ~5yrs ahead of what's on the roads. Imagine what a .gov funded entity can do. It's naive to think that we're the only living life forms in this universe, but I feel, like what was stated above, that the majority of the "UFO's" being speculated are some sort of R&D project.

[MorphCross]

My take: there are things occurring on this planet that we as humans cannot perceive without the aid of technology or animals with senses outside the capabilities of our own. Like a proverbial frog in a well, we cannot make sense of an ocean as it lies beyond our experience. Those rare individuals that get to experience things well outside of the normal such as Astronauts let alone fighter pilots and are more acclimated to those environments have perhaps picked up on those things because they are more adapted.

How would a dust mite perceive the world let alone the environmental scale it lives in?

[WillBrink]

Option "Not sure what it is but something in our air space that can't be explained away as balloon or swamp gas" kinda option should exist.

[26 Inf]

https://biblehub.com/john/10-16.htm

Thanks. You know I'm going to get big-headed since apparently this confirms my belief, don't you?

[WillBrink]

This is a subject about which I don't really have my mind made up. I believe people are seeing something, but whether we are being visited by beings from another planet/dimension, or if it's a demonic deception, or just plain hokum, I can't say.

What do you think of the whole phenomenon?

I wouldn't post this thread to try to promote one view or another. This isn't AboveTopSecret after all. But it's a subject that deserves some attention because it's very real to many, many people.

I'm posting a poll just to get a consensus on what people think is going on.

I've been doing some reading, and frankly, you can find a lot of evidence for many explanations.

I personally have never seen anything in the sky that didn't have a rational explanation, or even if unexplained just didn't strike me as "extraterrestrial" or otherwise fantastical.

What do you think? Do you have a "UFO" experience?

I think there's been way too many hard sightings my highly experienced people for too long, hard radar sightings by both ground and air, etc, to dismiss that something is in our airspace that is not us. Beyond that, I just don't know and tend to vacillate. What ever it/they are, it also appears they have been with us a long time. I have not seen anything I could not explain, but know a few people I trust who have, and some it just freaky stuff.

[WillBrink]

Voted aliens. How could you look up at the sky on a clear night and think there is no possibility of other worlds existing?? Have they ever been here? There is enough evidence to satisfy me that they probably have. I do think that 99.99% of the reported sightings can be explained away as man made. We were headed offshore before daylight and came across what by starlight looked like a sphere hovering 50 feet or so above the ocean's surface. We stopped and watched it from about a half mile away. It turned out to be a descending weather balloon. We actually retrieved the little white box and mailed it to the listed address. If we had been within radio range of shore I would have reported it as a UFO and felt pretty stupid 15 minutes later!

While I fully agree, and most scientists will now also agree, really has no bearing at all on whether they visit us. Really a whole other topic.

[Outlander Systems]

In all honesty, I've seen some aerial, things, that defy any mundane explanation. Thank God I wasn't alone when these sightings occurred.

Thanks. You know I'm going to get big-headed since apparently this confirms my belief, don't you?

[OH58D]

It seems we are getting the slow drip drip drip of information from the government. Case in point the two Navy F14 pilots over the Pacific and the object tracked at high speed on the east coast from the videos below. It seems like the world's population is getting conditioned for some future release. Knowing enough fundamentalist Christians like I do, I could see mass hysteria from people who will have their entire belief system tossed into the ditch if E.T. is proven to exist. For the fundamentalist believer in any religion, this does not compute. It doesn't fit into the narrow stories of their holy books. I imagine it could create large numbers of suicides and social unrest worldwide.

For me, as a believer in a Supreme Being, I would just say...."cool - that's really neat", and want even more information.

They are out there and they like screwing with Navy pilots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9D8dzl4zGk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fd6ssvcBoM

[Firefly]

Serious question:

If you got abducted by aliens and weren’t anally probed would you feel relieved or kinda insulted?

This question was posited to me and honestly I still don’t know how I feel about it.

Like a fat girl who gets fed, gets given drinks, gets taken to a park, signals are there, the scene is set and then “You know, it’s been a nice night. Time to get you home.

And you get dropped off, moderately disheveled and reeking of alcohol but undisturbed.

Intellectually, you should be grateful but at some level it’s like “Hey, wait.. Y-you don’t find me attractive? WHAT A JERK!”

Like I dunno, man. I think about that sometimes. No I don’t want someone doing that to me but then they ARE from space and I dunno

Some navel gazing introspection there.

[SteyrAUG]

I honestly think 99% of this stuff started with Adamski and then it was a case of "me too" with an almost cultish devotion to wanting it all to be true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski