Ufo's Are They Real

[gramps85]

There's any interesting article in todays Dail Mail relating to the late Prince Phillip's belief in UFO's.  I remember listening to an interview with Neil Armstrong who said the the late Prince asked to meet the crew of Apollo 11 when they did their tour. Armstrong said that all Phillip was interested was whether the crew had seen any flying saucers or anything that could not be explained.

Do other's have their views or seen anything that could be described as a UFO.

[Cloverjo]

10ClarionSt, could been the International Space Station?

[10ClarionSt]

No. I don't think so. I've seen the ISS and it moves a lot more slowly than that. The speed of it was just incredible. I've never seen anything move that fast. Not even Usain Bolt!

[ynnafymmi]

UFOs,Are They Real?-No.

[naomi24]

Clarion, a meteor.

[10ClarionSt]

I don't think so, Naomi. I've seen a couple of spectacular meteors and the one thing about them is that they are breaking up as they enter the atmosphere, and so have streaks, like a line of small rockets. This was just a bright light. No noise, no flames, no streaks and went from one side of the sky to the next in 2 seconds. 

[naomi24]

I don't know then, Clarion.  I would assume it was a meteor.  However, astronauts have reported seeing craft they couldn't identify - although there is a lot of debris resulting from our endeavours floating around. 

[Atheist]

Clarion. An Earth grazer?

https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/relativity-space-astronomy-and-cosmology/meteors/measuring-the-speed-of-a-meteor/

[Atheist]

PS. See fig 2 in the link. Plus the space station takes minutes, not seconds.

[10ClarionSt]

Well, it could have been an Earth Grazer, but that article says they leave a track, or a tracer. The thing I witnessed didn't have either. It really was strange. No noise. No streaks or flames. No breaking up. It was a bright light that streaked across the sky in 2 seconds. What was it? Who knows, but I don't think it was aliens!

[rowanwitch]

Redman said he did, he gave a very clear account of a sighting in the 1950s.  He was in his teens at the time, had been out birding near Pentraeth,  saw a gunmetal coloured shape, he described it as longer than wide with smoothed out points at each end.  There were human like forms around it with what he described as black metallic suits that fitted like skin. He couldn't see faces, and they appeared to be collecting water from a stream and material from the surrounding marsh.    

After a while the creatures went into the 'craft' it lifted up from the ground. Tipped upright and disappeared within a couple of seconds.  As a teenage boy at that time he would have grown up with learning to observe aircraft, and he was adamant this was nothing recognizably man made.   

Apparently he tried to talk about it at school but was told he wasn't to speak about it by the head teacher.

[naomi24]

Rowan, when you say it disappeared do you mean it just disappeared like a magic trick - or that it zoomed off quickly?

[rowanwitch]

Straight up incredibly fast, and silent.  He described it as disappearing but had it been a sustained flight in earth atmosphere I would have thought he would have heard a sonic boom. He didn't so your guess is as good as mine.

[naomi24]

Thanks Rowan.  I asked because friends said they'd seen three 'beings' who suddenly disappeared.

[rowanwitch]

Anyone else I would have gone oh yes and thought little more about it but Dave, no he wasn't really prone to fancy,  and I could tell if he was on a wind up.   The location was good too, very low population density, late evening, but still light,   he took me to where he stood watching and pointed out where the craft was sitting all this over 50 years after the event

[THECORBYLOON]

If there is life elsewhere in the  universe but distance precludes communication, does the same apply to other life in our galaxy?

[Atheist]

Corby, I don't understand your question. Could you clarify?

[rowanwitch]

Advanced enough and some form of instantaneous transmission might be possible, within the Milky way ( our home galaxy) would be more likely kept than the wider universe.   It's an idea that has formed the basis of some interesting sci to over the years

[THECORBYLOON]

ATHEIST, it was claimed by TORATORATORA,

"1) The universe is vast and teaming with aliens

2) The distances invovled mean we will never meet or communicate with any of them.

3) if you doubt 1 or 2 you are a moron

4) end of."

I was wondering if the same thinking applied to the Milky Way.

There may well be life somewhere in the universe but given the fact that any life in our galaxy would be closer than life outwith it, is it the case still that the distance would be too great for communication and anyone thinking otherwise is a moron?

[THECORBYLOON]

Basically, there is life in our galaxy somewhere but the distance between us means we will never communicate and if you doubt that, you're a moron.