Ufo's/extraterrestrial Craft

[chrissie1212]

Has anyone in the AB community ever actually seen what they believe to be a UFO,  or extraterrestrial craft? I haven't, but would love to, if they do in fact exist. I don't see any reason why there couldn't be other life forms in the Universe, especially given some of the fantastic building feats in the ancient world (eg. pyramids etc). Did they have help from more advanced beings? What is your opinion or experience?

[Arksided]

When I was about 13/14 hanging out with my mates and one of them was stood transfixed staring into the clear night sky. He just pointed and said "whats that?" it was so far away from our perspective looked like a star. Then it shot off in one direction at lightning speed without stopping instantly about turned an shot off back on its self in a triangle motion and continued to dance about erratically for about a minute or so before shooting off and disappearing.

This was well before any interest in the subject or read Erich von Däniken 'Ancient Aliens' I watch the shows akin to it and read many books, UFO's yes (Yes by definition) abductee cases I'm still highly sceptical.

[Arksided]

* Chariots of the Gods - Erik book, Ancient Aliens was the TV show I was referring.

[10ClarionSt]

I think HG Wells suggested that movement through space could be possible by travelling at the end of a light beam. You make a light beam move across the sky in half a second, so he said that scientist should look at the possibility of inventing some form of this travel. Well, he did write science fiction!

[naomi24]

douglas, yes, I thought about the pedants when I wrote that ….. but I like to live dangerously. ;o)

10ClarionSt, I read your post. As for 'starmen' visiting back in the mists of time, I'm sure you'll forgive me if I don't take your word as 'gospel'.

[jno]

all is revealed at 9.28: the aliens are flying Scots.

[10ClarionSt]

Naomi, I didn't think anyone would take it as "gospel"!
If people want to believe in aliens, the bible, or whatever, then go for it. But until a space craft lands on the White House lawn and someone/something gets out and tells humanity we will all kill ourselves, then I'll give it a miss.

[Patsy33]

My Mother seen a strange looking craft quite close up out of her living room window early hours of the morning. She said it was triangle shape with lots of flashing lights. This was in the early to mid 80s in Somerset. A couple of other people seen it too. My Mother was one of the most genuine people you could ever meet....

[naomi24]

10ClarionSt at 11:12, having posted your very definite views on it I haven't noticed you giving it a miss.

[hereIam]

Yes, I have seen a UFO, two other people I was with saw it as well. That week in our local rag there was an article about UFO's over the town, so, others saw them as well! I couldn't think of a logical explanation for what I saw.

[Zacs-Master]

When I was 12/13 (1977ish) I saw (with a friend) two objects which looked like they were chrome rowing boats from underneath, with 2 F15 type rear tails. They were reflecting the street lights and one appeared to be lightly higher and slightly behind the other. They were moving quite slowly but silently. They disappeared over the top of my parents house and when we ran around the other side, they had gone.
Probably some experimental aircraft but they were very strange. It was the chrome finish and silence which were the weirdest things.

[naomi24]

The thing I saw was silver in colour, shiny, but it was round like a ball, and that moved silently too. It flew just above the roof tops of some low rise flats, so very close. Most odd.

[10ClarionSt]

Naomi; by saying I'm giving it a miss, I mean belief in aliens. What people see are natural phenomena or the military.

[EDDIE51]

I once got a large Helium balloon and a small set of multi coloured LED flashing lights,powered by a battery. The balloon was easily big enough to lift the lights. I set it off after dark about 10pm with the lights all flashing. There were reports in the local paper about a UFO with flashing lights being seen. No proof of course but I am sure it was my balloon lights they saw.

[ichkeria]

There may well be (other) intelligent life out there but the idea that they would have had the technology to have visited earth seems fanciful in the extreme, especially if they did it as long ago as supposed.
And they never came back.
What does that say about us?

[naomi24]

Eddie at 21:36, not a word….

ichkeria , //the idea that they would have had the technology to have visited earth seems fanciful in the extreme//

Why? The universe has been in existence for approximately 9 billion years longer than our planet …. plenty of time for alien races to evolve long before we ever existed. That they had (have) technology light years ahead of ours is well within the realms of possibility.

[fender62]

i have seen odd things in the sky, but i do not think oh it must be aliens..i do believe we are not alone in the universe though, you see or read about people who say they were abducted by aliens, but i notice they are mostly in the states, is america full of loonies.

[Arksided]

Two possibilities exist, Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Arthur C. Clarke

[jim360]

It's speculative to suggest that aliens exist at all, let alone that they have the technology -- and the motivation -- necessary to visit here. Indeed, it's also well within the realms of possibility that *we* are the most advanced species in the universe, or at least within any region of interest.

It's fun to speculate, but it seems premature in the extreme to draw any conclusions from those speculations. There's simply not enough data to go on. How likely is life to emerge? How likely is it to become complex, enough even to reach our point of development, and beyond? As a wise person once said, we simply don't know. But those are the sorts of questions that will need answering before it's reasonable to take the prospects of alien life at all, let alone of such life visiting us, seriously.

I don't think I've ever wanted to be wrong more than I do about this, mind.

[Zacs-Master]

Jim, is it theoretically possible to travel faster than light using quantum entanglement?

[Cloverjo]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/steve-jones/9034807/Why-life-begins-and-ends-on-Earth.html

This is what I believe, and is the article I always refer to when we're talking about these things. I know people here have come up with arguments against it, but I'm sticking with it.