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Date Posted: Wednesday, August 28, 06:55:36am
Author: Jim
Subject: Are UFOs a sign of alien life? ... (BBC feedback)

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This is a copy from "BBC Talking Point"
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Are UFOs a sign of alien life? Your reaction...

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Despite the sincere individuals who see things
and believe that they're UFOs, the UFO
"industry" is over-run by wackos and
unscrupulous profiteers. I suspect that there
may be extra-terrestrial life in the universe, and
would welcome any evidence of its existence.
Of course, it's extremely unlikely that that life
would evolve into the big-eyed aliens we've
heard about. My problem is the hue and cry
from those who have a significant stake in
fuelling the UFO craze with "Chariots of the
Gods"-type pseudo-science. The recent
scientific interest is appropriate - let's be sure
to pay attention, but when there is laughably
inadequate evidence, let's make sure we laugh.
I think everyone should read Carl Sagan's "A
Demon-Haunted World" and spend a little bit of
time welcoming reality into their lives. There are
no witches, no ghosts, and no little green men
kidnapping people and subjecting them to
sexual probes.
Max Pruden, USA

Tony Blair knows more than he admits about
UFOs. Whilst talking about the World Cup and
our bid to host it in 2006 he claimed the current
competition was watched by 35 billion viewers
and predicted the 2006 audience would exceed
40 billion. With the current world population of
about six billion there must be an awful lot of
aliens buzzing about.
Geoff Cooper, UK

Perhaps the word "Unidentified" should be
replaced by "Unidentifiable", since the former is
prone to easier classification by the ignorant.
W Randall, UK

Why should we be the only intelligent life in the
universe. I sometimes wonder if we are that
bright anyway. I do think one day that we are all
in for a hell of a shock. They are out there.
Peter Berrry, Scotland

I think most UFOs are optical illusions and
explainable phenomena. However, there is a
certain amount that can't be explained away
that easily. I can't imagine why aliens would
want to bother with us small fry, although their
apparent failure to make any contact (unless
you believe the abductees) is partly
understandable as we are hardly a non-violent
species. I certainly don't see any logic in a
bunch of spacecraft hanging around our skies
occasionally abducting people/dissecting
cattle.
However, I don't think we can conclude with
confidence that we have all the answers and
that the laws of physics as we currently
understand them are inviolable, so it does
seem at least possible that some aliens may
come across Earth from time to time. Who
knows what they would think of us if they were
truly advanced? Our scientists don't hesitate to
experiment on monkeys. An advanced alien
race might not see us as people at all. In their
eyes, we could be the equivalent of monkeys
and not even worthy of contact.
Jill, UK

UFOs. A lot of tosh. A bunch of insecure people
trying desperately to be heard and cling onto
something that is not real.
Darrell Cook, UK

Some 500 years ago, Columbus was told he
would fall off the face of the earth. The most
educated then were unaware(naive even). We
cannot dismiss UFO's as a figment of our
imagination. Because we cannot comprehend
"how an alien being" travels here does not
mean that it cannot be done.
Warren, England

UFOs are signs of alien life, but not directly. If
another life form is intelligent enough to figure
out how to travel all the way to Earth it will be
clever enough to conceal itself. UFOs,
therefore, are merely decoys to confuse and
mislead us. The aliens are probably having a
laugh at how seriously we study their decoys.
Peter Fothergill, UK

Utilising common sense and scientific logic it is
obvious that UFOs are a figment of the
imagination.
Roy, Canada

There is no reason for us not to believe in alien
life. We all know that the universe is full of stars
and solar systems like ours. It is very narrow to
believe that ours could be the only one to have
life.
So the question is not whether there is alien life
but how and when can we come in contact with
these so called aliens? I think once we know
more about other civilisations in our galaxy
these aliens won't be aliens any more. We have
to keep open and broad-minded so that when
we do make contact with them we can easily
accept them as just another race.
Hemant Verma, India

If we look at the UFOs that cannot be explained
away by scientific methods, what remains must
be true.
I think the scientific establishment should
approach the subject with an open objective
mind that is not biased with pre-existing
theories.
It is extremely naive to think that us humans
know everything about the universe!
Jon, UK

The meaning of the term 'UFOs' has changed
dramatically over the past couple of decades.
The term 'UFO' now has an attached
connotation that practically invokes "beings
from outer space". This is a shame! Thousands
of people worldwide every year see something
unexplainable to them, flying around in the sky.
And many of them photograph or videotape it,
but countless others don't. There seems to be
tremendous evidence of SOMETHING flying
around up there, but what exactly that is, is
completely open for debate. There is absolutely
no evidence whatsoever that any of these flying
objects are from elsewhere in the universe. Of
course, that possibility does exist. The fact is,
many of these flying objects could be weather
phenomena (like sprites, jets, ball lightning,
plasma vortices, etc), or they might be secret
government projects - or they could be a
combination of all of these things.
The idea here is that we just don't know exactly
what these things are because there hasn't
been enough scientific scrutiny into this area.
Most scientists are chased off, afraid of ridicule
and threats to their careers. All of us, especially
the media (which has been completely
irresponsible in dealing with the subject matter),
should be more open to any possibility of
something we cannot explain, and judge each
hypothesis on its own individual merits and
evidence.
Jeffrey M Wilson, USA

Well we won't know till we get some verifiable
proof and evidence. I think there is a huge
possibility that some unexplained sightings
could be intelligently controlled. If we do get the
evidence and proof we are seeking, how will we
handle it? What will we do with this knowledge?
Why would an advanced race want to come
here? They just have to watch TV or listen to the
radio to realise we are an insane bunch! What if
they don't look human? AAAARGH!
Tracy Eggleton, Australia

I am quite convinced that UFOs are simply a
sign that the government is in fact testing new,
highly secret aircraft that appear to others as
UFO's simply because they are so different
from the aircraft we expect to see in the skies,
both in shape and performance.
Matthew Hill, England

Well we won't know till we get some verifiable
proof and evidence. I think there is a huge
possibility that some unexplained sightings
could be intelligently controlled. If we do get the
evidence and proof we are seeking, how will we
handle it? What will we do with this knowledge?
Why would an advanced race want to come
here? They just have to watch TV or listen to the
radio to realise we are an insane bunch! What if
they don't look human? AAAARGH!
Tracy Eggleton, Australia

How can people just dismiss the thousands of
sightings each year?
Rick Davis, UK

Speaking from personal experience, I know
UFOs exist. The question is: What are they?
We know the military doesn't mind hiding
behind UFOs as a cover story for the testing of
experimental aerospace technologies. At least
some UFOs (if not most) are military in origin.
We also already know how to build
interferometers and telescopes which, placed
in space, will be able to detect other living
worlds, even other civilisations. It's safe to
assume advanced ETI are aware of our
existence.
Perhaps the attainment of quantum gravity at
some point leads to the circumvention of the
limit imposed by the speed of light. Who
knows? The answer to UFO origins may be:
Both military and ETI. The military, though, is the
only one we're sure about.
John de Nal, USA

I personally have seen three UFOs.
Glen Clark, Canada

It would take far too long for "aliens" to come
here, unless they have some kind of super
propulsion for their spacecraft, the stuff of
science fiction. For example, Pioneer 10,
travelling at about 28000 mph, won't even come
close to one of our solar system's nearest stars
for 30,000 years.
William Easson, Canada

Why shouldn't there be alien life? Think of the
technological developments made over the last
120 years. If a species is just 500-600 years
further developed than us why shouldn't they be
able to travel vast distances in little time. There
are millions of galaxies out there, why shouldn't
every one of them contain at least one planet
with life ?
David Webb, U.K.

I'm very eager to believe in extraterrestrial
intelligence that is able to reach us.
Nevertheless, there are so many 'ifs, buts and
whys'. For example, why are 'they' so secretive
about their visits on our planet; if they are an
advanced species (how would they reach us
otherwise?!). Why have they not got a different
approach to us humans, to our problems on
earth like pollution and overpopulation and why
on earth do they mostly land on US territory?
Ulrike Watts-Urbanek, The Netherlands

I find it too difficult to comprehend that ours is
the only planet throughout all the galaxies that
has produced life. Many planetary systems
must have similar conditions and the other
necessary building blocks of carbon based life.
The one distinguishing point is that we would
not all be at the same point of evolution and
technological development. Therefore the ability
to traverse large distances may not be the
impossible dream that current science is trying
so hard to convince us of.
Robert G Tedford, Scotland

I think UFOs are a variety of things, ranging
from satellites through to optical illusions.
However, I feel that a minority of sightings are
truly unidentified and warrant more serious
study. I do not believe governments know much
more than we do, and all these conspiracy
theories have undermined Ufology in recent
years. No government would ever want to admit
to atmospheric intrusions over which they have
no control. Some cases seem to show the
distortion of time and space, and I think we
should consider the possibility of other
dimensions, possibly inhabited by intelligent
life.
Matthew Wilde, Britain

I think interpreting UFOs as alien spacecraft
says more about our own psychology than it
does about extraterrestrial visitations.
Chris Mcharg, United Kingdom

If not a sign of 'alien' life, then surely a sign of
'alien' activity...ie, something
stranger-than-fiction is going on. Far too many
of us have seen/heard/sensed
things-beyond-the norm for all this UFO related
activity to be dismissed as merely fantasy,
overactive imaginings, somehow related to
'sleep paralysis'...you name it. This whole area
needs hard, serious investigation, undertaken
by those without nutty agendas or by so-called
scientists (I prefer to call them scientismists)
who can not see beyond their own oh-so-narrow
fields of speciality.
Mike Arnold, USA

How can you say yes or no - the only answer is I
don't know (unless you've had an encounter or
you're part of some secret government group).
Probability would suggest that in a universe of
mind boggling dimensions that it's unlikely that
life is confined to our planet, as pretty and vital
as it is. Needless to say this idea upsets a lot of
religious types - but so what. The real question
is whether other life might have the capability to
travel or send probes across the vastness of
space to do this? If this is possible then
anything is. As to a military cover up...if aliens
are benign then they wouldn't be party to such a
plot...if they are not benign chances are we're
all screwed anyway. The caveat should be
added that it could of course be little more than
a combination of atmospheric phenomena
meets end of the millenium paranoia.
Gary Blackburn, UK

UFOs are UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS,
nothing more and nothing less. The fact that so
many are recorded each year begs a REAL
(mainstream) investigation. If we could
determine that even one of these UFOs are
something other than natural phenomena, then
we could address your question with something
other than uninformed passionate opinion or
wishful thinking. Oh! If only wanting it to be so
could make things real! Wouldn't this be a
better world?
David S Miller, USA

Is sunshine a sign of the existence of a sun
god? This is just superstition filtered through a
modern paradigm. You might as well believe in
Ezekiel's Chariot, Father Christmas and the
Intergalactic Ghoul.
Steve Dempsey, UK

There are so many people out there (to coin a
phrase) keen to produce evidence that "aliens
walk (or fly) among us" that the lack of any
reasonable evidence whatsoever surely proves
that they don't. Mind you, the lack of evidence
for "God" hasn't dampened people's
enthusiasm to believe in that either.
Duncan Hurwood, England

What I believe is the fact that we cannot be
alone out there. The drake equation has shown
us that. The subject of UFOs is one of great
debate but my belief is that they are live, but as
the programme says, "not as we know it".
David Bradley, United Kingdom

The people who say they're waiting for a radio
signal: Rubbish - because an advanced ET
civilisation will have moved WAY beyond the
slow and primitive standard of radio waves a
long time ago. The people who say they
"always contact farmers in the US": Again,
rubbish. This is a truly worldwide phenomenon.
It happens in Africa, China, Russia, Spain,
Brazil... Everywhere in fact. When you run into
highly convincing examples with people who
don't have access to a TV or know what the
term 'UFO' stands for - let alone know about
aliens and science-fiction, then the
'psychological argument falls flat on its face!
The people who say that people who see these
things must be mentally unbalanced: Sorry,
doesn't wash. They're seen by astronomers,
high-ranking military personnel, PhDs,
professors, physicists, US presidents, doctors,
judges, business people, bankers... In fact just
about EVERY spectrum of society there is. In
fact these people have been tested for mental
problems - needless to say, with negative
results. Therefore they are NOT 'stupid' or
'mentally ill'. It amazes me that the erroneous
concept of mental delusion is still believed by
people, even today.
Those that say there's no evidence - go and do
some research. Realise, please, that simple
'lights in the sky' won't convince anybody. The
thing's moved WAY beyond this a long time
ago. The professional investigators spend most
of their time investigating far more important
things than PURELY that! UFOs are tracked on
multiple radars (both air- and ground-based),
confirmed on infra red, seismograph, video
(which has been analysed and proven to be
genuine) and electro-magnetic sensing
equipment; in fact just about ever recording
device you can think of. I'm not bothered about
lights in the sky. However, I am bothered about
clearly physically structured craft, which have
been regularly proven to fly over our military
bases. This is a real problem. Deal with it. Don't
take the word of people at face value, but if it's
subsequently proven to be true, then it's true.
E Adams, UK

No investigation of UFO sightings is ever likely
to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life,
simply because anyone with the technology for
interstellar travel will be able to avoid revealing
concrete proof that he exists, ie getting
captured.
John Ryan, Russia

When I was 10 I remember my father telling me
about how he and my mother had seen a UFO
in 1947. It had been a spinning silver egg that
had been floating in the sky above Blackheath
Common, south London. It had been a sunny
day with clouds, it was early afternoon, and the
object could be seen by the naked eye. My
father got out his binoculars and took a look
and what he saw confirmed the shape and
spinning nature of the object. Now at the time I
remembered the story but didn't really think
about it. A few years later he recounted the
story. I was 13 or 14 and this time I was very
interested. But I thought he was joking. However
what leads credence to the story is the fact that
my mother was there as well and when I asked
her she said that was exactly what had
happened and that my father had given her the
binoculars to see for herself. My mother wasn't
deadly serious about it but rather matter of fact.
What is particularly interesting about this story,
in addition to the partial corroboration (my
mother would not be considered an
independent witness I imagine) was that the
egg, or whatever it was, hung in the air until it
was occluded by a cloud (not a big one in my
father's memory) but a minute or so later when
the cloud had passed it had gone. My father
was an RAF trained navigator. He had just
been demobbed and would have recognised it
as such if it had been a meteorological or
barrage balloon etc. I assume that my father
practically knew the shape and characteristics
of practically everything flying at that time as he
had been on Dacota7s right up to that year. The
egg's spinning nature? My father's later
assertion was that it must have been a UFO in
the pure definition of the sense. Actually I don't
know if UFO mania had hit England in summer
1947. I suspect if it had, my father might have
been in some way caught up in the hysteria.
That's something I will never know as he died
over a decade ago.
I never paid this that much attention however
and had not been particularly interested in UFO
phenomena until May 1998 when I saw
something I can only describe as a UFO myself;
a purple glowing triangle moving very rapidly
across the lower third of the sky one early
evening, again in south London. I am not going
to go into this story as I probably saw a stealth
bomber or something, but all I can say was that
it looked to be about 10 or 15 kilometers away,
was huge, silent, with bright glowing lights at
each of the points and then suddenly stopped,
hovered and disappeared. I got the feeling that
its real behaviour was such that it couldn't have
been a standard aircraft. I was completely fazed
by the whole experience and, well, I cannot help
but think that what I saw and what my father and
mother apparently saw need rational
explanation.
What finally unsettles me is that neither what I
saw or my parents saw fits into the loony
saucer, cigar, or whatever sightings which are
supposed to be what you see when you see a
UFO. But as far as my eyes and first and
second hand experiences guide me I cannot
but help think that visitors come to Earth to
check us out.
Paul Kallender, Ex-UK now in Japan

Why would an alien species make all the effort
to travel light-years across space and then
spend its time abducting trailer trash and
putting on pretty light shows? Alien minds may
mean alien motivations, but come on! How
likely is this scenario really? I'm quite prepared
to believe aliens exist somewhere (the odds
favour it), but any civilisation clever enough to
cross interstellar distances is frankly not going
to waste its time on us. We orbit a very
insignificant star, and we've only just started
making enough noise to be heard in the last 80
years (so unless these aliens can travel
faster-than-light they probably wouldn't BE here
yet!). Sorry, but any way you look at it, aliens
are probably the LEAST likely explanation for
UFOs.
David Evans, UK

Perhaps the scientists could take a look at
some of the nose camera footage from US
planes trying to close in and ID the craft. Also
science says that there could not be life
anywhere else as so many parameters are
needed that they felt it will not happen anywhere
else. Just look at the variety of life on our planet
alone. Life survives in the harshest
environments on earth, so why not in the vast
space of the universe.
Robert Snow, England

Why should an unidentified flying object be a
sign of alien life? The majority of people just
seem to assume any unidentified flying object
must be a spaceship. If you were unable to
identify a car type on a motor way would you
assume it was a space buggy?
UFOs ARE NOT proof of anything other than
the fact we cannot explain or identify all objects
spotted in our skies.
Roy Matthews, England

The reports of alien spacecraft only show Man's
need to explain the unknown or a man's need to
explain where he was last night.
Brian Hedley, England

It's back to the age-old process of blaming
something that isn't fully understood on a
mysterious god-like power, in this case aliens. It
is highly likely (in my mind) that there is
intelligent life out there somewhere, but I think it
is very unlikely that it is of the humanoid variety.
Some other thoughts: If such a civilisation
wished to investigate Earth, one would think
that they could gain all the data they needed by
intercepting our communications - why go to all
the expense of visiting? If they were to kidnap
people and experiment on them, why put them
back to tell all about it? Why don't they contact
the mainstream media? I'm sure all the major
TV news stations would be falling over
themselves to tell all if they had exclusive rights.
Peter Gordon, Australia

I identify 46 alien forms and regularly sight 11
types.
Rodney Neumann Thomas, Pretoria, RSA

There is no difference between UFOs and other
items, eg ghosts and ESP; just a way for
someone to make a fast buck. Any real ETs
would be obvious, and would most probably be
discovered in space by scientists.
Greaeme Legg, Bahrain

UFOs are more likely a sign of alienation from
reality by some people desperate to escape
from our mundane everyday life. I think the fact
that we evolved from nothing and have
consciousness is a far more exciting area worth
investigating than the UFO phenomenon.
Tom Bowshall, Australia

I first realised that UFOs were not the result of
"crazy Yank hysteria" when I was approximately
9 years old. I developed an avid interest in the
subject, and although I have no doubt of the
existence of UFOs, I agree with Arthur C Clark,
they just can't be alien spacecraft. Finally, the
scientific community seems to have removed
its head from the sand, stopped giggling, and
battling for funding at any cost, and finally
realised that we have a phenomena that has
cried out for over 50 years to be investigated.
Keith Davies, US previously UK

The existence of aliens - that is, life on other
planets, and I suppose, in this context, life forms
capable of interplanetary travel - does not seem
to me improbable. But that such life forms
would content themselves with appearing
irregularly as glowing blobs or trails in the skies
of the Midwest does beggar belief.
Crispin Owen, Australia

In our increasingly pagan society maybe UFOs
are a replacement for God. Both are
unbelievable but so many believe.
Tim Pearce, UK

The trouble lies in the fact that 80 to 90% of
"UFOs" are explicable through the likes of
weather balloons, unusually shaped aircraft and
various weather effects. This means that the
remaining 10 to 20% are of unknown origin.
This might suggest extraterrestrial activity in this
planet's vicinity or some covert testing of
military aircraft. This is not exactly something
that governments are going to reveal to the
general public and are probably quite happy to
use extraterrestrial activity as a front for their
operations.
Like many people, I do believe that there is
extraterrestrial life, but the simple fact is that the
universe is too large to make any proof of their
existence easy.
PJ Hughes, UK

I don't believe that UFOs are proof of alien
visitation. It is hard to believe that no regime in
any country in the world would not have
admitted it otherwise. I don't believe that an
international conspiracy of silence could have
held for so long. Whilst I happily admit that life is
probably quite abundant in the universe why are
we so arrogant to assume that other races are
all rushing to visit the earth? I would readily
admit that some governments probably abduct
and experiment on their own people though.
Barry Tregear, England

No. Aliens with the advanced technology
(propulsion, lifespan extension and protection
from radiation) needed to undertake interstellar
travel approach Earth. They can (most of the
time) avoid detection by radar and (most of the
time) cannot be seen. They can (some of the
time) perform time distortions. Do they attack or
invade? Do they communicate friendly
intentions? Not these aliens, they worry people
in remote areas by imitating early sci-fi films!
Ian B, Britain

How can we be conceited enough to believe
that we are the only life in the galaxy? Maybe
Earth is just a small mote not yet worth looking
at from a galactic point of view. I've not seen a
UFO as such so I cannot really answer the
question above, but I do believe in other life on
other planets.
Steve Hughes, UK

One important step in any study on UFOs would
be the US government's release of the data
they have collected domestically and via their
global military presence. Such a widespread
force cannot help but notice and study these
things.
Robert Adams, USA

They're out there,just think about it.
Levi McClain, USA

UFOs are nothing more than a sign of Man's
ignorance, as the acronym states 'unidentified
flying objects". If they were a sign of alien life
then we would have to call then IFO or
"identified flying objects". I do feel that proper
investigation is needed to discover the truth of
these matters, but I do object to the way that
rational debate seems to disappear whenever
the paranormal is mentioned. It seems that
scientists are terrified of something that
questions their dearly held theories and
otherwise rational people become totally
irrational in their desparation to attribute
everything to ET. If this is the future of mankind
then I'm glad that I have faith in God.
Tim Clark, UK

It's hard to say that UFOs are the direct
evidence of alien life. While there is a great
deal of anecdotal evidence, and certainly a
large body of provacative film and video, we
cannot say with certainty that these craft come
from another planet. Although I personally
believe that intelligent life exists somewhere out
in the great expanses of the universe, I cannot
automatically assume that UFOs are direct
evidence of its presence. The issue needs to
be studied systematically and critically before
any final pronouncement about UFOs and their
"operators" can be made.
Kamil Skawinski, USA

To accept the reality of aliens from UFOs one
must also accept that there is governmental
cover-up of them. This would require the
co-operative secrecy of various people and that
is just too outlandish to reasonably accept.
John Bodenstab, USA

UFOs exist physically, but there are no proofs
they are aliens.
Windey, Belgium

As a physicist I am skeptical about UFOs. We
need physical evidence that shows the landing
of extra terrestrial aircrafts or beings.
Mesgun Sebhatu, USA

I certainly think that UFOs demontrate a
possibility of life out in deeper space. It's just a
great pity that governments tend to cover up so
much. So what if human kind reacts in strange
ways to the truth, at least we'll know what's out
there. Would you like to wake up one morning
to find war waging on your planet
human-to-alien style and realise the
governments had not kept you up-to-date. Bit
late then though. We have a right to full
disclosure. We need to be prepared, informed
and aware!
Gys de Beer, South Africa

UFOs are a phenomenon of the imagination.
People often see what they want to see. Little
useful knowledge may be gained by following
random lights in the sky, and even less by
speculating about what they may mean.
David Mathews, U.S.A.

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