Do you think aliens in ufos have visited Earth? (And all things UFO) (1 Viewer)

Do you think aliens in ufos have visited Earth?

  • Yes

    Votes: 81 48.5%
  • No

    Votes: 46 27.5%
  • Not sure

    Votes: 21 12.6%
  • Only if they arrived in tacoes

    Votes: 19 11.4%

  • Total voters
    167
Perhaps our visitors are of a spiritual nature. Perhaps they want us to see evidence of "extraterrestrial" visitations. Perhaps we are being conditioned for their arrival.
 
I don't think anyone disputes the almost certainty that we are not alone in this galaxy. The doubt is that we are interesting enough for someone to make the long journey just to look at us.
Have they seen the kind of animals/insects, etc we study and watch? Its fair to think higher life forms could look at us the same way we study life on uninhabited islands in the Galapagos islands.
 
Have they seen the kind of animals/insects, etc we study and watch? Its fair to think higher life forms could look at us the same way we study life on uninhabited islands in the Galapagos islands.
That's exactly what I mean. We are less interesting than the giant tortoise. We are more than likely closer to a photo safari on the savannah if anything.
 
That's exactly what I mean. We are less interesting than the giant tortoise. We are more than likely closer to a photo safari on the savannah if anything.

To us maybe.

Animals that kill each other en mass and build nuclear weapons are infinitely more interesting than any other animal on earth though.
 
The fact that they don't makes them more interesting.

If platypuses started producing reality shows, you're telling me that we wouldn't study the crap out of it?
 
GREEN BANK, W.Va. — It came from space, hurtling at tremendous speed: a mystery object, reddish, rocky, shaped like a cigar. Its velocity was so extreme it had to have come from somewhere far away, in the interstellar realm. The astronomers in Hawaii who spotted it in 2017 named it ‘Oumuamua, Hawaiian for “a messenger from afar arriving first.”

But what was it, exactly? A comet? An asteroid?

Or maybe … an alien spacecraft?

That conjecture incited headlines, as well as eyerolls from most scientists. But here in West Virginia, the people involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence — commonly called SETI — decided to aim a giant radio telescope at it, just to be sure.

Aliens are having a moment. Fascination with the concept of extraterrestrial visitors isn’t new, but it has enjoyed a 21st-century efflorescence. Military pilots have seen things that look otherworldly. The Pentagon has established an office to look into the sightings. Congress has held hearings. Even NASA got into the game, training the cool logic of science onto a scorching-hot cultural topic.

Somewhere along the line, UFOs got rebranded. Unidentified flying objects are now, per government edict, unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).

For SETI researchers, the hypothetical existence of aliens is foundational. Nestled in the remote mountain town of Green Bank, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory has a role in one of the most ambitious SETI projects, called Breakthrough Listen.

The project buys time on the towering Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, which has a steerable dish 300 feet in diameter. If there are aliens transmitting radio signals anywhere near us in the galaxy, that big dish is all ear.

Confirming an alien radio signal would be possibly the most consequential and disruptive scientific discovery of all time. SETI scientists have no doubt that the search is worth the effort.

“I think if we didn’t do that, and turned our back on our cosmological neighbors, that would be a sad thing for me,” David MacMahon, the chief scientist on Breakthrough Listen, said this fall during a visit to Green Bank.

That’s why the Breakthrough Listen team pointed the big telescope at the mystery object ‘Oumuamua, listening for signs of intelligent life.

“It was absolutely silent,” reports Matt Lebofsky, lead engineer on the project.

Silence: That is all astronomers have heard since the first SETI search was conducted at Green Bank in 1960.

Only a small fraction of our galaxy has been studied. Absence of evidence, as everyone knows, is not evidence of absence. Aliens may not consider radio waves to be a useful or dignified way to communicate. They could be pathologically shy. Or, at least with the kind of technology we have today, they could be just a little bit out of range……..


 
Never been more sure they're out there or always been here or visiting frequently, or whatever :ROFLMAO:
 

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