UFO's Yes or no

[bajabuc]

Just for the heck of it:

•How fast is the Earth spinning? 0.5 km/sec. That is a speed of about 1040 miles/hr

•How fast is the Earth revolving around the Sun? 30 km/sec: about 18.5 miles/sec

•How fast is the Solar System moving around the Milky Way Galaxy? 250 km/sec: about 155 miles/sec

•How fast is our Milky Way Galaxy moving in the Local Group of galaxies? 300 km/sec: 185 miles/sec

3600 seconds in an hour.

What ever you get, we're bookin'

[dou44]

zombies and ufo's are out there.

[Guest friesepferd]

Well, the way this question was worded it was kind of hard to answer correctly.

Do I believe there are Unidentified Flying Objects - of course. Happens all the time.

Do I think they are ever flying saucers- aliens from another planet - no.

Do I think other lifeforms exist out there somewhere - sure.

[bajabuc]

Well, the way this question was worded it was kind of hard to answer correctly.

Do I believe there are Unidentified Flying Objects - of course. Happens all the time.

Do I think they are ever flying saucers- aliens from another planet - no.

Do I think other lifeforms exist out there somewhere - sure.

If there's intelligent life elsewhere they've proved they aren't by visiting here.

[Will Carry]

I believe that there are fly objects that can't be identified, but they ain't extraterrestrial. The UFO believers think that a race of intelligent beings are smart enough to warp time but for some reason they need to have bright lights when they fly at night. Is there some intergalactic FAA that requires all space ships to use running lights at night?

[Guest friesepferd]

Is there some intergalactic FAA that requires all space ships to use running lights at night?

[Guest Lester Weevils]

It is also mandatory to use turn signals when performing any maneuver impossible for earthly aircraft.

The galactic fine for a broken headlight or taillight is expensive.

In certain podunk nebuli, the authorities consider a broken light as probable cause to search your craft and do a full rectal probe. Afterwards you end up parked on some remote asteroid, often out of range of an FTL cellphone antenna, until you can repack and reload your bags and bolt the seats back in yer saucer.

Don't carry "too much" Galactic Credits as cash, or they will keep the cash as evidence of a crime, and then you have to come back thru with a lawyer to retrieve your cash.

All in all, it is better just to make sure the lights are in good working condition.

Edited May 31, 2011 by Lester Weevils

[Jonnin]

I voted yes because UFOs do indeed exist. All it takes is for *anything* to fly over *anyone* without being identified by the viewer -- which happens all the time with home-made and experimental aircraft. If you meant alien life forms buzzing the planet, then I remain open to it being possible but have no way of saying.

[Guest Bluemax]

Watched an interesting show on National Geo a couple of weeks ago addressing the subject of time travel. Yea I'm a skeptic too....but what if we're being visited by ourselves from the future..again not promoting this theory. but it is interesting

[Defender]

The stealth fighter while being developed/tested was responsible for many UFO reports out west;

[bajabuc]

NPR had an interview on "All Things Considered" about Area 51. Interesting. The general concensus is that the UFO's were the Soviets attempting to "stir discord in the populace."

My mistake..it was "Fresh Air"

"The UFO craze began in the summer of 1947. Several months later, the G2 intelligence, which was the Army intelligence corps at the time, spent an enormous amount of time and treasure seeking out two former Third Reich aerospace designers named Walter and Reimar Horten who had allegedly created [a] flying disc. ... American intelligence agents fanned out across Europe seeking the Horton brothers to find out if, in fact, they had made this flying disc.

"The idea behind it remains, why? Why were they looking for a flying disc? And conspiracy theorists have had their hands on this declassified file for over a decade now, and they say it proves that this flying disc came from outer space. If you read the documents, the takeaway that I found fascinating was that at the end of it, the Army admits finding the Horten brothers, and that the Horten brothers admitted their contact with the Russians and that's where the file ends. Everything after that is classified."

On why Area 51 is actually classified, according to a source

"The Horten brothers were involved in the flying disc crash in New Mexico. And that is from a single source. ... There was an unusual moment where that source became very upset and told me things that were stunning that's almost impossible to believe at first read. And that is that a flying disc really did crash in New Mexico and it was transported to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and then in 1951 it was transferred to Area 51, which is why the base is called Area 51. And the stunning part of the reveal is that my source, who I absolutely believe and worked with for 18 months on this, was one of the engineers who received the equipment and he also received the people who were in the craft.

"The people were, according to the source, were child-sized pilots, and there's a lot of debate about how old they were. He believes they were 13, although other people believe they may have been older. But this is a firsthand witness to this, and I made a decision to write about this in the very end of the book, after I take the traditional journalist form of telling you everything in the third person, I switch and I kind of lean into the reader and I say, 'Look, this is not why Area 51 is classified to the point where no one in the government will admit it exists. The reason is because what one man told me.' And then using the first person, I tell you what I was told. And there's no doubt that people are going to be upset, alarmed and skeptical of this information, but I absolutely believe the veracity of my source, and I believe it was important that I put this information out there because it is the tip of a very big iceberg."

On the Soviet human experiments her source told her about

"The child-sized aviators in this craft [that crashed in New Mexico] were the result of a Soviet human experimentation program, and they had been made to look like aliens a la Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, and it was a warning shot over President Truman's bow, so to speak. In 1947, when this would have originally happened, the Soviets did not yet have the nuclear bomb, and Stalin and Truman were locked in horns with one another, and Stalin couldn't compete in nuclear weaponry yet, but he certainly could compete in the world of black propaganda — and that was his aim, according to my source. ...

"What is firsthand information is that he worked with these bodies [of the pilots] and he was an eyewitness to the horror of seeing them and working with them. Where they actually came from is obviously the subject of debate. But if you look at the timeline with Josef Mengele, he left Auschwitz in January of 1945 and disappeared for a while, and the suggestion by the source is that Mengele had already cut his losses with the Third Reich at that point and was working with Stalin."

On why the Soviets would have undertaken such a hoax

"The plan, according to my source, was to create panic in the United States with this belief that a UFO had landed with aliens inside of it. And one of the most interesting documents is the second CIA director, Walter Bedell Smith, memos back and forth to the National Security Council talking about how the fear is that the Soviets could make a hoax against America involving a UFO and overload our early air-defense warning system, making America vulnerable to an attack."

Edited June 1, 2011 by bajabuc