Aliens and UFOs

It is an arrogant and stupid man indeed who believes that humans are the only intelligent life forms in the universe. And an even dumber man that believes Earth is the only planet in the universe capable of sustaining life. The universe is so vast we can't even conceive the size, and as far as we know it's still expanding.In our galaxy alone there must be hundreds of stars similar to our Sun, with planets like Earth, capable of sustaining life. Therefore it can be concluded that there is life out there, that we are not alone. I can say with some certainty that martians do not exist.In fact it isn't likely that there is any other life in our small solar system, we'd have found it by now, and most of these planets would not be able to sustain life. But that still leaves millions of planets orbiting tens of thousands of stars.

Do I believe that there are extraterrestrials among us? Or that people are being abducted by aliens from outer space? I don't know. As a child I used to tell myself that UFOs and alien abductions weren't true, that if aliens were really visiting Earth it would be public knowledge. But I told myself this so that I might sleep at night, while avoiding nightmares of aliens coming to get me. As an adult I believe that the government would have to cover up the truth if aliens were here. It's like that line in Men In Black "People are smart" "No, a person is smart, people are dumb panicky animals". It is clear to me that most of the general populous would not react well to the news that extraterrestrials were real and among us, there would be mass panic.

I think the best place to start is with the story of a UFO encounter that really started the modern UFO craze and where we got the term "flying saucer". It was June 24th 1947, Kenneth Arnold, an experienced pilot and seller of fire-control equipment, was flying from Chehalis Air Service in Washington , to Pendleton Oregon. While flying near Mount Rainier Arnold spotted a group of nine aircraft he could not identify flying in a V formation. He described their flight pattern, comparing it to the way a saucer would bounce if you skipped it on water, he calculated the speed at which these craft were flying based on their distance from the ground, Mount Rainier and his plane, and he concluded that they were flying faster than any known aircraft, military or commercial. Arnold went on to write a book about his encounter, The Coming of the Saucers By Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer. In the days and weeks that followed Arnold's sighting there were numerous reports of UFO sightings all over the country, the most famous report being that of a crashed saucer recovered by the U.S. Airforce from a ranch just north of Roswell New Mexico.

TBC...