UFO's and Aliens. Do they exist? Do you think there's even a chance that there is other intelligent life in our galaxy or universe or do you think we Humans are the only intelligent life in all of creation? These are questions that we as a species, man-kind, have asked since as far as our recorded history goes back. Even Ancient man, with no knowledge of modern science or modern understanding of what "Space" was, would look to the night sky at the twinkling stars and wonder...."Are we truly alone?".
Honestly, I've always thought aliens existed. Whether or not they've actually visited this planet at any point in it's history I don't know and I don't think anyone can truly say one way or the other and have definitive proof. Of course there is probably just as much "proof" that aliens don't exist as there is that they do, but, at least we are now discovering for a Fact that there is or was "some form" of life in the universe outside of the planet Earth. We know from microscopic fossils in martian rocks that at one point millions of years ago there was at the very least Single Celled life on Mars. We found this out back in the late 90's. Didn't hear about it? That's not surprising since I only found out about it because of a 10 second mention on ABC's "World News Tonight" back in 96-97. Today how-ever you can research this for your-self as many papers and articles have been published on the subject. A quick Google Search will lead you to many results such as these:
Meteorite Yields Evidence of Primitive Life on Early Mars Source: www.solarviews.com Article from 1997
Fossil Life in Martian Rock Found in Antarctica ? Source: http://spider.seds.org/spider/Mars/Marsrock/marsrocks.html Article from 1996
Proof of Life in Three Martian Rocks May Come This Year Source: www.popsci.com Article from 2010
This is enough in my eyes to call it "Definitive Proof", they're just waiting on the specific results so they can say it's a fact without a shadow of a doubt, and I respect them for waiting and taking it slow and doing the science the right way. A claim such as this can't be rushed no matter how apparent the results of any "proof" might be.
While I do believe in intelligent life outside of this planet, I'm still a skeptic. I mostly believe in what I can see with my own eyes. What I can feel with my own two hands. I think it's important for anyone doing any Serious research into the matter to be a skeptic and to try to dis-prove or debunk as many fakes as possible. With our advances in computers and video editing and special effects it's easier than ever for the nut-jobs and conspiracy wackos out there to make convincing "proof" on their own and it's people like those that bring a bad ilk to any Serious research into the matter. Sadly there are a lot of fakers and crazy people out there working in both directions of the debate. There are people who make fake videos of UFO's and try to pass them off as real and there are various groups and religious zealots who try to prove that Everything is fake and say that None Of It is real and anyone who believes there is intelligent non-human life in the universe is a moron or a liar.
Worse yet there are many people out there who are terrified of the idea that aliens may exist. Some people are so closed minded that no matter what scientific advances we may make or what we may learn about the universe and life its-self, they will Never believe that alien life exists even if aliens were to land on the White-House lawn and announce to the world that they are real and that they are here. Even if that did happen (which of course it hasn't) there would be a certain percentage of the world's population that would say it was faked, even if the proof was pointing a particle cannon at their head.
I'm about to tell a story I've never told publicly before. I've never told it honestly because I'm a little afraid of what it may make people think in regards to my sanity. If you choose to believe it, that's great. If you choose not to believe it, that's great too. One thing I do know for sure, I know what I saw...
Note: Before I get into the story, keep in mind that I was a kid. I was 13 or 14 years old. I had never done any drugs, didn't smoke cigs, didn't drink, and I wasn't a wild kid with a crazy imagination. I never had an "imaginary friend" at any point and even when I did grow up and start "partying" I've never had a hallucination nor have I ever saw something that I wasn't completely sure was right in front of me (magic tricks aside).
It was the summer of the year that my family moved from Deland in Volusia County out to Lake Mack in Lake County, Florida. I had to go to summer school that year to make up a failing English grade in 7th grade English (long story but basically I got screwed out of the grade I should have received). Because there weren't that many kids in my area going to summer school that year all of us in the neighborhood had to meet down at the corner store which was the only bus-stop for summer school that year. School started at 7 A.M. and was all the way in Leesburg (almost an hour from my house). We kids had to be at the bus-stop at 5:30 A.M. because it was a very long ride all the way to Leesburg from where we were in Lake Mack and there were other students to stop and pick up along the way. I was walking to the bus-stop down a long winding road. It was a normal paved road and there were houses and trailers all over the place. Even though the road was deserted because it was so early in the morning it was still a populated and crowded neighborhood. As I was rounding the bends I noticed all the tall pine trees were swaying back and forth pretty hard like there was about to be a storm, but oddly enough I couldn't feel any wind. I'm not going to say there wasn't any wind, there very well could have been and the currents were too high off the ground for me to feel the wind, but, I didn't actually feel any wind.
I was looking up at the tops of the pine trees when a very Large Triangle came out over the trees. At first I thought it was a helicopter and maybe I was seeing the lights on the ends of the rotors but then two things hit me. First, I couldn't hear Any noise. None what-so-ever. Second, if the lights I saw were on the ends of the rotors they would have been spinning very fast and not been stationary. They were also way too far apart to be rotor blades. The object was at least 3 times as high up as the trees, maybe 4 times as high, and it...was....Massive. I'm talking like the size of a Boeing 747, Massive. I quickly realized there was no way in hell that it was a helicopter. There were no flashing lights on it. They were on steadily. There were four lights in total. One larger light in the center and three more slightly smaller lights, one at each tip of the Triangle. I had seen plenty of helicopters up close, even military ones as I've lived close to Deland Airport for most of my time in Deland and seen plenty of air shows and air planes and helicopters first hand. I've seen both the Apache and the smaller Cobra Attack Chopper that it shares it's design with. It's also of note that out in Lake Mack in Lake County we were technically on the out-skirts of the Ocala National Forrest. The army had a bombing range on the far edge of the forrest and at least 3 or 4 times a year you could hear the bombs being dropped and all you had to do was go outside when the planes or helicopters were flying over-head to see what vehicles were doing the bombing. Lake Mack was right underneath their flight path for a long time even though the bombing range its-self was a good 60 or 70 miles away.
Anyway, when I realized just what it was I was looking at....well, I'm not ashamed to admit I got scared and started running for the bus-stop. I didn't look back and I didn't slow down. When I finally got to the point where I could see the store and see the other kids through the darkness standing under the street light at the store I stopped running. I didn't want the other kids thinking I was too scared to walk to the bus-stop in the dark, which I wasn't. I've never been afraid of the dark, not even as a small child. At that point when I stopped running I took the time to look behind me. Not surprisingly I didn't see anything. Nothing. No ship, no Triangle, no wind, and the trees were as still as could be since there was no wind.
I'm not gonna say I know for sure that it was aliens. I don't and to surmise that with no further evidence would be kinda stupid in my eyes. What I do know is that I have no idea what it was and it WASN'T a conventional aircraft. I honestly don't know what It was, but I do know I have Never seen Anything like It nor have I since. That one experience has led me to believe in intelligent life outside of this planet. I can't say it Was aliens. I can say I Think it was, because I have no other explanation for it.
So.....what do YOU believe? Do YOU think we're alone in the universe? Or do YOU think there is far more out there then we could ever dream is possible?
That isn't how things work. Matter does not have to be destroyed to create energy. If you remember your chemistry, when you excite the electrons of an atom (ie, add energy), and then those electrons fall back to their ground states (the lowest energy, most stable states), light is emitted. No matter is destroyed to "create" that energy.
You have the energy to move your muscles because energy is stored in the chemical bonds of sugar molecules. When those bonds are broken, energy is released, and you can use that energy to type on your keyboard (that is an oversimplification, but generally that is what happens). Again, no matter is converted into energy or energy into matter.
When you drop a tennis ball or whatever on to the ground, it gains kinetic energy. But unless you drop it from such a height that it burns up in the atmosphere due to friction, it is exactly the same ball you started with; no loss or gain of matter. Even if it did burn up, the "ball" is still there, just turned into ash. If you could count every atom in the ball before it burned up, you could find every one of those atoms afterward.
None of those senarios violate E=mc^2. They convert one kind of energy into another (potential into kinetic, chemical into kinetic, etc). All of modern chemistry would be wrong if it worked the way you are suggesting. Every balanced chemical equation they make you write in school would be wrong because they wouldn't actually be balanced. Only in very special cases is is possible to convert matter into energy.
Do you have some links to evidence of tachyons?
I believe many things. First, I believe there is other life out there in the universe, and it's likely not all of it is Intelligent. It's also likely that some of it is.
Second, I believe I've seen a UFO before. On two occasions, though not as close up as the OP. Three occasions if you count the Arizona Lights.
I was about 25 minutes outside of Phoenix the night of the lights. It was pretty spectacular. I was 17 at the time, and me and some friends were there for a fund-raiser for an organization. This organization does leadership and public speaking courses for those who are nominated. I was nominated when I was 15, and it was a life-changing experience. So were the Arizona Lights, as they've come to be known. This was the 2007 recurrence of them.
We were on our way back to the hotel. Nothing special, we had to pay for our own lodgings, so we were staying at a Best Western or some-such, I don't remember. At the time, I was a lot more anti-social than I am now, so sitting in a car with 2 people right next to me really tended to make me uncomfortable, and looking out the window always helped. It didn't matter that they were my friends, it was the proximity... Anyway...
When I saw the lights, I asked the cabby to stop the car. I jumped out and just kinda stared at them. The three of them, (My two friends and the cabby,) thought I was nuts to be staring at some random-ass lights. They thought I'd lost it. The cabby, nice guy that he was, asked me what the hell was so special about a bunch of fireworks.
"They aren't fireworks." They all looked a lot more closely at that point. The lights just kind of sat there for a while... A long while... They moved a little, re-arranging themselves here and there, but never really moved all that much, relatively speaking.
Kevin finally asked, "What are they?"
"Those are UFO's bro."
The cabby proceeded to pull out his cellphone and call someone. Not sure if it was the Police or the FATA (Federal Air Traffic Authority,) but it was obviously one of those two. He had to try three times. We weren't the only ones seeing this... LOTS of people were seeing this. Tyler panicked. He was never an especially stable guy, and he has this alien phobia anyway. Kevin got nervous, but kept his cool, and started thinking about what we should do. The cabby ignored us and kept talking to the person on the other end of the phone-line. I just sat and watched. I morbidly understand several things about Alien Encounter Scenarios... If they want to kill us, they're going to. If not, we're fine. Most likely case is they're studying anyway, so no biggy. I told everyone it was nothing special and we should get back to the Hotel. The cabby never got off the phone the entire way there, and he kept watching the lights between fits of driving. He forgot to make us pay.
We could still see them from the front of the Hotel. There were fewer of them, but still there. I went inside and turned on the news. Tyler and Kevin watched the lights. Tyler had calmed down at some point during the ride home, but he was still clearly agitated. Kevin was as cool as a cucumber by this point.
Local news stations had no explanation for it at the time, and were confirming that the Military didn't either. The Feds later redacted their comments, saying they were flares. Flares don't hover. F-16's also make a shit-ton of noise... It was pretty damn quiet.
After that I was convinced... Humanity had just had a mid-range encounter of some kind.
Were they actually UFO's? I don't know. Maybe it was a unique solar or astral Phenomenon made manifest in the skies above Phoenix that night. Maybe they weren't UFO's but actual aliens, beings of energy, hovering in the sky. Maybe everyone in Phoenix at the time just had a mass hallucination. I believe they were UFO's.
My very first one was a 'Star' suddenly and without warning dropping out of sight. I'd gone with a friend and his family to Green River for a rafting trip. Nick, his uncle Mike, and I were walking up the trail to the top of the white-water staging area. It was late. Really late. I saw it first, something about it had caught my eye. A star, straight ahead of us, hovering a ways above the low mountain range. I was drawn to it, and consequently, so were they. That's when it almost vanished. I say almost, because it didn't just plain disappear. Rather, the 'Star,' moved up the horizon, relatively speaking about an inch, then shot straight downwards. We all saw it. We turned around and went back to the camp grounds.
The second time was near my home in Utah. My family was plagued with issues while I was growing up, and by the time I was 11, I'd developed Insomnia. This one I remember quite clearly, as it's the closest I've ever been to a potential UFO. I was 16, my parents were fighting, and I couldn't sleep, nor could I stand the yelling anymore. I snuck out and decided to take a walk. I live right in the foothills of the Rockies, so there are lots of nice little trails to go hiking on. It was nearly a full moon that night, so the lighting was decent for being that late.
I left at about 2 AM. By 2:30, I was perched atop the spot me and my friends used to call Frag Rock. We called it that because we'd go up there to play Paintball during the summer, and that particular area was a perfect kill-zone. I sat there for quite a while, about an hour, and then started back. It took me about half an hour to make my way back down, taking the long way this time. I was right at the foot of the mountain, about to turn onto the path back to the street when I saw it. A big shadow. A very big shadow, hovering maybe 2 or 3 miles off in the distance. It seriously looked like a saucer. It wasn't all that high up, and maybe 3 or 4 times the size of a helicopter. I thought nothing of it at first. I live an hour from Hill Air Force Base, figured it probably was a Huey or a Chinook doing night drills. But then it occurred to me that there was no noise. Even from that distance, I would've heard it, especially on a calm night like that, so close to the mountain where the sound would've been sure to bounce back. I took another look, and that's when it... Well, 'ran' up the side of the mountain, right to the top, and then sat there for about 3 seconds before shooting off into the sky. It took maybe 3 more seconds for it to dwindle completely out of sight.
I haven't had any UFO encounters since the Arizona Lights. About 4 years now. Despite all the time these memories have had to fade away, they haven't. I'm utterly convinced, there is other sentient, intelligent life, in not in our Galaxy, then out there somewhere, in the vast vast universe... And statistically speaking, there's gotta be at least one other intelligent civilization out there.
Go to Wikipedia and look up Drake's Equation. Done back in the 60's it gives a possible count of intelligent life in the galaxy, not the universe but the galaxy. comes to about 10,000 give or take and that's a conservative number.
I believe in pink space ponies
All I need to know about aliens:
Are they better baked or fried?
Are they best served with white or red wine?
And for the breakfast variety:Do they get soggy in milk?
mmmmm....aliens
ive laready posted my views on this topic on an earlier post. but on a side note id love to get it on with some hot piece of alien humanoid female... or be taken to their planet full of nympho females. dam!
Careful what you wish for. grrrr
And never walk again!
I had a nympho g/f once, and she was more than any one man could handle.... ten minutes later: "How about another one, honey?"
How I lasted 3 months with her I'll never know. Took me 6 months to get over her... or should I say, "recuperating".
Nah, ye can keep yer planet o' raging nymphos t' yerself.
I have just the Gallery for you.
I can imagine the sort of gallery you got in mind. I think it was back in the mid sixties they did a flick about these wild chicks from Venus. It flopped. Too campy and the actresses ... eew!
Not to many UFO BrokeBacks out there?
I've seen the Video that explains Drake's Equation actually. It's part of the basis for my opinion that, statistically speaking, there's gotta be at least one other Civilized Species out there in the galaxy, or the Universe, somewhere. That, and, I've always believed that about the possibility of other life in space.
I realize Drake's Equation is just speculation, but it's couched in good logic, and math. The Math makes it seem plausible. And it was really well thought out.
Indeed....and now some fun with numbers:
"Drake used the equation to estimate that there are approximately 10,000 planets in the Milky Way galaxy containing intelligent life with the possible capability of communicating with Earth.
Based on observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, there are at least 125 billion galaxies in the Universe. It is estimated that at least ten percent of all sun-like stars have a system of planets, i.e. there are 6.25×1018 stars with planets orbiting them in the universe. Even if we assume that only one out of a billion of these stars have planets supporting life, there would be some 6.25×109 (billion) life-supporting planetary systems in the Universe."
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Is she a time traveler??
Um, no. When you excite electrons what exactly are you exciting them with? Oh that's right energy. Energy is still conserved in the system you propose, matter doesn't matter in electronic transitions. I note you put create in quotes, which is fair, but it's unfair to say that atomic emission is creating energy.
Well now you're just being ridiculous. No matter is converted into energy when you break molecular bonds? Um what??? You've got it exactly wrong.
Well yes, matter is matter, but ash is not the same thing as a tennis ball. Combustion is the release of energy by breaking molecular bonds, when you burn organic material you generate heat (energy), CO2 and H2O. As well as whatever left over carbon is not consumed in the combustion. Also you've heard of potential energy right? This is basic high school physics. Do work on something (like lifting a tennis ball) and you are adding energy to the system.
Now you're getting it right, but your earlier examples are very poorly worded.
Worded poorly, probably But none of those convert matter into energy. Electrons are usually excited by photons, which in the lab usually come from lasers. Those lasers are usually powered by some chemical reaction. All chemical reactions (like breaking the bonds of a molecule to generate energy) conserve the matter involved. At the end of the reaction you have the exact same number of atoms you started with, they just aren't arranged the same way. Breaking a bond is not destroying matter or converting matter into energy. Bonds are just interactions between the electrons of two atoms. Breaking a bond releases energy, but no atoms are converted into that energy.
Two things to simplify the whole thing in a nutshell. One: Conservation of energy. E=MC2 is all about converting matter into energy as both as manifestations of the same thing. TWO: Electrons can be disturbed by more than just a photon. Another electron, an ion, etc. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed only converted. Junior High School physics guys. If you want to get really into it try Quantum Mechanics. That'll ruffle your feathers.
Probably a bit ignorant to not believe in other worlds which could sustain life as we know it not too mention life as we don't....
But personally I believe the possibility of us coming into contact is about as slim as unlocking the secrets of time travel....
In a vast endless universe to believe measly flawed humans are the only form of life is laughable at best. How could anyone NOT believe in the existence of other lifeforms? Long cold stares, glowing eyes, stealthy attacks (for human blood samples I presume)....I believe my cats are aliens...
Don't leave them alone with the cows .......... Just sayin
They actually help the dog chase the neighbor's cows....too weird.
Payin their rent are they? Good Catto's.
UFOs are lies made up by aliens to make us believe that there is such a thing as aliens, when really there isn't. Crafty non-existent extra-terrestrial freaks of nature.
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