OT: Soooo... Did I see a UFO?

[Banksyrules 4,474]

Not a fancy laser pointer? How come aliens never land? Could they be drunk?

[JSHoosier 19,803]

Not a fancy laser pointer? How come aliens never land? Could they be drunk?

As I already said,they scan Earth and all the moronic things humans do and say "nope, no intelligent life on that planet".

[JSHoosier 19,803]

I saw something strange once when I was in Mexico. It was about 1 AM and I was outside since I couldn't sleep. All of the sudden a section of the sky lit up, like a big lightbulb behind the clouds and stuff. I stared at it for a second, thinking it was just the moon but then I saw the moon was on the other side of the sky. All of the sudden all the dogs in the neighborhood started barking like crazy! I stared for a couple of minutes and then it just disappeared. I told my girlfriend the next morning but she did not believe me. Oh well! UFO's are real.

Of course they are real. Anything in the sky you can't identify is by definition an Unidentified Flying Object.

Some of them may even be alien spacecraft.

[IU Hoosier41 14,465]

So back to my pictures... Anyone have any idea what it could be?

[Josh 12,543]

So back to my pictures... Anyone have any idea what it could be?

 

A UFO!  Duh.

[Dalton26 16,892]

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Good going on spoiling the big announcement a day early.

[DawgBawls 712]

Not a fancy laser pointer? How come aliens never land? Could they be drunk?

cause they are scared they'd be in trouble with the NCAA...

[ALASKA HOOSIER 11,256]

the military has some really cool stuff out there. I once flew into Langley from S/C America on a "private" military aircraft. we landed on the far side of the airfield and had to walk past some crazy stuff. I believe there are some "visitors" to our tiny marble but.....the GOV has some toys. Maybe, the visitors taught us how to make and play with that stuff.? Hmmmm

[Hovadipo 54,917]

the military has some really cool stuff out there. I once flew into Langley from S/C America on a "private" military aircraft. we landed on the far side of the airfield and had to walk past some crazy stuff. I believe there are some "visitors" to our tiny marble but.....the GOV has some toys. Maybe, the visitors taught us how to make and play with that stuff.? Hmmmm

Now THIS is interesting. Tell me more tell me more.

[Hurryin' Hoosiers 1,951]

Now THIS is interesting. Tell me more tell me more.

 

Like does he have a car?

 

Well-a well-a well-a huh

[ALASKA HOOSIER 11,256]

Now THIS is interesting. Tell me more tell me more.

nope

[Tom White 1,435]

The Truth is Out There

[HoosierAloha 30,024]

the military has some really cool stuff out there. I once flew into Langley from S/C America on a "private" military aircraft. we landed on the far side of the airfield and had to walk past some crazy stuff. I believe there are some "visitors" to our tiny marble but.....the GOV has some toys. Maybe, the visitors taught us how to make and play with that stuff.? Hmmmm

Really cool stuff! I worked out in nowhere Nevada clearing ranges of UXOs. We found some super high speed stuff and were told to mark it and leave/blow it. Also stayed on the base where the 117 was developed. Oddly enough they fly in workers from Vegas everyday so they must be working on something....

Could have just been 3 F22s flying in formation. 15s, 16s, and 22s are all pretty loud.

[AKHoosier 6,737]

Nobody asked me, but I'm going to share my thoughts anyway:

 

1. I believe in extraterrestrial life, aliens, whatever you want to call them.  I also believe they've never visited Earth, as the chances are nearly microscopic.

 

2. Any UFO seen is an American military aircraft, weapon, or satellite.  In the 1950s, mankind was able to put a satellite into space.  In the 1960s we put a man on the moon, and developed a manned reconnaissance plane that could take a photograph clear enough to read the license plate on a vehicle while the plane traveled 80,000 feet above the Earth at speeds over 2,000 mph.

 

You, me, or anyone on this board probably couldn't even fathom what we're capable of creating now, or what we've been working on the last 15 years or so.

 

On a side note, I was once privy to a casual conversation with a retired Vice Admiral of the Pacific Fleet of the U.S. Navy (pretty sure that was his title, something to that effect anyway).  Anyway, he wouldn't give much detail, but he said the "black budget" of the United States military is larger than the defense budget of all the major Western European nations combined.  Basically, we just pour a bunch of money into projects the public never knows about, and bury the money in things the budget for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, for example.  With money like that being spent, there's likely Research & Development going on that you probably couldn't even attach an accurate dollar amount to.

 

So yeah, I'd bet you saw some kind of experimental CIA aircraft.  Thanks for sharing though, love stuff like this.

[OliviaPope40 6,423]

Are we saying Area 51 is real?

[Dalton26 16,892]

Are we saying Area 51 is real?

Area 51 is real.

[JSHoosier 19,803]

Are we saying Area 51 is real?

It is, it's a military base.  It really is highly protected and secretive too (even by military standards).  Are there really aliens there?  Doubt it.

[ALASKA HOOSIER 11,256]

I don't doubt it

[Defenserocks28 393]

This article is amazingly well written and a very fun to contemplate.  Talks about the Fermi Paradox...

http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html

 

The idea of the Fermi Paradox is:

 

Basically, the article looks at the fact that 1: “So there are 100 Earth-like planets for every grain of sand in the world. Think about that next time you’re on the beach.”

 

2. Moving forward, we have no choice but to get completely speculative. Let’s imagine that after billions of years in existence, 1% of Earth-like planets develop life (if that’s true, every grain of sand would represent one planet with life on it). And imagine that on 1% of those planets, the life advances to an intelligent level like it did here on Earth. That would mean there were 10 quadrillion, or 10 million billion intelligent civilizations in the observable universe.

Moving back to just our galaxy, and doing the same math on the lowest estimate for stars in the Milky Way (100 billion), we’d estimate that there are 1 billion Earth-like planets and 100,000 intelligent civilizations in our galaxy.[1]

 

3. If we’re right that there are 100,000 or more intelligent civilizations in our galaxy, and even a fraction of them are sending out radio waves or laser beams or other modes of attempting to contact others, shouldn’t SETI’s satellite array pick up all kinds of signals?

But it hasn’t. Not one. Ever.

Where is everybody?

 

4. Welcome to the Fermi Paradox.

We have no answer to the Fermi Paradox—the best we can do is “possible explanations.” And if you ask ten different scientists what their hunch is about the correct one, you’ll get ten different answers. You know when you hear about humans of the past debating whether the Earth was round or if the sun revolved around the Earth or thinking that lightning happened because of Zeus, and they seem so primitive and in the dark? That’s about where we are with this topic.

[Hovadipo 54,917]

One of my favorite quotes, courtesy of Arthur C. Clarke:

"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."