Unidentified Flying Objects, Your thoughts on UFO's Options

"…nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge...further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby." –Edward U. Condon

A UFO is an unidentified flying object which has been identified as a possible or actual alien spacecraft. Such objects include meteors, disintegrating satellites, flocks of birds, aircraft, lights, weather balloons, and just about anything moving within the visible band of electromagnetism. So far, however, nothing has been positively identified as an alien spacecraft in a way required by common sense and science. That is, there has been no recurring identical UFO experience and there is no physical evidence in support of either a UFO flyby or landing.

There are as many photographs of UFOs as there are of the Loch Ness Monster, and they are of equal quality: blurs and forgeries. Other physical evidence, such as alleged debris from alien crashes, or burn marks on the ground from alien landings, or implants in noses or brains of alien abductees, have turned out to be quite terrestrial, including forgeries. The main reasons for believing in UFOs are the testimony of many people, the inability to distinguish science fiction from science, the willingness to trust incompetent men telling fantastic stories, the ability to distrust all contrary sources as being part of an evil conspiracy to withhold the truth, and a desire for contact with the world above. Belief in aliens in UFOs is akin to belief in supernatural beings.

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"UFOlogy is the mythology of the space age. Rather than angels...we now have...extraterrestrials. It is the product of the creative imagination. It serves a poetic and existential function. It seeks to give man deeper roots and bearings in the universe. It is an expression of our hunger for mystery...our hope for transcendental meaning. The gods of Mt. Olympus have been transformed into space voyagers, transporting us by our dreams to other realms."
--Paul Kurtz

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I saw a ufo once. Now when I mean ufo I mean don't alien space ship was what I assumed. I mean I don't know what that was flashing outside my house.

I was probably 13-14 it was warm enough that all the windows could be left open so the house would stay cool. I was about to go to bed and I noticed a flash. It was a bright blue flash, like ball lightning. But it kept happening that night. My bedroom door is open and I can see out far enough into the next room to witness the flashes. I got up and took a look. It flashed again. I could clearly see this time it was some kind of ball of light- ball lightning I kept telling myself. However this continued through out the night. Unlike lightning these flashes weren't random. It was as if three spheres of light were flashing back and furth between one and another (possiblly lights on one craft hooving in the same location for 4 and half hours). Nothing came of this other than the strange lights. There was no other phenomenom -no electronics going nuts in my house, no sense of lost time or anything else typical of of actual "alien" encounters. But it did happen more than one night and in different locations. But further observances became boring for my younger mind and all I did was make a mental note the same flashes were going on in different days and places. I doubt what I saw was ball lightning. I doubt it was aliens. But I did see something. I concluded there must have been a lot of electrical activity in my neck of the woods and that the flashes were a result of that activity. But still very strange.

As far as getting tangible proof of aliens well that could be hard. It seems there are countless abductions, and sightings and recordings but why haven't we been able to find a space ship? Or extraterrestrials. How would one go about getting solid proof about what ufos are or at least what they are not? Especially if any evidenece is secured by the government and cover ups are the talk of the day. Even then there are people who have the reasources to conduct their own investigation and they haven't found anything, or somebody is going to great lengths to make sure the evidence isn't there to be found.

What do I think ufo's REALLY are? Government prototypes. Possibly alien in orgin, doubtful but possible. I think some part of our government has hired a contractor and given them a ton of money to develope vehicles and weapons applications that to us would seem totally off this world. I mean how much does the american public know about the developement of theoretical science let alone the progress we've made at cracking these sciences? If the government is keeping potential technologies secret how could we know anything?