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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And with the time travel theory it opens the possibility that they might even be beings from alternate dimentions. With limmitless or near limmitless possibilities of other realities there are likely some extremely advanced races out there. Some scientist seem o think that with the energy requirements needed to travel the vast distance of space, even worm hole tech would take a monsterous amount of resources, maybe going between other realities or time-space dimentions would be easier.

UFOs randomly appear and disappear, often manifesting around historically important dates or places. They avoid contact with us at all costs. They are high tech futuristic machines. Who would behave like that?

The government would also act covertly to prevent exposure. Also in Star Trek the Federation had a policy to not interfear with the natural developement of other civilizations. And there are some obvious reasons. The Federation had technology that could be used for war and races who weren't as "developed" might not be able to handle the introduction of such advanced tech. So be they aliens, or whatever maybe they are trying to not interfere with our developement. Then again such vastly more intelligent entities may have already deduced from the way we treat each other and our planet that we are not capable of handling their advanced tech. Or they want us contained to this ball of dirt and not spread our brutallity to the rest of galaxy.

Another option is that they are probing us to see how we react. They don't want to just come down and say "hey we're aliens hows it goin", knowing that the impact of this introduction could destabilize the balance of power on our planet and result in possible catastrophe. So instead they study us, manipulate us, from a distance using their technology only to observe and prevent exposure. For all we know they could have a base on the dark side of the moon or have some kind of space craft cloaked some thousands of miles from Earth.

The reality is still that we do not have enough evidence to say for certain one way or the other. But I do believe there is something to all the sightings and abductee reports.