Ufo's, Your Thoughts? Options

This topic actualy came to my mind yesterday while watching the History channel. Now obviously nobody is going to prove or disprove the existance of Aliens, people from an alternate Earth(s) or any government coverup/ conspiracy.

The intent of the thread is simply to spark a discussion on people's opinions about UFOs. Depending on one's perspective UFOs are real in the sense that they're just that - Unidentified Flying Objects, or USOs - Unidentified Sea Objects. But this also means that just because an individual sees an object in the sky or sea that they don't understand doesn't mean it cannot be explained, not does it mean that are aliens or something just as outlandish.

Through out history and on into the present the current "mind" of the time has tried to explain things in the skys and seas they don't understand using the knowledge and science of the day. Needless to say there are countless accounts from people, sometimes en mass, wittnessing some kind of strange phenomenon in the sky and seas. And these accounts span the ages to the dawn of time itself. Even cave paintings display dipictions of strange humanoid creatures and objects in the sky. Since cave men didn't have written language the only way we could know what they were really trying to express is to go back in time and ask them. Not very likely anytime soon. This is equally true of other ancient "evidence" UFO enthuesiast have pointed to - the Nezca lines, stonehenge, the pyramids and other superstructures, Greek/Roman paintings of fiery chariots or flamming disks and so on in the skys, strange creatures seemingly operating mechanical vehicles in Aztec paintings, pictures of the Gods raining terror from the skies in what may seem like to us as space ships, the saint's encounters with angels were actually aliens. Some even claim the creation of civilization, and possibly humans, itself is due to an alien presance. A few think that these supposed "aliens" are not actually even aliens but ancient peoples who existed here on Earth long before humanity - possibly people from Atlantis.

We could go and on about other such "evidence" that seems to occur on into the 19th century and beyond. In our modern time we've advanced our vocabulary to include expressions of concepts ancient peoples probably couldn't even of dreamed. Because of our technical advancements we've encountered more than just hersey or esoteric piantings and writtings. Now we have numerous amounts of pictures, video coverage of strange objects, supposed radar and sonar coverages, unexlained interferance with electrical devices and so forth. And now even numerous accounts of abductions (some of which supposedly leave strange marks on abductees) as well as cow mutilations. While most (something like 95%) of these have been written off by skeptics and experts there are a few insidents in which the government, skeptics or experts could not or would not offer an explaination - or at least so says "UFO Files" on the History Channel.

So taken all of this "evidence" what do you all think it really means? Do UFOs indicate some unknown, possibly otherworldly, presenance? Or that the Goverment(s) are just using psychology to manipulate the world about its secret programs? Or are people just using their imaginations to try and make sense of the world around them using the knowledge of the time? Perhaps its is actually a combination of these. Then again we all could just be feeding ourselves a bunch of nonesense.

Your take?

This post has been edited by Acid09: Nov 20 2006, 03:11 PM

UFO's in my opinion are not extraterrestrial crafts (not that there would be anything wrong with that) but simply classified aircrafts. There is a lot of evidence to suggest this. Also probably the first to think about a Circular type aircraft were the Nazi's. Infact, after the War World 2, USA And Russia scrambled to get the most number of Nazi Scientist to work for them. This happened under a project codenamed "Paperclip" (If memory doesn't serve me wrong, there was another project too, but I can't remember the name). The story about aliens is counter information by the USA Government to protect there very highly classified technology. There is tons of evidence to support this, much more reliable than some dudes that sees a couple of orbs shooting accross the sky.
For example during the 80's, there were repated sightings of a Triangular type UFO...years later it turned out to be the f-117 stealth fighter.

The F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter attack aircraft was developed by Lockheed Martin after work on stealth technology, and the predecessor test demonstrator aircraft, Have Blue, was carried out in secret from 1975. Development of the F-117A began in 1978 and it was first flown in 1981, but it was not until 1988 that its existence was publicly announced. (source: http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/f117/)

So IMO UFO's are not E.T. piloted but just Top Secret Airplanes (And God does the U.S. Government have classified stuff). Maybe far less inspiring to the Sci-Fi fan, but way more probable and way more supported by evidence!!

Humbly,

FraterLvx

PS: Also things like the UFO's disappearing suddenly etc. can be explained with advanced camouflage technology. There are some types of technology currently under developement that would seem straight out of a Sci-Fi movie...For example the U.S government has been developing a type of body armor for infantry troops that will be adapted around 2020, which has the capability of making the soldier "invisible" or "disappear" (optic Camouflage Technology), resistant to any type of enviroment (can go and survive in chemically toxic enviroments etc.), with a helmet that monitors the soldiers vital signs and a lot of other stuff like super resistant bullet proof material etc.
[and this is no secret, it has even been broadcasted on the discovery channel, imagine what the real top secret technologies are...50 or 100 years more advanced than modern day technology....)

This post has been edited by FraterLvx: Dec 31 2006, 02:45 PM

Greetings 'FraterLvx',

It does seem fairly well documented that the Air Force has at different times had secret air craft.

Supposedly they tried for a long time tried to replicate an alien craft which crashed. So says the History Channel. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bigwink.gif)

Of course the American Government would never try to cover anything up right? That would be like the recent White House firing Federal Prosecutors for investigating Republicans for corruption.

George Bush says the firings were fair and there is no need to question his people under oath. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/diablo.gif)

Maybe these aliens can help us locate the missing weapons of mass destruction?

The Supreme Court says Bush has to stop listening to our phone conversations. He can still read our mail though and Habeas Corpus is no longer a constitutional right thanks to him.

Hell maybe Bush is an alien. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused012.gif) Or at least the dictator of the 4th Reich.

Seriously though. Anything the Government says has to be true right? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/head_hurts_kr.gif)