Ufo's/extraterrestrial Craft

[chrissie1212]

Has anyone in the AB community ever actually seen what they believe to be a UFO,  or extraterrestrial craft? I haven't, but would love to, if they do in fact exist. I don't see any reason why there couldn't be other life forms in the Universe, especially given some of the fantastic building feats in the ancient world (eg. pyramids etc). Did they have help from more advanced beings? What is your opinion or experience?

[jim360]

No, but perhaps other means exist by which faster-than-light travel is (effectively) possible.

[Arksided]

... like my mate when it's his round.

[naomi24]

Jim, I disagree that those questions need answering before it's reasonable to take the prospects of alien life at all, let alone of such life visiting us, seriously….. but you know that. One unanswered question shouldn’t preclude moving on to another question. Every completed jigsaw starts out as multiple unconnected pieces.

[237SJ]

I don't believe they exist. There might be other life forms out there but that doesn't mean they are more advanced than us. It could be the other way around.

[jim360]

That's not quite what I meant, although to be sure I didn't make myself clear the first time.

First -- well, there's no evidence for alien life so far (or, at least, none that stands up to meaningful scrutiny). But that's not to say that there's no point in searching for such evidence.

On the other hand, it could be rather a long, and fruitless search, either because no such life exists or because no-one really knows how to identify it if they found any. So that should lead people to more fundamental questions being as important, if not more so. How did life start here, how did it become complex, was it a fluke or an inevitability, is this the only way it could happen, and so on.

In all likelihood, direct searches will get nowhere without more information about what they should be looking for. If we're going to extend the jigsaw analogy, it would be like trying to fit the puzzles together before you realised that you actually have four separate puzzles, one of which was actually a hexagon while the third didn't have any edge pieces at all.

But the main point, really, is that regardless of whether or not there's life out there, it will be easier to find it once we properly understand how hard it is to find it.

[naomi24]

Jim, I think there’s potential evidence right here on earth – for anyone who cares to look. How life began is an unrelated question. As always when this subject is discussed you present as a defeatist from the off – and that, I find, very sad …. but then you know that too.

[ichkeria]

I would never rule out the possibility of anything. But I’ll have lots of fun rubbishing the idea that they ever visited earth :-)
All that technology and what do they do? Land in the middle of a field of corn, hump a few old stones around and ... :-)

[naomi24]

^Oh dear.

[chrissie1212]

Thanks all for your lively responses. Good argument both for pros and cons!