[QUOTE=Princeton;2345786]I’m up in the air on this one. no pun intended. I do wonder why the government had to change it from UFO to UAP. They always have to stick their nose into everything. I saw the testimonies. I saw the footage and I still have trouble believing.

UFO=Unidentified Flying Object, Is a smaller range of possibilities than UAP=Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. UAP opens the door for things that don't "fly" in the conventional way, like a plane. Things that seem to float or hover, odd lights or clouds, mirages, meteors and other things that appear in the sky that may defy a logical explanation. I have seen UAPs several times. But I never attributed/equated them to extraterrestrials. Just odd things in the sky that I had no answer for.

Popular? They just discovered a unique and primitive species. Of course we are Popular. Like finding a living family of squabbling pterodactyl. Everbody out there can't wait to get a look at us. Smile! You're on candid extraterrestrial camera. 👽👽👽👾👾🤖🤖👹👹👹

Klaatu.
Barada.
Nikto.

If only ....
🖖👽 Thanks, pal. But if we can't get our s--t together, we probably will do neither. 😞

…unless they need an organic food source.

UFO R real 👽
 

Many in The Villages have seen UFO
All the locations with nukes have been visited! A SAC base I was at was visited in 1975

Just because you think they are not real is what the government wants u to do!


There are many pictures of them you have to look for them as the comprises to the not real free speech keeps them off local news

See Steven Greer on YouTube or Netflix he is one of many from the last 50+ years!

And the group/agency responsible for hiding this "truth" fly around in black helicopters

I agree with you that we haven't been visited by aliens, for the same reasons.
but that is not about what i was disagreeing with you.

Anybody remember an original Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man".

Why is your faith based belief the only correct one but others are gullible for their faith based beliefs?

Anyone with any sort of appreciation of knowledge of science know that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

As an aside:
If naturalistic evolution is correct, there must be other intelligent life out there in our own galaxy. Most would be far, far older races than humanity simply due to our stat being so young.

Assuming no race could ever figure out to to bypass the speed of light with a million extra years to figure it out is silly. A great many scientists claimed it was impossible to break the speed of sound... obviously wrong. Good thing others did not prescribe to their faith based belief. Just like I am glad others do not prescribe to yours.

I went to a very small audience talk by Carl Sagan whilst in high school. I asked him if life existed on other planets in the universe. . He said "Yes" I will take that answer over everyone else's answers that we are the only ones in existence.

as far as alien space time travel. . . all lovers of science fiction.. . .

older minds
 

It is not uncommon for older individuals to be incapable of understanding new concepts that attempt to explain reality. In fact it is the norm. This thread case in point. :read:

Of course. Gives a new twist to BBQ ribs. Humans taste like pork. Ah, or so I've been told. 😏😋👽

True. But I think the whole issue of alien encounters hinges on whether there is any possible way to achieve faster (and probably much faster) that light travel---whether it be wormholes/stargates, hyperspace/subspace, or warp drive. An extension of the Drake equation with all the new information from the Hubble and James Webb telescopes would suggest there are upwards of 40 TRILLION civilizations at least as advanced as ours in the observable universe. However, without FTL travel, the only ones that could ever interact with each other would be in the same solar system as each other.

Now, if FTL travel is possible and aliens were looking for other "intelligent" life, our only detectable signals are now only about 90 light years out, and quite faint at that. Five thousand years ago we were "dark". So now, on our little rock orbiting an insignificant star on the edge of one of the spiral arms of an insignificant galaxy, the aliens would have to have stumbled upon us, and curious enough not to be repulsed by our primitive behavior. The odds are pretty low when you put all this together. But in the unlikely case that it was true, it certainly would shed light on some of the mysteries of our past.