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UFO's: weather balloons, or mass hysteria?
This thread is a spin off from Maximan's thread: "Ghost, Goblins, and Global Warming."
I was born a couple of hundred miles from Roswell NM just two years before the infamous "incident."
Of course in Texas 200 miles is "next door." I grew up in Lubbock which among other things (Buddy Holly, Lubboch Lake archeological site, worlds largest cotton oil mill, Mack Davis,) is know for "The Lubbock Lights."
This latter is a mysterious fly over of lights flying in "V formation" which has been witnessed many times, once by my big brother in around 1958. My point is that I grew up in an area that was a hot bed of UFO activity, and have been interested in the subject ever since.
Many, perhaps most sightings are cases of mis identification: weather balloons, ball lightening, other unusual but natural phenomena, reflections on car windows etc. Many, especially in the area of "Area 51" are possibly our own experimental military aircraft. But there are just too many sightings by sober, sane and trained observers such as police officers and airline pilots to brush them all off as such. Especially when such reports are more than just fast moving points of lights in the sky, and actually involve detailed descriptions of air/space and even water craft.
In my musings I have concluded that life, or at least consciousness is a cosmic imperative. After all, if a tree falls in a forest and there isn't anything around to hear it, there is no sound: or a tree, or a forest for that matter! For us to believe that in an infinite universe we are the only intelligent life form is rather arrogant I think.
I don't think it is too whacked out to think that our world may have been "seeded" from another world, or, conversely, that we may someday find it necessary to travel to and seed yet another world. The meek may inherit the earth, but the rest may very well inherit the stars! Think about how many things in the Bible could be explained by extraterrestrial visitation: Ezekial's "wheel," angels, people being lifted into heaven etc.
Why haven't "they" contacted us? One possible explanation is that "they" are really us, visiting from the future. Maybe they don't think we are ready yet. Maybe they have their own political considerations. And just maybe they have and "we the people" are being kept in the dark!
Anyway, absolute scientific proof aside, I invite your musings and personal experiences.
E.Liberty
I was born a couple of hundred miles from Roswell NM just two years before the infamous "incident."
Of course in Texas 200 miles is "next door." I grew up in Lubbock which among other things (Buddy Holly, Lubboch Lake archeological site, worlds largest cotton oil mill, Mack Davis,) is know for "The Lubbock Lights."
This latter is a mysterious fly over of lights flying in "V formation" which has been witnessed many times, once by my big brother in around 1958. My point is that I grew up in an area that was a hot bed of UFO activity, and have been interested in the subject ever since.
Many, perhaps most sightings are cases of mis identification: weather balloons, ball lightening, other unusual but natural phenomena, reflections on car windows etc. Many, especially in the area of "Area 51" are possibly our own experimental military aircraft. But there are just too many sightings by sober, sane and trained observers such as police officers and airline pilots to brush them all off as such. Especially when such reports are more than just fast moving points of lights in the sky, and actually involve detailed descriptions of air/space and even water craft.
In my musings I have concluded that life, or at least consciousness is a cosmic imperative. After all, if a tree falls in a forest and there isn't anything around to hear it, there is no sound: or a tree, or a forest for that matter! For us to believe that in an infinite universe we are the only intelligent life form is rather arrogant I think.
I don't think it is too whacked out to think that our world may have been "seeded" from another world, or, conversely, that we may someday find it necessary to travel to and seed yet another world. The meek may inherit the earth, but the rest may very well inherit the stars! Think about how many things in the Bible could be explained by extraterrestrial visitation: Ezekial's "wheel," angels, people being lifted into heaven etc.
Why haven't "they" contacted us? One possible explanation is that "they" are really us, visiting from the future. Maybe they don't think we are ready yet. Maybe they have their own political considerations. And just maybe they have and "we the people" are being kept in the dark!
Anyway, absolute scientific proof aside, I invite your musings and personal experiences.
E.Liberty
Just bought a 1980 Special that has been non oped for 9 years. My Skoot will rise from the ashes and be re named "The Phoenix!"
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