UFOs: finally we can accept them as myth and hoax?

[Onkel Neal]

Throughout my life UFOs and flying saucers, aliens etc were suspected and reported, with blurry pictures shoring up as evidence. But of course, as the times change and everyone carries a camcorder now and seemingly every single event in life is recorded these days, no good footage of UFOs. So I guess we can retire this type of thing, we are alone in the universe.

Our Skies Are More Watched Than Ever, So Why Are Reported UFO Sightings on the Decline?

This is a curious trend, given that almost every other aspect of our world is better documented than ever before. More people are carrying cameras on them and more people have access to the internet and can therefore share their strange observations. Meteoric fireballs, for instance, are extensively documented these days, captured on dashboard, security, and phone cameras. So why not UFOS?

[Mr Quatro]

Flesh and blood can not live in a ufo and go that fast too ... Maybe they are smarter now that we are too ... Invisible is still there for those that believe.

[Jimbuna]

They're stealth technology is now obviously far more advanced than in previous decades.

[Reece]

Love that response Jim!!

[Rockstar]

its obvious, its either as Jim says due to their advances in stealth technology. Or it could be just the opposite. Dramatically reducing the number of visitations because of increased surveillence of the skies.

[STEED]

Nah aliens have got smart, have you noticed there are more airplane's in the sky now. Not all of them come from planet earth you know.

[Jimbuna]

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

They're stealth technology is now obviously far more advanced than in previous decades.

Lol, good one

[August]

Thing is the universe is so big that its not unreasonable to assume that life likely exists out there somewhere and it's also obvious that any alien race so advanced that it can travel between the stars could also keep their existence completely hidden from us.



In fact if an alien race were to show themselves it'd probably be because they are getting ready to swat us like the bugs we would be to them. Movie heroes ain't gonna fly up to the mother ship to download a computer virus even if Apple laptop interface is compatible with alien technology.

[u crank]

Originally Posted by August

Thing is the universe is so big that its not unreasonable to assume that life likely exists out there somewhere and it's also obvious that any alien race so advanced that it can travel between the stars could also keep their existence completely hidden from us.

The Great Filter

With no evidence of intelligent life other than ourselves, it appears that the process of starting with a star and ending with "advanced explosive lasting life" must be unlikely. This implies that at least one step in this process must be improbable. Hanson's list, while incomplete, describes the following nine steps in an "evolutionary path" that results in the colonization of the observable universe:

The right star system (including organics and potentially habitable planets)
Reproductive molecules (e.g. RNA)
Simple (prokaryotic) single-cell life
Complex (eukaryotic) single-cell life
Sexual reproduction
Multi-cell life
Tool-using animals with big brains
Where we are now
Colonization explosion

According to the Great Filter hypothesis at least one of these steps—if the list were complete—must be improbable. If it's not an early step (i.e., in our past), then the implication is that the improbable step lies in our future and our prospects of reaching step 9 (interstellar colonization) are still bleak. If the past steps are likely, then many civilizations would have developed to the current level of the human species. However, none appear to have made it to step 9, or the Milky Way would be full of colonies. So perhaps step 9 is the unlikely one ....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

Another problem is the time line. Since the universe is billions of years old highly advance life forms may have evolved, traveled the cosmos and then disappeared. It's possible that they existed hundreds of millions of years in the past.

See also the 'Fermi paradox'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

Throughout my life UFOs and flying saucers, aliens etc were suspected and reported, with blurry pictures shoring up as evidence. But of course, as the times change and everyone carries a camcorder now and seemingly every single event in life is recorded these days, no good footage of UFOs.

That's why.




Problem is, these things heat up very intensely, and they are used a lot. Thats where global warming is coming from.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Skybird

That's why.




Problem is, these things heat up very intensely, and they are used a lot. Thats where global warming is coming from.

[Platapus]

The surest sign of intelligent live out there is that they have not bothered to visit us.




Since it is impossible to prove non-existence, especially in the context of non-earth things, We may never know.


All I know is that I have not seen an alien space craft....yet.


I have also never personally seen a Black Swan for that matter.

[Bilge_Rat]

This is an issue which has always fascinated me and I have looked into it a lot.

At this point, only two things are certain:

1. There is certainly intelligent life out there. According to one estimate I saw, there could be as many as 100,000 inhabited planets in our universe; and

2. There is no proof any of them have ever visited the earth.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

This is an issue which has always fascinated me and I have looked into it a lot.

At this point, only two things are certain:

1. There is certainly intelligent life out there. According to one estimate I saw, there could be as many as 100,000 inhabited planets in our universe; and

2. There is no proof any of them have ever visited the earth.

There is nothing certain in any of the two points. Its just guessing and speculation not based on hints or facts.