UFO's & UAP's: Is the Truth Out There?

[Streeper541]

Recently here in the States we had the second official Congressional Hearing regarding the existence of UFO's/UAP's. The first was held last year in July 2023, and the most recent was held yesterday, November 14th. Obviously the stigma surrounding UFO's has subsided to the level where it can at least be seriously considered at the Federal level for inquiry purposes. What say ya'll? Thoughts? Comments? I'd love to discuss...

 

[Hillcrest]

Elon Musk already told us he's seen no evidence of aliens in his review of classified docs for space x --- He said the aliens are us. Meaning it is all DARPA - Area 51 advancements. Or is that 'disinformation' ??? Is he even real or is he an alien ???

 

[Elric]

I hope there is intelligent life somewhere out there to offset the naturally occuring stupidity here on Earth.

 

[fireground_piper]

UFO? Undoubtedly, we're working on secret things that are kept incredibly close the vest.

Non-native to earth though? Unfortunately, I can't get behind it.

 

[/Adam\]

Man I’ve been intrigued by this subject and the thought of an advanced race of beings existing that might actually be visiting planet earth for a long time. I’m definitely not a believer but I wouldn’t ever be so close minded to say with authority that they don’t or that it hasn’t ever happened. The Universe is just too big and there is too much science that proves we know a lot but we know we know nothing about what we don’t know. Meaning science has proved that spooky and unexplainable events happen. Like quantum entanglement and the double slit experiment that proves reality changes when an observer is present. Im humble and open minded enough to admit that we as humans can never say for certain that it’s impossible. But I think that the science and the US military make a mighty team and I truly believe we are decades if not hundreds of years more advanced in certain areas of science and physics than we as normal citizens know. Its my opinion that we’ve recently cracked some stuff that allows for all the mind bending things that the tic-tac and other UAP’s have been spotter doing. Like the radar info that showed objects at 80k feet in altitude drop to 50’ above the ocean surface in 1.3 seconds or one full sweep of the advanced radar system that they were spotted on. UFO/UAP or new technology I definitely want to know.

 

[jackattack]

 

[Sparcdude]

I don’t understand why they waste of money and resources on something that has no concrete evidence. It’s like trying to prove a negative.

The distances are just too vast, to say nothing of radiation issues, cosmic rays, etc. Is there life out there? Undoubtably so. If it happened here, it most likely could have happened elsewhere. Will we ever contact or meet them? I’d say it’s a 99.9999% chance of no.

As far as the supposed military coverups (Area 51, et al), my thinking is that they don’t mind the speculation of harboring “alien technology” as it keeps everyone’s eyes off of the research that’s really being done.

 

[Grangerous]

We take for granted the exponential growth of technology. You’re holding it in your hand reading this.

In all of the years man has been on this planet, we’ve gone from horses and carts to controlling a Rover on Mars in the span of a few generations. I find that remarkable.

My great grandfather was born in 1896 and passed away when I was a sophomore in high school. He was a doughboy in World War 1.

Why the sudden leap in technology?

 

[Hillcrest]

Just last week scientists discovered that birds can see magnetic fields and navigate by them. Why were they researching that unless they wanted to emulate that ability elsewhere ? ( Angels and demons are more real than alien beings.) Just 2 cents.

 

[beefeater33]

God is the answer.................................

 

[JoeW]

 

[fireground_piper]

The Fermi paradox is where I sit and the general question "....But where is everybody?"

Not that life hasn't started elsewhere, or even on earth, previously but it's just so difficult to start from nothing and persist to the technology level needed to genuinely leave your native planet without an event that resets you back to zero. If something cleared us out tomorrow, the next civilization to rise up after us might not be for another couple million years.

 

[georged]

At ten million miles per hour, getting to the nearest star would take 340 years.

And so on. The distances are mind-blowing. (If the known universe was contained in a spherical space the same size as the Earth, a lightyear would be one millimeter. The Milky Way galaxy would be 590 feet across.)

The problem with Hollywood answers like warp drives and "folding space" is they are 100% movie fiction. There isn't even a theoretical solution to that sort of thing.

Other than the "spooky action at a distance" quantum observation---which again hasn't the faintest explanation, theoretically---there's zero indication that nothing lifelike can ever, or will ever, be able to travel anything approaching interstellar distances.

Roswell and etc. type "sightings" of alien-piloted mechanical vehicles zipping around the Earth's atmosphere doing Mysterious Things is entertainment at best, and willful delusion at worst.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

The aliens are fake and the government is lying...

Would you believe any person you knew that lied to you as much as the government does? Especially if they were telling you about UFOs they saw?

 

[sablebrush52]

The problem with Hollywood answers like warp drives and "folding space" is they are 100% movie fiction. There isn't even a theoretical solution to that sort of thing.

Actually, there is a theoretical solution, and it dates back to the 1990's:

'Warp drives' may actually be possible someday, new study suggests

"By demonstrating a first-of-its-kind model, we've shown that warp drives might not be relegated to science fiction."

www.space.com

 

[sablebrush52]

The big question, in my mind at least, is, why any advanced civilization would bother coming here. Would it be like taking the kids out for a day at the zoo?

 

[renfield]

“Spooky action at a distance” is just regular quantum entanglement. A literally common part of quantum mechanics. It mostly applies at the particle and very, very small scale level. Entanglement at large scales, like for teleportation etc, is fantastically improbable to the extent it is effectively impossible. If there were some physical process to make it easy our universe would look very differently than what we see.

It makes for great articles the equivalent of click-bait written by people who are ignorant of physics.

 

[renfield]

The big question, in my mind at least, is, why any advanced civilization would bother coming here. Would it be like taking the kids out for a day at the zoo?

Earth. Come for the anal probing, stay for the pie.

 

[georged]

Actually, there is a theoretical solution, and it dates back to the 1990's:

'Warp drives' may actually be possible someday, new study suggests

"By demonstrating a first-of-its-kind model, we've shown that warp drives might not be relegated to science fiction."

www.space.com

It "works" only if other mysterious and unknown forces are found/discovered.

(Does a conditional theory have its own name/term?)

 

[sablebrush52]

It "works" only if other mysterious and unknown forces are found/discovered.

(Does a conditional theory have its own name/term?)

There’s been further research around this theory that doesn’t rely on theoretical materials, just on enormous quantities of energy.

But, you didn’t specify a PRACTICAL theory.