UFOs

Lorns · Mon 30 Jun, 2008 16.38

The sun has been reporting recently that there have been tons of UFO sightings. And a police chopper even gave chase the other day.

Do you believe in UFOs from outer space? I'm of the opinion that if The Sun says it's true and Robbie Williams is a believer. It must be true. Not seen one myself. Oh yeah i did once but that was after a Rave and i think my brain may have been having a chemical reaction.

all new Phil · Mon 30 Jun, 2008 16.43

I do think it's weird that there have been loads of supposed sightings recently. It's easy to dismiss people as mad, but it's important to remember that it isn't completely outside the realms of possibility!

Give it a few years, they'll all be coming here. They'll probably be entitled to benefits and a free council house.

Lorns · Mon 30 Jun, 2008 16.48

Yeah, and the Star said they were chinese lanterns. Possiblefor some sightings but i can't see our boys in blue chasing a chinese lantern. Oh and some of the crop circles could be them trying to communicate with us.

all new Phil · Mon 30 Jun, 2008 16.58

Wasn't it in the news recently that practically all crop circles in the UK were created by two blokes as a laugh?

Lorns · Mon 30 Jun, 2008 17.03

That's right! Shoot me down in flames and spoil the magic.

Are there intelligant enough life beings on earth to create some of those circles?

Dr Lobster* · Mon 30 Jun, 2008 18.00

i think that if it really was a "ufo from outer space" you'd see more than a police helicopter, i'm thinking like 100 fighter jets or whatever.

i'm not saying these people didn't see something, but it's more than likely to be some sort of military test flight.

i've always found it a wee bit strange that whenever these aliens do decide to land on earth, they always pick on a fat lone female with half a dozen cats to conduct some sort of vaginal experiment on.

Nick Harvey · Mon 30 Jun, 2008 18.02

The universe is quite a large place.

We're over here and we're desperately trying to go and look over there.

The odds of there being somewhere else like earth, somewhere in the universe are quite high.

The odds of that earth having been created a while before ours are also quite high.

The odds of the 'people' on that earth being more advanced than us are, therefore, quite high.

The odds of them already having a look over here are, therefore, also quite high.

Now, as to crop circles, I couldn't possibly comment. Where would you like one? I'll just pop out to The Barge at Honeystreet and order one.

Gavin Scott · Mon 30 Jun, 2008 18.22

Even if only one in a billion planets can sustain life, it seems logical to conclude there must be other life out there in the galaxy.

What form that takes is a bit trickier to say, but it wouldn't exactly surprise me to learn that something has been visiting our skies.

I consider it unlikely that "secret" military craft would be designed with lights visible to the people on the ground. Aeroplanes can fly without lights - so why would spy planes have them?

marksi · Mon 30 Jun, 2008 19.22

I saw something odd once. If you look up on any clear night you'll see various satellites moving across the sky - there are websites that will tell you where to look if you're interested in such things (and even the short sighted will not fail to notice the International Space Station these days, it's got so large).

Late one night about 15 years ago while sitting eating chips on the shore at Strangford Lough I saw what I thought was a satellite passing over. As they're common I wasn't paying all that much attention. Well, not until it changed direction 90 degrees instantly. It then just carried on in a that direction until it faded out of sight.

And no, I hadn't been drinking.

I find the concept of there *not* being life out there somewhere quite bizarre.

Dr Lobster* · Mon 30 Jun, 2008 20.02

Gavin Scott wrote:I consider it unlikely that "secret" military craft would be designed with lights visible to the people on the ground. Aeroplanes can fly without lights - so why would spy planes have them?

i do think that in such situations of alleged ufo sightings, it would logical to assume that whatever lights are seen in the sky they almost certainly man made. it is surely much more likely that the lights are some sort of military craft - like a night time test for an unmanned surveillance drone or something.

there are so many amateur astronomers, so much air space security, even if something *did* enter our airspace from space at high speed, it's presence would almost certainly be detected and corroborated by others, across the globe.

whilst any alien race which could reach our planet would indeed posses incredible technology, the possession of such technology does not negate the laws of physics, even if this race had mastered near light speed travel, the amount of time needed for them to slow down and enter our atmosphere and hover over an industrial estate would be enormous, and would be observed by almost everybody on the entire planet.

it's not that i don't believe there isn't life elsewhere in this universe, because i do. but hovering around at night with a flashing light and then disappearing again with no trace, i just don't buy it.

Ronnie Rowlands · Thu 03 Jul, 2008 09.16

Did anyone see the Channel Five documentary about UFOs yesterday? It was so boring and it didn't really show anything new, just a load of far fetched stories that were then explained very easily.