SKEPTIC - The Physics of UFOs

[frogmarch]

9. I think it’s possible

there’s an advanced alien civilization somewhere out there that understands the laws of physics better than earthlings do, just as earthlings of today have a better understanding of physics than their predecessors did. But has an alien civilization somewhere managed to break the light barrier by harnessing enough energy to travel faster than the speed of light? Have any alien civilizations been able to create or manipulate wormholes through which to travel vast distances, to the far reaches of the universe? Maybe, but where’s the evidence for either of these imagined possibilities, or for any others that would allow ET to reach Earth? There is none.

I used to think that certain well-publicized UFO sightings – the Rendlesham Forest incident and the Japan Airlines flight 1628 incident, to name two – were convincing enough to qualify as the next best thing to solid evidence for ET visitors, but I no longer do. I’ve read too much about such sightings to be convinced that ETs were involved in any of them.

I don’t scoff at people who believe that some UFOs are, or might possibly be, ET spacecraft. However, I draw the line when it comes to the loonies who think that Queen Elizabeth, Kris Kristofferson, Boxcar Willie, as well as certain other famous people, are actually humanoid reptilians from another planet, or any other such nonsense.

I like thinking about ETs, but on a Do You Believe ETs Are, Or Have Ever Visited Earth? scale of 0 to 10, I’m just a teensy bit above 0. I’m pretty sad about it, because I Want to Believe, but that’s the way it is.