Marby Noffki

UFO's in the news

May 27, 2008 |  10 comments
Image Credit: Midjourney Marby Noffki: It seems that UFOs have been all over the news lately. First, the British government made previously classified documents public, and then the Vatican announced that it is acceptable for Catholics to believe that there is life out there, even suggesting that they may not know original sin. Gee, thanks, I will sleep better tonight knowing that the Vatican approves. I have always had mixed feelings about UFO phenomena. While I can concede that there have been many unexplained sightings in the skies, and the people who have reported them have not all been conspiracy theorists, drunken rednecks, or mentally disturbed individuals, I am not convinced that “they”, whoever they may be, have been visiting us.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7398108.stm
http://www.livescience.com/space/news/ap-0...can-aliens.html

I had a strange experience off the coast of the Bahamas a little over ten years ago that to this day, puzzles me. I know that I did not see a weather balloon, a shooting star, a rogue satellite, or an airplane, and I know that I was not “impaired” at the time. I was even wearing my glasses, which is a rare thing for me, as I am that vain. The light I and a few others witnessed was large, zigzagging in impossible ways, and though I followed it, mesmerized, it vanished. It did not fade out of sight, nor was it obstructed by another object, as I was looking out onto open sea. It just vanished. Gone. Bye-bye.

I don’t know what I saw that night. It was certainly a UFO in that it was an unidentified flying object, but I would be reaching if I were to say that it was something extraterrestrial. I am not a big fan of assumption, and though what I saw sparked my imagination to the point that I don’t even remember much about the rest of that trip to the Bahamas, to claim that this object in the sky was piloted by alien beings would be a huge assumption.

So what gives?I don’t trust government – not the US government, not the British government, not any government. However, I do not feel that the conspiracy theories about the government covering up alien visitations hold water. If any government were out to hide contact with alien visitors, they are doing a shoddy job of it. If anything, they are out to hide the testing of spy satellites and other new military technology. By acting coy about UFO sightings and allowing imaginative conspiracy theories to flourish, governments are taking advantage of public gullibility to get more important work done. It works out for them, gives conspiracy theorists relevance, and makes for great science fiction.

Abduction stories are even less credible than the government cover up tales. The latter is at least plausible. However, if we are to take the abduction stories seriously, then we have to accept that alien life forms have strange anal and livestock fetishes, want to breed with humanity, and can manage to do all this without any other witnesses. Post abduction hypnosis is not necessarily credible, simply because a person under hypnosis is very open to suggestion, more so if they have even minor mental issues going in. There would be at least one verifiable abduction story out there, but there are none.

With all the people actively looking for credible documentation on this sort of thing, you would think that at least one would turn up.

Despite my scepticism, I do believe that there is intelligent life out there. Why wouldn’t there be? The universe is a vast place, and we are barely a speck in it. The assumption that we are the only intelligent life in the universe is both arrogant and naïve. We just have a long way to go before we find it, if ever we do. If they find us, I would bet my big toe that it would not be in secrecy. I would bet my little toe that the photographs would not be doctored hubcaps or innocently photographed optical illusions, as they often are these days.

As for what I saw, and what thousands of other level headed individuals have seen over the years, without proof, we cannot say that they were extraterrestrial. If they were, then I cannot help but recall the comedienne who once said alien life probably thinks of Earth as the Alabama of the universe and would be loathe to stop here.

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