Aliens and ufos: what to you think?

[Ibrahim]

well, in dozens of years of observing the sky, looking for these mythical Alien spacecrafts, I've yet to find anything that couldn't (FAR) more accurately be accounted for by perfectly Earthly causes. I remember this one time, when I saw an airplane at night (lighting pattern was for a passenger plane-a Boeing 737 or 747), when I was in that one Texas county.

the next day, it was all over the news as a "UFO" sighting...

and before people say that they saw some weird object so and so ft long, moving (or hovering) so and so feet per second, my question is: how can you tell? most of these sightings make no mention of a reference point, with which to compare the object to (and even then, it is pretty difficult, if not impossible, to tell). this is important, since the object is supposedly flying in a more or less featureless sky (clouds don't work either).

and for the record: Aliens probably do exist... there's just no evidence and no known feasible means for them to get over here-assuming that there are even an ET life forms of sufficient, human-like intelligence. of course, if I see a body of an alien (or an alien prisoner?), then we can start talking

[B-Wing]

Thank you for sharing, FisherKing! Very interesting.

BTW, somewhat off-topic, but have any of you seen the X-Files episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"? It's one of the few humorous episodes of the series, and the plot revolves around several disagreeing stories about an alien encounter.