Do UFO’s Exist?

A UFO is an Unidentified Flying Object. And they definitely exist. That is, pilots and people on the ground have often seen flying objects (or what appear to be objects, like blobs of light) in the sky. Pilots and others at times have reported these objects to change from a seemingly stationary state to moving at a very high rate of speed.

Now, most people automatically equate “UFO” with “flying saucer,” that is, an alien space ship. While it is undeniable that UFO’s exist, we can’t say that space craft from somewhere other than the earth have been here. But nor can we say definitely they have not. Here’s why:

Our star is called the “sun” (in English). Nine planets orbit it. Biological entities (life forms) exist on at least one of those planets.

The sun is one star in a galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy. There are billions of stars in this galaxy. Many of those stars also have planets orbiting them. A number of those planets have been identified by astronomers. So in the Milky Way, there must be billions of planets. (A billion is a thousand millions, by the way.)

The Milky Way, in turn, is only one of BILLIONS of GALAXIES. Each of those galaxies has billions of stars.

So in the universe there are billions TIMES billions of planets! You’ve got nine zeros for a billion. Multiply by billions is adding nine more zeros. So it’s a number with eighteen zeros- very huge, beyond everyday comprehension.) Maybe like, a number similar to all the grains of sand on all the beaches in the world?

Is it at all plausible that of all these planets, the only one on which life exists is THIS one?? I rather doubt it. That is, if one accepts a scientific explanation for the existence of life, a chemical, molecular, biological explanation.

If one is religious, which is to say, a mystic with a dogma, most of which posit the existence of supernatural, omnipotent beings that “made” the entire universe, and were apparently too lazy to create life on more than one of their planets, then one can argue, based on nothing but pure fantasy (aka “belief” or “faith”) that life exists only on earth. (I’m using “life” to refer to earthly organisms. Presumably the imaginary supernatural beings, the “gods,” are also alive.)

Rationally, it seems certain that life exists elsewhere in the universe.

The universe is currently dated at 13.8 billion years old. The earth is about 4.54 billion years- only about a third as old as the universe itself. The earliest possible date for life on earth is about 3.5 billion years ago.

There are older stars and planets in the universe than ours. Much older.

We have to assume that life has existed millions of years, and probably billions of years, earlier than on earth, somewhere in the universe.

Our species, which thinks itself so smart and “advanced,” is 160,000 years old, depending on how you define and date it. (That’s for “modern” homo sapiens. “Archaic” homo sapiens goes back about 300,000 years.)

It seems there must be some species of life out there very far ahead of us. Beyond our comprehension, in fact.

So is it possible that some of them are traveling through space in vehicles? Definitely.

Have any of them been to earth? We can’t rule it out definitively, it would seem.

So it’s possible that aliens (real aliens, not humans from another country) have been to earth.

HAVE they been? I cannot say.

The stories of “UFO abductees” have always struck me as implausible, for at least two reasons- the stories are always about the same, and there seems to be an obsession with our sex organs on the part of the aliens.

Maybe these are alien perverts? You know, like people who have sex with animals? Beings into some kind of extraterrestrial interspecies kinkiness? Maybe they got bored performing sex acts on other species on their own planets so they set off in search of new thrills? And these perverts from another planet don't seem very considerate of their kidnapped molestees. Do they even ask, when it's over, "Was it good for you too?"

But seriously, I suppose one explanation could be that the sexual examination part was most traumatic to the “abductees” and so that stuck most vividly in their minds. We do call our sex organs our “private parts.” We have a hard time accepting as natural and being comfortable with our sexuality. This seems due to the pathological (unhealthy and unnatural) nature of the societies and cultures we have evolved, our so-called “civilizations.” (I like Gandhi’s quip, when asked what he thought of Western civilization: “I think it would be a good idea.” One could say the same of Indian civilization too.)

Note to future abductees: next time, take a cellphone pic of the aliens. And ask for their phone number.