Why Do Modern UFOs Often Look Like The Latest Fighter Planes?
Posted: Sunday, February 21, 2010
by Joel Kontinen
http://joelkontinen.blogspot.com/
UFOs or unidentified flying objects tend to make headlines every now and then. Recently, The Telegraph, a leading British daily, published a long article on flying saucers and related phenomena.
The Telegraph was reporting on the previously top-secret files the UK Ministry of Defence released to the public. The document, which includes over 6,000 pages of reports, "holds hundreds of other-worldly experiences with unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and apparent aliens across Britain."
While many people, such as former US president Jimmy Carter and Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell , believe that UFOs hail from other planets, there are perhaps insurmountable problems with this view. Proxima Centauri, the nearest star outside our solar system, is 4.3 light years away. In other words, at the speed of light it would take four years and four months for a one-way trip from there to Britain. Furthermore, we have no evidence that Proxima Centauri or any other star in our "neighbourhood" has habitable planets.
Some eager observers might well be reading science fiction into the skies. It seems that ETs who have the technology to travel from a star system to another would definitely not need to build spacecraft that look like NATO stealth planes that have a maximum speed of two or three times the speed of sound.
The majority of the sightings can probably be explained by more mundane factors. However, some rare sightings, especially those that have to do with purported alien abductions, might even fit the category of parapsychological phenomena.
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