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In reply to the discussion: UFO Hearing totally erased all other coverage. Not. [View all]hunter
(38,264 posts)Most UFO theories tend to be lacking in imagination. Any beings able to travel between the stars, or even from the outer reaches of our own solar system, are not going to be zipping about in the equivalent of the Jetson family car.
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I've personally had some "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," half of them I attribute to my own mental illness, which sometimes includes hallucinations mostly auditory but sometimes visual, especially when I'm not sleeping enough.
Sometimes I've seen stuff that is later explained. I once happened upon a very early pre-dawn test flight of a stealth fighter back when I was prone to running long distances and minor trespasses.
That first encounter registered in my head as another UFO until the aircraft was publicized. I had a few drone aircraft register as UFOs as well. Military things like this, before they were commonplace:
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These things look like they are zipping around at incredible speeds if you misjudge the distance. When I saw them they were probably looking at me.
Meh, that's just Hunter. He's crazy and mostly harmless.
The true interstellar visitors don't need spaceships. They already permeate everything, shifting their awareness around according to their incomprehensible whims.
On the macro-scales of the three dimensional universe we live in, faster-than-light travel is simply impossible.
That's a good thing.
There are many other species out there just like us. They don't play well with others.
The speed of light and all the ways to die in space keep us very well quarantined.