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leftyladyfrommo

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54. A million light years away? Even traveling tge speed of light

Sat Jan 14, 2023, 02:47 PM

Jan 2023

would take lifetimes.

I used to work with a retired airforce pilot who said that he had a run in with a UFO. He tried to chase it but gave up. He was carrying nuclear warheads and he didn't want to engage.

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UFO reports by US troops skyrocket to over 500 [View all] nightwing1240 Jan 2023 OP

I'm with you PCIntern Jan 2023 #1

Having anything happen to you first hand BigmanPigman Jan 2023 #11

I totally agree! nightwing1240 Jan 2023 #13

I agree completely. I had an experience while with my girlfriend at the KPN Jan 2023 #16

I have had some odd experiences and know people who also have BigmanPigman Jan 2023 #19

If you ever want to share, PM me PCIntern Jan 2023 #27

It would be a long list BigmanPigman Jan 2023 #45

I meant your experience. PCIntern Jan 2023 #59

I know what you meant. BigmanPigman Jan 2023 #70

Have your mother and brother ever made a report about their experience? Beaverhausen Jan 2023 #39

Yes they did about 55 years ago. PCIntern Jan 2023 #41

These UFO contacts began to proliferate when we started PatrickforB Jan 2023 #2

Maybe since most orbs are not for surface air breathers GreenWave Jan 2023 #3

July 1945 would have been a big warning sign to them. roamer65 Jan 2023 #67

lot more people flying drones lapfog_1 Jan 2023 #4

While the question of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe has always been intriguing, because JohnSJ Jan 2023 #5

What do you base this on? triron Jan 2023 #30

I'm a big fan of elegant explanations of complex science Arthur_Frain Jan 2023 #44

I base this on the entire size of the solar system. It is probability and distance between the JohnSJ Jan 2023 #48

A million light years away? Even traveling tge speed of light leftyladyfrommo Jan 2023 #54

Exactly JohnSJ Jan 2023 #60

Our galaxy probably has billions of worlds and has less than triron Jan 2023 #63

I suspect the sightings have always been happening, but now REPORTING it is more open than it was Shanti Shanti Shanti Jan 2023 #6

Ayep! KPN Jan 2023 #18

So 45% of the sitings by military personnel are ... Whiskeytide Jan 2023 #7

I hate it when Killer Klowns steal my ice cream. KS Toronado Jan 2023 #47

I believe IHateRonDesantis1986 Jan 2023 #8

Holy X-Files, Batman! nightwing1240 Jan 2023 #10

Welcome to DU! PatSeg Jan 2023 #37

If you believe aliens are visiting earth, you are not a big believer in physics. fightforfreedom Jan 2023 #9

How do you know that aliens don't have something to transcend physics? nightwing1240 Jan 2023 #12

Nothing transcends physics genxlib Jan 2023 #17

Seems to be a semantic argument. triron Jan 2023 #69

Or common sense grantcart Jan 2023 #24

I don't know that we can even make those suppositions. edisdead Jan 2023 #40

welcome to DU gopiscrap Jan 2023 #73

LOL puny earthlings thinking they know EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING, hubris, lol Shanti Shanti Shanti Jan 2023 #31

What physics? Special relativity? triron Jan 2023 #32

Gravity. roamer65 Jan 2023 #57

Or science in general or, Disaffected Jan 2023 #38

Exactly. Owl Jan 2023 #43

This message was self-deleted by its author librechik Jan 2023 #46

Check out the latest Nobel in Physics if you are a big believer in Physics librechik Jan 2023 #50

Stephen Hawking on Alien Life C0RI0LANUS Jan 2023 #14

And yet we watch edhopper Jan 2023 #51

Do you know why Star Trek had transporters... brooklynite Jan 2023 #64

As I said edhopper Jan 2023 #65

There is a distinction between science fiction and science fantasy. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2023 #74

I think they know we're here and want nothing to do with us Skittles Jan 2023 #15

I don't blame them. BigmanPigman Jan 2023 #20

agreed Skittles Jan 2023 #21

I think they're waiting for newdayneeded Jan 2023 #28

Whatever paleotn Jan 2023 #22

It has always been my contention that if another species figured out interstellar flight Chainfire Jan 2023 #23

Any life intelligent enough to travel here from outside our galaxy... Ligyron Jan 2023 #25

I think that it's the height of self -important pompousness to believe that among the vastness panader0 Jan 2023 #26

Do not suspend disbelief. pirsquared Jan 2023 #29

Until they are literally knocking on your front door? nobody gonna do nothing. JuJuChen Jan 2023 #33

IMO it's closed-minded not to believe something exists just because you've never seen it. Talitha Jan 2023 #34

If we are not at least curious then our own evolution has some ripples in it. Prairie_Seagull Jan 2023 #35

They're Made Out Of Meat old as dirt Jan 2023 #36

Maybe the UFO sightings are of space debris, but frogmarch Jan 2023 #42

That's easy Polybius Jan 2023 #53

I've read about magnetic fields frogmarch Jan 2023 #55

If aliens are visiting earth KS Toronado Jan 2023 #49

+1000 roamer65 Jan 2023 #56

Had an Uncle who claimed KS Toronado Jan 2023 #58

Very possible. roamer65 Jan 2023 #66

He took dad & I out to that spot KS Toronado Jan 2023 #68

Increase due, in part, to treating witnesses with respect. Kid Berwyn Jan 2023 #52

Just curious edhopper Jan 2023 #61

It doesn't matter whether "we're aLone" or not... brooklynite Jan 2023 #62

I think MuseumOfTarot is on to something. Nothing to do with "aliens". More terrestrial than we nattyice Jan 2023 #71

Blame global warming. ecstatic Jan 2023 #72