Do you believe in UFO's?

Believing in extraterrestrial life and believing in UFOs are not necessarily the same thing. As of today there's no scientific evidence that any of the so called UFOs are flying saucers(or anything really unexplained). In fact the majority of them were proved to be something else.

I do believe that there is life out there and probably intelligent species too, but(though I keep my mind opened about it) I have no reasons to believe in UFOs.

Obviously, UFOs by deffinition are real. The term UFO simply means "Unidentified Flying Object." In such a case any object, plane, helicopter, shooting star, etc. can be a UFO as long as an observer doesn't know what it is.

Now, do I believe that a few UFOs are actually spacecraft that were created by aliens on another planet. Yes, I do. There are way too many bizarre and plausible unexplainable sightings per year for me to think they're not. If it were only a couple of sightings throughout recent history then I would dismiss them altogether. But as you get more and more instances of a same or similar event, it becomes increasingly harder to deny such events take place. Since we have hundreds of such sightings around the world each year, it is hard to deny that something or someone else isn't out there somewhere.

In addition, it was once thought that the earth was the only planet among several hundred stars in the entire universe which contains life. Yet, in the last twenty years we have confirmed over thirty extrasolar plants within our Milkyway Galaxy. In addition to that, with better telescopes we've come to realize that what was once hundreds of stars became thousands of stars. Eventually we discovered multiple galaxies with each one containing millions of stars and and unknown number of planets surrounding them. Recently with Hubble Telescopes deep space project it was discovered that what was once known to be empty space between galaxies actually contains hundreds of more galaxies beyond that. Plus, water was once thought to be very hard to find beyond earth. Yet now we are confident that the moon as water and so does mars. With a spectragraph of the galaxy it now appears that water is much more widespread in the universe than what was first thought. We also seem to have proof that Mars once had bacterial life forms on it and that amino acids have been found in deep space. All this seems to add up to the idea that the universe could contain hundreds or thousands of life forms.

Finally, from a religious standpoint, the Bible sometimes calls God the Creator. I doubt that He would have created such an immense universe but only created life on one planet. With all of the various races of humans and such, I can't believe that He would stop with just one intelligent race on one planet.

Ed

Like many people, you seem to be confusing UFOs (things seen in the sky) with aliens (living creatures from another world). Not the same thing at all!

UFOs (unidentified flying objects) are only unidentified because the observer lacks the astronomical or meteorological knowledge to identify them. That's why you never hear about UFOs observed by astronomers or meteorologists; they're only reported by people who are unfamiliar with what can be seen in the sky. I've been an amateur astronomer for over fifty years, and have never seen anything in the sky that I haven't been able to identify.

Although life almost certainly exists elsewhere in the universe, the immense distances between stars makes interstellar travel a practical impossibility. No scientist has ever been able to examine a real alien, so all descriptions are nothing but fantasy.

Given the depth of the Universe, it's nearly mathematically impossible to assume we are the only forms of intelligent life. But whether UFOs have landed on Earth is another story. I believe yes because if there was an intelligent form of life capable of UFOs, then they would be looking for us - and let's face it, Earth is like a beacon with all our transmissions, we are not that hard to find.

I agree and yes i do believe,

Space is like an infinite ocean. We are but a goldfish in the Pacific. The evidence to our understanding does not support the possibility of the existence of extra-terrestrial life. But this can only be based on evidence to human understanding. It can be theorized that the five senses of the human species limits humans from obtaining the evidence to support the possibility of the existence of alien beings. It is for this reason that it remains only a theory. Possibly in an elevated form of existence, such a theory may at last become fact.

The imagination is a fascinating, very complex thing. Just the understanding alone that the human mind ( having no rock solid evidence of alien existence) can formulate the thought of a life form other than human, doesn't support the logic of actual alien existence. But it is safe to say that just because we can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there. Who knows, the possibility of a life form smaller than an atom may exist out there and proving it may be far beyond our capabilities. There may be alien life forms right here on earth capable of dodging the detection of humanity.

Actually, it is not naive at all. Read Rare Earth by Ward and Brownlee for possible reasons why complex life may be quite rare in the Universe. Of course, nobody can tell for sure until we explore a bit more, but it seems that simple life is ubiquitous, but it takes a combination of factors for complex, multicellular lifeforms to evolve.

And UFOs are simply "unidentified" objects, and perfectly natural and have nothing to do with LGMs. I am willing to bet large sums of money that Earth has never been visited by intelligent aliens, or even if it has, they did not leave any traces of their visit.

Yes and no. I agree with you that it's naive to think there isn't other life forms in a universe that as far as we know could be infinite. But I do think that over 99% of the reports here are either lies or mistakes. The time it would take to get from one Solar System to the next(stars are centers of the solar systems) would be an extremelylarge amount of time. To get to our solar system in a decent amount of time, maybe even years. You would either have to teleport or somehow shorten the distance with a wromhole. And the technology to do things like that would have to be extremely advanced. So I do I just don't believe most people who say they saw one actually have.

True naiivity is believing conclusions based upon folklore, misinformation and half-true distorted arguments.

The pro-alien euphoria that permeates modern western culture is a result of numerous works of fiction in printed and celluloid form such as the likes of "close encounters","judgement day" etc. These works feature spectacular special effects which while being a tribute to the ingenuity of the production personnel who made these films, also have served to convince people of the reality of et. Such conviction is obviously based upon pure fiction!

In fact there is no scientific evidence of et life at all. The huge databases of ufos contain mostly reports of natural aerial effects and large numbers of pranks. There are no radio signals coming from space. See these sites for some basic information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_hypothesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI

http://www.csicop.org/si/2003-09/faking-ufo-photos...

Of course, you are free to believe anything you want despite all the evidence against it. Many folks do just that. I would prefer to believe what the evidence suggests, which is that we are very much alone in the universe.

I think that the chances of life (including "intelligent" life) on other places of the universe other than our planet is quite high, but those UFO stories about people being raptured are bullshit.

It's pure speculation.

For one..it could be anything that can fly. An airplane, a hot air balloon, a helicopter, anything that can fly.