Posted on 07/14/2026 8:19:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
There is a pretty pervasive and consistent assumption in our long history of UFO sightings: that the unidentified objects some of us see in the night sky are vehicles or crafts inside of which are what we're really interested in—the aliens themselves. But what if this assumption is mistaken? What if the craft or vehicle itself is what's alien?
UFOs are like mirrors for human nature
The long history of UFO sightings in the world, taken as a whole, can act as a reflecting pool for our often subconscious beliefs and assumptions. The term "flying saucer" has been around since the late 1940s, when a private pilot named Kevin Arnold reported seeing something fitting that description in the skies over Mount Rainier in Washington state. The moniker stuck because it seems to aptly describe what so many people since then have described seeing in the night sky. UFO sightings often involve a disk-shaped object in the sky, sometimes with lights or doors or other hardware that suggest the object opens to allow for entry and exit. But of what or whom?
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Could the UFO crafts be the aliens? Why not? I think it's interesting that we assume the objects we see in the sky and admit are "unidentified" are nevertheless assumed to be the vehicle and not the being itself. How would we know?
Some more far-out hypotheses suggest these crafts are some manifestation of ourselves (humans) from the future visiting current reality. .... perhaps these UFOs are programs that are briefly rendered real (as in taking on physical form) as they dip into our "reality" almost like a 3D-printed object, which begins as an idea and takes form as it's "printed."
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So sick of this UFO hype. Been interested in UFOs, aliens, etc my whole life BUT have never seen one shred of evidence that indicates they are actually from another planet. In almost every case they can easily be explained as bad photography, shutter issues, known aircraft that appear different due to camera distortion/speed, known electrical atmospheric phenomena, secret test aircraft, outright hallucinations, mental illness, or just plain old lies to get attention, etc.
Our government spends more time on psyops than actually serving the people per the Constitution. SIckening. We need to be focusing on jobs to replace those stolen by AI and illegals/H1Bs, defeating foreign threats, and rooting out leftist in our nation. Not imaginary boogie men.
False dilemma.
UFOs could also have some natural, non-extraterrestrial explanation.
Agreed. Focus should be on illegal aliens, not space aliens.
If they land in the US,
and pop out 15 foot tall green babies,
are they US Citizens with Constitutional protections?
Then you can’t keeel them, or unalive them, or kick them out.
Thank the Harpies of SCOTUS.
One news report was estatic over the photo of the ‘star-shaped’ UFO.
Star shaped like the 5-pointed one on our flag.
Sorry, stars dont look like that. They look like the sun.
We picture stars that way because they twinkle.
On the other hand, they could be entirely mechanical drones projected as time capsules that will eventually "report back" to the advanced beings that created them.
I think of UFOs as reconnaissance and/or testing in that regard. It matters because it demonstrates that I am relatively sane and informed compared to the general public.
E.T phone home.
There’s that.
Agreed.
Enrico Fermi the brilliant scientist who split the atom postulated “The Fermi Paradox”-—— the contradiction between the high probability that intelligent alien life exists in the universe and the total lack of evidence for it.
Fermi simply asks: if the universe is vast, ancient, and filled with billions of stars, “Where is everybody?”
The paradox hinges on a few straightforward observations:
The Numbers: The Milky Way alone contains hundreds of billions of stars, many of which are older than our Sun and harbor Earth-like planets in their habitable zones.
Given enough time, a space-faring civilization could colonize the entire galaxy within just a few million years—a mere blink of an eye in cosmic history.
Despite this, we have found no definitive radio signals, spacecraft, megastructures, or physical evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Why is the cosmos so quiet?
Scientists and philosophers have proposed various theories.
Space is literally quiet because it is a near-vacuum; sound waves require a physical medium
(like air or water) to travel, making the void of interstellar space completely silent.
However, the “silence of the universe” typically refers to the Fermi Paradox—
the eerie lack of detected signals, radio waves, or evidence from intelligent alien life.
Space weather would probably interfere with any radio transmissions.
In space no one can hear you laugh.
that’s neat; but even though we call it one, it’s not a star.
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