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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I saw something similar a number of years ago, looked like a giant green orb less than a mile away that did maneuvers that appeared impossible for any known aircraft. There was no one with a laser nearby as I was camping 10 miles back in the wilderness and the orb came up out of a very steep canyon.
Those two ideas can coexist without conflict.
I have no idea what the object I saw was.
I saw it from maybe 300 yards away. The object was oval maybe 10 to 15 yards long, and a bright blue white. It was silent. It flew off in a manner we could not do.
I never said it was aliens. Heck, I’m not even certain it was a craft. At the time I assumed it was piloted, but I was 12 and it was 1974.
I don’t know. But I know for certain what it was not.
I agree with you; and I don’t think we ever stop experiencing and learning, no matter what kind of ‘place’ we continue in. That would be against what seems to be the unending growth and progression we see in all of life.
“As above, so below’.
“...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...”
Rather than the “saucer” being a being, it is more likely that the craft is a drone. Drones are all the rage in Ukraine even though they are not saucer shaped. Reports indicate rapid movements and changes in direction that no human could tolerate but with a drone that is no problem.
The only man I ever met who saw “flying saucers” that was not sorta kookie was a veteran pilot who flew bombing missions over Germany in WWII. This gentleman who lived near Radnor Lake in Nashville described those saucers as small and briefly flew off the wingtips of his plane. He assumed it was from some sort of German program but spoke with one German pilot after the war who had seen the same thing and assumed it is some type of Allied weapon. Either pilot or neither could have been correct as top-secret craft operations are on a need-to-know basis.
The term UFO just means we don’t know what it is.
I believe that some of these things are truly unexplained, but that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily material aircraft - or even the same things..
The term UFO just means we don’t know what it is.
I recall when the Harrier jet was first released some were spotted without any markings many UFO reports came in.
They were spotted over some larger towns to let people know hey look what we invented.
What I find amusing is that we assume that UFOs have any living occupants in a world where half the things humans fly are now drones.
Probably a lot of sightings were like that.
But when hundreds of people, say, in the Phoenix area report that they saw a huge boomerang-shaped thing that blocked out much of the sky and stars, I have to wonder beyond the conventional and can’t accept the ‘official’ explanations that just don’t fit the behavior of the thing.
Why the [sic] after crafts?
Accept the ‘official’ explanations
We have no idea what they are inventing many things are years ahead of what we have now.
Even new cars to be released are a few years ahead of what we have seen in designs.
Man, I really like that!
Fair warning, FRiend - I’m definitely stealing that! :))
The answer is obvious.
There's way more than enough monies floating around. Why deny any to the investigation of UAP's?
There's more useless domestic and international programs that get wasted monies than the UAP's......
Chill out bro, "They're out there".......LOL!
I have my own opinion on this. Certainly not definitive, but when qe do SETI we point our radio telescopes at various sections of the sky and try to detect a signal that might be artificial. To do so, either the originating signal must be close by so that we can distinguish signals unintentionally leaking from the origin or it must be an intentional transmission to us from some farther origin. A leaking signal loses amplitude as the square of the distance, so more distant signals would be indistinguishable from background. What we do not do is send out an intentionally directed signal. We listen, but we don’t speak.
Why is this? Well, two reasons, one technical, one having to do with human nature. The technical reason is that if we sent a signal, what direction should we send it? We have a better chance of detecting a signal via a sweeping search of the sky than by sending a powerful signal in any particular direction. Maybe this could be less true once we further analyze exoplanet spectra and find potential bio markers - then it might make sense to transmit in that direction.
But IMO the real reason we listen rather than send is human in nature. Suppose we did find evidence of a relatively close ET civilization 100 light years away and we decided to send a signal. It would take 100 years for that signal to get there and another 100 years to get an answer back if there was an actual civilization to receive it. That’s 200 years before we’d know anything — anyone looking for ET civilizations would be long dead before getting the results. We are human - we don’t want to find out 200, 300 or 1000 years from now; we want to know now, so we listen rather than send.
What if there are other civilizations but they all think this way? Maybe they’re all listening and are spaced out far enough apart that the unintentional signals are undetectable.
I think they are flying objects I can’t identify.
LOL. SCOTUS decision kills The Men In Black division.
“DEFUND MIB”!
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