[wildbill]

Assuming these weren’t orignal civilizations that evolved on our own planet gazillions of years ago, we’d be talking about extraterrestrials that have some sort of method for moving about the Universe.

I’m down with that. But assuming that high state of technology, why do they keep crashing their space buggies when flying around Earth? Just wonderin’

[RedStateRocker]

Probably because we are so ass-backwards that humans are like on of those amazon tribes studied for the reason they haven’t been ‘contaminated’ but civilization.

So they are flying the old stuff that second rate researchers on a shoestring budget can afford- and isn’t multiple miles long, which would be pretty hard to hide (even if you had cloaking, you’d still be able to detect the gravity and other effects from a properly large vessel).

At least that’s what they told me, between rounds of ‘hide the probe’.

[jmacusa]

Yeah, right? Can get here from the next star system or galaxy but about as soon as they get here right away BAM! The old space ship breaks down. And some how all the rubes,the Earthlings that it is, seem to know when they're witnessing the saucer men outside the spaceship, they somehow all seem to know, or certainly all seem to agree that the spaceship was having engine trouble. Amazing ain't it?

[Army Air Corps]

By the time they reach us, the manufacturer’s warranty is expired.