@socaldad2002, “UFO” simply means “Unidentified flying object.” The story of my navigator Dad plotting movements of something in the sky that he could not explain with his experience of aircraft is simply that-something for which no explanation could be found in the moment or upon further reflection. It doesn’t automatically mean the person using the term is asserting that sans explanation it automatically follows that it is an “alien aircraft.”
All that said, why are we so arrogant as to believe we are the only life forms in the universe, or at least the only life forms in the universe who have found a way to travel/send flying objects into space near other moons or planets?
“2- That said, if a civilization is advanced enough to travel through space/time, don’t you think it can block itself from our primitive technology?”
If this alien civilization is so “advanced” that human technology (e.g. satelitte images) cannot detect it, then why can’t they block themselves by being seen by our infallible and ordinary naked eye?
Scientific and empirical evidence is your friend. Humans love fantasy and conspiracy theories because its exciting to think “what if” but unfortunately scientific facts get in the way of someone’s distorted perception of reality.
I’m not a religious but feel a strong connection to God. There is more unseen than seen, more unknown than known. There is good, and there is evil. As a child, I played with an Ouija. I would never touch one or allow one in my presence again.
OK. I don’t normally have encounters with unexplained things, but as I lay sleeping last night, I awoke with the feeling of cold air blowing in my face. I live alone. My dog was not even in the room, he is not allowed on the bed anyway, and his breath is hot. The ceiling fan was not on and the HVAC system is turned off. I was on my back in the middle of my bed. I first thought it was my own breath and started to doze off and it happened again. By then I was wide awake and immediately thought of this thread! LOL. I lay there a moment and the cold air stopped. I turned onto my side and went back to sleep. I tried to recreate it this morning, lying on my back, breathing out of my nose and then out of my mouth, but it did not feel like cold air blowing into the middle of my face. I did not feel frightened or endangered at the time, but it’s a little freaky to think about today.
Anybody else have kids communicate “psychically”? One of mine would answer questions before they were asked from the first coherent talking days. It may be that non-verbal signals were being read, but I’ve also received “alerts” that this kid is upset or just had a shock when we’ve been separated by thousands of miles. I feel the emotion within myself as if the upset had just happened to me. The sensation is usually followed soon thereafter by a confirming telephone call with full details of the situation.
When my oldest kid is around he comes to me just as I am thinking I should reach out to him (for info/tech help), even when I have determined not to reach out to him. He’ll pop into the room where I am and ask, “Did you call me?”
It got to the point where I told him years ago that he could not go far away to college because I would have no one around who could do that strange but useful thing he does.
This was about 20 years ago. I was using a medical library in a bad neighborhood – something I had done many times before. On this particular occasion, while I was working in the library, I had a sudden feeling that my car was being stolen. It was as though I knew that it was happening at that moment, and the car was telling me about it.
I dismissed it as nonsense.
But when I left the library a couple of hours later, the car was missing, and it turned out that it had indeed been stolen.
I prefer to think that my mind was reminding me, in a nonverbal way, that I had parked farther away from the library than usual that day, in an area where there were fewer pedestrians on the street. So the risk of car theft was higher than usual (although I had not consciously thought about that).
But maybe my car really did talk to me. Who knows?
The car I drove at the time was a Ford. My current car is a Hyundai. If my current car got stolen, would it speak to me in Korean?
I’m willing to give credence to strange intuitions/sixth sense some people seem to have. But inanimate objects communicating telepathically with humans is beyond my ken. Not saying I’ve got it right…
Of course, video doesn’t really prove anything, since it can be altered. I prefer the eyewitness testimony (and the desire to “fly that thing”) from military personnel.
This was all over the news when the Pentagon admitted to studying UFOs. Of course, from their POV the unidentified things could be from advanced technologies from other countries but they need to know either way.
What do you all think of Ouija board’s? Is it just a silly game or is it something best not be kept in a home? I just feel superstitious of them and would not keep one in my home.
With regard to Oiji Boards—why tempt fate? Seems like enough people are distrustful of them that staying away from them is prudent. We don’t have one. H and I each separately tried one once and never since. It didn’t seem very interesting or exciting one way or another.
@greenwitch according to a recent report over 4 Billion Passengers Flew In 2017 Setting New Travel Record. The International Air Transport Association, an airline industry trade association with 290 member airlines, has released its 62nd annual report on travel statistics for 2017.
Surely if UFO’s existed, thousands upon thousands of passengers each year would have seen these flying objects or maybe they have special “cloaking devices” that humans can’t perceive or it’s a big government conspiracy to keep us quiet?!
We know the universe is at least 40 billion light years in diameter, the odds of another life form even knowing our Milky Way Galaxy exists is extremely remote, let alone trying to actually travel millions of light years to earth just to visit us. And they certainly are not flying all that way in spacecraft that looks suspiciously similar to one’s human beings would build (e.g. flying saucers, airplanes, etc.). It’s extremely illogical. I’ll wait for some better scientific evidence before believing that life forms from other galaxies are regularly visiting us and not leaving a trace of evidence…
See, this is where my logical, scientific side wars with my woo-woo side.
Logically I think it’s just a parlor game, but my superstitious animal brain tells me to stay away. And my grandmother absolutely hated it, making us kids throw ours away when she came to visit once. There’s a story there somewhere, but she wouldn’t even talk about it.
The weirdest thing that’s happened to me was during my first pregnancy. I had this weird urge to research miscarriages. That was in the old days when you had to go to the library to look up information. On the bus ride home afterwards, I started cramping up and miscarried a little later in the day.
