Have you ever had a UFO/UAP experience?

[StClone]

I saw some weird lights in the sky in, oh, probably the late 1970s, when we were taking dinner to my Dad combining late one night. Just fairly faint blobby lights moving around, almost like rounded blobs were bouncing back and forth with a straighter, more like a line blob.

Most likely it was just northern lights, but my memory of it puts them almost directly overhead in the sky, which would be pretty unlikely for northern lights as far south as Van Buren County, Iowa.

Whatever it was, it looked pretty cool.

I remember something like that as well but earlier in August of 1972. I persuaded my Mother to take a look just after sunset. She said those are just "puffs of smoke." No, it was a major outbreak of low-latitude auroras borealis due to large solar flare bombs.

 

[RagingCloner]

So, have scientists discovered intelligent life when Iowa hosts Nebby?

Not so much intelligent life, but lots and lots of anal probing

 

[StClone]

In Congress.

Aliens doing harm to humans. Son of a

There are well-researched, and with credible support, human interactions with the phenomenon
resulting in injury and even death.

Three quick hits:

Cash–Landrum Incident

Cash–Landrum incident - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Science Mag. Injuries from UFOs

UFOs left 'radiation burns' and 'unaccounted for pregnancies,' new Pentagon report claims

1,500 pages of UFO related research were just declassified as part of a FOIA request.

www.livescience.com

UFO Danger Zone by Bob Pratt​

https://tinyurl.com/bdzm4ba9

The last is a really out-there investigation in Brazil of a long series of attacks on people.

 

[ClonesTwenty1]

 

[CloneIce]

There certainly is alot of smoke.

 

[Jer]

There certainly is alot of smoke.

Question is if it’s pot or fire.

Easy to make accusations, even under oath, when one knows it’s going to take a monumental effort and governmental defense change for any proof to be released. Maybe something definitive leaks, but otherwise it’s going to take major legislative and even Presidential power.

I am glad the discussion is taking a serious tone and moving forward, but this is THE single most topic where belief can truly only be confirmed in the form of visuals.

I believe life is out there, the question is if it’s in the same timeframe as us and actually able to travel distances no human can truly understand.

 

[BryceC]

They sure as hell exist.. somewhere, sometime. They may or may not have been here during the tiny tiny sliver of our planet’s history that humans have been here. They may or may not be capable of interstellar travel (we are not capable yet).

But of course intelligent life exists elsewhere. It’s ridiculous to believe otherwise.

I’d be surprised if it didn’t exist somewhere, but it took a whole hell of a lot for intelligent life to develop.



Do I think intelligent life exists out there? I don’t know.

Do I think it’s found us and is playing an elaborate game of hide and seek? Not at all.

 

[Turn2]

If you are reading this thread you probably should get a hold of this book. It won't give you an answer to whether they are out there or not, but it will show you if you are not being skeptical enough.

https://www.amazon.com/Demon-Haunted-World-Science-Candle-Dark-ebook/dp/B004W0I00Q

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

Non-human just means not human. Like dinosaurs and wombats and fireflies.

 

[drmwevr08]

It picked me up with it's mind power and shook me like a dog!

 

[StClone]

I’d be surprised if it didn’t exist somewhere, but it took a whole hell of a lot for intelligent life to develop.



Do I think intelligent life exists out there? I don’t know.

Do I think it’s found us and is playing an elaborate game of hide and seek? Not at all.

I would submit there is enough information available to make the case that there is something to all this. And by all indications, it has been around for a long time.

How it would interact with a lower form of consciousness is hard to say. But I can not rule out making itself too difficult to access and appear elusive. It would be in control by the manner of its advanced state and likely because of our lack of matching that state technologically and psychologically.

Likely, it has interacted with other cosmic life and has developed a systematic approach of interaction which may, or may not, take into account our desires.

 

[Jer]

It picked me up with it's mind power and shook me like a dog!

Stop sitting on the vibrator.

 

[nfrine]

Thought I had tuned into late night radio when I saw this thread.

 

[CloneIce]

I’d be surprised if it didn’t exist somewhere, but it took a whole hell of a lot for intelligent life to develop.



Do I think intelligent life exists out there? I don’t know.

Do I think it’s found us and is playing an elaborate game of hide and seek? Not at all.

Of course it exists out there. There are hundreds of billions of stars just in our Galaxy, which is just one little Galaxy - there are 200 Billion more galaxies in the observable Universe.

No doubt it takes a lot for intelligent life to develop. But it’s a matter of numbers, and I think it’s kinda ridiculous to believe we just happened to be the only planet where it evolved.

That’s completely aside from the question of whether alien life has visited Earth (and if so if it was within the tiny portion of Earths existence when humanity has been here). That’s a much different question.

 

[Jer]

While 65 wasn’t a great movie by any stretch, the premise was pretty cool. People from a far away planet crash land on earth as it is 65 million years ago.

 

[Nor'MidWester]

the universe is so empty of life that I think we would probably be the first intelligent species that aliens would come across, I think they would want to get to know us ya know?

 

[Jer]

the universe is so empty of life that I think we would probably be the first intelligent species that aliens would come across, I think they would want to get to know us ya know?

Dude, I don’t even want to get to know us

 

[nfrine]

the universe is so empty of life that I think we would probably be the first intelligent species that aliens would come across, I think they would want to get to know us ya know?

Not if they landed in Eastern Iowa.

 

[mywayorcyway]

I absolutely believe there is intelligent life out there, and they may have even visited Earth.

I absolutely do not believe that an alien craft somehow traversed light years to arrive at Earth and crash. That's asinine.

 

[CloneIce]

the universe is so empty of life that I think we would probably be the first intelligent species that aliens would come across, I think they would want to get to know us ya know?

Yep, they sure would want to learn about us, at the very least. Personally I think if aliens came here they would likely be here to study us out of curiosity, and to help our species not destroy itself. That’s one reason I find the testimony from the decorated military officers who saw so much unexplained phenomena at the first nuclear tests to be particularly compelling.