Okay, I'll set the scene.

I was engaged in discussions on the OT forum, and I really enjoyed writing this particular Topic post. So I decided to put it on my blog as well.

So, let's have it, Were you polite enough to say hello the last time you were about to be abducted by aliens?

Now, having said that, I want to assure everybody here, that I have absolutely no education or training in theoretical biology. I can tell you that biology exists, but everything I say here can be taken with a grain of salt. We are, quite completely, entirely in the realms of uneducated speculation.

That being said, my opinion is that life probably does exist at least somewhere else in the universe. I will be entirely unsurprised to find out that I'm wrong, and that the universe is empty except for us, but still, I think that somewhere, 'life' is probably happening. Somewhere ELSE, that is.

However, that stated, I also feel that it is highly unlikely that said existing life is advanced enough to be sending space ships to Earth to freak out hick farmers and conspiracy nuts. My feeling is that's the province of the US Government. (Or other governments.)

It has always fascinated me that when people say "UFO" everyone always thinks aliens. When literally, a Balloon, that freaks out some "'gator hunter" out in the "bayou" could be, quite appropriately, termed a "UFO". UFO as nearly everyone knows, means Unidentified Flying Object. This quite literally means an object, that is flying, that has not been identified. Now, every single day, all across the world, millitary installations, universities, and private sector science nuts are working on means of arial and celestial travel. Do conspiracy nuts really find it so much easier to believe that an Alien, has flown thousands of lightyears to come and say 'Hello'?

OR, and here's the good bit, is it in fact these CONSPIRACY THEORISTS, who are creating UFO sightings? After all, conspiracy theroists need something to theorise about. They need things to write in their home printed magazines, which they write from a basement lined with chicken wire so that the 'Man' can't listen in.

Or maybe, you've been staring up into the sky so long waiting to see a UFO that your brain finally says "Y'know what? FINE! I quit." and BAM there's your UFO sighting.

What do you think?