UFO sightings raise familiar question: Are we alone?
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"If, in fact, we are able to find life or to answer the question 'Are we alone?' then that certainly is grand enough and noble enough to be the enduring legacy of our civilization."
NASA statement
October 1999
The skies over Texas have been busy with spottings of unidentified flying objects in recent times, and I can't help but wonder if some of them might actually be visitors from a galaxy far, far away.
I'm sure that thought has crossed your mind, too, whether you want to admit it out loud or not. Just the chance that we are not alone is enough to pique anyone's interest.
Just days ago, a Continental Express pilot took off from Houston en route to South Carolina and had a weird experience not long after lifting off.
Reaching an altitude of 11,000 feet, still over Texas, the pilot suddenly radioed that a large object was flying 150 feet or so beneath him. The report I read on the Web site of MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) didn't say what shape this thing was, but the pilot was shocked to see that it didn't show up on radar.
MUFON records indicate that another Continental Airlines pilot spotted a UFO in May of last year, very near the same area.
You don't need a map to discern that this puts these objects pretty close to our area.
On the same night that the Continental pilot was gazing wide-eyed at whatever it was, another man spotted a UFO in the skies over East Texas, MUFON says. This, according to the spotter, was a triangular-shaped craft.
And, yet another spotter saw three star-like objects over East Texas, traveling fast, then slow, then fast, on that same night.
In view of the spate of UFOs seen flying over the Stephenville, Texas, area last year, and other, less noted sightings since then, maybe we should be spending more time looking up.
MUFON's records show that the U.S. is by far the leader in sightings of UFOs, and Texas is always first or second among the states in the number of these.
Remember that guy in the old 1950s version of "The Thing?" At the end of the movie, he tells the whole world on the radio, "Watch the skies! Keep watching the skies"!
That could turn out to be sound advice.
Jim Bishop is a senior editor for the Advocate. Leave him a message at 361-574-1210 or jbishop@vicad.com or comment on this column at www.victoriaadvocate.com
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Questions of "feelings" aside, reason alone warrants we think for ourselves - for our own good! Something mysterious IS happening, of that there is no doubt. I have personal proof, but I am well aware that even detailed video is not enough - people who don't want to believe will declare "hoax," and who can really say otherwise?
Personal experience, isn't that the final arbiter of truth for anyone? This phenomenon has similar characteristics of "religious" beliefs, if religions cam be thought of as "theories" about Divinity. Some people believe they've had personal experiences, where they "know" after having an experience, while others contemplate that such "knowing experience" is surely instead only imagined - solely from the mind only of the perceiver.
"Looking up" is a great suggestion. Don't put your heads in the sand because you don't want to see that life is more mysterious, and even sometimes more frightening, than we want it to be. Ultimately, it's YOUR mind that has to answer these questions. Don't let others answer them for you, FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF - for all you know you're being thrown under the bus by those that are more aware of the mysterious answers than you are!
June 8, 2009 at 9:57 a.m.momof2
that video shows you just how inconsequential we really are! to see all those clusters of galaxies and each galaxy with billions and billions of stars! and some people continue to believe that we are the only planet with life. we probably won't ever be able travel to other galaxies. We do not have the technology and it will take something besides being able to reach the speed of light!
June 7, 2009 at 10:36 a.m.Archie, I just went to watch that you tube video. It is just mind boggling to say the least, and it does make you see how really we can not begin to fathom the extent of our existence!
June 7, 2009 at 10:22 a.m.these were not looking for pasture parties to bust! it's hard to believe that the police would waste fuel for helicopter patrol just for that! where's their priorities?
June 6, 2009 at 7:59 p.m.fatboy
these were not helicopters these objects were moving pretty darn fast! it was very strange to see because it had no shape! it seemed like a dull orb of some type under intelligent control maybe? it's really made an impression on me and I just wonder what they were!
June 6, 2009 at 7:56 p.m.the craft over Victoria has stealth/quiet features. there is a 'copter that does this that I believe is used for surviellance. I think quite a few yrs ago it was used at this same time >> graduation pasture parties. just a hunch.
as for the airplane missile incident in Houston, 3 miles up is pretty high for a novice controller. Someone is planning. Lets not miss the signals/signs again. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/f...
June 6, 2009 at 5:58 p.m.that's the thing about ufo sightings you never ever have a camera with you, and if you do the video doesn't show any detail!
June 6, 2009 at 5:39 p.m.infinity is indeed a hard subject to grasp and I believe we won't ever comprehend! have any of you seen the most important photograph ever taken by the Hubble scope? It's on YouTube just do a search for it and you'll be amazed with the image!
June 6, 2009 at 5:33 p.m.I just know that I want to see one clear enough and close enough so there can be no mistake what it is I am seeing. The same goes for an alien life form (extraterrestrial I should say). We tend to thnk the universe revolves around us but more realistically Earth is but a speck of dust in the universe.
June 6, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.Agreed,
Infinity is a hard subject to grasp, not billions of galaxy's but a unlimited number of them.
June 6, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.Even if you follow the idea that our universe as we know it, is but a few specks of dust floating around in a much larger universe is not the larger universe but a few specks of dust in a even larger universe? and so on and so.
the incident in Houston was supposedly a model rocket but the report I read said it about 5 to 7 feet long! that's a serious rocketry hobby which I find hard to believe a normal person could afford to do.
June 6, 2009 at 2:26 p.m.I hope that one day we do have the truth and we'll all smile and say it was the government all along! There is conspiracy to hide their testing and to make us think that it's from other planets! in my opinion!
June 6, 2009 at 2:24 p.m.I know that most folks are skeptical about sightings in the sky all you can do is report what you see! there was a case in Victoria last year where 2 law enforcement officers reported something in the sky! Their dept didn't want to take the report officially! That is a typical reaction from others. call me a kook or what you want but I saw something over Victoria that was not a conventional aircraft. Are there other reluctant witnesses out there?
June 6, 2009 at 2:21 p.m.some people are so sure that we are alone but I feel that is arrogance to feel that out of the billions and billions of universes and the billions of stars in each universe that only one planet was picked to have life? we haven't begun to comprehend the magnitude of the universe!
June 6, 2009 at 2:14 p.m.