Do you believe in UFOs?

[Black_Apalachi]

This probably sounds like a bit of a cliché as far as debates go but I see it as something a bit more light-hearted than some of the other recent threads in this section.

I recently watched a documentary involving Danny Dyer who went on a little mission to try and find out whether extra terrestrial life really exists. I have to say I'm a bit like him in that I just hope there is something out there and it is far more likely for there to be other life somewhere in another galaxy than it is for Earth to be the only planet in the universe with life. He went around the world meeting various people ranging from crop-circle experts to a guy who has recorded the sky above his garden every night for the past fifteen years! As far as evidence goes, the usual videos of "sightings" always make me laugh at how pathetic they are.

Crop-circles I just don't buy because if aliens were regularly visiting Earth, why would they only come at night, and why would they only leave symbols in fields of corn? :S Also as far as I know, crop circles only appear in the UK (or at least they didn't show up anywhere else for a long time, but I'm pretty sure they're only in the UK). Regardless of where they are, experts have said that the larger ones would only take three people and about six or seven hours to complete. Something I wasn't really aware of was that farmers have been coming across random carcasses of livestock. They might find a dead cow or sheep with just it's head removed or some other unusual wound which wouldn't have been caused by a predator. Personally I have no doubt humans are behind this.

All that aside, one of the most conclusive pieces of evidence in the documentary was from a guy who claims to have been abducted by aliens who put little things inside his body. Anyway he saw a bright light outside his window so he set up his camera and on the video you can see what seems to be an alien peering through the glass for a moment, until it sees the guy and ducks down. Assuming the video is real, it was definitely an alien. It looked too lifelike to be a mask or anything else. It looked like a stereotypical alien's head, but not as tall because the window looked pretty low and you could only see the head. This is all assuming the video is real, of course. The final part of the documentary, and something which is hard to criticise was when they were on a hill looking through binoculars at these orbs of light moving around the sky. The guy he spoke to there says that they see them all the time and that they come out of the mountain that's there (that bit isn't hard to criticise ).

While I still hope there is something out there, I'm pretty confident they won't look anything like how aliens always seem to look like in illustrations etc. because how would we have any idea what they look like? :S I doubt they've ever visited Earth or even came any way near our galaxy. All the people who constantly create hoax videos really annoy me as well. I think what I'm basically saying is that regardless of who claims to have seen what, the laws of probability tell me that there has to be something else out there somewhere.

Does anybody have any views on the subject? I think the documentary is still on iPlayer if anyone is interested.

[Misawa]

In a universe as endless as ours, I just can't see how we're alone.

[Titch]

In a universe as endless as ours, I just can't see how we're alone.

My thoughts entirely.

I believe there must be something out there, we cant be alone!

[VirtualG]

Well, first of all your mixing up UFO's with alien space ships. As for alien spaceships, well, I do believe there is a fair posibility of another life form on another planet, and if it has technology that alows it to travel through space, well thats all good then (but not at light speed or jump through black holes, ect)
But the whole mix up thing is that a UFO is simply an object that is flying through the air that is not identified. I mean, if you saw a bird flying (not knowing it was a bird) and you were wondering what it is, that qaulifies as an Unindetinified flying object as it is flying, unidentified and an object. Just like Weather balloons.

[DrLacero]

Does life outside this planet exist?

It's likely.

Have they ever visited us?

No. Stop talking crazy.

[dbgtz]

If they visited us then they must have travelled for ages.

[Gibs960]

I'd love to see an alien, whether they exist, is probably yes, I think they will have come from not an ages, maybe quite a close planet.

[Richie]

Yh I think there is aliens and ufo's the government know it but try to cover it up its obvious.

[kuzkasate]

I'm thinking that they probably do exist. We cannot be alone in this world, it cannot be JUST humans in this universe.

It'd probably be like something out of Planet 51

[Pix]

Nope, i find it totally ridiculous how people actually believe it.