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If you believe in ufos/uaps

Are they extra terrestrial, interdimensional, or ultra terrestrial?
Zaphod42 · 46-50, M
I think the vast majority have mundane explanations…plastic bags in the wind and geese in the night sky. Odd looking, and unexplainable by the observer, but not extraterrestrial. However, a small percentage may well have originated from outside our star system. Just remember, unidentified does not mean extraterrestrial, it just means from your vantage point you couldn’t identify it.
@Zaphod42 moreover, extrasolar doesn't mean living being either, nor anything more biologically advanced than microbes

If people could get more excited by basic reality we'd have less propensity for political candidates getting elected based on conspiracy theory and projection of adolescent fantasy
Zaphod42 · 46-50, M
@BlueGreenGrey Indeed! Personally, I’d be ecstatic over the discovery of non terrestrial microbes! That at least would lend credence to the idea of otherworldly abiogenesis and perhaps even sentient life. But for now, the evidence is still lacking.
@Zaphod42 indeed, I mean reality is interesting enough without any need to embellish ... moreover, some of the reality-based issues are really really demanding humanity's attention right now, to the extent of being existential threats to our species and others without any imagining necessary
Matt85 · 36-40, M
interdimensional for sure
Sometimes I believe in things like UPS and USPS. But then I reconsider if those would really be the will of the almighty Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM).
smiler2012 · 56-60
@froggtongue 🤫why has the flying saucer pasta you house then
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ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@Thevy29 Poor aliens!
Classified · M
What is an uap?

UFO is just an unidentified flying object. If it flies and you don't know what it is, it is an UFO.
Classified · M
@Zaphod42 By the sound of it that could even be a flashlight beam that you see in the sky. Except that that is easily identified.
Zaphod42 · 46-50, M
@Classified Not always. On occasion, with mild fog and an object like a plastic bag in the wind blowing through a searchlight beam, some pretty strange effects can be seen.
Classified · M
@Zaphod42 That sounds pretty fun to observe actually
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
By definition they're unknown, merely an admission of our inability to identify everything in existence.
CBarson · 51-55
They remain unidentified/anomalous

I have observed two such phenomena in my lifetime.

Neither resembled a "flying saucer"

I could not tell you what they were, other than they were very strange in appearance, unlike anything I had previously observed
DaveE54 · 51-55, M
Possibly all three
Thevy29 · 41-45, M
If there are Aliens I'm sure they see the whole earth population like 'The Kardashians' and would rather watch this shit show from afar.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
Since "U" stands for "unidentified"....

Also the more fantastical your suggestion the less likely it is!
ArishMell · 70-79, M
If you knew their origin they'd be partly identified!
MasterLee · 56-60, M
Just unexplained. Nothing fantastic.
I believe in UFOs,
but not so much aliens.
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
Basically, they're unidentified. ;)
Starcrossed · 41-45, F
All of the above
Why do people always conflate the term UFO with aliens?
UFO has a very specific, very literal, very boring and unexciting meaning

You can probably look somewhere in the sky right now and see something you cannot identify, but that in itself doesn't mean anything
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@BlueGreenGrey "Alien" is equally mundane - it just means from elsewhere, whether the origin is known or not. If I visit another country I am an "alien" there.

The conflation is just romanticism. Many people are not interested in fact if they can find or invent some exciting alternative notion, and the the dafter and less logical that notion, the more it attracts them.
MonaReeves86 · 36-40, F
Yes and I believe they are here on earth
TJNewton · M
They are very real and all 3 of the above

 
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