I just watched the congressional hearing today with witnesses of UFOs (UAPs) and potentially intelligent extraterrestrial lifeforms. This is really exciting. Do you believe in any of it? Yes/No? Please explain why you do or don’t. I’d like to hear your opinion.

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    No - it’s strange that it’s only been observed in the US and all the governments would have come together to hide something like that.

    Wouldn’t surprise me it’s actually soviet spy planes and the specs fudged to distract people away from potentially learning the soviets successfully made it to US airspace, and maybe a fear mongering campaign on top to keep people distracted from what’s really going on.

    If it’s real, you’d think they’d have kept the tech to research it, and could show it off as proof. Not going to believe anything until we have pictures.

    • Cyborganism@lemmy.caOP
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      That’s the thing. It hasn’t been observed only in the US. There has been reports all over the world. It’s just that the reports have been published more in the US than anywhere else. I mean the whole country went batshit crazy over UFOs in the 50’s and had radio shows and movies and TV series. They capitalized on the subject. And people started interpreting everything they saw in the sky as UFOs. So maybe it’s a little over reported there.

      There’s a lot of activity in South America, but it’s just under reported. There’s activity in Russia too, except their whole gouvernement works in total secrecy. And depending on the regions of the world, some being more religious might interpret these phenomena as divine manifestations so it won’t be reported.

      And like they said in the Congressional hearings, it happens way more often but there’s a stigma associated with it and people are afraid to report if it means putting their jobs at risk.

  • WontonSoup
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    There has to be something somewhere. It’s just not logical to think otherwise. We have barely scratched the surface of exploration and knowledge of space and to declare it doesn’t or can’t exist is crazy.

    Does it look like what we know as life? Maybe but probably not. If I had to bet it’d be on some sort of microorganism that we find first.

    As for intelligent life I think it’s also possible and probably likely.

    If it does exist though why would they be wasting their time here just to float ominously in their massive ships as we were told in those hearings. And why does it happen at such a high rate in the US as opposed to elsewhere. And with everyone having a high quality camera in their pocket at all times are there 0 convincing pictures or multiple angles of the same thing. It always looks like someone shot it on a 1999 Nokia instead of the iPhone everyone has.

    I doubt they’re planning their vacations like “let’s go check out that planet that’s killing itself and just float near the US military…”

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      What’s the word when you don’t believe, but don’t disbelieve?

      It’s like I neither prefer the red Ferrari in my garage nor the blue one, as I have no Ferraris in my garage.

    • Cyborganism@lemmy.caOP
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      I think it’s over reported in the US and under reported everywhere else.

      I’d like to think that these beings are here like on a really long term deep space observation outpost.

      There was talk of interdimensional travel during the Congressional hearing.

        • Cyborganism@lemmy.caOP
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          I just thought it’d be a fun discussion to have between us here. If all you want are news articles and updates on politics, you might as well just go to the canadapolitics community.