Today Is World UFO Day!

Alien Street Photography; The Gray Family (click to enlarge)

I was not aware July 2nd is World UFO Day.  I am as surprised as you are.  But in commemoration of World UFO Day, I'll publicly admit I've been to Roswell, New Mexico and the Roswell UFO Museum!  Yes, its true.

According to Wikipedia, World UFO day is an awareness day for people to gather together and watch the skies for unidentified flying objects (UFOs).  Also, according to Wikipedia, it is a day to raise the awareness of "the undoubted existence of UFOs" and to encourage governments around the world to declassify their files on UFO sightings.

Street Portrait (click to enlarge)

I see two different issues here.  Are there UFOs?  Most certainly yes.  Unidentified flying objects are seen all the time.  Objects are in the sky and we can't quite identify what they are.  Are there spaceships and visitors from other worlds flying through the skies of Earth?  That is a whole different question. A UFO doesn't mean aliens are here.  Or it can.

I've had two thoughts regarding UFOs.  First, why would alien spacecraft have red and green aviation-type lights on them?  Are they worried that they will violate Federal Aviation Administration rules by not having proper aviation lights on their craft?  Did they call ahead to find out if they needed lights when visiting the Earth?  Why would there be any lights at all on an alien space craft?  None of the space craft launched from earth to the moon, mars and beyond have lights?  Not needed.

Second, the nearest star to us is Proxima Centauri.  Proxima Centauri is 4.2421 light-years away from us.  Each light-year (the distance light can travel in one year at a rate of 186,000 miles per second or 300,000 km/second) is about 24,943,548,000,000 miles from Earth.  Ladies and gentlemen that is almost 25 Trillion (with a capital T) miles from us.  By any measure that is a long way from home.  Just for comparison, the 10th closest star, Ross 248, is  10.322 light-years from us.  That is 60,693,360,000 miles—over 60 Trillion miles away.  Space is a really big place.  Bigger than our brains can process.  Proxima Centuri does have an exoplanet in the "habitable zone," which is the distance from a star where water can be liquid, a requirement for life as we know it.  Proxima B, which is the name of the exoplanet, is 1.3 times the mass of the Earth.  

Current evidence says our ordinary galaxy, the Milky Way, is estimated to have 100 billion stars.  That is just our galaxy.  We are about 25,000 light-years from the massive black hole (Sagittarius A Star) at the Milky Way's center.  Our galaxy is thought to be about 100,000 light-years in diameter.  From the observations and science now known, the best scientists now estimate there may be 100 or more billion galaxies in the known Universe.  100 billion X 100 billion is, well, you do the math.  With the current thinking that there may be planets surrounding as many as half the stars in the Universe, surely, there is life out there.  The odds are so high that there is life other than us in the Universe.  But, again, we don't know.  (Can you tell that I like astronomy, astrophysics, etc.?) :-)

Alien autopsy (click to enlarge)
Images made in the UFO Museum in Roswell, NM

As of now, we know of no science or methodology which would allow travel near the speed of light or through a "wormhole," which is a theoretical shortcut through space.  According to Albert Einstein, who's theories have proven to be correct, as one travels closer and closer to the speed of light, time slows down.  At the speed of light, mass and energy are interchangeable, therefore travel at or above the speed of light is not possible.  Are there visitors from other worlds to the Earth?  The odds are not with alien beings visiting us.  But do we absolutely know for sure?  We can't as we only understand one type of carbon-based life.  There may be other forms of life, maybe silicon -based, that we can't recognize or possibly even see with our limited vision within the electromagnetic spectrum.

However, as Carl Sagan use to say, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."  Things are flying around our planet that we can't identify.  What are they?

Happy World UFO Day!  Its all good and all fun.  I'll be out looking up at the sky and wondering....

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Dennis A. Mook 

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