I have always been intrigued by the idea of aliens from another planet visiting our planet earth. I’ve watched Hangar 1: UFO Files on the History Channel a number of times and have found the stories of UFO sightings and encounters quite fascinating. When you “google” the words UFO sightings you get 1.8 million hits. That says there must be something to these UFOs. So when I cam across the story on Fox News: Apollo 14 astronaut claims peace-loving aliens prevented ‘nuclear war’ on Earth, I had to read it. After all, this was a story involving the sixth man to walk the surface of the moon.
The story centres around Edgar Mitchell, an astronaut who was on the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. He told Mirror Online, an online tabloid, that top-ranking military sources spotted UFOs during weapons tests. He told us military insiders had seen strange crafts flying over missile bases and the famous White Sands facility, where the world’s first ever nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945.
Mr. Mitchell’s story falls right in line with one of the episodes of Hangar 1: The UFO Files that I saw in April of this year. The episode was called UFOs at War. This episode maintains that in every war throughout history there were sightings of multiple UFOs over battlefields. That included recent conflicts such as the Afghanistan war and Iraq wars. The episode was attempting to determine if the purpose of these UFO visits was to harm us or were their visits to warn us of our own potential self-destruction? I certainly was fascinated by the topic.
I have an active brain, so when I hear, see or read about phenomena such as UFOs, I get curious and want to know more. Mostly, I want to know if this could be true. So I turn to the internet to learn more. Now one has to be careful using the World Wide Web as there is lots of misinformation on it. I always try to use information from credible sites or from credible people. In this case, I looked to Stephen Hawking who was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. Furthermore, when you research the smartest people living today, Stephen Hawking almost always appears as one of the ten smartest people alive today. So I reason what he has to say is credible.
In the article Stephen Hawking: Earth could be…, Hawking says, “The existence of 100 billion galaxies each containing hundreds of millions of stars means Earth is unlikely to be the only place where life has evolved, To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like”. The article also says that Professor Hawking has been open-minded to the existence of extraterrestrials before, but the discovery of more than 450 previously unknown planets orbiting distant stars since 1995 is believed to have strengthened his belief that life exists outside of earth.
In another article Stephen Hawking: We been overlooked, Hawking says, “that there are other forms of intelligent life out there, but that we have been overlooked. If we should pick up signals from alien civilizations, we should be wary of answering back, until we have evolved a bit further. Meeting a more advanced civilization, at our present stage, might be a bit like the original inhabitants of America meeting Columbus. I don’t think they were better off for it.”
Now I agree with Hawking views. I thinks it is just arrogance and naivety for humans to think we are the only living creatures in this vast universe. An article titled, Ignoring 500 Billion Galaxies, says, “There are some one trillion galaxies in the known universe and some 50 billion planets estimated to exist in the Milky Way alone and some 500,000,000 predicted to exist in a habitable zone [a zone where life is possible]”. The article goes on to say, “Astronomers estimate that there are 100 billion galaxies in the universe. If you want to extrapolate those numbers, that means there are around 50,000,000,000,000,000,000 (50 quintillion) potentially habitable planets in the universe”. The odds of the planet Earth being the only planet in the universe with life seems to be against us.
I especially agree with Mr. Hawking that we humans are not all that evolved. One just has to look at the way we treat one another to determine where we are on our evolutionary path. I figure if we are at war with one another and killing one another then we can’t be too far into our evolutionary development. Add to that the fact that we mistreat our planet with pollution. Evolved civilizations would not do these things to themselves and their planet.
In the article, Aliens are coming, NASA’s Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan claims, “First contact with alien life will happen very soon. I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years.” Stofan has held the most senior science position at NASA since August 2013, so what she has to say must be credible.
Now, I know it is difficult to know what to think or believe. If you use the internet you will find convincing arguments both for and against claims that aliens are among us. Having said that, I prefer to think that if aliens are indeed among us. then they are here for the betterment of humankind, so maybe they are protecting us from ourselves. For me that is more comforting than extraterrestrials preparing to invade and destroy Earth or it’s inhabitants. They don’t need to destroy humankind as we are doing a good job of that ourselves.
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