Area 51

Friday, June 7, 2019

Ever since rumors of an alien landing occurred around Area 51, some 83 miles north/northwest of Las Vegas in 1947 and an actual spaceship and occupants were allegedly recovered, Americans have been fanatical about the existence of UFO’s and hardly a day goes by without one being reported.

Now the immediate problem is the definition of a UFO. UFO is short for unidentified flying object and that could apply to practically anything in the air that hasn’t been identified. People naturally jump to conclusions and define UFO’s as aliens flying space ships but, in fact, it’s much more likely to be anything other than that. But the rumors persist because of the conspiracy theorists out there and will continue to do so as long as they’re around which means they’ll continue to exist forever.

A personal inventory is necessary here to determine your own beliefs. If you were asked the question, “Have you ever seen a UFO,” many people would say yes. All one has to do is to pick out a site at night away from the lights of the city and stare at the sky. There are things occurring all the time that the average person can’t identify. Meteors, asteroids, planes, weather balloons and the like make for exciting break talk the next day but it’s very rarely more than that.

My own personal inventory in terms of seeing or hearing things unknown is incredibly boring. I have never seen or heard ANYTHING that falls outside the realm of what we know about the world scientifically. I have never seen a UFO nor interacted with an alien.

I haven’t had an accidental run-in with Big Foot. I’ve never seen a ghost or a goblin in action. I’ve never encountered someone healed or raised from the dead. I’ve never talked to someone who has passed on before me. I can’t read anyone’s mind although their actions and behaviors are a pretty good guidance to what they’ll say or do next.

Nothing. Nada. No unknown encounters in my life at all. Does that mean they don’t exist? No, it just means I haven’t had any. But because I haven’t had any, I’m betting that far more people around the world haven’t instead of have, at least to those who are willing to admit it. One of the things we do in a capitalist society is seek fame and fortune because that’s one of the hallmarks of being successful. So it’s certainly possible that people who have had no unusual events occur in their lives might say they did to get their names and pictures in the media when in fact, they haven’t.

We never know when someone’s telling the truth. Most people have never been connected to a lie detector machine so we don’t know if they’re telling the truth or not. And even the phrase

‘lie detector’ is a misnomer because all it does is measure the changes in our respiration, pulse and heartbeat. Sometimes those changes indicate deception but certainly not always. That’s why the evidence from these machines isn’t allowed in a court of law.

And then you have people who just lie to make themselves feel bigger and better than they are. Everybody likes to be first with a story because we think that indicates a knowledge or awareness that our friends don’t have. So we hear something over coffee and repeat it as the truth later on that day in an attempt to gain stature with our friends, especially if we feel intellectually inferior to our friends.

Finally, if we have been or are being visited by aliens, they must be good aliens because they have stayed out of our lives. That certainly wouldn’t be the case if we found them before they found us.

The warmongers and skinheads would want to kill them before they killed us and it would most likely mean the death of the planet. On the other hand, Steven Hawking, the brilliant scientist who passed away recently said in paraphrase, “be careful about a burning desire to find aliens because you might get what you wished for.”

We haven’t found them yet and all the odds say if they had found us first, we would certainly know about it.

It may be fun to postulate and guess about the existence of supernatural things outside of us but I’ve never encountered them and I suspect most of you haven’t either.

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