Ever since I was little and saw The Day the Earth Stood Still aliens have been an interesting (and maybe terrifying) possibility.
All of the best media (comics, movies, tv, video games) has aliens: sometimes they are good; sometimes they are bad.
if aliens are real then we don't really know what their motives are, I don't care what anybody says. Space is a big mystery box and sure, some experts are studying it and discovering cool new things every day, but I go back and forth on aliens.
"the surest sign there is intelligent life out in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us" -Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes
That makes sense to me. I also can't possibly imaging we would be alone in the universe, just this one universe(!), let alone infinite others.
That's really arrogant, man.
I haven't ever seen anything myself, some friends of mine have had very unexplainable experiences - one with alien abduction symptons and another has a pretty unbelieveable story about Sasquatch. I guess I'm open minded but also skeptical. It's both unsettling and also exciting. I really do hope we can make Contact one day. I just don't want them to take all our water or something, like in another more disturbing Calvin and Hobbes!
BUT--
It's also hard to discount the witness testimonials and photos of UFOs. Some people claim to have met these visitors up close, or having been taken into their craft. Leaving those aside for the moment, let's just take the more mundane question of whether there are UFOs. Well of COURSE there are UFOs! All UFO means is "Unidentified Flying Object"! It's anything that you can't identify that's flying around up there! In fact, the people who claim it is DEFINITELY UFOs are sort of making sure that they AREN'T also UFOs, because then it's been identified! They'd be IFOs. Identified Flying Objects. Now they want to definitely identify them as aliens (wow, I wrote identify so many times). We have to consider that first-hand eyewitness testimony is not always credible. There was an exhibit at a science museum I took my little cousins to where they had you test this. You watch a video of a fake crime, then have to recall certain details later. It's not that easy! So we can't always trust eyewitnesses, unless that is all you can have to go on. Which; for many if not most of these UFO situations, is all we have.
UNLESS we believe those who claim to have pieces of ships, like those found at Roswell.
One such set of parts is "Art's Parts"
These have been tested and nobody seems to know what they are. A mystery doesn't always mean something supernatural but it's fun to wonder, and it isn't mutually exclusive either. Art Bell is a radio host of Coast to Coast AM who covers a range of paranormal and supernatural topics like Chupacabra, Mothman, Men in Black, ghosts, aliens, skinwalkers, demons, poltergiest, you name it. The first time I listened was late at night, when me and my dad had to go out in the middle of the night to find a water vac for a busted hot water heater. He must've heard it before, because he says "check this out" and turns it on. He was talking to some caller who claimed that her baby at the hospital was actually a lizardbaby! But that the hospital staff, who were all secret lizards, switched her baby. I think there was a guy who claimed he could talk to wolves? I was hooked.
Of course, there is also the cultural phenomena of The X-Files which brought more of these topics into pop culture mainstream. I think many people (judging by the callers into Art Bell's show) are really into these topics, but you barely ever hear about them. Even X-Files is fiction, with a lot of focus on the romance plot -- something a few of classmates swoon over. I'm not gonna lie, Gillian Anderson it really pretty. I don't really get the David Duchovny part tho
There is another show on Sci-Fi called "SIGHTINGS" which has more nonfiction appraoch. It's a lot of fun to watch, especially late at night on cable re-runs. We don't have cable but my grandma does, so it's one of those shows to watch like MST3K. Trying not to laugh during that show, so's not to wake anybody, makes it even funnier. You get a few mini chocolate donuts and some Coke and you dip em and you're on yer way. Anyway. If you're really lucky you can see an OLD episode of "In Search Of" with Spock, I mean, Leonard Nimoy. There they get into all these topics including Bigfoot, but then you have the added bonus of Leonard Nimoy's 70s hair and 'stach. I don't know how educational any of this is, but like I said it's fun to wonder, and WHO KNOWS? Aliens could be proven real either through government disclosure or them revealing themselves or even scientists like at SETI: The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life.
Oh yeah, E.T. And Alf: Alien Life Form. Close Encounters. Marvin the Martian. There's a lot.
Nobody knows if Batboy is part alien, but there are rumors.
BOOKS
I've read a few books on this, there's a cozy little nook at my favorite bookstore that nestles underneath a staircase. I even had a Paranormal Investigator's Handbook, but I can't find it now. It had more to do with ghosts anyway, which aren't as interesting to me for some reason (some MYSTERIOUS reason!) as aliens or even bigfoot. There are tons of books on the subject out there so I want to check out more, I don't see a lot of them in libraries
ALIEN LINKS
