[flienianO]

Russian saucer or Aliens? You decide

"Most interestingly, on March 22, 1950, Guy Hottel, the agent in charge of the Washington Field Office, sent a memo reporting that an Air Force source said that flying saucers had crashed near Ros*well, N.M., and had been recovered."

[secondmortgages]

Roswell? 2 years apart and different states [rolleyes]
Also unfortunate references to politics, which should have no part in these things other than as a side comment on the times.

Whilst I an of the conviction that alien life exists, I am also happy with Roswell being more of a Cold War incident misinterpreted by some observers and not an "Alien craft".

[Bugamerka]

this is what wikileaks should be working on :P

[trowUrillioth]

this is what wikileaks should be working on :P

Yeah then we might actually care.

[Xxedxevh]

Yeah then we might actually care.

yupp [yes]

[AXGreg]

It's a load of rubbish. Do you really think that if extra terrestrials had the technology to fly millions of light years in their lifetime they wouldn't have invented brakes? Did all three of them run out of power at exactly the same time or something?

[secondmortgages]

It's a load of rubbish. Do you really think that if extra terrestrials had the technology to fly millions of light years in their lifetime they wouldn't have invented brakes? Did all three of them run out of power at exactly the same time or something?

Perhaps the Alien version of a Toyota - their throttles allegedly stuck on...

[vosteglog]

It's a load of rubbish. Do you really think that if extra terrestrials had the technology to fly millions of light years in their lifetime they wouldn't have invented brakes? Did all three of them run out of power at exactly the same time or something?

Assuming the incident is real, there are countless possible options, one theory suggests high powered radar at the area could have malfunctioned them etc etc

[AXGreg]

Assuming the incident is real, there are countless possible options, one theory suggests high powered radar at the area could have malfunctioned them etc etc

And you're suggesting that while creating a faster than light craft they didn't run into radar already? Radar is just electromagnetic radio waves. You think they don't exist anywhere else?

[Xxedxevh]

And you're suggesting that while creating a faster than light craft they didn't run into radar already? Radar is just electromagnetic radio waves. You think they don't exist anywhere else?

I don´t know where the idea comes from that Ufo´s are able to travel faster than the speed of light.

[pupyississido]

I don´t know where the idea comes from that Ufo´s are able to travel faster than the speed of light.

How would they get here otherwise?

[vosteglog]

And you're suggesting that while creating a faster than light craft they didn't run into radar already? Radar is just electromagnetic radio waves. You think they don't exist anywhere else?

I didn't say I believe there was UFOs to begin with, or that some radar would have caused a crash, just mentioned one possible theory.

[hexniks]

How would they get here otherwise?

If they can't travel at the speed of light then they'd probably get here slower.

[AXGreg]

If they can't travel at the speed of light then they'd probably get here slower.

Well, even if they had managed to harness the power of a moped it's likely that they would have also encountered radio waves before.

Anyhoo... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_travel

[Xxedxevh]

How would they get here otherwise?

That all depends,
First of all where are they from ? Another planet, another dimension or maybe even another time ?
Let´s think outside the box for a minute, there are various ways of getting from A to B,
A few methods might be the use of wormholes, the ability to bend time and space around the craft, quantum tunneling, time travel, etc etc.
With the vast distances in our universe, i don´t think light speed is going to cut it.

[pupyississido]

Well, even if they had managed to harness the power of a moped it's likely that they would have also encountered radio waves before.

Anyhoo... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_travel

Why couldn't they be from our own galaxy?

That all depends,
First of all where are they from ? Another planet, another dimension or maybe even another time ?
Let´s think outside the box for a minute, there are various ways of getting from A to B,
A few methods might be the use of wormholes, the ability to bend time and space around the craft, quantum tunneling, time travel, etc etc.
With the vast distances in our universe, i don´t think light speed is going to cut it.

All of which require substantially more advanced technology than we currently posses, so the point that they must have encountered radio waves before still stands.

[hexniks]

Well, even if they had managed to harness the power of a moped it's likely that they would have also encountered radio waves before.

Anyhoo... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_travel

Oh never doubted that, seems a bit like the whole "they mastered space travel but can't open a wooden door" thing from movies like Signs

Also, Alpha Centauri is only 4.4 lightyears away

[Xxedxevh]

Why couldn't they be from our own galaxy?


All of which require substantially more advanced technology than we currently posses, so the point that they must have encountered radio waves before still stands.

You´re using human logic, based on our own technological timeline.
We don´t know if Alien tech ever went down a similar route as ours.

[Bvghbopz]

Things that are obvious to us may not be necessarily obvious to other intelligence.

I see that driving on the highway on a daily basis.

[AXGreg]

Why couldn't they be from our own galaxy?

Fair point, they could have been. If they existed. If another planet, millions upon millions of lightyears away decided to have a nosey at the neighbours I think they'd send out more than the equivalent of three kids in a volkswagen.

It hurts my head trying to get a handle on this stuff.