What are the chances that UFOs really exist?
What are the chances that life exists in the universe?
UFO literally means unidentified flying objects.
Initially, around 1947, they were defined as flying saucers based on the description given by a US civilian pilot. The phenomenon immediately conquered public opinion which was divided between skeptics and believers: the authorities also took a great interest in the phenomenon and in the USA between 1947 and 1969, a commission was established which investigated over 12,500 cases; it is the so-called Blue Book which ended with the bitter conclusion that over 95% of those cases were scientifically explainable. But the remaining 5%? Although American experts have said that even in those few intricate cases they have not found anything that could suggest extraterrestrial life or more advanced civilizations, the most ardent ufologists agree in saying that those 600 cases in the Blue Book are an excellent basis for admit some form of life in the universe beyond ours.
The traces of UFOs are lost in history: in some caves in Japan, dating back to around 7,000 years ago, there are drawings depicting flying objects descending from the sky and beings with strange suits.
Some cave paintings in southern France show flying saucers. Even in the Middle Ages there are many references to mysterious arrows of fire and fiery spheres coming down from the sky.
In an ancient painting, in an equally ancient church in Georgia, two strange flying objects from which some strange beings peep out are witnesses of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
The Sumerians also witnessed contact with aliens. Studies conducted on some cuneiform texts, dating back to around 6,000 years ago, have highlighted a great coincidence of data from the Sumerian myths with the symbolism present in the Bible (Nibiro). According to the Sumerians, this planet would approach us every 3,600 years (between Mars and Jupiter). The inhabitants of this planet, according to Sumerian myth, arrived on Earth about 450 thousand years ago.
In modern era, talk of UFOs began on June 24, 1947 when 9 glittering objects were spotted in Washington state. Shortly thereafter the sightings began to increase, taking on the appearance of a real problem. A large observation center was set up in Alaska, because such flying objects were thought to enter the atmosphere through the polar regions.
Even US Air Force fighters, as part of Operation Blue Book, were equipped with a whole series of instruments aimed at capturing a series of clues. In the inexplicable cases, however, there were some constants, namely that they were discoidal objects of unknown nature, that they had no logistical support, that they immersed themselves under the water and suddenly resumed flight, that they had a flight speed of over 300 knots, which gave off a blinding white light and which usually appeared in a formation of three to nine objects.
Strange UFOs are also part of the sightings mother ships. All of this brings us back to a single question, who are the beings piloting these ships? So, are there life forms in the universe? Let us immediately point out that the search for life in the universe is a problem that has little or nothing to do with UFOs, but as we have already said, it is widely believed that the term UFO is associated with the idea of a highly evolved alien race. For this reason it seemed appropriate to discuss possible forms of life in the cosmos. The universe, as we know, is enormous and dotted with stars and planets that revolve around them.
For how large the universe is, how many star systems can there be that present these particular situations? Reasoning in terms of statistical averages, we can say that there are around 5 million of them, going down a lot if we expect to find some form of bacterial life on these planets. Statistics also comes to our aid if we wanted to theorize about the development of these bacterial lives into multicellular life forms, telling us that in this case the number of planets would drop well beyond one million. In looking for intelligent and technologically advanced life forms, our statistical range would oscillate between 250,000 and 150,000 planets, a high number, but relatively paltry when viewed in the light of the entire universe. Another problem that arises is that of the concomitance of development between us and another hypothetical civilization (synchronism). The method that we use today to steal evidence about the existence of alien life forms is that of radio waves, captured by means of powerful antennas capable of hearing signals coming from distant points of the universe. The problem we mentioned before is that, although it is possible there are other planets with life forms, how many of these life forms have developed such a technological level as to be able to interpret the signals sent by us? If this hypothetical civilization is still stuck in a period similar to our Stone Age, how could it ever notice our signals?
Nor do statistics console us, as they state that most likely there are no planets with such advanced life forms in our galaxy. But in the rest of the universe? In the rest of the universe, considering the presence of over 100 billion galaxies, there could be around 5,000-10,000 planets capable of interpreting our radio signals. These, however, although they travel at the speed of light, do not allow us to establish a dialogue with civilizations even just 100 light years away...
A single sentence would take a century to be heard. So in light of this, no one feels like excluding the possibility that other forms of life exist in the universe,
