On a serious note, what's the dang deal with UFOs?

Smiling Tiger® · 2025-05-12T13:54:32.636Z

Are they alien craft? Human military craft? Both? Hallucinations? Normal craft or natural objects misidentified? https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/ufos-arizona-border-air-force-base/

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Re: It's fun to think about

May 12, 2025, 12:11 PM

Fermi Paradox

The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial life existing given the vastness of the universe and the lack of any conclusive evidence of such life. It's a question of why, if life and even intelligent life are statistically likely to emerge, we haven't detected any signs of it.
Elaboration:
The paradox was first articulated by physicist Enrico Fermi in the 1950s, who, while pondering the sheer number of stars and planets in the Milky Way, asked "Where is everyone?". The logic is that if life is even relatively common, some of these civilizations would likely develop technology capable of interstellar travel or communication, and we would have detected them by now.
Possible Solutions:
Several theories have been proposed to explain the silence:
The Great Silence:
This suggests that the universe might be more challenging to traverse than we think, or that civilizations might not last long enough to reach a stage where they are detectable, notes Live Science.
The Great Filter:
This proposes that there might be a threshold that civilizations must overcome to reach our level of development, but many fail to do so.
The Zoo Hypothesis:
This idea suggests that advanced civilizations exist but are intentionally hiding from less advanced ones, or that they might not want to interfere with the development of less advanced species, says the SETI Institute.
The Dark Forest Theory:
This theory posits that civilizations might actively hide from each other due to the danger of being discovered and destroyed.
In essence, the Fermi paradox highlights the gap between our theoretical understanding of the universe and the lack of empirical evidence for extraterrestrial life, prompting ongoing research and debate about the nature and prevalence of intelligence beyond Earth.

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On a serious note, what's the dang deal with UFOs?

Re: On a serious note, what's the dang deal with UFOs?

This has been an interest of mine for awhile

Yes

I'm thinking this is the correct answer.***

Interdimensional crafts

They have been here for a while

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Skunk Works***

Re: On a serious note, what's the dang deal with UFOs?

ET!***

It's fun to think about

Re: It's fun to think about

Again yes

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