Published: Mar 2nd 2010
By Jeremy Taylor
A good way for a person never to be taken seriously again is to confidently claim he's seen a UFO or encountered an alien life form.
But what if it were true? What if the photos weren't doctored, and many a hard-working, honest citizen of Earth really has felt the cruel jolt that is alien steel shoved into an embarrassing orifice?
What if the aliens purposely leave behind the flimsiest evidence of their existence, so they can lull us into complacency while they survey our cities and test our stool samples in preparation for their big attack?
What would it take for you to believe that not only are we not alone, but that our extraterrestrial neighbors have already made contact? Read on for some the latest developments in encounters of differently numbered kinds.
Keep an open mind about any green man you see
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the fifth man to walk on the moon, has repeatedly stated that the U.S. government knows about many legitimate UFO and alien sightings. He claims he has talked to government officials around the world who have interacted with extraterrestrials.
Somewhat to that end, various governments have recently declassified thousands of documents pertaining to aliens and UFOs -- which begs the question, "What are they still hiding?"
It's foolish to try to imagine what the future holds. If you went back in time 100 years few would even be able to conceptualize the technology humans would soon develop. So, there very well could be an alien race an unfathomable number of light years away who have the ability to pay us a visit tomorrow.
You should be very, very skeptical
It turns out there is a naturally occurring upper-atmospheric discharge called a "sprite" that looks a lot like an alien spacecraft. It may be responsible for many of the unexplained UFO sightings over the years.
Because analog technology is being phased out, less and less Earth-illuminating radiation is being emitted from our planet's atmosphere. Thus, even if there were aliens, it would be increasingly hard for them to distinguish Earth from the trillions of other unoccupied rocks in the universe.
If we learned anything over the last decade, it's that folks will stand behind crazy and easily debunkable theories concerning everything from who was responsible for 9/11 to where the president may have been born. So it stands to reason that some will spread the aliens-have-already made-contact gospel with the same hopelessly inaccurate gusto.
