I watched a movie recently that really got me thinking on this subject. The was "The Fourth Kind" and was supposedly based on true events that occured in Nome, Alaska around the year 2000. It chronicled a psychologist's work with people who were apparently experiencing abductions and showed actual footage of some the interviews and events that the film was centered around. Now, this debate has been going on for decades, possibly centuries, with one side wholeheartedly against the idea, and thinking it's absurd, while the other fervently believes that there is intelligent life out there that readily visits our planet. Films, television programs, and books have all been released over the years with someone's interpretation of alien life, what they look like, and how they act.
The argument that most people use when trying to substantiate the existance of extraterrestrial life the evidence from past generations. They point to such structures as the Great Pyramids, Machu Pichu, Stonehenge, and the Nazca Lines in Peru, stating that it would have been physically impossible for primitive cultures to have created such large and elaborate structures. Also, ancient pictures and writings show images that could be interpreted as people interacting with and receiving things from aliens. Added to this is the fact that over the past years, over million people have either supposedly witnessed a UFO sighting, or have claimed to have been a part of some kind of alien interaction/abduction.
On the flip side of the coin, there are those who find the idea of other intelligent life in the universe ludicrous and absurd. Their biggest argument stems from the lack of evidence of those claiming that aliens do indeed exist. They equate a person's belief in alien lifeform's to a child's belief in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, stating it's more that people want there to be aliens and are fascinated by the possibility of them among us rather than actually having proof or having seen them.
My thought on the subject is that there is life elsewhere in the universe, but that aliens have never visited our planet. The are approximately one hundred thousand million stars in our galaxy alone...and there are millions upon millions of galaxies. Now, I'm no genius (gifted, yes, but not quite a genius), but that seems like a lot. And even if only a small percentage of those stars have solar systems of their own, I think it is a bit naive and possibly self-centered to think that we are the only life form existing in all of that! However, there just isn't enough evidence to convince me that any other life form has visited our planet from another. It just seems to me that with all of the technology we have available to us that there would be something a little more concrete to show us for sure that we actually have had 'visitors'. I mean, there are literally thousands of man-made satellites orbiting the earth. Wouldn't it be safe to assume that one of these would have seen something? It also just seems to me that all of the 'UFO sightings' and 'abductions' always occur in remote locations and are reported on by people of questionable mental stability and dental hygiene. There's also the mathematical aspect of it. If the technology ever became available for us to travel at the speed of light, it would take four years to reach the next closest star, and 50 years to reach the closest Earth-like planet. Now there is always the possibility that there is some advanced life form out there that can move from point A to point B instantaneously and can trick all of our technology so we have no record of them. But in that case, why would they come here? What could possibly be so interesting about us? There are of course two possiblities, both of which stem from a Sci-Fi movie of some kind: (1)We are some sort zoo to them, or (2) Their planet is dying and they want ours. Either way, whatever, I'll simply end with the phrase that I always use to answer if people ask me if I believe in aliens...I don't care. If they're out there or not, chances are it isn't going to affect me in the slightest.
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