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In reply to the discussion: UFOs are in today's news again. Step up DUers. If you have had a sighting, lets us all know. [View all]electric_blue68
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I've never seen one - but 95% of my life has been living in NYC, ?3% been in older towns/suburbs (relatives),
?2% deeper countryside.
As a kid we'd sometimes be staying fairly far out between towns in NE in motels on summer vacations.
On my own trips I've been out in deep countryside mostly North, Northeastern AZ, Hopi, and Navajo Nations (Including an overnight in Monument Valley), Grand Canyon, up in The Rockies north of Denver.
Traveling on two long (2 wks, 2 wks + ) vacations by bus between visiting certain cities in the wide spaces of Missouri, OK, TX, NM, southern AZ on the way to CA night, and day.
Looking out 60 miles eastwatd from on a hill in a little village, over fields, farmland, wooded spots towards the Alps in mid but west Switzerland for 2 1/2 weeks in '16.
Now I wasn't looking, and nothing showed up unexpectedly. Since most (all) reports have these things show up unexpectedly.
Are there intelligent sapients checking in on us on occasion. Idk. Still I believe it's possible. Maybe a low probability. Just our galaxy alone is immense. We're just one There are between 100 - 200 Billion ovservable galaxies Yes, I jknow farther away, the further back in time
And we haven't unlocked all the secrets of physics etc all yet. Who knows what modes of space flight might be a decade away. Less?
It's true I'd love to find there's a Galactic Civilization of quite varried sapients out there on the other side of The Milky Way. Of which we could have some allies, and good friends. Get some good advice. Though maybe if we followed more of the best of our own we'd be doing better. (I still believe there's more good people than not).
What can I say - I partly grew up on Star Trek, though I don't think Humanity will have "conquered" all the problems that they have conquered by the time TOS, and NG are are around and "told us ?" we had.
Anyway I"m waiting for a Library book currently on hold by a New Zealand investigative reporter on UFOs/UAPs -
"In Plain Sight" by Ross Coulthart. Looking forward to it too see what his experiences have been.