posted by justincredible
Uh oh.
everytime this comes up, my mind immediately goes to one of three places:
1. our own government testing military stuff and it results in a citizen notices something surreal in the sky. when the government says nothing when questioned, citizen assumes its aliens. in reality, it's just secret military stuff they can't comment on.
2. weather phenomenon
3. some country sends a satellite into space 50 years ago and it comes hurdling back down to earth and lands in a jurisdiction different from where it originated. the recovering body calls it a UFO and everyone freaks out. a UFO is exactly that: an unidentified flying object. if the US government recovered unrecognizable chinese junk, that by definition, is an unidentified flying object.
i suspect this is #3 with a splash of BS.
if there is intelligent life out there, they've probably already deemed earth a lost cause since we're well on our way to destroying our own planet. as such, they have no reason to visit.