Chaotek Thoughts

In Popular Mechanics there is an article debunking claims that UFOs are seen in released NASA Shuttle videos. The comments on the article are great, because there are so many comments that NASA and the US Government are trying to cover up obvious alien spaceships caught on tape. That makes a lot of sense, since you’re seeing the UFOs (actually ice and other space debris) on NASA’s video–if they were trying to hide something, why give out the proof?

Here’s the thing that the UFO true-believers don’t understand: real UFO’s would be awesome. These UFO believers who claim that the skeptics and scientists don’t want to believe are just wrong, I think that skeptics and scientists would be super excited to find alien life (even if it’s just bacteria). Sure, the government might be afraid of alien life becoming public. But if the government’s grand conspiracy were so powerful and omnipotent, why would they be stupid enough to release the “key evidence” over, and over, and over in NASA videos.

The people who really don’t want proof of alien life are the religious true-believers, as it would fly in the face of every doctrine that says that man is a special and unique creation. Virtually any real scientist or skeptic would be excited to find proof of extraterrestrial life. But also it would prove a basic rule of science–we’re not special. Life is a natural process, and finding life, not-of-Earth, would prove that.