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Not the Texas UFO story I was suppose to write

Posted on January 24, 2008 
Filed Under Science

What is a UFO? According to Wikipedia, “any real or apparent flying object that cannot be identified by the observer and which remains unidentified after investigation.” No matter what your position regarding UFO’s is, I think we are all pretty familiar with the term. From the moment we come to this world, we are exposed to pictures, and more recently, videos of flying saucers, tales of abductions and of little green men with big heads (or any variation thereof). They are everywhere, on TV, the movies, magazines, newspapers, online, etc. Some people even claim they have been raped by extraterrestrials (I believe Clay Aiken was a product of this). UFO’s are part of our culture, they are part of who we are and somewhat describe our view of the world.

The best UFO movie I’ve seen is called “Fire in the Sky”, a movie from the early nineties which is supposedly based on a real story. It’s a chilling tale about a guy, Travis Walton, who is abducted by a UFO while working on a logging crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona. When he vanished, all his co-workers were questioned and all passed polygraph exams; five days later the guy appeared in the middle of nowhere. I read “few abduction reports have generated as much controversy” as the Walton case. I really really freaked out the first time I saw this movie.

Personally, I have my days where I believe that there has to be someone or something else out there, this is just too big of a universe to consider ourselves the only ones (why am I hearing in the back of my head a Backstreet Boys tune?). Are we that cool?

But then, there are the days when I’m really not that sure. What makes me doubt is to think about all these decades of UFO sightings and still, not a really convincing pic or video of a UFO, and I mean 100% convincing. Sure there are a few pics and videos labeled genuine and unexplainable that look really cool. But that’s it. Are these UFO’s really from outer space? Do they carry extraterrestrial life in them? If so, why haven’t they made any contact with us? Are these military experiments? Do we have the technology to create such things? I could go on and on…

Don’t get me wrong, I want to believe in UFO’s so bad, but hey, what about showing me a pic of “C3PO” waving from the darn window, or at least give me a picture of a huge saucer-like craft that landed on a desert somewhere and all the cows and snakes around have been fried by its power. Where is all the Roswell evidence? Are governments around the world powerful enough to vanish all UFO evidence?

I want to believe, but I’m also eager to see some real proof. I know this is probably too much to ask, but I know that until this happens, I’ll be having the same internal conflicts each time a new video comes out or I hear about news of UFO sightings somewhere, just like the one in Texas last week. Some days I’ll be sure this is all true, and that they are already living amongst us, and some other days, like Mulder, I will be thinking that the truth is still out there.

What do you think?

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