Pentagon's chief UFO investigator resigns

I saw a UFO back in 1996 that I've come over time to believe was a drone flying with lights at night. I watched that thing buzzing around in the sky from 0300 to dawn. I think whoever was flying it set it up very close to my house because the light from it woke me up, then by the time I got outside to investigate, it was already way up high. Drones are nothing new. We flew them into the mushroom clouds of our atomic tests back in the 40's and 50's, so toy drones in the 90's are a nothingburger. But none of this is to say whoever really did it was up to any good.

 

You sure it didn’t say “here, hold my beer”?

 

1990s

Where Did "Hold My Beer" Come From?

 

I'm not sure there were UAV's before the mid-90's, but I could be wrong about that. BTW, in what city were you when you saw it? (Telling, perhaps, is you being up at 0300 looking up in the sky.)

 

The observable universe probably has over 5 trillion planets that may be habitable, the closest being just around the block at over 4 light years away. There is, therefore, no reasonable doubt that "life" (a definition for which is problematic, but let's assume it is "intelligent" life) exists elsewhere in the observable universe. For an "alien" craft, whether manned or not, to reach earth, and assuming it cannot reach speeds exceeding the speed of light (which so far has proven to be impossible), it would take at least decades to reach earth.

My personal opinion is I don't believe we have been visited by any alien craft. In fact, I believe every alien civilization has gone extinct before it ever attained the technology for interstellar flight. Human civilization is well on its way to the same fate because close to 100% of all species having gone extinct.

 

I don’t think interstellar travel is any easier or more likely to occur than time travel but I think it’s far more likely that we would be interested in our own past (we are nothing if not a self absorbed species) than an alien species would be interested in us/Earth.

 

Are you sure?

 

I wasn't up at 0300. I got woken up by a reddish glow and a whirring noise, which is why I went outside and then saw the object. The fact that it was 0300 meant that either it was something beyond human understanding or it was humans behaving very oddly.