Do you believe in UFO's?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/0...rch/index.html

That article brings up some interesting questions, are UFO's (and aliens to a lesser extent) real or are they just part of people's imaginations?

I myself am somewhat skeptical, but I remember when I was about ten years old, during the summer, and looking at the cloudy sky from behind my house in the city. After a while I saw 4 round objects flying through the sky, in almost a V formation. They didn't make any noise like an airplane does when it flies overhead, and they seemed to be moving pretty fast too (I think they were orange in color, but that might be due to the city lights).

I've been trying to figure out what exactly I saw that night. It couldn't be an airplane, because planes aren't round, and they make a lot of noise until they're very high off the ground (yes, there's an airport in my city, and I hear them often when they're first climbing up in the air). I doubt it was searchlights either, because the objects moved too uniformly across the sky, unless they had a new design that they've never used again.

It might've possibly also been ball lightning, but again, it's highly unlikely that 4 ball lightnings would happen to be "flying" across the sky in such a uniform way. And I doubt it's some secret military aircraft being tested (unless there's a secret base in Milwaukee, WI that we don't know about, but I doubt the government would build a base to test secret planes near a large urban population).

I remember taking an Western Great Lakes philosophy class, where the professor told us of one of his elders claiming to have seen a "fire ship" take off into the sky. Considering that the elder called it that, and had never seen Star Trek or any other sci-fi show of the day (I think this was back in the 70's), it's kind of interesting. He also said there's a large round rock formation on Beaver Island, where inside the rock formation everything appears burnt up, but strangely, nothing is burnt outside the rock formation. He's not sure what it is, but he believes it's probably a landing area for a UFO. He also believes we've been visited by aliens, but humanity simply isn't ready to accept that idea yet.

Yeah, the last part I've said sounds really far-fetched, but just letting you know what I heard from him (I liked that class too, he made learning that stuff fun and interesting, even if we don't necessarily believe him). And yeah, a lot of people probably just claim to see UFO's to make their lives more interesting, but then again, it's a very large universe out there. We may be the only form of sentient life nearby our branch of the Milky Way, but for all we know, there's another "Earth-like" planet on the other side of the galaxy that we simply can't see.

For all we know, we probably already have been visited by aliens, we just don't realize it. But you can imagine the kind of chaos that's going to happen if and when it does happen. Heck, we still kill each other for the most trivial reasons, you can bet if aliens visited, the first thing people will probably want to do is kill it because they'll be scared of it (or at the very least, be prejudiced towards it). I just hope that if we do get visited, the aliens don't treat us the way the Europeans treated people in the New World (look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about).

Jam it back in, in the dark.