There’s this story going around that says someone’s infrared camera caught an unexpected visitor. An Alien. That footage hasn’t been shown to the public it seems, but there has been a picture released and an analysis. For those, click here.
Quite frankly, I believe this whole thing is quite dumb.
We know there are aliens out there. It’s mathematically impossible for there not to be. You have a hundred billion stars per galaxy with a hundred million (billion?) galaxies, and each of these stars having at least one planet (most would have more)… That’s some damned good odds for life.
However, what we must ask is: are they here?
I think not. If aliens were here, why are they peeping through some guy’s window without cloaking themselves as to not be seen? For instance: you’ve traveled ten light years to see the Earthlings, and you don’t land on the White House lawn, but in some guy’s back yard. You forget about your cloak, and forget about the bacteria on Earth that could kill you. Then you decide to go to the nearest house looking for nude women.
You naughty alien, you!
Also, that’s not infrared. That’s an infrared filter, which is very different from an IR-camera.
Statistically, this alien video proves absolutely nothing. All things considered, none of them do. Why do we never have a clear as day video of an actual alien saying hello, waving at us, or talking to the president? Because they haven’t. Why don’t we have clear as day video of an alien space ship landing, instead seeing a stationary bright spot in the sky claimed to be an “alien” that goes away suddenly? Because it’s not an alien space craft.
This nonsense needs to stop. It’s anti-scientific, anti-reality, and very annoying.
Let’s look beyond our back yard for alien life and look towards Mars where the real scientific happenings are about to go down.
You earned your skeptical badge for today. I saw this one on the news an immediately wondered if they actually thought this was real.. Anyhow, maybe I should shoot some crappy footage with an alien outside my window, release only a crappy image from the video and promise to release the video sometime in the future.
Sounds like a nice hoax to me.
Whether anyone thought it was real or not, the sad fact is that this kook Peckman can, with enough signatures, get his ET commission initiative on the Denver ballot in November.
How would aliens know the importance of the White House? If I traveled to some alien world, I wouldn’t know where their leader lived. I’d just go look inside whatever house was nearby.
OK. Let’s recap: an alien can travel faster than the speed of light, or alternatively figure out a way to survive for ten light years, and this same alien can’t find a gigantic building to land on and say hello to the world from?
In fact, if this alien can travel ten light years to get here, why can’t it find the White House? Why couldn’t it dock with the ISS and say “Hi?”
Yeah.
You’re assuming the alien somehow knows the White House is the most important place to drop by and say hello at… I’m guessing the use of ‘White House’ here is a metaphor. If not to the lay alien what’s the difference between the white house and a guys’s backyard, right?
OK.
The alien sees a big ass city through whatever they’ve got on board. Why don’t they go to this city?
Why does no alien land atop a tall building and proclaim that they are indeed real, and there?
Why, instead, do they spy on some guy’s teenage daughters? (or sons, or the guy himself.)
Just saw the video and… yeah it does look dumb. I’m pretty sure aliens do exist but this just looks too fake.
I think, every and each man who tries to believe is wrong. If aliens are outside or, may be, walk among us, it’s normal. Nothing happens, our planet is not getting ready to explode or something else. If people want to blame somebody in disasters, they should better look at ecological problem. I think, humankind will bomb the planet out much earlier than aliens will do. That’s what I think about people, who believe.
Another question is that do aliens really exist. I think, they do, because in Universe should be another star system with another planet where appropriate for life conditions may be.
I have to agree with Josh, I wouldn’t know where to go. Even if I did I’d want them to see me. No offense to the americans in general but the stories that come for there are literally out of this world (no pun intended). It only ever seems that the US are involved in such cases like this, and more to the point its always somewhere obscure, never is it in broad daylight on the streets of Benidorm it is almost always at night in some weird persons house i.e. the village idiot… I rest my case
Thank you for clarifying that the argument against alien visitation is not an argument against alien existance. Every time I’m like no, I don’t believe the latest toothless hillbilly who claims to have been abducted, people argue “But how can you think we’re alone in the universe?!” Uh, I DON’T think that.
skepticism is key.
i highly agree with most of what you said about not ever having clear footage of alien interactions with humans and what not.
well unfortunately.. people are immature, and ignorant and let their imaginations get the best of them. All this crap DOES need to stop. its sickening me.
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You also have to keep in mind that aliens might not WANT us to know they’re here, as well. You seem to assume that they want everyone to know about them.
Somewhere out there will be a renegade alien who has just gotten out of college and wants to impress the ladies — or alien equal to ladies — and comes out as the leader of the aliens to humanity.
Ah, more assumptions.
How utterly bizarre of me to make assumptions about hypothetical beings. I do apologize!