by Alexius Tan

Created on: December 18, 2008   Last Updated: July 31, 2009

Doubting the Claim of 57 Alien Species Catalogued

Are we alone in the extent of the known Universe? I believe it's a 'No'.

Our Sun is just another star within our galaxy; our galaxy is just another one within the Local Group of galaxies, and so on.

There is a very high possibility of other terrestrial life forms found in the Universe since there are many other stars that are similar in size and sequence (star's lifetime) to our Earth.

Although it would prove my belief true, I choose to doubt the claim of 57 alien species catalogued because of the following reasons:

TECHNOLOGY

The nearest star to our Earth is at least 4 light years away. This is a very far distance, and if the upper limit of traveling speed is light's speed, the aliens would have to travel at least 4 Earth years to reach Earth. If they were capturing solar or radiation en route as their vehicles' energy source, these vehicles would most likely appear black in order to absorb radiation more effectively. Also, to withstand high temperatures, speeds and probable impact, the material must be robust and may make the alien craft so big that is difficult to avoid detection.

HIGHER ORDER LIFE FORMS

If these aliens are able to travel here, they should be higher order life forms as compared to life forms on Earth. They must have studied Earth for long enough time before embarking here. Ability to sense and avoid danger are traits that must be present; it is less likely they will crash into Earth surface if they had avoided crashing into outer planets like Jupiter and Saturn which are more massive (hence more gravitation) before coming to Earth.

EARTH PROBE

As mentioned earlier, ability to sense and avoid danger must be traits of higher order life forms, and like we humans, before sending humans onto the moon, we had sent probes before we talk about human landing. Similarly, we would find alien-deployed Earth probes but why there is no crashed Earth probes discovered and catalogued?

MOON VISITS

If there are 57 alien species catalogued, there must be extra-terrestrial visits exceeding this number, with some of these visits go unnoticed or occur at some other parts of the Earth and got covered up. Since aliens have visited Earth, it is very likely they might visit our Moon for information collection. If the aliens had sent a probe or unmanned vehicle onto Moon, they would leave a trail on the Moon's surface. With no activity on the Moon to erode evidence of alien's visit, the trails can stay

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