by Xen

Created on: August 08, 2009

I was a believer when I was young. When I was young enough to have already read through all the books my elementary library had on the paranormal (a few times), I was witness to the Great Hudson Valley UFO. It was not a fuzzy light on the horizon. Instead, I remember it as a triangle a city block on each side filled with even rows of lights. My mother ordered me to shut my window, more from fear of what we were seeing than the December air rushing in. We sped the quarter mile until we were home, I enamored with what I had just seen, feeling justified for my eccentricities. The UFOs were here and now things would happen.

Only they didn't. I don't recall anyone mentioning it around me again and vaguely recall hearing a decade later that the craft was explained as ultralight aircrafts flying in formation to panic the populous. When I just asked my father if he remember this event that reinforced my childhood research, he had no memory.

My beliefs withered when I learned enough science. Once I realized how far away the Oort cloud was, marking the boundary of our solar system, and then traced the distance to the next star and then to the next potentially habitable planet, I knew that I wouldn't rationalize that people were seeing interstellar space ships. The resources required are simply too vast and the time commitment is ridiculous, even at the speed of light (at which no ship could travel). When extra-dimensional crafts and wormhole travel are the sanest explanations for your theories (and you aren't a theoretical physicist), there is something very wrong and you need to reexamine your hypotheses.

Furthermore, creatures who have evolved on another world should on no accounts resemble humans, and the infamous Grays unquestionably do. Bilaterally symmetrical, bipedal, humanoids with two eyes and one nose. There are animals that evolved at our sides who look less like us than the Grays do. The thought of other intelligent life in the universe resembling us is arrogant at the very least (just think what that would imply!) and, more likely, willfully stupid. Were aliens to find us, the chances are fairly good that they would appear in a form beyond our reckoning. It is only for the convenience of the costume department of Star Trek that we choose to believe the folly of humanoid aliens.

I also know for a fact that the first UFOs reported in modern times were boomerang shaped and were reported as "flying saucers" to describe the motion of their flight,

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