UFOs and Evolution - Is There a Connection?

Have you seen any flying saucers lately? Manyspeed of light would thus take 4.2 years to reach
people think they have. Even now, reports ofus. Many researchers think that space travel
mysterious sightings are circulating in the pressbetween solar systems is impossible.
and on Internet forums.Moreover, while a number of Earth-like rocky
The modern UFO boom began in June 1947 whenexo-planets or planets orbiting other stars have
a businessman named Kenneth Arnold reportedbeen discovered, they are either too large or too
that while piloting a private plane he had seen ninehot. It is very improbable that UFOs hail from
saucer-shaped objects flying over Mount Rainier in"super Earths" such as Gliese 581 c, which is
Washington. Later that years there were rumorshotter than Venus.
of a flying saucer crash in Roswell, New Mexico.It seems that there are some religious ingredients
According to a popular but false conspiracyin UFO sightings. For some, belief in UFOs has
theory, US Air Force obtained the corpse of asuperseded the belief in biblical Christianity. Little
saucer pilot but covered up the discovery.green men are seen as the new age saviors who
The strained relations between the east and westwill prevent earthlings from destroying themselves
that became to be known as the cold war hadand their planet.
just begun and the political atmosphere wasAccording to Gary Bates, the author of Alien
conductive to conspiratorial rumors. The numberIntrusion (2004), UFOs often have an evolutionary
of UFO observations exceeded 850 by the endconnection. If life evolved on earth by purely
of 1947.naturalistic means, it should also have evolved on
Later, for instance the Mercury astronaut Gordonother planets. The SETI (Search for
Cooper and former US president Jimmy CarterExtraterrestrial Intelligence) project is an attempt
have disclosed seeing a UFO.to prove that we are not as special as we think.
So what are UFOs? A UFO is an unidentified flyingCarl Sagan believed that the Earth was just a tiny
object. Most sightings have a natural explanation,pale blue dot in the vast cosmos. However, as
such as a landing airplane, satellite or meteor.Guillermo Gonzales and Jay W. Richards write in
Some are hoaxes. But for the ardent UFO fans,The Privileged Planet, our planet is anything but
some are genuine alien spaceships.ordinary. Our planet looks as though it was
However, UFOs cannot originate from the otherdesigned for life. At best, we can only speculate
planets of our own solar system since scientistsabout other worlds.
have failed to find any evidence of life or littleWe might never get proof of the existence of
green men on Mars or Venus. The nearest starlittle green men for a rather simple reason: there
outside our solar system, Proxima Centauri, is 4.2might not be any.
light years from us. A space ship traveling at the