- The truth is out there.
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- But... in MetroWest?
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- Though it may not seem like a hotbed of alien activity,
Bay State residents in recent years have reported hundreds of UFO sightings,
including dozens in MetroWest.
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- From Framingham to Franklin, folks have reported seeing
everything from strange lights in the sky to actually encountering flying
saucers, complete with alien beings inside.
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- Despite Hollywood's focus on sites like Area 51 and Roswell,
N.M., Peter B. Davenport, director of the Seattle-based National UFO Reporting
Center, said UFO sightings are an international phenomenon.
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- The group's Web site includes reports from all 50 states,
as well as Canada and far-flung locales including Latvia, Bangladesh and
Outer Mongolia.
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- "This is a phenomenon that's not limited to the
Southwest," Davenport said last week. "It's important to recognize
that UFOs are real objects and they are capable of covering immense distances
over a short period of time. They (can) go wherever they wish, and they
do."
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- But while the NUFORC's site lists 50 MetroWest sightings
over the last three decades, local officials say exactly what folks are
seeing remains a mystery.
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- "Very rarely will we get calls from someone who
sees something unusual or unexplained in the sky," Framingham Police
spokesman Lt. Vincent Alfano said last week.
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- "We'll look. If somebody said I see something strange
over Learned's Pond, we would call the area car and tell them to look...
and if they see anything we would do something."
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- Exactly what they'd do, though, is tough to say.
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- "I've been here 18 years and I cannot remember a
call of anyone stating that," he said. "Certainly, investigating
anything of that magnitude is far beyond the resources of the Framingham
Police Department."
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- "You basically... you log it," Milford Police
Chief Thomas O'Loughlin agreed. "Sometimes there is an answer. People
see lights and this and that and it turns out the state police helicopter
was up in that neighborhood."
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- That's not to say O'Loughlin doesn't get the occasional...
interesting report.
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- "I've not had the UFOs, but I've had the 'They're
shooting lasers at me' calls," he said. "In my career, I've probably
had the laser thing a dozen times.
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- "I've had the cases where an individual claimed
'they' put a microchip in their body, and they're monitoring what they
do and where they're going."
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- How's he handle it?
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- "Try to divert them to some good mental health services,"
he said.
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- Part of the difficulty in trusting amateur reports, said
Kelly Beatty, editor of the Cambridge-based Night Sky magazine, is simply
that most people aren't particularly familiar with what goes on in the
night sky.
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- In recent weeks, Beatty said, Mars has been especially
bright in the eastern sky. But to someone who doesn't realize what they're
seeing, it may be easy to believe the strange light is a UFO.
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- "Picture somebody who has an apartment that faces
east and every night they eat dinner... and suddenly there's this dazzlingly
bright thing there," he said. "It's not part of the night sky,
so obviously it must be a UFO.
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- "At some level, we've been conditioned by 'X-Files'
and 'Unsolved Mysteries,'" Beatty added. "These kind of shows
just drop in aliens as if it's scientifically, not only plausible, but
likely."
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- Scientifically, though, UFOs have some pretty tough hurdles
to get over, said David Aguilar, director of public affairs at the Harvard
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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- "No hardcore astronomer or astrophysicist will put
any credence whatsoever to UFOs," Aguilar said. "The physics
just don't work. If you're going to assume these are creatures that travel
through space...this would have to be a whole new sort of physics we just
don't know about."
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- That's not to say he's written off the phenomena.
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- Before landing at Harvard, he investigated UFO sightings
for a science center in California, and while most could be explained,
a small percentage simply remained a mystery.
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- "No matter how hard I tried, there was no way to
explain what they saw," he said. "I would say I'm a neutral skeptic,
because I haven't been able to explain so many. However, skeptic doesn't
mean I'm negative, because there is enough chaff in the radar that there
may be something there."
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- "I think it's become a cult icon," Boston University
astronomy professor James Jackson said. "You see something unexplained
in the sky, what the man on the street is going to think... it must be
one of those UFO things."
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- The simple fact is that while life is probably out there,
it just hasn't reached us yet.
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- "That's almost certainly the case," Jackson
said, of the chances of life on other planets. "The Earth is one of
billions of planets. You're talking about hundreds of billions, maybe trillions
of planets in our home galaxy alone. The chance that Earth is the only
one with life is pretty slim."
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- Comment
James Neff
11-10-5
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- Behold the double minded thinking of the UFO skeptics...
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- "No hardcore astronomer or astrophysicist will put
any credence whatsoever to UFOs," Aguilar said. "The physics
just don't work. If you're going to assume these are creatures that travel
through space...this would have to be a whole new sort of physics we just
don't know about."
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- While simultaneously.... "The Earth is one of billions
of planets. You're talking about hundreds of billions, maybe trillions
of planets in our home galaxy alone. The chance that Earth is the only
one with life is pretty slim."
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- Houston... we have brain glitch. A big one. How is it
one can say to oneself that the universe is so vast, so complex, having
so many planets, that there must be life elsewhere and then turn right
around and be so smallminded as to say "this would have to be a whole
new sort of physics we just don't know about" for such intelligences
to come here?!
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- Of COURSE, it's a whole new sort of physics!
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- These beings are not traversing space-time as we know
it or by any means we understand. That much is brutally obvious. If the
first is a logical given, the second is also. If the universe is so large
and there are so many planets that it's a pretty slim chance Earth is the
only one with life, it is equally logical then to postulate that intelligences
on these other planets have developed the means to arrive here by a method
outside of our crude and limited comprehension of physics.
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- The evidence points clearly to the conclusion our small
planet has been being visited throughout the millennia and probably for
millions or billions of years. The various military powers of developed
nations don't drop untold multiple millions every year sending their finest
pilots and most expensive aircraft to intercept these things as a joke.
The evidence is that some of these craft are capable of entering and exiting
our planet - and perhaps our dimension - at will, and that places them
far beyond conventional earth physics.
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- The notion that alien intelligences have traveled from
the distant stars to planet earth by conventional means was abandoned as
absurdly ridiculous even by science fiction writers in the 40s. UFO skeptics
always trot out this lame "space travel" impossibility scenario,
putting the blinders on the unsuspecting, as if there were no alternative
theoretical physics available to the argument. We've come a long way, baby...THEY
haven't! Some 'skeptics' remain astonishingly misinformed.
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