Are there aliens and UFO's ?

It speaks to our imagination: Extraterrestrial life, UFO's, Spacecrafts....

Countless UFO sightings have been reported and a search on the internet will give numerous results. However there are some compelling movies to be found on the internet, one in particular being a Official FAA cockpit recordings of pilot UFO sightings.



That in itself would already prove the existence of UFO's since the true meaning of the word is an Unidentified Flying Object.
Neither the pilots of the Lufthansa aircraft nor air traffic control Boston could identify the object, thus results in it being an UFO. Now does that automatically mean that we are dealing with an Extraterrestrial UFO? Or perhaps even aliens?

For this, there can be found, once again, numerous websites giving all sorts of information, however most of the information to be found has no scientific grounds to hold up on.

There are scientific agencies investigating Extraterrestrial live forms though, for example in the form of "alien" radio signals picked up from outer-space. The "fun" part of this comes to play in programs like SETIathome. where you can take part in yourself if you have a computer with internet.

SETIathome is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data, found by clicking the SETIatHOME link just above.

The two original goals of SETIathome were: -

1. to prove the viability and practicality of the 'distributed grid computing' concept, and
2. to do useful scientific work by supporting an observational analysis to detect intelligent life outside Earth.

The first of these goals is generally considered to have succeeded completely. The current BOINC environment, a development of the original SETIathome, is providing support for several computationally intensive projects in a wide range of disciplines.

The second of these goals has failed to date: no evidence for ETI signals has been shown via SETIathome. However, ongoing continuation is predicated on the assumption that the observational analysis is not an 'ill-posed' one.

So out of the second goal, 2: We can can conclude that SETIathome, although backed up with a worldwide network of computers, hasn't been able to prove the existence of alien life forms or their speculated radio-transmissions.

Still considering the vastness of our galaxy and other galaxies, it is to be speculated that the possibility for extraterrestrial life can't be neglected.

Many more "mysterious" sightings have been reported, a well-known site is Area 51, the top secret U.S. Air Force installation in Nevada.

This picture to the left shows a satellite picture of Area 51, it hasn't got an ICAO or FAA identifier, it "does not exist".

The base's primary purpose is to support development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems.

Which would explain the UFO sightings, since an experimental aircraft not acknowledged by the government, would constitute in being an Unidentified Flying Object, not necessarily being an Alien craft.

Still.... The imagination needs to be fueled, wondering, about what could be out there, perhaps someday the scientists of SETIathome will find a signal from outer space, Maybe the Mayan calender (2012) does have something to do with Extraterrestrial live. Fact is though, there is a good possibility that we'll never find out and maybe, we don't really want to.