Six Reliable Arguments for Believing in Alien Life

Aliens really exist? We want to believe even while we are unsure. It's difficult to completely rule out the idea that other sentient life forms exist in the wide expanse of outer space because there is still so much that we don't know about it.

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It is conceivable that other extraterrestrial lifeforms have evolved and adapted to conditions in space as well as life can exist—and persist—in solitude and under some of the harshest conditions on Earth (just have a look at tardigrades). There are two possibilities: either we are alone in the universe or we are not, as the great science author Arthur C. Clarke memorably put it. Both are horrifying in the same way. There is a good chance that we have neighbors somewhere in the ether because many findings and speculations from some of the brightest minds in science suggest that there is likely something beyond us in the universe. Here are six compelling arguments for believing that aliens are present among us. It's time to consider the facts.

USS Nimitz 2004 Event

Commander David Fravor can still not understand how a training mission in San Diego on November 14, 2004, turned into something he will never forget.

Fravor recalls witnessing a Tic Tac-shaped item that moved considerably more quickly than any existing known weaponry. "We're using Super Hornets that are brand-new. Two good guys against two evil guys, according to Fravor in a video interview with the History Channel. It was an air defense drill. Up until the USS Princeton requested Fravor and colleagues for a practical mission, everything appeared to be as usual.

Fravor and the other pilots soon noticed something peculiar after changing course: what seemed to be a sunken jet or submerging submarine swimming wildly just below the water's surface.

It is white, without wings and rotors, and I exclaim, "Holy, what is that?" stated Fravor. The UFO reportedly lacked windows and infrared detectors failed to detect any exhaust fumes.

Fravor claims that shortly thereafter, his curiosity got the better of him and he made the decision to take a closer look. The craft emerged, rose quickly, and started to mimic Fravor's flying pattern as he started to fall toward the water. Then, in a split second, it sped past the jet's nose and vanished.

Fravor and the other pilots told the rest of the crew about their experiences when they returned to the USS Nimitz. A second pilot soon after took off in quest of the UFO and was successful. The video that can be viewed here is the result of the pilot's successful attempt to latch onto the Tic Tac.

The Navy claims that the public was never made aware of the tape before it was formally disseminated (after it had initially been leaked).

WWII Foo Fighters

Several U.S. Air Force personnel witnessed what would later be known as "Foo Fighters" in November 1944; the term was taken from the "Smokey Stover" comic strip. The Foo Fighters were characterized as a form of enigmatic aircraft that blazed red and had great agility when zipping and turning through the air.

The first person to see the lights was Lt. Fred Ringwald, who just so happened to be a passenger in a night fighter flying above the Rhine Valley. Eight to ten of the aircraft were reportedly lined up in a row, according to airmen. The party checked with the ground radar crew because they were worried they might be hostile aircraft, but they hadn't noticed anything unusual. As one of the pilots prepared to engage in combat, he turned his aircraft around only to discover that the lights had disappeared as swiftly as they had emerged.

But the sightings continued after that. A different pilot reported seeing a T-shaped display of flashing red and green lights in the middle of December 1944. These lights vanished just as quickly as they emerged. There were a few such sightings that followed, and despite attempts to explain them—the airmen were experiencing "battle exhaustion," the lights were caused by some strange weather phenomenon, or they originated from some brand-new, ground-breaking Nazi technology—they remain a mystery.

Oumuamua: Alien Craft or Asteroid?

Avi Loeb, a prominent astronomer who taught at Harvard and served as the department's chair, has proposed an intriguing but outlandish theory: the asteroid Oumuamua is actually space debris from an alien construction or a crashed alien spacecraft.

This might sound crazy coming from anyone else. But once more, Loeb is knowledgeable about the workings of space. However, Loeb's colleagues are also dissatisfied and upset that he has proposed what they are calling a "insult [to] honest scientific investigation," while truthers are sucking up the Oumuamua theory.

According to a research published in March 2021 by astronomers from Arizona State University, the object is a nitrogen iceberg that has broken off from a planet similar to Pluto in a far-flung star system. It would somewhat account for how reflective the item is. Loeb argued in opposition, saying that the chunk would have needed to form on a planet with an unreasonably high density.

Therefore, the verdict is still out on this mystery space object.

A Plethora of Exoplanets

NASA announced on March 21, 2022 that there are over 5,000 exoplanets. As technology to explore the farthest reaches of space advances, we may expect this number to rise.

This implies that there are countless known planets that haven't been thoroughly examined and a number of others that are still undiscovered but may contain settings capable of supporting life.

Who is to say that intelligent extraterrestrial life doesn't already exist on one (or more) exoplanets?

The Pentagon’s UFO Interests

According to New York Magazine's Intelligencer, the Department of Defense (DoD) established the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) in 2007 to investigate "space-related phenomena that could not be easily explained, typically involving the appearance of high-speed, unidentified aircraft."

Luis Elizondo, a military intelligence official, oversaw the secret initiative that attempted to look into UFO contact allegations. Elizondo left the Pentagon ten years later and told the New York Times that AATIP existed.

SETI Institute

Carl Sagan and Jill Tarter, two astronomers who think there may be life on other planets besides Earth, formed the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute.

The goal of SETI is to "research, comprehend, and explain the nature of life's inception in the universe as well as the evolution of intelligence." The Institute collaborates as a research contractor with NASA and the National Science Foundation to pool resources and investigate the potential for intelligent life on other worlds. SETI employs a laser detection system in addition to optical and radio wave signals to search for indications of extraterrestrial technology.

Yes, there is a whole scientific community dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.