UFO over berlin
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Set, lights on an alien UFO could be two things, a bi-product of the functionality of the vessel, or a visibility aid. I can't think of any other reason.
If its the latter, then that assumes aliens have vision just as we do. If that's the case, they have evolved much as we have. Eyes are the evolutionary result of up-facing cells becoming sensitive to light. Fast forward kazillions of years and that sensitivity has become adjustible orbs of light receptive gristle. So aliens who have lights to see with must have evolved on a planet with some sort of light source. That, however you view it, cuts out quite a lot of the universe. More importantly though, if they have vision, then they understand vision, and if they understand vision, they know know light is visible in the dark. If they've travelled all this way, with their advanced alien technology... And their lights... They know we have vision, because they know we have a sun. They know we can see them, and they know we can detect objects in the atmosphere. They came all this way, they have better tech than us, its highly unlikely they'd not know. So if they know, why do they waft about ocassionally up there in the night sky, with their lights on? The lights aren't serving them any purpose. The amount of light being proijected in any 'ufo evidence' is very shart range, local. It can only be illuminating the immediate area around the ship. They've travelled all this way, they're up there, in the air... Why do they need to see the immediate air space around their vessel? It doesn't add up that could traverse our universe from one solar system to another, and then require some lights to show them what's outside their vessel.
In my opinion, if its up there in the night sky, and it has lights on. Its not an alien ufo. We conceive of ufo's in a manner fitting for the technology of our times. The evolution of design of UFOs ove the last one hundred years directly parallels our material culture. Ufos spotted in the early twentieth century were ornate metal objects. In the 50s they were alloy looking, streamlined, inspied by the atomic age visualisations. No lights yet. Lights (as opposed to the illuminations of deadly light beams 'witnessed in the tech-dawn 50s) really only began to be an element of UFO sightings in the 70s and 80s. Around this time our concept of aliens started to shift from the cold war paranoia idea of unfriendly invasion, to the one-world post-conflict Seti era notion of an enlightened race paying us a visit. How best to depict that then in poplar culture? Well, they wouldn't be hidden, insidious, and worryingly hard to spot,they'd need to be visible to seem non-threatening, benevolent. Close encounters of the third kind really brought the idea of an alien space ship being more like a spinning, illuminated fareground ride... With accopanying music... Something exhilarating, sensorial, celestial and spiritual, but ultimately good. Not a foe. Since then, superfluous lights have been an element of UFO sightings. Lights in space are pointless, light up there in the night sk are equally pointless. Ever turned your car lights on at night in a fog? Reduces your view drastically. Its a dominant motif, slipping into residual. Popular culture is giving us ideas of aloens being pan dimensional, post-modern, quantum-leaping thought viruses. I confidently predict that illuminated ufo sightings wiil fall off drastically over the next ten years, and alien expeiences will become much stranger, much more thought provoking than mechanical boxes with lights on them.
You're right that we can't possibly attempt to predict what an alien vessel might constitute... But by that rationale tgere is statistically as much chance of aliens visiting us in a giant smurf hat as there is of them having ancilliaary lights on their space craft.
- Interesting stuffanimatedgif
- Well, maybe they like lights on their ships because lights are pretty.CanHasQBN
- ever tried to turn off activity status LEDs on a harddrive? must be the same for UFOs.uan
- Of course you can't think of any other reason. You're a human, on earth with no possible insight into how an alien craft might function...********
- Might function... Applying our logic to an alien intelligence is simply naive...********
- What's your explanation to that NASA footage?********
- It's pretty much irrefutable proof that something is going on up there.********
- All the sceptics conveniently ignore it though...********
- you're talking bollocks about ufos not having lights before we had lights. Countless accounts of 'chariots of fire' in the sky********
- Read the Vedas Too, http://www.google.co…********
- You're also forgetting that if they're big enough and high enough they might reflect the sun...********
- "much chance of aliens visiting us in a giant smurf hat" are sure? The universe is pretty bigqTime