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Originally Posted by Greg700
I don't think we have really started emitting interceptable signals until the dawn of sattelite communication.
Of course, those signals have to actually reach out and get intercepted by little green men light years away. I don't think it is plausible to suggest that they are in our solar system. Why would they travel so far to hide out? The only thing our solar system has that other star systems don't is a planet full of people, squirrels, etc. Earth is the only possible attraction. If they were already here I think we would know.
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I think that's a very good point, and I struggle a lot to fit this rational conclusion into things like the Disclosure Project testimonies, Stanton Friedman's lectures, and various other bits and pieces that rise above the sea of nutjobbery and snake oil salesmen. For every person who has a believable story to tell, there's seven people saying that I can rub a magnet on a tumor to make it go away, and two more guys who say the whole UFO phenomenon is a hoax to swerve our attention away from relatively mundane, classified government projects.
Given that intelligent, spacefaring life exists elsewhere, how could they possibly have found us amidst all these stars and galaxies? It's not just finding a needle in a haystack -- it's like looking for a
specific needle in a stack of needles.
From here, I can only speculate, and I've come up with two conclusions. One, that life on this planet was installed long ago by an alien race. Or two, that there is a network of probes or scanners canvassing the galaxy, looking for specific signs of life or intelligent life. Beyond that, I can't come up with anything that doesn't sound strangely mystical.
From what I've read and from the videos I've seen on the Internet, though, physical distance does not seem to be a problem. FTL travel is a matter of essentially skipping through space like a stone on the surface of a pond. And I've read of outright portals through space and even time, but that stuff is like pulp comic book material to me. It's way beyond plausability and can only be taken as an entertaining possibility.
Until about six months ago, I'd never seriously pondered any of this. But I found myself with some additional free time on my hands, and I've had a love for science fiction since childhood. I've come to the conclusion that 90% of UFOlogy is crap, but just as Project Bluebook had a percentage of cases that evaded any explanation, there are a few stories that have the ring of truth. And the more I research, the more vast that truth appears to be.