 Originally Posted by Legion2213
I've gone full circle with all the aliens stuff. When I was a bout 14, I was deeply into the "ancient astronauts" kind of stuff...totally believed we had been visited multiple times and that our ancestors had been influenced by these god like beings - Now, I don't believe we've ever been visited by aliens past of present.
I actually believe that the Universe is a very lonely place, not saying we are all that is here, I just don't think intelligent life is widespread at all. More an exeption than a rule.
That's not full circle, that's half a circle; 180 degrees if you will 
As for the pics, they look at lot like... actually, they look ENTIRELY like a some sort of laser device pointing up into the sky. You see the luminous shafts pointing upwards and reflecting on the cloud cover in that one shot?
I was a paranormal nut when I was a kid (still am in a way, but I'm now open-mindedly sceptical about all such claims, as opposed to the terrified credulity of my childhood), and lived in fear of dark forests and uncurtained windows at night. So imagine my terror when one night I peek through the blinds to ACTUALLY SEE ethereal, multicoloured lights spinning and darting all across the heavens above me. It was the equivalent of closing your eyes upon hearing a noise, convincing yourself there's no such thing as ghosts, and opening your eyes to see the Librarian Phantom screaming in your face with an axe in its hand. This was it, they'd come to probe my pee hole with steel rods, or whatever they're doing to people these days! I called my mum and she was actually startled for a few minutes too. It later turned out to be a laser light show on top of a nearby entertainment venue. It looked almost exactly like what you see in some of those shots.
With regards the presence of extraterrestrial life routinely the Earth, I find it very unlikely in the cold light of day. I have not read many believable and well-documented cases that don't turn out to have some terrestrial explanation when you delve deeply enough, and the few that remain unexplained are generally the most unremarkable cases - lights or discs in the sky, that could be anything, with nothing to actively suggest an extraterrestrial origin. Photographic evidence, too, when you actually see it, is usually woefully blurry and poorly shot with no sense of scale or points of reference. Either that or its painfully obvious that it's something completely mundane that has been misidentified such as a flying insect, a balloon, a blob of camera noise, or a slightly out-of-focus low flying duck (actually a very common cause of "evening disc" shots, since on a photo, when lit from the right angle and not seen sharply, they look like white glowing blobs). Or it's an obvious hoax.
I'm not saying that aliens have definitely never been here and never will be. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. However, the people we're supposed to believe have the "answers" are usually the very same people who are prone to seeing all of the above and instantly jumping to the extraterrestrial conclusion. Jumping to conclusions is the worst thing any researcher can do, as have basically proven themselves to be an unreliable and biased source of information which means we can only disregard their conclusions.
The lack of reliable evidence, combined with the fact that most UFO researchers "WANT to believe" in one particular interpretation of that unreliable evidence, leads me to be very, very sceptical of any claims about aliens and UFOs. The earth has been here for over four billion years, so it's not impossible that it has been visited at some point, but here and now, and in the way that some people claim? I seriously doubt it.
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. Granted the sun is shining toward her, but the angle doesn't seem right for lens flare, but I'm no photography expert, so what the hell do I know? It's cool looking regardless. Screwed up an otherwise perfect shot too, so now she can't use it for class.
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