About Blue Book, ET and Life in Space
Nothing – perhaps with the exception of Area 51 – has provoked more conspiracy theories than the American Air Force’s Blue Book project. Deadly serious, they confronted the UFO fascination of the 1950s and investigated more than 12,000 UFO observations (and let me remind you that a UFO isn't necessarily a flying saucer or a space ship, but simply an unidentified flying object):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Book
http://www.footnote.com/documents/6283401/project-blue-book-ufo/
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-1614846387438905636&q=jennings+ufo&total=24&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2
http://ufo.whipnet.org/xdocs/project.bluebook/
As with the question "does God exist?", the question "is there life out there?" has yet to be answered. Most astronomers will actually claim that it's more probable that there is life in space, than that there isn't. The brilliant scientist Stephen Hawking believes that there is life, but that intelligent life is more rare.
(I suppose that whether there is intelligent life here on Earth is also a rather open question, considering the way we are destroying the planet as well as each other.)
According to the Drake equation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
the probability that there is life is dizzying
But: If there are intelligent life forms – and that is far from improbable – would they be able to traverse the enormous distances? That is in my opinion a better question than whether there really is life in the universe outside Earth.
Some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_Däniken
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronaut_theories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroarcheology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis
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