Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon

A Flying Saucer buzzed O'Hare Int'l Airport in early November.

Now I'm not one to believe something without facts. I try to require proof. But I do believe that there is life on other planets. Maybe not our solar system but on planets in other solar systems. In other galaxies. And I believe it probably exists on many, many other planets. Does that mean I think there are little green men? No. But I won't rule it out. The life on other planets is most likely simple in its form. Like bacteria. I also imagine that there is intelligent life has existedout there. That it will exist again and may even exist now.

There are (at least) two problems with believing that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth. The first is in the realm of physics. The distance between the Earth and the nearest star, Alpha CentauriM, is 4.3 light-years. That is one heck of a long way to travel. Earthlings, with our current technology, just don't have the ability to make the trip. And even if some more highly advanced intelligent species has found a way to surrmount this problem, there is some debate as to whether or not a terrestrial planet in the Alpha Centauri system could support life.

The second problem is probability. Specifically, what are the chances that another intelligent life form has evolved at the same time as we humans have? And then, what is the probability that they have found us?

So let's come back to the O'Hare UFO (or UAP). I don't know what these people saw but in reading the Tribune story they sound mostly credible. Not to be mean, but these were not a couple of rednecks claiming to be kidnapped out of their 1978 Ford Pick-up after swigging a couple of jugs of 'shine. I just think that the chances that what they saw was a piloted alien spacecraft were pretty slim.

But wouldn't it be cool?!?!?!?!

Well, maybe not.