{"id":417,"date":"2012-03-29T21:13:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T01:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=417"},"modified":"2012-04-03T18:06:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T22:06:03","slug":"have-aliens-visited-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/have-aliens-visited-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Have aliens visited Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would be happy if aliens visited Earth, but I don’t believe they have as of yet. Although there are many reports of UFOs and alien abductions, somehow I think if aliens were really here we would know it. As the FAQ on the SETI Institute<\/a> web site puts it: “if there were interesting, verifiable evidence that extraterrestrials were visiting our planet, tens of thousands of university scientists would be busy investigating this idea. They’re not.”<\/p>\n

To take one specific case, there were no aliens at Roswell in 1947. All you have to do is read The Roswell UFO Crash<\/strong> by Kal K. Korff and it will be clear exactly what happened. Korff discredits every single “witness” and shows you pictures of exactly what it was that crashed — a top secret military balloon that had been used to spy on the Russians. He also points out something that I hadn’t thought of before: people want<\/strong> to believe that there were aliens at Roswell. For example, residents of Roswell are making money off of tourism from people who think there were aliens — they’re not going to turn around now and say, “Oh, sorry — we were wrong. No aliens — go back home.”<\/p>\n

Here are some more alien encounters debunked, from Space.com:<\/p>\n

Ten Alien Encounters Debunked<\/a><\/p>\n

Just because there were no aliens at Roswell doesn’t mean there were no aliens anywhere else. I remain open minded and ready to be convinced when evidence presents itself.<\/p>\n

Finally, just because no aliens have visited Earth doesn’t mean there are no aliens out in the universe somewhere — I talked about this yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would be happy if aliens visited Earth, but I don’t believe they have as of yet. Although there are many reports of UFOs and alien abductions, somehow I think if aliens were really here we would know it. As the FAQ on the SETI Institute web site puts it: “if there were interesting, verifiable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[38,19],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","category-my-thoughts","tag-extraterrestrial-life","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}