Opinion: That UFOs are real is easy to see

UFOs are likely just a matter of perspective

Re “The government says UFOs are real. What’s next?” (May 21): Yes, UFOs are real and have existed since human beings have occupied this planet. But before you hand me a sheet of tin foil to fashion my own hat, I want to explain that statement.

No, I’m not referring to those cheesy flying saucers like you see in the 1957 movie, “Plan 9 From Outer Space.” If some object is flying in the sky, it’s a “flying object.” If we know what it is (a bird, a plane or an errant Frisbee), then we can identify it. But if we can’t readily identify what it is, then it’s “unidentified.”

Over the years, military and commercial pilots have witnessed and recorded flying objects that they cannot readily identify. So they’re simply classified as “unidentified flying objects” (UFOs), until we can figure out what they are. If we ever do.

Paul Willemssen
Clairemont

Scientists are considered to be the most questioning of people. So putting on a scientist’s hat, the term “unidentified aerial phenomenon” would not be presumptive if it were changed to “unidentified image phenomenon.” Both an image of a solid object and an image of an image can be indistinguishable when the quality is low.

The UAP might be taken less seriously if investigators would look for the cause of an image instead of a solid object. Images can explain the incredible movements and lack of a propulsion system. A person with a laser or even a flashlight can make image movements that are impossible for a solid object.

Thomas C. Podvin
Poway

With the thousands of reports perhaps over centuries we still don’t know much.

I have never seen a UFO. But I have talked to several witnesses and believe all of them. I have spoken to an airline pilot and seen his pictures-a long squared off tube flying formation off the left wing. I also interviewed USAF Col. Bob Friend, a former Director of Project Blue Book, back in the 1960s. The position of Blue Book, when it shut down, was that whatever the phenomena there was no threat.

With all the cellphone cameras in world there are zero pictures of a real extraterrestrial. My theory; for what it’s worth. UFOs are inter dimensional travelers. And they briefly pop in and out of our timeline. Any better ideas?

Ron Carrico
Mission Hills

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