Why do people think UFOs aren't real

Question

The term means unidentified flying object. So the identity of the object and not "do they exist?" should be the question.

Answer 1

I think a lot of people recognize unidentified flying objects and a lot of people think we are visited daily by beings from other planets but what a lot of people don't believe is that we would be able to identify them if they did visit. Might stick out a bit in public, although I did see a couple of characters trying to navigate my local supermarket and it was iffy it they had ever been in public. Maybe the reason so many people have "encounters" in rural areas is not so hard to imagine.

Answer 2

An example of a new phenomenon, which at first sight one doesn't know what to make of, is the now very common phenomenon of UFOs, flying saucers.

    There is a particular Protestant evangelist, the above-mentioned Carl McIntire, who is extremely strict and righteous and very Bible-believing.  He has a radio program, the Twentieth-Century Reformation, and a newspaper.  He is absolutely upright—you have to separate from all people who are in apostasy—and his ideas are very nice.  He's anti-communist.  He calls Billy Graham an apostate, together with everyone who deviates from the strict line of what he thinks is right.  From this point of view he's very strict, and yet you see the strangest things i his philosophy.  For example, he's building himself the Temple of Jerusalem, in Florida.  He has a model of the Temple, and he wants to build it so as to make it compete with Disneyworld.  People will come and pay to see the great Temple which is soon going to be built for Christ to come to earth.  This is supposed to provide a good opportunity to witness Christianity.

    He goes in for the flying saucers, also.  In every issue of his newspaper there's a little column called "UFO Column," and there they talk, to one's great astonishment, about all the wonderful, positive things which these flying saucers are doing.  The give conferences and make movies about them.

    Just recently there have been several Protestant books about UFOs, showing quite clearly that they're demons.  The person who writes the column in this newspaper got upset about this, and said that some people say that these beings are demons, but we can prove they aren't.  He says that maybe a couple of them are demons, but most of them aren't.  He cites a recent case in which some family in the Midwest saw a flying saucer.  The flying saucer came down, landed, and the family saw inside little men—they're usually four and half feet tall or so—and they sang "Hallelujah."  They stopped and looked and then they flew away; I guess they didn't talk to them any more.  And that set the family to thinking; they began to think "Hallelujah"; they began to think about Christianity; they looked in their Bibles, and they finally ended up going to a Fundamentalist church and being converted to Christianity.  Therefore, he says, these beings must be some kind of people who are helping God's plan to make the world Christian because they said "Hallelujah."

    Of course, if you read Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov, you will know about all the deceptions which the demons perpetrate: the demons "pray" for you, the demons make miracles, they produce the most wonderful phenomena, they bring people to church, they do anything you want, as long as they keep you in this deception.  And when the time comes, they will suddenly pull their tricks on you.  So these people, who have been converted to some kind of Christianity by these so-called outer-space beings, are waiting for the next time they will come; and the next time their message may have to do with Christ coming to earth again soon, or something of the sort.  It's obvious that this is all the work of demons.  That is, where it's real.  Sometimes it's just imagination, but when it's real this kind of thing obviously comes form demons.

    This is very elementary.  If you read any text of the early Fathers, any of the early Lives of Saints or the Lausiac History, you find many cases where beings suddenly appear.  Nowadays they appear in spaceships because that's how the demons have adapted themselves to the people of the times; but if you understand how spiritual deception works and what kind of wiles the devil has, then you have no problems in understanding what's going on with these flying saucers.  And yet this person who writes the UFO column is an absolutely strict Fundamentalist Christian.  He is looking, actually for new revelations to come from beings from outer space.

Answer 3

the problem is narrow minded people disregarding the fact that that UFOs  isn't a new subject that is being fueled by Hollywood movies and pop culture which is good for the government that the population already has a predisposition to the subject.it has been with mankind since the beginning from the first civilizations(Sumerian) to today. i know that allot of people accept the fact that the massive size of the universe cant be empty of intelligent life, which is a step to accepting the facts of this subject.there has been so many UFO sightings that some of them can be explained contrary to the government and mainstream media that give totally bogus explanations.yes i think the government has suppressed information on the subject which they have a wealth of on the subject.some country's like Brazil,Mexico,France,and the UK .the UK have been releasing their classified UFO documents surely not their most sensitive but they have said over a couple they will release all of their UFO documents.hopefully the US will get the message to finally release the the long over due disclosure of the information.

Answer 4

You're right, UFO means "unidentified flying object", and if you go just by that definition most people would agree that they exist.

And that the issue is the actual identity of the object.

But the problem is that the term has been corrupted to now mean "alien space craft piloted by extraterrestrial intelligent beings".

And that is what most logical people won't accept.

Answer 5

Excellent point, the problem is you are being rational. The human race in general is not rational emotionally hysterical, voluntarily stupid or brainwashed for the most part.

Answer 6

Mainly because when you use that term the first thing most people think of is men from Mars, or where-ever. Considering the nearest galaxy is some 2 million light years away, the chances of space craft from another planet are very slim. It's an ego trip for some people. My thought is, why would these beings even bother with us ?

Answer 7

Because UFO has become a defacto synonym for "a spacecraft of extra-terrestrial origin, normally transporting intelligent extra-terrestrial life to earth by means of a relatively advanced technology".

And just like many on-the-fringe claims, the rather stark lack of good evidence is a compelling reason to actively disbelieve such claims.

Answer 8

i think they are real

Answer 9

There are plenty of objects out there flying around that are not identified.  There are some of them which people have seen.  There's radar tracking for some of them, but no one has identified them yet...

Over a hundred people said they saw something flying up into the sky 12 years ago and that maybe the unknown flying things are why TWA-800 exploded.  Was that something a UFO?  It was unknown, it was flying, and these people thought it was an object.  

There are definitely objects that fly whose identity is unknown.  So, yes, UFOs are real.  What are they?  That's the important question, rather than "why do people think..."

Answer 10

existence isn't the question.

Flying Saucers filled with little green men that WANT OUR WOMEN is the question.

Can you see something you can't identify?  Sure, who doesn't?

Is that object from Alpha Centauri and here to anal probe hillbillies?

Not likely.