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   Les Albert to Questor   
   Re: UFOs   
   14 Jul 21 16:45:15   
   
   From: lalbert1@aol.com   
      
   On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:29:50 GMT, usenet@only.tnx (Questor) wrote:   
      
   > ...   
   >You seem to have covered most of the bases already with a facility that is   
   >suspicicious -- what are you hiding?  (grin)  Do you know something we don't?   
   >If we say that it is the most popular option -- that some UFO sightings are   
   >aliens -- I can't fathom how that comports with their peek-a-boo behavior.   
   >Either the glimpses afforded are intentional, in which case they are some kind   
   >of tease or probe, or they inadvertent, in which case beings with the tech to   
   >travel between the stars and otherwise cloak themselves are very sloppy.   
   >I just don't see having that advanced capability, finding life somewhere else   
   in   
   >the galaxy, and then being so coy about about making full contact, especially   
   >given the supposed technological disparity.  But then, who can get inside the   
   >mind of an alien?   
   >I  think the universe is simply too incredibly huge not for there to be life   
   >somewhere else; indeed, multiple somewhere elses.  Some of it may even be   
   judged   
   >to be intelligent, at least by human standards.  But the chances of any of it   
   >travelling here seems infinitesimally small.   
      
      
   Maybe the aliens are scoping us out for their vacation plans as in the   
   1987 movie, "Predator" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_(film)   
      
   Les   
      
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