Why Is There No* Clear Detailed Photo Of A UFO?

[BEZARK]

Why is there not a shard of  demonstrated exotic debris from so many supposed crashes?

Why is there not a leaked word about exotic tissue from the many supposed recovered bodies?

*Almost none.  A few images of the low-flying spheres are pretty good.

[BEZARK]

Occam likely would have felt that the safer conclusion is there are no such physical objects.

[Lobo]

<< Almost none.  A few images of the low-flying spheres are pretty good.  >>

But they could be pretty much anything. It's why they're not called "IFO"s ("Identified Flying Objects").

One thing they're almost certainly not is extraterrestrial spacecraft. The odds of another lifeform -- never mind a spacefaring technological lifeform -- evolving in our solar system, are too low to contemplate. And one arriving here from another system is just this side of impossible.

On Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 8:52:08 AM UTC-5 BEZARK wrote:

[Lobo]

<< Occam likely would have felt that the safer conclusion is there are no such physical objects.>>

I tend to go with Friar Occam, who called it his "razor" because it "cut away" extraneous, needlessly complex explanations *. Of course, it's also true that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But if evidence should be present and isn't, a lack of evidence can imply absence. And anyway, the burden of proof lies on those making the claim.

(I'm not sure how he reconciled that with his religious beliefs, or to what degree he even believed in things like "miracles". He lived during the Medieval Inquisition. It wasn't nearly as harsh as the later Renaissance-era Roman Inquisition, or especially the horrific Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions, but it still would have been unhealthy enough to express any such doubts.)

[PirateLT]

because there is nothing real out there.

Actual Alien life that has the advancements to get to Earth would be known because we would like like cave dweller to them.

[ImStillMags Mags]

https://www.reddit.com/answers/3b63af3b-9f95-4c62-811b-f24c485ef741/?q=Most%20convincing%20UFO%20sighting%20ever%20recorded&source=PDP

[PirateLT]

Like I said, we would know. IT's all conjecture.

[BEZARK]

Of sightings there are plenty.

And many from multiples of reputable witnesses.  Naval aviators for instance.

And instruments.

Something is "there"

But what?

That is the deep mystery.

Why no reputable physical evidence?

I it all signal, and no substance?

[PirateLT]

Advanced species would make it be known. 

[ImStillMags Mags]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1342413110904817

[PirateLT]

As I said, it would be clear as day if they were here.  We are cavemen to them.

[BEZARK]

You are a Montagnard tribe, remote and high in the mountains.

You repeatedly hear booming voices from the valley far below.

You look for the giants, but never see one.

You wouldn't recognize the loudspeakers even if you could see them. 

[Lobo]

<< Actual Alien life that has the advancements to get to Earth would be known because we would like like cave dweller to them.  >>

Between the size of the galaxy, the age of galaxy, and the absolute speed of light, it's a lot more than mere technological advances, it's extremely unlikely that if they even exist, and exist within our tiny little blip of time, some spacefaring intelligence would even know of our existence in our tiny little 120 light year "radio bubble" of space. 

Or exist within our tiny little blip of time. Thousands of galaxy-spanning empires could have come and gone without knowledge of each other in the nearly 14 billion year age of the Milky Way.

But even if such a lifeform did exist in a relatively nearby star system (less than 120 light years away), and even if they could travel at some fantastic percentage of lightspeed -- say, above 1% -- they would have to spend anywhere from many decades to centuries to get here.

[Irie]

There are billions of stars..and trillions of planets..to think we are the only game in town is ... myopic....

On Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 6:52:08 AM UTC-7 BEZARK wrote:

[Lobo]

<<Visibility of Figures: The ability to see figures inside the craft makes this sighting particularly eerie and convincing for many. "You can actually see two figures sitting there. They look like the classic 'Greys'—large heads, dark eyes.">>

Why would a lifeform that not only developed on another planet but had an entirely different phylogenetic/evolutionary beginning, look like some kind of "humanoid"?

It almost certainly wouldn't even have DNA, or resemble anything that ever evolved on Earth.

[Lobo]

<< There are billions of stars..and trillions of planets..to think we are the only game in town is ... myopic....  >>

Not when you consider the sheer unlikelihood of life -- or at least anything we would recognize as life -- ever coming into being. It took a gazillion lucky circumstances for life to arise here -- like our planet being in the "Goldilocks Zone" from our star, or a large ocean with land and an oversized moon to create tidal pools for organic chemicals to experiment with over billions of years, or an oversized iron core to create a strong magnetic field cloud to protect it from cosmic rays...

[Lobo]

And our large Moon and oversized iron core aren't likely to be common. They're the result of a Mars size planet smacking into the Earth billions of years ago, and doing it at just the right speed and angle to cleave off a huge piece of Earth without obliterating both worlds. The part that sheared off orbited the Earth as a molten ring for millions of years before eventually coming together as the Moon, while the other planet's iron and other heavier elements joined with ours to sink to the center of the new Earth.

[BEZARK]

Distant observer’s attention could be attracted to earth long before our radio signals got there.

Oceans and oxygen-rich atmosphere.

[Lobo]

But they would see it as it was before there was any indication of intelligent life here. Though it's probably true that only life can produce atmospheric oxygen.

[Lobo]

It appears that surface water and even oceans are not all that rare.

[BEZARK]

Many more worlds should be suitable for life than have originated life.

Thus the “seeding.”

[PirateLT]

I am 100% sure there is life out there.  It just hasn't come to our hood.

[Irie]

I always got a kick out of the "goldilocks zone" argument.  Goldilocks for life that functions like us, as if that is the only likely possibility.

[BEZARK]

In all those star systems even just in our galaxy it seems very unlikely there is no life besides on earth.

 But it may rarely rise above aquatic  colonial algae or land vegetation.