Anoctris said:
You've completely missed the point.
Using human concepts such as logic and rationale to predict the actions and thought processes of an "Alien" species is entirely theoretical, and until definitive contact is made the whole exercise is ultimately futile.
Then why are we having this conversations in the first place? Like I said, this was just an educated guess. If you're saying human logic can't be applied to aliens in any way, there's isn't a point to this conversation.
Once again, you apply human standards of thought to a "Alien". Just because it's probable that they are as smart/smarter than us doesn't mean that they will care what we think of them, and much less think the way we do. It's possible, but the thousands of UFO sightings that are reported and can not be explained (as well as their behaviour) suggest otherwise.
Again, I am applying logic to the situation to make an educated guess, rather than just assuming that which can not be explained is aliens. And you appear to have misinterpreted what I said. Aliens don't necessarily have to care that we are intelligent, but if they wanted to get accurate observations they would have to take into account our ability to observe and record. Their opinnion of our species has nothing to do with that.
That doesn't prove anything. It's just another case of a UFO of unkown origin.
What this incident proves is that despite a quick and substantial human response, it proved ultimately futile and the UFO carried on about it's business, in plain sight without a care for the reactions of us.
Well, you emphatically stated
Internet Kraken said:
I refuse to believe this UFO has anything to do with aliens. If aliens ever came to Earth, the most pointless thing they could do would be to hover in the sky for a few hours and then leave. I can't see any species wasting resources on that.
If some of these things are remotely controlled, there are any number of reasons why one might sit somewhere (on the ground, in the air) for an extended period of time. Maybe it's transmitting/receiving data, maybe it's cataloguing the surrounding geography - really, no one can ever know.
Yeah, and again what does this prove? Nothing. Mainly because the situation you linked is only related to the topic at hand because it involves a UFO. That UFO wasn't sitting above a city in plain sight for several hours, like the one in the OP.
Also, if something leaves your sight - is it gone or has it just changed locations?
I don't see what this has to do with what we are talking about.
And once again, how do you know that something floating in the sky above a city or whatever - is wasting it's time? You can postulate (as can I) from now to the end of time, but in the end neither of us can say definitively either way why these UFOs do what they do, and why 'most' seem to completely ignore or be oblivious to the human reaction/response when they're in the open.
Then why bother having this discussion in the first place? If you think human logic can't be applied to aliens, then why even bother quoting me?