A Poll About Aliens

[Nameless Range]

It would be fair to say this has nothing to do with hunting.

Tonight after my wife got home I hiked up a local mountain to snag a trail camera I had put up before Christmas. It was dark and I had my headphones in, and I was listening to Joe Rogan interview a man who claims he was abducted by aliens. Pretty much to a person, when I listen to supposed abductees tell their stories, my BS meter redlines. That said, there seems to be more and better "evidence" of unidentified technology lately - whether it be Navy Pilot David Fravor's story, and the accompanying footage, or just weird statements and signals from government officials. Hiking in the dark, listening to a podcast about some dude getting taken away by aliens, maybe my imagination got to me a bit, but I hiked down the mountain with intent.

Being outdoorsfolk, I suppose hunters and fishermen have ample opportunity to not only be out at night, but be out alone, where they may see things no one else does. So I made a poll.

I find myself in the "Neutral" leaning toward "Likely" category, but have no personal experience. My wife choosing to marry me, being the only inexplicable thing I've ever really seen.

 

[MTLabrador]

No way. I did, however, see the giant trail of Elon Musk’s new satellites late at night in the Ferris Mountains. I wasn’t sure what was going on at the time, but I was pretty sure it wasn’t aliens. I was leaning more towards a Red Dawn type scenario, and given the type of day I’d been having I wasn’t too opposed to it.

 

[WestKyHunt]

All I'm going to say is every now and then that Ancient Aliens show makes sense.... it also has a phenomenal ability to put me to sleep.

I think with all the stars we can see around us that the probability of other life is extremely high. Not saying that it is intelligent, or intelligent enough to travel light-years through space.

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

I suggest watching this film right before your next back country adventure.

 

[BrdHntr]

I had a UFO fly right over while hunting several years ago. This was before cell phone cameras or easy to carry little digital point and shoots. If flew over a ridge and I believe it may have landed.

I had a camera back at the truck and to this day, I still kick myself for not driving over there and taking a pic

 

[grizzly63]

For those who don't necessarily believe in deities and focus instead on trying to use the logic we currently have, the thought that we are the only living beings in a system as large as we perceive it to be is probably unrealistic. We continue to find new forms of life on earth. There are probably things out there we cannot comprehend or understand the science of. The vast space and travel time keeps things safely apart in my thinking. Accepting what we don't know has never caused me any lack of sleep. Fear of my fellow man and what he is capable of makes me keep one eye peeled out there. It is fun to look at the stars and wonder. Maybe they will be hunting us one day.

 

[Southern Elk]

I don’t know if humans have ever encountered aliens. I lean towards no, especially in modern times.

I do however feel that just by the inconceivable vastness of the universe, there is likely life out there somewhere.

 

[Doublecluck]

For sure the US government has been prepping us for “something”over the last few years by releasing and declassifying reports. What is anyone’s guess but they know something they haven’t shared yet.

 

[antlerradar]

If you are able to travel a hundred light years, Why would you waste your time with the type of people that claim to have been abducted?

 

[DouglasR]

I suggest watching this film right before your next back country adventure.

Dude I actively try not to think about that movie the 4th kind and owls before going on overnighters.

 

[TOGIE]

 

[D_Walt]

About 20 years ago my buddy (now my brother-in-law - I’m married to his sister) and I may have saved the world....we were sitting in a deer blind (a 4’x4’ plywood box for those of you not from Texas) on a ranch right on the Mexican border, about 100 yards from the river. A particularly cold morning right after Christmas and right before daylight. As we were sitting there we heard a strange humming noise getting closer from the northeast near a ridge. Suddenly a very strange shaped slow moving aircraft popped above the horizon about 150 yards away, then it dropped back down. A minute later it popped back up just to our north. We had no idea what it was and soon decided it was aliens and they had made it to earth only to see two idiots freezing in a plywood box before daylight, so they must have realized there was no intelligent life on earth and left. You’re all welcome. We did find out a few years later that they were testing new drones at the Air Force base that was nearby and some conspiracy theory wackos have since tried to convince us that’s what we saw, but I’m not buying it.

 

[DouglasR]

And for the record I’m not some pro alien nut.
I’m just saying that movie is scary af.

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

Dude I actively try not to think about that movie the 4th kind and owls before going on overnighters.

Me to man. I watched that one night late August about 10 days before a backcountry trip into the Frank. Not my best decision.

 

[Wildabeest]

Dude I actively try not to think about that movie the 4th kind and owls before going on overnighters.

Good thing you didn’t watch Silence of the Lambs before staying at my place last week too!

 

[Jape]

Depends on how you define an alien. Do I think there are other humans in an infinite universe similar to us? Absolutely. Do I think there are little green aliens roaming the universe and occasionally visiting earth? No.

Now I'm not gonna be able to sleep tonight.

 

[Okie94]

I would have said no but I agree that with everything that's been released it seems like there may be something to it.

 

[BlakeA]

While on an early season hunt in Nevada, I watched some weird shit in the night sky. It seemed like 2 different objects. Just weird. Strange speeds, colors, and movements. After a few minutes, like a light switch, they were instantly gone. I know the military tests a bunch of stuff out there so who knows. Was cool to watch for a bit regardless.

 

[hank4elk]

Seen some weird shit in my 66 yrs. Enough to put me in the likely group. Not enough to put me in the nuthouse.

 

[Pucky Freak]

I’m pretty sure this thread officially kicks off the “off-season”

My aunt at age 19 showed up at home hours late, disheveled, and wearing one shoe. She swore up and down she had been abducted by aliens, and took that story to her grave 50 years later. To say that she was “touched” is generous. I don’t know what she was like before the incident. Our family never really knew what to make of it. If I had to guess, maybe she was sexually assaulted/severely traumatized and/or bad LSD trip.