Curiosity about Aliens

Man is a curious animal and is inquisitive since birth. This eagerness has helped us find answers to the most intrigue and complex set of questions arising in the mind through series of research, experiments and detailed hypothesis.

The disturbing thought of ‘’we are alone in this Universe’’ for ages, perhaps spurred mankind to search for extra terrestrial life. The advent of modern technology  has joined this quest by launching numerous space missions, deploying the hubble telescope and installing array of giant radio telescopes for scanning and monitoring any visible signs of alien life.

The story about UFO’s (Unidentified Flying Objects) generated a mass hysteria during the early 40’s and 50’s which eventually led to establishing a study known as ‘’Project Bluebook’’. This involved a deep study comprising about reports compiled about numerous sightings across the US by United States Air Force and other residents. Many of the sightings were brushed off as weather balloons, aircrafts and deceptive natural phenomenon. However there were some sightings which could not be classified either as a hoax nor attributed to any phenomenon. These were classified as ’’un-explained’’.  The ‘’Project blue book’’ was closed down in 1970 citing it was unviable and could not scientifically prove anything concrete even after almost a decade.

The Roswell episode in which debris of a spacecraft were found in Roswell, New Mexico in June 1947 has gained notoriety for the US air force for keeping secret a possible alien air crash which is widely debated across the scientist fraternity. Major Jesse Marcel an air force personnel who was involved in collecting the debris and transporting them to higher authorities spilled the beans about the stuff nearly three decades later about the covert military cover-up. He hinted that the debris did not contain any thing closely related to the weather balloon and some articles found were definitely not ‘’terrestrial’’.

The SETI (Search for extra terrestrial Intelligence) established in 1961, to detect the faintest radio waves from across our vast strata of Universe for a possible contact with the alien world hasn’t met with any success so far. Various antenna’s (dish shaped) have been arranged over a large area, some as colossal as 100metres in diameter in the hope of receiving some positive clue from a source –somewhere in the Solar system. 

The renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has advocated that aliens do exist and some of them may have already been on our tails and tracking us with their advanced state of the art technology. Hawking deviated from sticking to the orthodox concept of finding water and oxygen (the two crucial elements for survival on Planet- Earth) and thinks it would be more prudent if that conventional yard-stick is not applied henceforth. His contention that aliens might have manifested, adjusted and blossomed in conditions and circumstances totally ‘’alien’’ and hostile to us does ‘’HOLD WATER’’.

The latest ‘land rover’ sent to Mars- Curiosity to collect samples of Martian soil has reportedly taken pictures of moving lights which is distinctly seen in the video release by Nasa. Nasa officials have been quick to nip any adverse reactions /publicity in the bud by portraying that the pictures are because of a flawed technique/dead pixel inherent in the camera .Seasoned experts have confirmed that this hypothesis is both rational and conclusive.

The perennial research which has poured millions of dollars into seeking questions about the existence of extra terrestrial life should continue, but in an undisputed and impartial manner. The clandestine manner where documents are hidden, sightings brushed off as retinal error or defective vision doesn’t augur well for future research. There have been reports of sightings all over the world with most of them hoaxes and some of it could have been because of wrong identity, absence of clarity of vision or even hallucination.

The ‘un-explained ‘cases however merit a second chance and, perhaps a more rational and scientific approach could provide us with startling answers. This information should be shared amongst astronomers and amateur star gazers unabashedly. 

Space is so huge that it cannot be classified or visualized in a finite form. The innumerable galaxies and countless milky way encompass and dot every available spectrum of Celestial network and are joined by millions of stars, planets and their satellites, comets, and asteroids.

It is simply preposterous to believe that life exists only on one of the miniscule Planets and the rest are LIFELESS pieces of zodiac signs traversing the Constellation.