FREE ESSAY ON AGAINST UFOS

AGAINST UFOS

UFOs: Neither Here nor There
Throughout the past, the existence of unidentified flying objects and aliens has been
disputed over and over. Many different platforms and viewpoints have been taken in order
to support the respective sides of the issue. The main argument against intelligent life
existing somewhere other than Earth is that of where they derive. The truth of the matter
is there is no place in the universe that UFOs and aliens could exist. Skeptics are faced
with the fact that modern science has stated that no other orbital body in our solar
system or immediate surrounding area is able to sustain life (Blum, 1990).
Our solar system is a collection of planets, comets, and assorted chunks of rock. Despite
the similarity in appearance, there are startling differences between the various bodies
in the solar system, and especially between the planets(David, 1967). Mars, the planet
most often associated with aliens, has been tested by scientists with an instrument
called the gas chromatograph mass spectrometer and ". . .it found no signs whatever of
any organic compounds on Mars (Man, 1985, p. 69)." This was a great leap in the debate
over intelligent life as it finally put to rest the idea that Mars was the home of alien
life(Man, 1985). Debaters now quickly jumped to the idea that life existed on any number
of the other planets.
Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, has no way of sustaining life as it is an airless
and waterless mass. The planet also exhibits extreme temperatures up to 660 degree
Fahrenheit thanks to its location relative to the sun(Rivera,
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3852/mercury.htm [2001]). It is unlikely that life
exists on Venus because of it's atmosphere and temperature. The green planet's atmosphere
exerts 90 times the pressure of Earth's and traps all the sun's heat that enters it
causing extreme and intolerable temperatures that average 900 degrees
Fahrenheit(Hamilton, http://www.solarviews.com/eng/venus.htm [2001]). Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are made of almost entirely the same substances as each other.
Made up of liquids and gases, the outer planets make it simply impossible to land a
spacecraft on any of them(Man, 1985).
After availing themselves to these facts, supporters still argue with the new conjecture
that aliens come from outside our solar system. However, any immediate object outside our
solar system that is vast enough to possibly maintain life has been investigated and
shown to have no life(David (Ed.), 1967). In addition, all celestial bodies outside of
the direct rays of the sun show alarming similarities in that none of which have enough
solid mass to support the landing of any spacecraft, and that they show no method for
sustaining life(Man, 1985). This pattern seems to be true for the rest of space, but,
even with skeptics pushing the envelope further and further, scientists now have yet
another way of disproving the existence of extraterrestrials. After disproving theories
up to a certain point in space, scientists state that in order to subsist further away
than what is known would force spacecraft to travel at speeds greater than light. This
type of travel is simply impossible, due to the needed technology to produce vehicles
that are able to maneuver the universe immaculately and without crashing at speeds
exceeding 700,000,000 miles per hour(Setter,
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/AndyPage/WWWUFO.htm [2001]).
The skeptics who state UFOs and aliens exist are faced with the simple fact that there
are no hard facts to support their case(Vallee, 1966). Never in history has the
government, along with the top scientists and astronomers in the world, of any country
filed any flying saucer sightings as Alien Species(David, 1967). One point is illustrated
best by an excerpt from The UFO Enigma in which the author tells us that a typical UFO
observer would be an ". . .unstable single or unhappily married clerk . . .a college
student filled with youthful enthusiasm, or some spiritualistic soul in quest of
unearthly experiences(Vallee, 1966, p. 160)." I believe this statement sums up why there
are still people in this world who believe in Aliens and UFOs. Also, with the amount of
media existing today, it is extremely difficult to believe that no news show or media
broadcasting company has ever recognized any UFO report on national TV. 
References
Blum, Howard. (1990). Out There. New York: Simon and Schuster.
David, Jay(Ed.). (1967). The Flying Saucer Reader. New York: The New American Library,
Inc.
Man, John. (1985). The Encyclopedia of Space Travel & Astronomy. New York: Crescent Books
Inc.
Vallee, Jacques & Janine. (1966). Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma. Chicago: Henry
Regnery Company.
Hamilton, Calvin J. (1999). Venus Introduction. http://www.solarviews.com/eng/venus.htm
Rivera, Juan. (2000). Mercury. Owned by Geocites Inc.
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3852/mercury.htm
Setter, Andy. (2000). The Ultimate UFOlogist WWW Site. Owned by Compuserve Inc.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/AndyPage/WWWUFO.htm