Anybody else picking up on this? From the U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for pilots to report encounters with “unidentified aircraft” to a Gallup Poll that found one-third of Americans now believe alien UFOs have visited the earth. Most recently, the UK’s first astronaut, went on record to say: “aliens exist, there’s no two ways about it.”

I’m intrigued that Astronauts believe aliens exist.

“I believe extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets. Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us.”

Gordon Cooper, American Astronaut

celebrities (of course!) have forged a special kinship with aliens

Celebrity believers include Kesha, Nick Jonas and Khloe Kardashian. West Coast celebs typically claim to have seen UFOs and spaceships hovering in their backyards. Alien explorers, it appears, are as captivated by “influencers” as are we Earthlings.

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Tom Delonge, Blink-182 guitarist and singer has frequent alien encounters

“I have sources from the government. I’ve had my phone tapped. I’ve done a lot of weird stuff in this industry — people wouldn’t believe me if I told them.”

Tom Delonge, Blink-182

183 UFO Sightings In New Jersey In 2019 (Source: Patch)

A green, growing craft flying over Colts Neck High School? Strange lights in Ocean City? A triangle craft hovering over the Garden State Parkway?

Alienxpo 2020, Knoxville Tenn – March 14, 2020

This popular bi-annual UFO conference features discussions with some of the foremost experts and witnesses from around the world including Nick Pope (considered by many to be the world’s leading expert on UFOs).

July 2 has been named World UFO Day

July 2 was selected since it is the day of the supposed Roswell UFO crash in 1947.

The stated goal of the July 2 celebration is to raise awareness of “the undoubted existence of UFOs” and to encourage governments to declassify their files on UFO sightings.

This has now become a campaign promise of Amy Klobucher, one of our Democratic candidates for president.

The Navy plans to document UFO sightings (Source: LiveScience)

The U.S. Navy plans to set up an official reporting and investigative system that will monitor reports from its pilots about unidentified flying objects.

216 UFO Sightings In Arizona In 2019 (Source: Patch)

Just two weeks ago in Laveen, a person described a strange sighting on Dec. 18:
“I was sitting at my kitchen table and I saw a saucer with blue lights, ran outside, it was cruising low and slow from South Mountain traveling northeast towards Scottsdale.” 
Two separate reports on December 12 detail a similar sighting. Both describe “30 star-like objects traveling in a line.

12News Phoenix (Jan 2, 2020)

Bottom Line.

Some people might consider belief (or fascination) with aliens and UFOs as a “fringe” movement. On the other hand, it’s hard to dismiss this out of hand since there are so many scientists involved. Some even see it as a new form of religion.

I’m not convinced either way. But I am leaning in the direction of “why not”? I just find it hard to believe we would be the only form of life in this vast universe.

What do you all think? Has anyone ever had an encounter with any form of extraterrestrial life?