Sightings

Msg from random guy in facebook: "Hi Justin, I'm Rahul and I'm new on Facebook. I got online just to speak to a few Malay people and check if you've seen any UFOs in the Malaysian skies, or any Y Shapes in the night sky. I know this might sound strange but for the last 5 days, there's been a UFO sighting in Calcutta, India everynight. And there's this Malaysian gentleman who's been in touch with me about something similar. Have you seen or heard anything of this sort?" - Rahul

A hoax perhaps? Requires further investigation.. So I went to his facebook and guess what..

Fishy..

Honestly, I've never given 2 craps about anything beyond our fragile atmosphere (also explaining my lack of interest in the Angkasawan program). [explain about UFOs] According to Wikipedia, most UFOs actually become IFOs -- Identified Flying Objects. However, a small residual, from 3% to 30% depending on who is doing the counting, remain unexplained.
But after countless episodes of X-files, one tends to become a skeptical wonderer. Nevertheless, I decided however to explore the subject because you never know when you might need knowledge such as this one fine day.

*Googles for "UFO sightings in Calcutta"*

Kolkata in a tizzy over UFO sighting
30 October 2007, Tuesday

Kolkata gaped last night when a television channel showed footage of a UFO captured on a handy cam. The strange object emitting myriad colours streaked across the dark sky changing shape and dancing as it were.

"Farhan Akhtar, a senior executive of a private company, got up at the ungodly hour to close a window and pull the drapes after his wife started feeling cold. He first thought it was an airplane and then thought it was a star.

Wah. Hmm... Sure bo? So what about our localised news? I didn't see anything. I never looked anyway. I wasn't on Thestar. Maybe I'm not reading the Chinese newspapers. ANYONE saw ANYTHING? lol

Why did this Rahul guy ask me about Malaysia anyway? Are we facing a real prospect of visitations of the unknown kind? Or am I just wasting my time on nothing here?! I hate conspiracy theories for this reason. Anyhow, here's my attempt to explore the possibility..





If I were an alien, what would I want to come to Malaysia and see?

First I would probably want to see their people to see whether they would prove to be a resistant bunch..

Nope, doesn't look like it. They seem to be particularly interested in feeding themselves and others. But what are they consuming anyway?
Analysis says that has 40% oil content.

"Looks like waste, sir.."

"Captain, i think we found their weapons.."

Don't think they're comin to Malaysia.. I think the 'aliens' - if any - brought out a good analogy being, "if you aren't from around here, I don't think you'd know how to appreciate this place". We're a bunch of lazy people just going on with our lives. If you aliens were to come here, yes we'd be fearful; but if it happens anytime soon, I don't think unity would be enough.

But if they do come? What would be the first thing you'd do?

Go meet them new neighbors? Hide? Run to another state/country? 'Do it' (alot) cuz you don't want to die a virgin? Go rob a bank? Or hope n pray that they're just here for the money.. If you come and think of it, in this time and day, that's exactly what's happening to many people in many countries - even without them aliens.

As for me, if aliens really were to come. I'd want to see and meet them (after an extended observation whether anyone got their eyes gorged out, of course).

Then, what would I say? .. What would you say? (cuz I still can't think of something..)

I also found a short clip I found in Youtube called UFO Sightings in Klang dated October 2006 (Apparently spotted at Vistana Hotel)

But well, I like the response by Barack Obama, the leading man for 2008 US elections, when asked whether he believed there was life elsewhere:
“I don’t presume to know. What I know is there is life here on Earth, and — and that we’re not attending to life here on Earth,” Obama said.

Makes more sense to me than anything I've written ere.