Sir,
Raising again the question of UFOs and aliens being occasional Cyprus tourists (Sunday Mail, November 23) and the sage comments of the estimable John Knowles, there may well be more to this matter than is currently apparent.
If, as seems statistically likely, there are other life forms in the universe with more advanced technology than ours they are probably very different from us.
They may well not be carbon based and could easily be entirely beyond our conception… For example, in size alone, anything from Planck length upwards. There is a small possibility that they could tolerate our atmosphere, ambient temperatures and pressures and G responses precisely as we can.
More likely they’ll have different requirements. If they have a technology, they either have not heard our radio transmissions of the past century or have preferred to ignore them, for they have not [yet] answered.
The deafening silence suggests that if they exist they must be more than 100 light years away. At that range even radio signals would take a hundred years to reach them and another hundred for a reply to get here.
This makes for rather protracted conversations. Furthermore, even if their spacecraft could travel at half light speed and they could tolerate around 7G deceleration, it would still take their ship 400 years to slow down to the speed of a geostatic orbital satellite.
A perhaps more feasible explanation of so-called UFOs as seen by so many people can be found in a remarkable book written here in Cyprus last year and recently published in UK. See The Chosen Spirit by Laurence James (Fantine Press, 2008) for an at least equally logical explanation of ‘UFOs’ as well as explanations of digital orbs, ball lightning and so on.
Familial spirit forms resembling these objects are allegedly now in regular contact and are passing on astounding data about things as varied as what happens in the Bermuda Triangle, where and who is God, how did Diana really die and where is/was Lord Lucan.
On the balance of probabilities could this just be a more plausible explanation than unlikely aliens with the aforesaid characteristics and abilities.
D. Richards,
Paphos
