The subject of UFOs and aliens have been an ongoing topic of interest around the world my whole life.
In the 50's, aliens were assumed to be ugly and out to take over the world.
Then came the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still" where the alien turned out to be a distinguished looking man who was trying to save the world from our own destructive ways.
In a world-wide hit movie "ET", we learned to love the stranded alien who could bring dead plants back to life and heal people. When I left that movie, I said to my husband, "Gee, I wonder if the government is trying to convince us that maybe aliens aren't so bad after all." "My very favorite movie about aliens is "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". I really got caught up in the pull of the characters to go to the Devil's Tower in Wyoming to meet the aliens. It was a heart-warming and almost spiritual movie.
With the movie "Independence Day", the theme went strongly back in the other direction again. In that semi-believable story, technologically advanced and ruthless aliens showed no mercy. They really did want to destroy us and raid our planet of its resources, only to to go on to other planets and do the same. That was a great movie, but very scary.
The classic story of "The War of the Worlds" was equally frightening, but we won in the end; or rather, earthly biology won.
I really do believe that it is quite possible for there to be other intelligent life somewhere out there in the universe. I have never seen an alien that I know of, and hope if they do come to visit us that they will not come to destroy. What are your thoughts?
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