Application of the scientific method can prove false many purported UFO sightings. Some are hoaxes. Some are funky atmospheric things. Some are optical illusions. Some are unclassifiable — the anomalies. The government, since its initial acknowledgment of the Roswell incident, has maintained a strict, “nope, can’t be” attitude to all UFO incidents. It apparently figures that it made a big, big, big mistake once that it doesn’t want to repeat. Whether that mistake was to tell the truth or to spin a wild science-fiction tale, that’s never been cleared up to the full satisfaction of all concerned.

Are we alone? Mathematics tells us it just can’t be. With millions upon millions of stars in our galaxy, and millions upon millions of galaxies in the universe, the sheer weight of mathematical reasoning holds that, even if life exists only on one-one-trillionth (a wildly liberal number) of the planets that are out there, the universe is falling over itself with life. The Big Empty isn’t. read more at ldnews.com