Little Green Men

I feel that for all the more that UFOlogists are firmly headed for the future, they've missed a thing or two  in the present. Like computer tech. Fortunately, it's not all of them, but considering what kind of push-back they face, I'm not sure they can afford any.

Consider helicopters. Marvelous things. Not the highest tech, but effective for many things. Like hovering just above the geographic horizon outside the restricted airspace of certain hush-hush bases. Lacking a little finesse? Sure, but it looks to me like they know you're there even if you travel by atv. So, why not trade subtlety for really getting in there where you can see what's going on (if anything). It might just be enough advantage to get that proof you're after.

Also think about GIS software.  Correlating sightings on a map becomes a lot easier. There's a program coming up on tv that shows a 'phenomenon corridor' across the 37th parallel and it shows how easily mapped data reveals patterns. The more data and types of data you add, the more things may show up.

This is 2014. We've got fairly good investigative instruments. And yet we've supposedly had our hands on alien (LGM) technology for decades. If false, then we need to move on to something more productive, like building our own saucers. If true, then either our instruments suck and we can't tell how these things are made or we can tell, but we can't make the materials. That would be pretty sad. And that's just the shell. The toe-stubbing part may be the machines that make it go. That, at least, is something we could face - it's a matter of engineering rather than being so far behind that we don't know where to start. Face it, they know how to come here and we have no idea how to go there (where-ever that may be).

Any alien that shows up here is automatically superior in technology. I guess that may be our entrance exam to the galaxy- can we figure out how to get out there? I prefer not to think about how they might 'allow' us access to mocked-up pieces of junk that they know doesn't and can't work. That's job one: is any ship we may acquire really a viable piece of actual technology and not  their version of Hollywood special effects? Oh, I really hope that ships aren't fakes! That would be a heart-breaker.

Yes, there's always the wild card chance that they hand us a fake and we figure out some way to make it work, but I really don't want to hang the future of space travel on it!