Argumentative Essay On Aliens

Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's...a UFO?! For many years, the question of extraterrestrial visitation is one that has puzzled everyone from the media crazed public to the most ingenious scientists.
Maybe aliens have visited us in the past. That is on the big screen of course. Many people claim that they have come in contact with alien visitors. However, these sightings have all been inspired by misinterpretations and imagination. In fact, the probability of intelligent life outside of our planet is approximately one less than one percent. In other words, zero. Although there have been many, no sightings of alien life have been confirmed. For those who believe in aliens arguments have usually been invalid and suspicious. …show more content…
There are several reasons why this is true. For example, the members of religious cults were the earliest people to claim contact with aliens. The cults were based in California, and many lived near military installations in the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada. They claimed that they had met the friendly crew of the spacecraft’s they had seen, and many went as far as to state that they visited the alien’s homes. The aliens supposedly told them of the harm that humans were causing to the universe by nuclear tests, and attempts to travel through space. Science and technology quickly shut these theories down by using powerful telescopes and probes. They confirmed the fact that nearby planets and the moon could not the home of other life forms as the people had claimed. Later sightings are also based on these false claims so it is hard to give them much credit. In another case two airport radars registered an aircraft which flew in with a commercial flight, passed it, and then left the radar area at 200 knots. The flight tower had no visual contact with a corresponding object. This was later determined as a glitch in the radar. Another case involved two teenage girls who claimed that a large glowing object had hovered nearby their home and several child-like figures had been seen running around. The friend who said she saw it was later tested and it was found that she had experienced

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