I wonder.
I am sure that, give the basic building blocks of life, there must be other planets circling other stars that have developed life.
As many of you know, I spent a great deal of my life as a truckdriver. Many hours on the open road and alot of time to think.
I have seen a couple of things over the years, and I know that, until someone sees the same kind of thing, a skeptic will remain one.
That is fine with me. I don't live or die on other peoples opinions.
But there are a few points that have always bothered me.
1) There is a definite phenomenon happening. There are too many credible witnesses out there to dismiss sightings as the overimagination of some backwoods crackpot. So something is hapening.
2) Why would a civilization that has solved the problem of intersteller space travel bother to make so many "landings" or low level passes? Surely, any such beings could gather enough information with one trip.
3)In the late 1890's there was a wave of sightings of fantastically improbable and aerodynamicaly unsound craft that appeared to whole towns across the USA and the UK. (Possibly others also) By modern compairison we know that these craft could not fly, but to the people of that time, it was what they would expect such a "flying machine" to look like. This disturbs me because it shows a sort of anticipation, or manipulation of our expectations. Note how the sightings changed into the 1950's with "robots" encountered, and up into the 1980's and to this day with the "Greys".
4) If you take a step back from any and all religions, and look at the writings as they are, they show a contact of some sort that is unusual, to say the least. I have studied the belief systems of the ancient Chinese, the First peoples of both North America and South America, the myths of the Europeans, and into Africa and the Mid-east. The same stories surface every where you look. The same stories of "little people" that will play tricks, nasty or nice, surface. The same stories of strangers that ask for "Wheat cakes without salt, and clear water" happen throughout every culture. There must be an element of truth here.
Which brings me to,
5) The winged serpent. This is possibly the weirdest thing that I have found. In all the cultures on this earth there is the remberance of the "flying snake" or the "winged serpent".
The Sumarians left a record of the ones they called the "watchers", the bible also records them, their function was to monitor and guide humans. Their symbol was the winged serpent.
I am not saying that "Ancient Aliens" genetically engineered modern humans. It is possible, I suppose.
I am not saying that everything that religion is, is a result of mis-understood remembered occurences. It is possible, I suppose.
I am not even saying that everything that you know or think that you know may be wrong. I don't know. All I know is that there are some very strange things out there and I have tried to keep an open mind and tried to keep my sanity while doing so.
So, to sum up the question, "Are we alone?", I have to say, "No". But HOW we are not alone is an open question.
As I said, I wonder.