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SP and Earth Operations Central. All comments are strictly my unsupported
opinion unless based upon promotional blurb extracted from the websites
linked herein. This is by no means an exhaustive nor definitive list, and no
particular recommendation nor assurance of accuracy or utility is to be
inferred from a listing herein. In fact, this is almost entirely
speculation, and most of that is unsupported speculation.
First, please take a look at the experimental 1950 US Air Force vertical-takeoff concept craft, the Silver Bug.
You might also want to take a look at the Federal Bureau of Investigation "Unusual Phenomona" files which have been declassified and released to the public.
Some say and have said for some time that our Homeworld has been visited, or is being visited, by beings from other worlds. Whether those worlds lie, as some speculate, in orbits around other suns, or are worlds which are in universes which parallel our own universe, none seem to surely know. However, there is much speculation, and some of that speculation gets rather odd at times.
Some of the speculation is very good science, and played rather close to the vest. The best of such speculation tends to be called "science-fiction" and is a reputable literary form. However, as "truth about aliens" science-fiction has its limitations; it is after all intended to be fictional, though it might reflect otherworldly life as well or as accurately as mainstream-fiction reflects the realities of life on our own world. As fiction, it simply does not stand up to the tests of evidence.
Some of the speculation is rather inspired, but does not seem to be much more than speculation, or more frequently, outright fantasy. I will not list that on this page, but rather on my Weirdness Page. Some of the particularly-fantastic speculation assumes in the minds of some the status of divine inspiration, and such I relegate to my Cults Page.
Some of the speculation is backed to some degree with some evidence, though little of the direct evidence could be considered remotely to be incontrovertible. Most of the "evidence" tends to revolve around the fact that something is going on, and that the various national governments seem to know considerably more than they are willing to tell. However, with the level of deception at which most clandestine governmental or military agencies operate, this "evidence" is subject to a wide variety of interpretations. Much may be inferred into the characters of investigators when they seize upon some specific and unproven explanation for whatever pieces of evidence they may have collected.
It must be noted that a great deal of the "data" being passed around as "evidence" within the UFO research community is very old, usually dating from the period between the Second World War and the Korean Conflict, and a vast proportion of this "data" is anecdotal, hearsay, or is derived from derivations of inference revolving around mysterious dearths of data.
And so with these caveats, let's now take a look at the wonderful world of Alien Visitors.