US Naval pilots "We see UFO everyday for at least a couple of years"

Edit: the reason that I believe that the survival instinct is not specific anthropomorphic, is that a survival instinct is a product of evolution. Only the species that ruthlessly advances itself at the cost of anybody else will survive and become dominant (that's how we did it). Since a possible advanced alien civilization, by definition, has become the dominant civilization in their neck of the woods, they, again by definition, must necessarily have a strongly developed survival instinct.
Instinctively. But as we advance, we already stopped doing instinctive things such as the old medical practice of draining blood. Think how much further along we will be by the time we are advanced enough to travel to Alpha Centauri solar system in less than one's lifespan.
 
Even if we assume that aliens exist (in our proximity), I think they felt upset when we detonated our first atomic weapon. Just as we would be if we saw that apes discovered a lighter, and began threatening other animals by burning woods...
 
I agree Jan that evolution selects for the most successful species that eventually pushes all competitors out of a specific niche or niches. But, I would also imagine a highly advanced alien civilization would not see homo sapiens as a threat. This type of civilization would have mastered fusion, terraforming, asteroid mining, stellar energy harvesting on a truly massive scale, and everyones favourite, FTL or just sub luminal travel. So why come and take over a planet that’s been trashed by a bunch of bipedal apes and have to deal with all their crap?

Do we feel an urge to conquer chimpanzees - our damage to their environment notwithstanding?
 
If you were them (assuming for the moment that they are, ahem, alien), and you wanted to introduce your presence without provoking a public panic, would you simply land your fleet in the world's capitols, or would you reveal yourself in short, sporadic glimpses over many years?

The latter would seem idiotic.
The only sensible way would be to land one volunteer ship somewhere interesting and check how we react.
 
The latter would seem idiotic.
The only sensible way would be to land one volunteer ship somewhere interesting and check how we react.

I suspect that your idea of idiotic, is most everyone else's idea of wise.

I would suggest that landing a lone ship for a clandestine look see has likely already been done, many times. I would also suggest that they would (again, assuming aliens, for the moment) be highly concerned over the potential negative reaction of a society of billions of irrational beings, to the many disturbing implications of such a revelation presented in some indisputable way. No, I feel certain that blundering in, and risking scaring the hell out of all of us, is exactly what not to do.
 
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For the record... I am not a misanthrope.

What does "the dominant species" mean here? The top of the food chain? Something else entirely?

The idea that species succeed in evolutionary terms by annihilating their competition is alien to me. Evolutionary success is rooted in adapting to an environment. As I noted some time back, bacteria win that struggle for dominance hands down.
 
I really feel very strongly that the alien mentality guessing games don’t belong in a meaningful discussion of UFOs because where UFO hypotheses get more thought provoking the further out they get, the subject of UFOs becomes less grounded in the here in now by the same degree.

However. Because I can’t resist…

It occurred to me that if these things are ET in origin, and the occupants of the craft are maybe analogous to bio-engineered drone cyborgs following a protocol they are slave to (rather than being the engineers of the craft themselves). Wouldn’t it be rather odd then if these these little drones had perhaps began malfunctioning eons ago due to the stress of space flight; ravaged by entropy? Maybe some of these craft are operating far being their expected lifespan and are confusing the hell out of what ever improbable culture they now run into.

How would we know if our ambassadors from ET were never intended to come this far and were absolutely insane? It might explain a crash or two…

Tl/dr: Alien [1979] - Ash's malfunctioning - YouTube
 
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I found all three in a box on a walk; there are in the queue
 

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I agree Jan that evolution selects for the most successful species that eventually pushes all competitors out of a specific niche or niches. But, I would also imagine a highly advanced alien civilization would not see homo sapiens as a threat. This type of civilization would have mastered fusion, terraforming, asteroid mining, stellar energy harvesting on a truly massive scale, and everyone's favourite, FTL or just sub luminal travel. So why come and take over a planet that’s been trashed by a bunch of bipedal apes and have to deal with all their crap?

A truly advanced species that does all that will realize that in a short while (relatively speaking) humans will acquire the same capabilities, with tech development being on a log slope. The best self defense for them is to incinerate this little insignificant planet and be done with it.

Jan
 
For the record... I am not a misanthrope.

What does "the dominant species" mean here? The top of the food chain? Something else entirely?

The idea that species succeed in evolutionary terms by annihilating their competition is alien to me. Evolutionary success is rooted in adapting to an environment. As I noted some time back, bacteria win that struggle for dominance hands down.

If we want to, we can exterminate any bacteria we want with two fingers in our collective noses. We eradicated smallpox, polio, what have you. I don't see bacteria doing that to us humans.

Jan