bill.zen
I want to believe
I've been reading this book lately called The Gods of Eden by William Bramley. In it, he makes a good case as to why there hasn't been more recovered crashed UFOs. I'd like to quote an excerpt below to see what you think.
Now keep in mind the FAA statistics on aircraft accidents. I think it's something like one in a million craft have a catastrophic failure, making it one of the safest ways to travel.
He goes on to give other figures which would amount to only about one crash every 125 years. Of course all of this is up to debate since we don't exactly know the amount of extraterrestrial craft being flown in our skies, but it definitely gives a picture into why we may not see downed UFOs very often.
Now keep in mind the FAA statistics on aircraft accidents. I think it's something like one in a million craft have a catastrophic failure, making it one of the safest ways to travel.
Let us assume that the reported alien spacecraft in our skies have precisely the same safety record as American commercial jet aircraft-no better and no worse. Let us guess that 2000 "flying saucers" flights are made over Earth every year. That amounts to 5 and a half flights every day. We will assume that each hypothetical "saucer" flies at a low enough altitude that, if a mishap should occur, the debris would fall to Earth before disintegrating in the atmosphere. Putting all of the above figures together, we discover that a "flying saucer" would crash, or drop a substantial chunk of debris only once every five centuries! That would amount to only 12 crashes since the dawn of mankinds first recorded civilization!
He goes on to give other figures which would amount to only about one crash every 125 years. Of course all of this is up to debate since we don't exactly know the amount of extraterrestrial craft being flown in our skies, but it definitely gives a picture into why we may not see downed UFOs very often.