You've heard it many times, perhaps you have even gotten a belly laugh at it? What I am talking about are the statements made by various people that space aliens are working with us to help us develop new technologies. I admit it, it sounds like a crackpot idea and more like how ufos and such are attributed to every strange thing seen in the sky. As I have said in the past, I always try and keep an open mind no matter how silly something sounds on the surface. Getting into this subject makes me feel like I am reading one of those papers you see at the supermarket. You know what I am talking about, those papers with blaring headlines such as, My Mother Came From Venus or My Pig Has Two Heads. As crazy as what I am about to tell you sounds, try and keep an open mind. Some information about aliens is put out there by the government to hide the fact that other things are going on. Look at the development of the SR-71 by Kelley Johnson, the famous engineer that worked for the Lockheed Skunk Works, the secret airplane development arm of the company. Even to this day there are people saying that ufo technology was used to build that plane. Why would anyone say this? The reason is that we seem to have had some capabilities that were hidden from the general public. These capabilities were in materials development, and airplane and engine development. The plane was built from such advanced materials that many could not believe that we had this technology. Some people say that these materials were developed "on the run" as the plane was being designed. I personally believe that we already had them and they were top secret. The SR-71 leaks all sorts of fluids when it is on the ground but as it goes higher all the leaks seal as the body of the plane expands. I ask you this, would any self respecting alien fly a leaky ship?

Space Shuttle
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When the space shuttle was first designed, the "aliens helped build it" crowd were adamant that we received help from alien forces in its construction. I can tell you this, nothing could be further from the truth. The shuttle is definitely 1970's hardware and not even well designed. It is nothing more than a flying fuel tank with no way out if something goes wrong and we all know how many times something unfortunate has happened. Clumsy tiles are used for a heat shield, giant tanks are attached to the body of the vehicle that drop off, and the electronics were ancient but have recently been updated. It has so many problems that I can't understand why anyone would want to take the chance of flying it? Eighteen astronauts have already been killed by the space shuttle and there weren't many shuttles in the fleet. More shuttles might possibly have meant more accidents, so I am glad we didn't build extras. How anyone can believe that these crude devices were somehow designed by things we learned from crashed saucers is far beyond me. Taking this even a step further, we would have been better off using traditional rockets for launching payloads. They are far cheaper and don't endanger life. Now don't get me wrong, I am in favor of manned flight, but in a safe vehicle. Sure there is always an element of risk in this sort of thing, but we have to make space flight as safe as possible. Would we consider a plane safe if it had a 1 in 200 chance of a disaster. Those are said to be the odds on a shuttle making a safe trip. Not very good odds are they?

F-117
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One of the problems, from our view, is that government secrets last a long time. If a revolutionary new type of propulsion is discovered, or a great new airframe, we may not even know about it for twenty years or longer. Look how long it was before the government let us know that we had stealth fighters and bombers. The F-117 was around for a very long time before we heard about it. All that time that we didn't know it existed, the things learned in building it were themselves being improved and built upon. I have no doubt whatsoever that newer secret planes, that are far more sophisticated, are flying around up there and we don't even know that they exist. If one should be discovered by the public it would look so advanced that many people would say that it has to be based on technology from an alien ufo. What these people are really seeing is the end result of maybe twenty years of further research into a breakthrough made many years ago that they knew nothing about. It is as if they were put into a time machine and advanced many years into the future, from their perspective.

If we look at the newest engines to power our probes, we will notice how they have improved to the point where they are said to be fast enough for manned Solar System exploration and even close star systems. I am talking about the newest version of the Ion engine which is said to be at least four times faster than the original one. It is an engine that builds speed gradually and wouldn't be powerful enough to operate on earth. In space it is a race horse as far as our current technology is concerned. Again it has been said that this technology came from wrecked saucers that were reverse engineered. If a person with rational mind looks at this statement he or she will immediately realize that this engine would be far too slow to power saucers unless they came from very nearby in the galactic region. This engine fits our current technological state. If we were at the point where we could build saucers that some say are larger than a mile in diameter, we would have far more efficient ways to propel them. Yes there could be life out there that comes from nearby, but it is beginning to appear that this is just not the case. If ufos are real and if we have reversed engineered one, I am sure that we would be far more advanced than we are today.

International Space Station
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The International Space Station certainly doesn't show any advanced alien influence. That piece of junk is nothing but a problem created for some crazy unification idea and mostly funded by the U.S. It seems to have far too many problems and the undependable space shuttle was supposed to be the means to get back and forth to it. It is just a project that we don't need, that is draining our budget for no apparent reason. I would like to know what type of experiment you can do in the space station that you can't do in a shuttle or satellite? If someone says to me that space station was built with alien technology, I am afraid that I would laugh out loud at them. I just wouldn't be able to help myself. Unfortunately for the person telling me this, I wouldn't have too high an opinion of their intelligence after that.

Aerogel Heat Test
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We haven't talked about any of the secret planes out there yet. One of them, the Aurora, is almost sure to exist. It is said that this plane can achieve orbit and maybe even travel in space and reach the moon. If you go on the internet and research it, you will see the usual suspects stating that it was designed from alien technology. I think that it was more of a progression from the SR-71 than anything else. Why would the U.S. give up its fleet of SR-71 Blackbirds, which are still listed as the fastest planes in the world, if it didn't have a superior replacement? After materials were found that stood up to airspeeds of around 3,000 mph for the SR-71, better materials were bound to come along. Maybe even electronic means were used to shield the plane from searing heat as it sped along. We do have a device now called the Air Spike that can do this and we also have Aerogel which is extremely light and heat resistant.

All in all, I think it is very obvious that space aliens have not had any input into our space program. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise, remember if there were aliens and they were helping us, our space program would be in much better shape.