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Well, there has been cases where ball lighting phenomena, was misidentified as UFO. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning). What I wanted to say is that based on current known physical laws, it would take an imaginable time for anything from other galaxy to arrive to earth. Unless someone proves that the physical laws are wrong or any life from other galaxy is capable of living more than thousands of years.

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> Well, there has been cases where ball lighting phenomena, was misidentified as UFO.

Minor quibble, ball lightning is occasionally classified as an Unidentified Flying Object, before it's identified as ball lightning.

The big problem here is with language. The military takes UFOs seriously because they're seriously interested in identifying things before deciding if they need to shoot them.

But then when the general public hears "the military takes UFOs seriously," many are operating with the "UFOs are definitely alien aircraft" interpretation.

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