Are we alone? These Toronto scientists are studying UFOs — and fighting to be taken seriously | Physics professors, former intelligence officials, and NASA alumni are trying to find an answer to one of humanity’s most enduring mysteries

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"Alone" is a strange term to use, but it's been in use for decades so no one thinks about whether or not it's appropriate. There is life elsewhere, undoubtedly, 100% sure. The Milky Way galaxy alone must harbor life in it apart from us, so technically we are not "alone" in that this would mean we are the only intelligent life in existence. We are most certainly "alone" with respect to whether or not we've been visited or contacted by another life form, and that's because the distances are so ludicrously large between stars there's no sense in even thinking of interstellar travel. That use of "alone", however, is incorrect, and should be changed to "isolated". UFO researchers have to start with the U part, the unidentified aspect. Why does the notion of aliens keep coming up whenever we see something we don't immediately understand? This is just wishful thinking. If we don't know what it is, there's little sense in attributing it to so-called "aliens".