NASA astronaut Tom David Jones, who has completed four space flights and four spacewalks, estimated the likelihood of meeting with representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization. According to him, a chance for this will appear in the near future.
“It really seems to me that the likelihood of finding life outside the Earth is very high. If we do not meet her on Mars, she may be waiting for us on Europa, the moon of Jupiter, or Enceladus, the moon of Saturn. Naturally, in all likelihood, these will be microorganisms. I admit, I am not happy with television programs and articles that tell how aliens visited Earth or, for example, that a person has never been to the Moon. It seems to me that such conspiracy theories always captivate people who do not seek to double-check the facts, said Tom David Jones.
According to the astronaut, people see UFOs all the time. But he believes that none of them is an alien spacecraft - if only because "it is unlikely that representatives of alien civilizations would want to waste their time on such a visit."
“Taking into account the fact that there are countless planets like Earth in the Universe, I fully admit that other civilizations could appear on some of them. Maybe one day we will even find out about them. But even so, this does not make the stories that the inhabitants of other planets send their representatives to Earth plausible. Alas, this type of contact is too complicated technically and time-consuming, Moskovsky Komsomolets quotes the astronaut.
As the representative of NASA assures, he has not yet met a single real confirmation that aliens were visiting Earth. “All the 'evidence' filmed in the 21st century with telephones and video cameras, at best, allows you to notice curious geomagnetic or geological anomalies of natural origin, but they have nothing to do with extraterrestrial intelligence. So what remains is to come to terms with the fact that people are interested in news about UFOs, and try to transform this into a healthy interest in real science,”he stressed.