Alan Bean Quotes

It's hardly a secret that I'm skeptical of declarations that the aliens are out and about on our planet. Still, I try to answer every one of these mails and phone calls because, after all, it's not a violation of physics to travel from one star system to another.

There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.

You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets. Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.

I take aliens very seriously and don't appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them.

Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified aerial phenomena. Surveys show that roughly one-third of the populace believes that at least some of this sky show is due to extraterrestrial spacecraft, here to probe our airspace and, when that proves boring, our bodies.

There's so much interest and curiosity about alien life, interstellar travel. It's always in the news.

I think if aliens came to Earth, we would laugh. If there was an alien technology, we would laugh.

This is what confuses me. People say, 'I believe that we landed on the Moon' but then they find it really far fetched that there can't be other planets where little men haven't travelled to ours.

The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Saying there's a silence is a bit like if Columbus, looking to discover a new continent, only sailed 10 miles off the coast of Spain before turning back to say, 'Nothing out there!'

The idea of close encounters of the zero'th kind - which is to say, not a close encounter at all, but simply uncovering evidence that someone's out there - dates back to the Victorian era.

We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

If aliens are really hanging out in our 'hood, it's hard to imagine any other fact more worthy of study. If not, then why does such a large fraction of the populace insist on believing they're here?

Having grown up on 'Star Trek,' I've had one great dream since childhood, and that is to see my life end somewhere other than here on Earth.

As far as I can tell, the only unambiguous consequence of the claimed invasion of Earth by beings from another star system has been a nonstop torrent of TV specials. So if you're one of the many who believe the aliens are here, you really do have to admit this: They're the best houseguests ever.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.

My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Ever since I was nine years old and I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon, I have felt passionately that this is an interesting human adventure. This is one of the things we're doing that is really fundamentally important, as we leave our home planet, but also exciting.