If anyone looks at any of the eyewitness reports of flying discs and how they are able to distort space and accelerate thousands of miles per hour from a dead-stop in less than a second, if they can be PROVEN to have some validity, then trying to use nuclear energy or ion drives or solar sails or whatever else to approach light would become obsolete and unnecessary.
The maneuverability of many UFOs defies explanation if you apply any kind of normal propulsion designs. For example, instant changes in trajectory at sharp angles while at very high speeds. These characteristics have been reported over and over again for decades. I fail to see how VTOL craft are capable of that, without killing someone or exploding.
Most of these objects are noted for their unusual silence, even at high speeds.
Again, if someone takes even a small percentage of these sightings seriously, they point to something that is NOT anything like rockets or jets, but a type of force-field.
A thousand years ago, the Wright brothers aircraft would have been a magical chariot of the gods.
Why are people thinking that solid fuel propulsion, or anything the uses a solid force (particles, etc) to propel itself, is the wave of the future?
If a person can manipulate gravity and warp space, there is no telling how quickly a light year could be traversed.
And since many reports of UFOs point to such a "warp drive" then it makes the skeptical refrain of "but what about the vast distances of space travel" rather trivial.
Just my thoughts!
