I read the following quote on Slashdot this morning:

"Using data extrapolated from the early Kepler observations of 1,235 candidate exoplanets, mission scientists have placed an estimate on the number of alien worlds there are in our galaxy. There are thought to be 50 billion exoplanets, 500 million of which are probably orbiting within their stars' habitable zones.”

To me, it seems a ray of hope in the otherwise dismal outlook of the Maxwell Equation. Our interest in UFOs here on Long Island has waxed and waned over the years. We have our big cases like the Southaven UFO crash in the early 90’s, the Moriches Bay incident not too long before that, and reported animal mutilations in the Mastic area back in the 1970’s and 1980’s just to name a few.

People still email us to this day reporting strange lights and shapes in the sky over their homes and workplaces. There is a site called the National UFO Database that records sightings all over the United States. A quick check through their database reveals about 10 reported sightings in  New York State per month, about half of which are located on Long Island.

So what are Long Islanders seeing in the skies? I’ll admit as for myself the jury is still out, even though I believe I may have had a sighting once when I was younger. Sure, nto all sightings are real, and those that were honestly witnessed may be explainable in other ways, but is there something out there at all? I would like to believe so because it makes the word a more interesting place. What do you all think?