# Where would a UFO most likely land on Earth? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 28, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826 "2007-06-28T21:17:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/21 "2007-06-29T03:46:45Z")
They’ll be able to tell by looking at our cities and engineering works that we are land dwellers; assuming they want to land in a neutral location they’d land in international waters. If they want to land at an important part of the world, I’d bet New York; a big population in one of the most and best developed parts of the planet. And if they know a good bit about us, the UN makes a sensible place to show up, diplomatically speaking. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/22 "2007-06-29T04:17:50Z")
The surface. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/23 "2007-06-29T04:20:58Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] Family has some land in Melby Ranch, haven’t been down there in a while, but heard someone had built a UFO watchtower doohickey in the area (NW of there a ways, but I don’t know exactly where) [/QUOTE] That’s even closer to me! I haven’t met the lady, but I’ve heard she’s a little nuts. Her [website](http://www.ufowatchtower.com/) does nothing to dissuade me of the idea. Next time you’re in the area let me know and we’ll have a San Luis Valley Dopefest! ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/24 "2007-06-29T05:08:37Z")
Too late. They are already here. [Mount St. Helens](http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page677.html) - Still photo. [Mount St. Helens](http://www.luscombe-carter.com/mount_st_helens/01_Apr_stk_ext.html) - Nighttime image sequence. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/25 "2007-06-29T06:09:45Z")
As Art Buchwald once put it: “how come every time somebody sees a UFO it’s always Elmer Fudd and his brother out frog fishing?” Why can’t they do us all a favor and just land [RIGHT HERE](http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?s=10&lon=-118.125494&lat=34.138577&w=2)? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/26 "2007-06-29T08:00:34Z")
I will go with the traditional landing place. Washington DC. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1eoG983XVU) From The Day the Earth Stood Still ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/27 "2007-06-29T08:13:39Z")
Where would _we_ land if we were approaching a planet bursting with life and intelligent civilisation? I think we’d go for somewhere remote - conceal the landing craft as well as possible, then conduct exploratory sorties. There’s no particular reason to imagine that interstellar travellers (if such exist) would have the technology to do everything and be immune to every possible threat - I think they’d be cautious. ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/28 "2007-06-29T13:43:57Z")
:rolleyes: Any alien would realise you need to use the proper landing facilities. You can’t land just anywhere. [St Paul Alberta](http://www.canadacool.com/COOLFACTS/ALBERTA/StPaulUFOLandingPad.html), [More info here](http://www.stpaulchamber.ca/ufolanding.html). ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/29 "2007-06-29T16:31:43Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] There’s no particular reason to imagine that interstellar travellers (if such exist) would have the technology to do everything and be immune to every possible threat - I think they’d be cautious. [/QUOTE] I don’t doubt that they’d display some amount of caution, and likely conceal themselves and observe–heck, it wouldn’t even take much in the way of concealment, so long as they don’t come blazing in with a fusion drive thrusting or something obvious like that–but we’d have every reason to expect their technology to be vastly beyond anything we can imaging. The scale of energy required to cross interstellar space–even in a slow-moving craft–is magnitudes beyond what humanity can currently produce as a whole. Landing on a planet–if they would choose to do so–would be figuratively no more than a twitch of the cheek in comparison to the marathon of interstellar transit. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/30 "2007-06-29T16:35:53Z")
[QUOTE=jimmmy] IMHO in 3, 2, 1 … I think, assuming they want to be seen and make contact and that their hazard suits aren’t more suited for one habitat vs. another i.e tropical vs. ice vs. desert. I think they would look at population density and development and you might very well get something … [Belgiumish](http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-population-density.htm) [/QUOTE] That map would suggest that they land in Bangladesh. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/31 "2007-06-29T16:51:25Z")
I vote for someplace where they would fit right in and not be noticed, like San Franscico. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/32 "2007-06-29T17:32:08Z")
I think it would be beyond cool if they landed at Devil’s Tower, WY ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/33 "2007-06-29T17:39:02Z")
They’ll probably just nuke us from orbit; it’s the only way to be sure. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/34 "2007-06-29T18:16:54Z")
lessee…these aliens have been terrifying people since about 1948…and yet, they can’t figure out where to land? why not on the lawn, in front of the UN? it would make sense. But this would make more sense-i guess the aliens will just keep mutilating cattle, and doing anal probing on hysterical humans. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/35 "2007-06-29T19:50:03Z")
> [@](#): > > why not on the lawn, in front of the UN? The lawn is over a subterranean part of the UN complex and surrounded by trees. If they did not get tangled in the greenery, they would probably crush the roof. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/36 "2007-06-29T20:48:48Z")
There is a UFO base under some plates where the Indian subcontinent meets the mainland of Asia. It’s near Kashmir. They deal with the Indian and Chinese governments. [http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/01-09a-05.asp](http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/01-09a-05.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/37 "2007-06-29T21:17:50Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] They’ll be able to tell by looking at our cities and engineering works that we are land dwellers; assuming they want to land in a neutral location they’d land in international waters. If they want to land at an important part of the world, I’d bet New York; a big population in one of the most and best developed parts of the planet. And if they know a good bit about us, the UN makes a sensible place to show up, diplomatically speaking. [/QUOTE] Ants build. They are complex, but not sapient. Bees buiild. They are complex, geometrically regular, but not sapient. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/38 "2007-06-29T21:30:57Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor** > Ants build. They are complex, but not sapient. > Bees buiild. They are complex, geometrically regular, but not sapient. Hey Man, but we drive cars and stuff. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/39 "2007-06-29T22:21:52Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Ants build. They are complex, but not sapient. Bees buiild. They are complex, geometrically regular, but not sapient. [/QUOTE] All the more reason for them to land in the ocean as I suggested then. A non-sapient technological hive species could easily be quite dangerous, and irrational. If that’s a real possibility, it would be best to avoid triggering any territorial instincts. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826/40 "2007-06-30T00:02:52Z")
Well, hell, why not just land on the moon? Put up a big flashing sign: “We’ll be here for eight of your days. If you’re capable of coming here to meet us, we’d love to chat. Otherwise, piss off.” 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-a-ufo-most-likely-land-on-earth/409826.md?page=3)