# Why are UFO sightings always at night? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [January 13, 2012, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-ufo-sightings-always-at-night/609379 "2012-01-13T10:29:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FriendofOrion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/74df32/32.png) [@FriendofOrion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriendofOrion)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-ufo-sightings-always-at-night/609379/1 "2012-01-13T10:29:14Z")
They’re not actually. Many UFO sightings are in broad daylight and sometimes by many people at the same time. There is a proliferation of UFO sightings in recent years. This has been explained by Dr Steven Greer of “The Disclosure Project”: For a long time the visitors from other worlds have been studying us and while we were no threat to other civilizations they kept a very low profile. Once we invented nuclear weapons and then ventured out into space they have been keeping a more watchfull eye on our activities. ``` They are not little green men that want to take over our planet but at the same time they don't want us interferring with theirs. They are more technologically advanced than us and more spiritually advanced than us (That's not hard!). Our scientists are looking ever deeper into space and see more and more planets in the Goldylocks zone.(i.e. not too hot and not too cold, just right for life similar to our own). With the estimated millions of planets that appear to be in this zone where carbon based lifeforms are possible, the chance that we are alone in the universe is becoming closer to zero the more we look. A simple search of UFO websites will reveal a ton of material some of which will be questionable but the bulk of it appears to point to an actual phenomena and not merely the wishfull thinking of children and bored adults. There are many youtube vids that show multiples of bright dots moving accross the sky all independent of each other. There's too many vids like this to count. And 'Crop Circles"; I haven't heard any plausible explanations for the production of these mysterious and increasingly complex patterns. The writer of the article in question had already started with the assumption that 'this UFO stuff is all a load of hooey'. Any serious investigator would have to admit that not everyone who has had some sort of encounter with something extraterrestrial was drunk, crazy, on drugs or a pathological liar. Some people just don't like their little, easy, secure view of the world to be changed so are quick to pour cold water on anything out-of-the-ordinary. I believe that disclosure of visitors from other worlds is imminent. ``` Cheers ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-ufo-sightings-always-at-night/609379/2 "2012-01-13T11:03:33Z")
Well, then. [clears throat] _Klaatu barada nikto!_ ---
**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:** [January 13, 2012, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-ufo-sightings-always-at-night/609379/3 "2012-01-13T11:24:04Z")
> [@FriendofOrion](#): > > They are more technologically advanced than us and more spiritually advanced than us (That’s not hard!). And yet, their communication skills are utter shite. It’s certainly weird that vastly superior beings capable of the near-impossible feat of interstellar travel should be so interested in cattle mutilation, anal probing and crop vandalism. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-ufo-sightings-always-at-night/609379/4 "2012-01-13T11:34:08Z")
> [@FriendofOrion](#): > > And 'Crop Circles"; I haven’t heard any plausible explanations for the production of these mysterious and increasingly complex patterns. You must have tried very hard to avoid them. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-ufo-sightings-always-at-night/609379/5 "2012-01-13T15:13:51Z")
I’m guessing this is the [article](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/661/why-are-ufo-sightings-always-at-night). You may like this [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-rxe9Ayb8c). ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-ufo-sightings-always-at-night/609379/6 "2012-01-13T15:38:23Z")
> [@FriendofOrion](#): > > The writer of the article in question had already started with the assumption that ‘this UFO stuff is all a load of hooey’. Wrong. Everybody starts from the assumption that UFOs are very common and obviously real. It’s just that sane people never make the assumption that just because a speck in the sky can’t be identified it must be aliens who are “more spiritually advanced than us.” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-ufo-sightings-always-at-night/609379/7 "2012-01-13T15:42:12Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > And yet, their communication skills are utter shite. It’s certainly weird that vastly superior beings capable of the near-impossible feat of interstellar travel should be so interested in cattle mutilation, anal probing and crop vandalism. Maybe that’s how they communicate. Just don’t shake hands. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![qazwart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/5fc32e/32.png) [@qazwart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qazwart)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-ufo-sightings-always-at-night/609379/8 "2012-01-13T20:39:53Z")
> [@FriendofOrion](#): > > They’re not actually. Many UFO sightings are in broad daylight and sometimes by many people at the same time. So, do they want us to know they exist or not? Seems like a civilization that can actually break the laws of relativity and travel faster than light would figure out how not to be seen by us. (Remote sensing satellites), or figure out how to communicate effectively (preempting the broadcast of Jersey Shore to announce themselves. Thus securing both a large viewership and proving they have taste). Yet, we have this advanced civilization that doesn’t seem to be able to do either. > [@](#): > > They are not little green men that want to take over our planet but at the same time they don’t want us interferring with theirs. They are more technologically advanced than us and more spiritually advanced than us (That’s not hard!). What’s the expression they use here? Oh yeah… Cite? How do you know they’re more spiritually advanced and how would you measure that? With an E-Meter? > [@](#): > > And 'Crop Circles"; I haven’t heard any plausible explanations for the production of these mysterious and increasingly complex patterns. So, [something like this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_KXhf1BI-k) doesn’t impress you as a plausible explanation? > [@](#): > > The writer of the article in question had already started with the assumption that ‘this UFO stuff is all a load of hooey’… I believe that disclosure of visitors from other worlds is imminent. So Cecil is biased because he doesn’t believe UFOs are real and wants to see real evidence. This is different from you who believes in UFOs, and is completely unbiased. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-ufo-sightings-always-at-night/609379/9 "2012-01-14T19:00:21Z")
> [@FriendofOrion](#): > > … > And 'Crop Circles"; I haven’t heard any plausible explanations for the production of these mysterious and increasingly complex patterns. > … These nice folks [http://www.circlemakers.org/](http://www.circlemakers.org/) have a pretty good explanation of all the circles they made in Britain.