How not to freak out your readers

[Ara Pacis]

Okay, sounds like it might be plausible. That second link was long, I'll read it later, I just wanted the basic explanation.

[publiusr]

You might use this event too: http://smu.edu/newsinfo/releases/01342.html
I jokingly suggested that a certain bollide might have been an extra-solar aerobrake maneuver: http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthre...Neumann-Probe?

from kronk's:

"The first significant analysis of this fireball was published in Sky and Telescope during July 1974. It was written by Luigi G. Jacchia, a meteor expert at the Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts, who just happened to witness the fireball from Jackson Lake Lodge in the Grand Tetons. Jacchia said he was initially impressed by the extraordinarily long 1,500 kilometer length of the object's path. He also pointed out that at the mid-point of the path sonic booms were heard in Montana and said this indicated the object was lower than 60 kilometers."

It was supposed to make a resonant return: http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthre...467#post369467

Heck--we just had another of these: http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/...und-earth.html

In your story, it would be an actual spacecraft that made it to the ocean then sunk.

[SkepticJ]

Back to the OP, in my opinion you should just make stuff up from scratch. Tying aliens to real events/things always feels artificial and cheap to me.

To actually be evidence in favor of alien probes, there can't be more mundane explanations for whatever it is.

It's logically and physically possible that aliens shot TWA flight 800, but that's not a reasonable explanation.

[cjameshuff]

Right. Evidence for an alien presence on Earth would be something quite extraordinary that has no other more mundane explanation. If you want someone suggesting a connection to not come off as a crackpot, you're going to have to invent some extra details to justify the connection. And if you're doing that, you're better off with something that real world crackpots haven't already been pushing as "evidence". In addition, you're really better off with something other people aren't already familiar with. Something that's pure fiction is far less likely to break suspension of disbelief than something that is in conflict with what the reader knows.

[Gomar]

I had discussed this before, but the bible stories of Adam & Eve are in fact tales of alien colonists.
God(an alien commander or leader) sent his people to colonize or settle on Earth. Since no women
besides Eve are mentioned in the bible, where did Adam's sons get wifes?

Also, the Nephilim and angels are ifcourse alien visitors; Jesus was an alien who had medical knowledge
which he used to cure the sick; etc.

"Children of God mated with the daughters of man"

All these theories were used in books before, but go ahead use the bible as your source for
alien interference with humans.

[John Jones]

The bible says that Adam and Eve had sons and daughters besides cain abel, and seth. Genesis 5:4, NIV

[publiusr]

Heck--in terms of a resonant return--I wonder if this was teton
http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/...und-earth.html

[lpetrich]

I had discussed this before, but the bible stories of Adam & Eve are in fact tales of alien colonists.
God(an alien commander or leader) sent his people to colonize or settle on Earth. Since no women
besides Eve are mentioned in the bible, where did Adam's sons get wifes? ...

That's a Shaggy God story.

[Gigabyte]

Any ideas are more than welcome.

I sometimes actually want to freak out my readers.

Sometimes.