Is it rational to believe in extra-terrestrial life? (500 words EXACTLY, including this title)

No. No it is not. That pretty much sums up my entire essay, but I shall endeavor to find another 467 words, nonetheless. If you analyse where the majority of bogus reports of UFO sightings come from, you’d notice that almost all are from the US, more specifically, red-neck counties. Now does this really come as a surprise to you? I thought not; and even if you were self-righteous enough to say that it does come as a surprise, we both know that you’re lying. If you will consider the situation for a moment – who better to provide an ironic accusation of ‘homosexuals are gay’ or ‘black people should go back to Mexico’ than those who believe that they just saw an alien spaceship in flight? Let’s evaluate the possibilities of what that mysterious white light was: a star perhaps? You know, those burning balls of gas up in the nothingness above us; or, alternatively, if that option doesn’t quite meet your fancy, could it be a plane, a bird, superman?! Or perhaps even simply a figment of your overly active yet totally erroneous imagination?! Frankly, at this stage, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were looking at the bloody moon! I think it’s safe to say that we can put the red-neck issue to rest once and for all; but let’s be honest, was anyone taking them seriously in the first place? … No reply? No, I didn’t think so.

Even the concept of an unidentified flying object can baffle those who take even a moment to listen to the drivel spewing out of their God-forsaken mouths. Surely by naming an object as an unidentified flying one you are classifying it, therefore labeling it as something that can be identified, which brings me to the cusp of this particular point – this is, before any analysis of what was actually seen, one hell of a paradoxical situation.

                This all having been said, I am able to appreciate that the definition of ‘extra-terrestrial life’, as is used in the title, can be interpreted in several ways. If it’s suggesting that there is some form of organism on a foreign planet, then I am able to accept the proposition that it’s rational to believe in such things. However, that’s mostly due to the fact that we’re fairly sure we've already discovered organisms living on, say, Mars, for example. Despite them only being bacteria, organisms are organisms. On the other hand, if the title is suggesting that there are strange alien beings that are far more technologically advanced than us and plan to visit us promoting peace only then to vapourise us using psychedelic weaponry crafted out of pure baby or God knows what and then to continue on to enslave all the men of the Earth rape all the woman send children into hard labour burn all the Bibles torch all the flags eat all the pies and