As the settlers step off of their ships and onto the new world for the first time, they greet the natives with blaster rays and mental control beams.

According to a National Geographic poll taken earlier this year, “Thirty-six percent of Ameri cans, about 80 million people, believe UFOs exist, and a tenth believe they have spotted one.”

According to universetoday.com, there are 200 billion to 400 billion stars contained within the Milky Way galaxy alone.

Statistically, there must be life revolving around one of those stars, assuming any given star can have multiple planets and moons. However, even though life in space is probable, that doesn’t mean alien UFOs have visited Earth.

“If aliens visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when (Christopher) Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans,” Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist, said according to, abcnews.com.

One version of the Thanksgiving story is that the Pilgrims came together with the Indians to rejoice the bounty of the land, but history is quite decisive about what happens when a more advanced civilization comes across a less advanced one.

The real Thanksgiving story is that superior weaponry and a thirst for resources from virgin soil led to a bloodbath.

One civilization does not visit another without attempting to take control of resources.

If aliens in a UFO had visited Earth, they would be having a Thanksgiving harvest of our plants, minerals, or maybe even human slave labor.

With TV shows like “Ancient Aliens” being given credibility on “The History Channel” it’s easy to start attributing life’s phenomena to extraterrestrial beings.

Explaining the unexplainable was a job once designated to religion, but studies show that the number of believers is inverting.

“More than 33 million U.K. (United Kingdom) citizens believe in extraterrestrial life, compared to just over 27 million, less than half of the country who believes in God,” according to www.huffingtonpost.com.

Science has made extraordinary progress in the new millennium, but that doesn’t mean that anything remaining unexplained must be due to aliens.

In fact, humans should probably be giving thanks that the mysteries of the universe remain unsolved for a while longer.

“Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach,” Hawking said according to abcnews.com