Could Earth be ready to defend itself against an alien invasion? The answer is no.

A recent conference at the Titov Main Test and Space Systems Controls Center near Moscow Russia told inquiring journalists that not even Russia's highly-advanced space weapons would not be ready to defend the Earth against extraterrestrial beings.

Russia already has a powerful air defense system that can engage and obliterate targets even at altitudes nearing outer space. However, when asked if the defense system can protect the country against an alien attack, the center deputy chief Sergey Bereshnoy answered thus:

"So far, we are not capable of that. We are unfortunately not ready to fight extraterrestrial civilizations. Our center was not tasked with it. There are too many problems on Earth and near it."

The Titov Space Center is controlled by Aerospace Defense Troops, monitoring objects in space that could be a threat to Russia.

If Russia cannot defend itself against aliens, who can?

The question is turned towards other countries equipped with similarly advanced defense systems. No military organization in the world is a stranger to giving chase to Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs. Since several sightings have remained unexplained, the issue has been explored as being if the UFOs were indeed from civilizations much advanced than ours, to have had the technology to trump the physics of space, then we would be-to put it kindly-doomed.

The US Air Force had, in 1969, terminated Project Blue Book, a 20-year UFO study that concluded the following: "No UFO investigated by the Air Force indicated any national security threat; No UFOs investigated represented "technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge"; There is no evidence that indicates that "sightings categorized as 'unidentified' are extraterrestrial vehicles."

However, eerily enough, out of the 12,618 sightings looked into and thoroughly studied by the military, 701 cases have remained unidentified.