I'm happy in one sense - admittance, finally, that there are craft of unknown origin flying in our airspace. I've always believed the military people etc in this regard - there have been many hundreds of sightings by credible individuals.
I'm disappointed in the fact very little evidence released - because those in the know - Leon Panetta, John Ratcliffe, Lou Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, Marco Rubio etc have said as much - high quality video and still photographs exist, but have not been released. One of those guys mentioned there's a photograph of one of the objects 50 feet from a Navy fighter. Now thats a photo I'd like to see.
As far as these things being Russian or Chinese, I don't think so. In 1967 one of our missle sites in Montana was shut down by hovering UFO's. The officer in charge, Capt Robert Salas, was required to sign a non disclosure agreement and ordered to keep quiet and not discuss the incident with anyone. His testimony is now readily available and highly interesting. There were other "shut down" incidents too. Obviously, highly advanced technology such as this did not exist back then with any country on earth.
Hopefully we'll see more soon. From what I gather, they don't like to talk about it, as no one can control it, and that's a position of weakness no Pentagon or military person likes to admit to.
Great post. I laughed at the idea that the Russians, in particular, have suddenly redefined avionics when they've even never made a decent car and their manufacturing/tech sectors have always
been loaded with problems trying to keep up with the West. And I'm supposed to believe they've somehow worked out the keys to the universe? Not happening.
The nuclear breaches are easily the most serious, um, ufo encounters? incidents? and the ETs can do whatever they want with our tech and there isn't a thing we can
do to stop it, which should be understood by way more people. We're still dicking around with "are they really real?" games and they could launch our nukes on russia or vice versa
anytime they feel like it. If people find that notion to be ludicrous, or never heard it before I'll dig up supporting evidence, but there is a long history of similar issues in the US and around the world.
As an aside, I was a big original Star Trek fan back in '67 or whenever it debuted. I was 11 or 12 at the time.
The weird thing about it, is that there was a "Prime Directive" from the Federation that Captain Kirk had to follow when encountering other species. There are a number of different versions of that, but the basic idea was:
The Prime Directive prohibits Starfleet personnel and spacecraft from interfering in the normal development of any society, and mandates that any Starfleet vessel or crew member is expendable to prevent violation of this rule.
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As the right of each sentient species to live in accordance with its normal cultural evolution is considered sacred, no Starfleet personnel may interfere with the normal and healthy development of alien life and culture. Such interference includes introducing superior knowledge, strength, or technology to a world whose society is incapable of handling such advantages wisely. Starfleet personnel may not violate this Prime Directive, even to save their lives and/or their ship, unless they are acting to right an earlier violation or an accidental contamination of said culture. This directive takes precedence over any and all other considerations, and carries with it the highest moral obligation.
It seems quite evident that these visitors follow a virtually identical code, which is pretty strange. While nuclear bases have had both their airspace and control systems violated, nothing actually came of any of this as if it was a demonstration that we should stop fucking with nukes.
It's very mysterious. These things could likely kill us in an instant and take the planet, but they don't. Or haven't.
I moved past believing in UFOs/alien visitors on Earth quite a while ago and have gone on to the question of what they want with us or this planet.
I'm attempting to work out a reasonable theory, but it's pretty clear that with thousands of various encounters possibly dating back thousands of years there is very little evidence of
any sort of aggressive or threatening behavior, which is pretty damn remarkable. Gene Roddenberry was one smart mofo to cook up the Prime Directive, but it has occurred to me
that maybe he borrowed it from somebody or something else. It might not be original at all.
One other thing while I'm rambling.
A tourist can drive 3 hours to North Conway, NH and sign up for a Moose Tour which will take them out to the back country to observe Moose feeding at twilight.
It hit me that those Moose have just about as much of an understanding of those tourists and their shiny metal buses as we do extraterrestrials and UAPs. Maybe all
the weird action in our skies is as simple as tourism or scientific curiosity. Maybe studying how life evolved on different worlds is so incredibly complex that even highly
advanced beings can find it a source of endless fascination and study. There could be millions of inhabited worlds with each one developing in a unique way.
A stupid concept? Well, I can't prove it's not stupid, but it's no less likely than any of the other theories out there that I've heard. If you could safely travel to another developed planet and see what is going on there (as long as you didn't interfere with their culture/development) would that not be incredibly exciting?
