|
|
Â
|
| Quote: |
| The Pentagon has finally uttered the words it always avoided when discussing the possible existence of UFOs — “unidentified aerial phenomena” — and admits that it still investigates reports of them. In a statement provided exclusively to The Post, a Department of Defense spokesman said a secret government initiative called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program “did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena.” And while the DOD says it shut down the AATIP in 2012, spokesman Christopher Sherwood acknowledged that the department still investigates claimed sightings of alien spacecraft. |
| Quote: |
| Nick Pope, who secretly investigated UFOs for the British government during the 1990s, called the DOD’s comments a “bombshell revelation.” I’m shocked they said it that way, and the reason is, is they’ve seemingly worked very hard not to say that,” he said. “So I think that’s a pretty powerful statement because now we have actual evidence — official evidence — that said, ‘Yes, AATIP did deal with UAP cases, phenomena, videos, photos, whatever.'” Greenewald said he hopes that the Pentagon will release more information about the AATIP, either by voluntary disclosure or through requests under the federal Freedom of Information Act. “But at least we’re one step closer to the truth,” he said. |
Op-Ed: Why the Pentagon is interested in UFOs - ( New Window )
Uttered the unutterable name!!
What is your take on that. Is it scary or exciting?
What does their technological superiority over us mean to us, and how should we react to that?
What is your take on that. Is it scary or exciting?
What does their technological superiority over us mean to us, and how should we react to that?
It depends. They could either be moderately advanced and looking to exploit the Earth (along with us) and its resources, or they could be so greatly advanced that they want to live in harmony with us.
Quote:
That it is a fact that alien spacecraft have traveled here from distant planets and visited us.
What is your take on that. Is it scary or exciting?
What does their technological superiority over us mean to us, and how should we react to that?
It depends. They could either be moderately advanced and looking to exploit the Earth (along with us) and its resources, or they could be so greatly advanced that they want to live in harmony with us.
What is your take on that. Is it scary or exciting?
What does their technological superiority over us mean to us, and how should we react to that?
I think its more likely tourism or studying the early stages of evolution. There's nothing particularly interesting or unique about our planet's resources as far as the universe is concerned. We're relatively out of the way, so the means it would require to travel here, either interstellar or inter-dimensional travel, would make it no contest if their goal was conquest. How much would you want to get involved with a termite mound on a hike through a national park?
Quote:
That it is a fact that alien spacecraft have traveled here from distant planets and visited us.
What is your take on that. Is it scary or exciting?
What does their technological superiority over us mean to us, and how should we react to that?
I think its more likely tourism or studying the early stages of evolution. There's nothing particularly interesting or unique about our planet's resources as far as the universe is concerned. We're relatively out of the way, so the means it would require to travel here, either interstellar or inter-dimensional travel, would make it no contest if their goal was conquest. How much would you want to get involved with a termite mound on a hike through a national park?
This is most likely correct. We grossly overestimate our own importance. Part of the hubris of the human species. But an alien civilization might well be uninterested in humanity.
All of this assumes that we have been visited and observed. There are many reasons why alien life might be exceptionally rare. There is almost certainly no alien life capable of interstellar travel within 50 light years.
What is your take on that. Is it scary or exciting?
What does their technological superiority over us mean to us, and how should we react to that?
If such a thing was possible for an ET race to visit us from a distant galaxy and that really was their spacecraft in our air...I would say that would mean they have the capacity would conquer us before we even knew what happened if they really wanted to. So I'm not sure it's exciting or scary. It just is.
I told you people to get your shit together.
What are you waiting for?
IMO, even if there are aliens buzzing our airplanes (and I don't think that there are any,) I doubt that the Pentagon could find them.
But I wonder. If we found a place with life on a distant planet, would our first thought be to destroy that life, or study it? And would we ever get to the point of destroying the life just for the sake of it?
Not everything is about war or amassing land.
Little Green Men @ amazon.com - ( New Window )
Amusingly, I was just thinking a very similar thing: if there were ever a President who would spend a lot of time asking everyone about aliens, it's him.
Quote:
...sorry to get 'slightly' political, but Donald Trump would hold that secret for exactly as long as it took him to race to a TV camera.
Amusingly, I was just thinking a very similar thing: if there were ever a President who would spend a lot of time asking everyone about aliens, it's him.
I was just about to put out a call for Klaatu
And the unexplainable reports are the ones that are probably the most classified.
But I wonder. If we found a place with life on a distant planet, would our first thought be to destroy that life, or study it? And would we ever get to the point of destroying the life just for the sake of it?
Not everything is about war or amassing land.
Would they tell him?
Didn't Bill Clinton once tell a story that one of the first things he did was ask about it, and he was met with a response of, "The President is on a need to know basis, and you don't need to know."
I don't want to get political, either, but...
And
Thank you for your support.
Quote:
That it is a fact that alien spacecraft have traveled here from distant planets and visited us.
What is your take on that. Is it scary or exciting?
What does their technological superiority over us mean to us, and how should we react to that?
I think its more likely tourism or studying the early stages of evolution. There's nothing particularly interesting or unique about our planet's resources as far as the universe is concerned. We're relatively out of the way, so the means it would require to travel here, either interstellar or inter-dimensional travel, would make it no contest if their goal was conquest. How much would you want to get involved with a termite mound on a hike through a national park?
I disagree with this opinion look at how they visit its normally for very short periods of time. If it was studying like you said a termite mound does a scientist worry about the termites see him and his instruments. UFOs on the other hand do not behave or react in the similar manner they stay very elusive when seen and they appear near military targets or nuclear sites more then just hovering over Major Cities like NYC or Paris. So their actions say more then hey just some space tourist swinging by real fast or a intelligence so beyond it could care less what we are doing.
Staying in the non political mode, I seriously doubt the intelligence agencies would share that with him.
Quote:
I highly recommend "Little Green Men: A Novel," by Christopher Buckley. Alien abductions, government cover-ups, but not quite what you think. Little Green Men @ amazon.com - ( New Window )
I was just about to put out a call for Klaatu
Ringo's Goodnight Vienna album?
:-)
People also have to remember "unidentified" doesn't automatically mean "not from this planet". It just means something couldn't be positively ID'd
President Thomas Whitmore: Mr. Levinson, contrary to what you may have read in the tabloids, there is no Area 51. There is no spaceship...
Albert Nimzicki: Uh... excuse me, Mr. President? That's not entirely accurate.
If intelligent life were nearby, that is life capable of developing technology to build a spaceship to visit Earth, we would detect them well before they arrived. It is impossible that somebody would look up in the sky and unexpectedly encounter an alien craft.
Even if the alien race was SO intelligent that they developed teleportation or learned to use a wormhole, without over-evolving into extinction or destroying themselves first, they would still have to teleport from so far away that it would be beyond the reach of our telescopes.
because I am one
Could they be here to monitor us for their own curiosity? Could they be trying to protect us from ourselves? Could they be here to conquest the planet? Could they not be from another place but from another time? Are they us from the future? Are they from another dimension?
It's beyond laughable to me for people in 2019 to try and fathom a guess as to what their possible intentions are. What is clear is that the technology we are seeing is not human. It's not the Russians or the Chinese. It's something else. And more human...most people don't seem to care. This is the greatest question we've ever faced and most people put their heads in the sand.
Our feeble minds can't hope to understand the motivations of a vastly superior society, but yet isn't that exactly what your call to action is??
I'd expect a vastly inferior society to put their heads in the sand. In fact, isn't that exactly what you are inferring should be done?
Bold Ruler : Mod : 4:02 pm : link : reply
to think that with our small, self centered minds that we could possibly begin to understand the motivations of what other civilizations' intentions might be. These civilizations could literally be millions of years more developed than we are.
Isn't the opposite of trying to determine what their intentions are is burying one's head in the sand?
The burying their heads in the sand is because we have all of these encounters happening and the vast majority of people have no interest in something that would fundamentally alter our view of of ourselves and the Universe.
What are we going to prepare for if we can't fathom the magnitude of this greatly advanced society?
Wouldn't it be a complete waste to even attempt to prepare?
The suggestion that our planet is being visited by aliens in spaceships is unreasonable and illogical.
Not because it is unlikely, but because it doesn't make sense, and would be easily independently verifiable.
2. A being that is not related to us, from a completely different part of the universe
I find #1 far more likely. It would make sense for them to observe without interfering.
#2 would likely mean we're in deep shit if they decide to enter our atmosphere.
Could they be here to monitor us for their own curiosity? Could they be trying to protect us from ourselves? Could they be here to conquest the planet? Could they not be from another place but from another time? Are they us from the future? Are they from another dimension?
It's beyond laughable to me for people in 2019 to try and fathom a guess as to what their possible intentions are. What is clear is that the technology we are seeing is not human. It's not the Russians or the Chinese. It's something else. And more human...most people don't seem to care. This is the greatest question we've ever faced and most people put their heads in the sand.
Can you be specific on what technology we are seeing that isn’t human?
Quote:
just glad we are getting to the point where we as a society can at least talk about this without calling people crazy or people just flat out ignoring the topic.
The suggestion that our planet is being visited by aliens in spaceships is unreasonable and illogical.
Not because it is unlikely, but because it doesn't make sense, and would be easily independently verifiable.
That statement is the fault of your argument nobody knows what these things are and what they are doing or why they are doing it. to write it off as illogical or unreasonable because one part of the population believes its to be aliens is why the real discussion cant take place. You are right it does not make sense but its happening and we need to figure out the 5Ws
Quote:
just glad we are getting to the point where we as a society can at least talk about this without calling people crazy or people just flat out ignoring the topic.
The suggestion that our planet is being visited by aliens in spaceships is unreasonable and illogical.
Not because it is unlikely, but because it doesn't make sense, and would be easily independently verifiable.
While I don't know whether or not this occuring, what makes you think this would independently verifiable. The would have technology so beyond our scope that it is possible we would never realize they were even there.
And that's just for these videos.
Uttered the unutterable name!!
Blez his hart...he's jessakid fercrysakes