Recently there has been a lot of talk about UFO’s, now renamed UAP’s. What is going on with that? The beginning of the current UAP discussions was the release of footage taken by David Fravor in 2004 when he was flying a F/A 18 from the USS Nimitz.
It showed a craft doing unusual maneuvers, not possible with any known aircraft. There have been many other reported sightings over the years, more than 500 since 2004 and we are really left with four possibilities,
- There could be an obvious explanation such as unusual atmospheric conditions.
- It is a military misinformation campaign, US or of another government. There are a lot of odd things about the sightings. One of which is that the government is being suspiciously supportive of the revelations. The revelations are also by persons who could be assumed to be in a position of loyalty to the military and they would lie if required. There may be some truth in the stories, they may be new technologies developed by the US. Alternatively it could all be a deception. The urban legend of Operation Bluebeam comes to mind, a plan to project holograms to deceive people.
- They are aircraft that are not made or operated by humans
I am inclined to lean towards the US misinformation explanation. There is a war going on and there is a lot of rivalry with China. However it is a good idea to keep an open mind. We have next to no information and wondering about the crafts’ origins is difficult until there is more data.
There is good reason to be worried of US misinformation. They have shown themselves to be masters of deception with the Iraq WMD trickery. I am sure they have fine tuned their skills since then.
What is the potential for non human craft? We don’t have much solid data. Basically the moment anyone mentions UAP’s they are regarded as crazy. Bob Lazar, an engineer who claims he worked on the crashed UAP’s, is not believed by anyone with influence. I walked past a UFO conventions once and the type of attendee is not someone I would listen to.
However we do have a scientific conundrum to solve. Is there any other intelligence life in the galaxy? If so, are they space faring and have they visited earth? If they exist and are space faring they probably found earth long ago. Earth is a fascinating place, why wouldn’t they want to study it. I would propose we should look for them in a low investment way. If they were studying earth we have not seen them already. They are either not here or they are in a place we haven’t looked. Kevin Knuth has considered this possibility also. He proposed that if extraterrestrials are here they would be living under the ocean.
If they exist they could be vastly different to us and perhaps there is a reason we don’t see them. I visited a place in Argentina many years ago called Capille Del Monte. It is a small town on a mountain near Cordoba. In the evenings the local activity is to go to a lookout over a valley and watch a lot of mysterious lights flying through the valley and in the air above. This was before drones and there were no obvious lights set up in the valley. The theory that explained these lights was that it was an extraterrestrial city called Erks. It existed on a different dimension or wavelength of matter and that is why it is invisible except for some lights. It is an interesting theory, one that I have difficulty believing. It is however an example of how to keep an open mind.