Ufos

Dr. Jonathan Jiang dreams of beaming an easy-to-read message into space before civilization collapses. He’s run the simulations to test humanity’s self-destruction rate. According to his computers, there’s a 0.1 percent chance that humanity destroys itself in the not-so-distant future. He’s even more pessimistic than Stephen Hawking, who bowed out of public life saying, “I don’t think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet.” Jiang, who works for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, co-authored the 2022 paper “A Beacon in the Galaxy,” which argues for the importance of streamlining the communications we send into space hoping they might be intercepted by an interplanetary species.

There is compelling evidence we have threats to global security not from this earth, according to Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett — and it's time the American people learned the truth.  Burchett appeared on John Michael Godier’s Event Horizon podcast last week to discuss the government’s cover-up of extraterrestrial technology. The congressman, who sits on a House committee investigating UFO sightings, claimed that alien spacecrafts can travel at the speed of light, fly underwater and turn people into “charcoal briquettes.”  According to Burchett, the government has been covering up UFO sightings since 1897 when an alleged spacecraft crashed into a windmill in Aurora, Texas.

Remember the UFO that one of our fighter jets shot down with a missile? Reports now indicate it was a $12 balloon from Hobby Lobby — while the missile was supposedly worth around $400,000. This seems to me like a summary of the current state of things. It’s Quixote running towards windmills. It’s the hypochondriac class trying to run the country. There’s been a strange epidemic of objects floating overhead. Some have been reported to be Chinese spy balloons, while some people believe they’re extraterrestrial. The sky isn’t the only place where these objects have been spotted; there was also that iron ball that rolled out of the ocean in Japan.

By the time you read this, Uncle Sam’s latest ‘definitive’ report on UFOs (it’s not the first) will have been made widely available, with the exception of a classified annex (there’s always room for a sequel). If the leaks are to be believed, we will have learned that there’s a lot more out there that we don’t know. Some of the material may well be impossible to explain, but inexplicable is not a synonym for extraterrestrial. Could we instead be catching glimpses of something the Russians or the Chinese have dreamt up? E.T., though, will neither be ruled in, nor, crucially, ruled out. For their part, ufologists will take what they can get.