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Scientists have found 'evidence' of advanced alien civilisations (msn.com)
[An] international team of researchers, based in Sweden, India, the US and the UK, have devised a way to search for unimaginably complex extraterrestrial megastructures, known as Dyson spheres.
And, after sifting through millions of potential space objects, they believe that they’ve identified seven of these behemoths lurking in the cosmos.
While I have become a UFO skeptic, I retain an open mind. My skepticism is a product of the persistent lack of hard evidence. My open-mindedness stems from government obstinacy, refusing to open the “unclassified” reports to the public. Time will tell, one way or the other.
There is another facet of this. Nobody likes paradigm shifts, at least not at first. We feel secure and comfortable when our most cherished beliefs are upheld by observation. We feel the opposite when we have to confront uncertainty, a new and scary reality that imposes itself in our minds, when we have to get up off the couch, so to speak, and venture hot and itchy, into unmapped terrain.
Every once in a while, we hear reports from “whistleblowers,” people who work in secret research laboratories, who tell fantastic stories that defy belief—at first. For a brief time, they are in the news, but then they fade from public consciousness, without their claim ever having been decisively substantiated or refuted.
To understand this phenomenon, we must begin with less spectacular stories that involve scientific research that is not secret, but still represent a massive change in the way scientists view physics. One of these is “dark matter.” Dark matter is an unresolved mystery of science. It is a theory which is used to explain the way that gravity behaves weirdly, in outer space. It proposes that more than five sixths of all matter in the universe is invisible, but exerts a gravitational force. There is an alternate theory that also explains the same thing, but is also paradigm-shifting. It simply says that the accepted mathematics governing gravity is wrong, and that a different formula (MoND) must be used instead.
The point is that both of these theories, whichever one is correct, tells us that the entire way physics has modeled the universe is wrong. To some scientists, that is an unnerving reality.
Getting back to UFOs, let us quote from the famous science-fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke:
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
He was referring, of course, to the hypothesized existence of space aliens, more specifically, advanced technological civilizations on other planets. Either way, we are confronting an unnerving reality.
The mainstream scientific opinion on the matter is that we have no hard evidence that any such aliens exist. No radio signals, no unimpeachable photographs or videos, no physical objects that we can hold in our hands, and verify as being manufactured by intelligent beings “not of this earth.” That is my opinion also.
There are, however, claims that we do, indeed, have hard evidence, that we have in our possession, not merely objects, but actual space-craft, and even dead alien corpses, and finally, live aliens themselves.
Those are astounding claims, and as such, require extraordinary evidence, which has not been made publicly available, perhaps because no such evidence exists.
That is not, however, the end of the story. Most of the scientists who demand hard evidence of any extraordinary claim, also admit that, based on statistics alone, there “must be” alien civilizations somewhere in the universe. I liken this to someone discovering a large pond in a field, and feeling quite certain that there “must be” fish there.
In other words, the specific claims seem outlandish, and yet, the general possibility is accepted as a matter of course. This seems to leave somewhat of a gap between observation and theory, a gap known as Fermi's Paradox.
Let us retreat to the least spectacular claims, which is that the government has, in its possession, some form of physical evidence, for example some kind of material that cannot have been made on earth, and does not occur in nature. Somebody, or some-thing, made it.
Even if that is some golf-ball size component, something which has properties or characteristics that defy anything known to our scientists and engineers—even that would be incontrovertible hard evidence that intelligent alien creatures have arrived on earth.
We would have to get off the sofa.
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Former US Navy admiral leads search for underwater alien USOs (msn.com)
“As represented by multiple credible military personnel, objects have been recorded by sonar moving at speeds underwater that are far beyond our best submarines or other hardware."
Published in American Thinker dot com
by Robert Arvay
Absence of evidence, is not evidence of absence, according
to the adage. AARO (All-domain Anomaly
Resolution Office) seems a little bit unclear on that.
The recent statement of the official government "UFO Hunters," AARO, is that it has not found any “empirical” evidence of any technology "not of this earth." If, by evidence, one means incontrovertible, physical proof beyond any doubt, then, yes, we have no evidence. If instead, one uses a more reasonable definition, such as credible eye witness accounts by experts, by means of air, ground and radar observations, all at the same time and place, then there are massive amounts of evidence, and the reports keep coming in.
None of which are proof, but many of them are indeed evidence.
AARO, almost from its beginning, has suffered from what might be called, a lack of candor, when making statements to the public. It dutifully reports, and correctly so, that the great majority of UFO accounts are readily explainable as ordinary phenomena—but it gratuitously adds that those few which are not explained, probably could be, if more data were available. “Probably could be” is not a scientific statement, and does not reflect the rigorous, disciplined analysis which AARO claims as its mantle. Moreover, it sounds very much as if its conclusions have already been reached beforehand.
For context, remember that AARO is dealing with a subject matter that could potentially change the course of human history. It deserves much more intensity than a routine procedural inquiry. If it actually does find, and reports, that there is a significant likelihood that even one UFO sighting, even without proof, is evidence of interplanetary spacecraft from another planet—one cannot overstate the implications. AARO’s secondary mission, then, is to instill confidence in the public mind that it has no hesitation in reporting all the facts, accurately, no matter what they are, nor whose apple cart is upset.
Is it doing that?
No. From its beginning, AARO was openly disinterested in revisiting government records of past UFO reports, and instead stated that it would be focusing only on new reports as they come in. In open testimony before Congress, some officials amazingly seemed unaware of the cumulative historical data that are available, much of it professionally documented, which might offer clues not only as to what UFOs are, but how best to proceed investigating them. When pressed, they reluctantly agreed to “look into” reports that congressmen specifically mentioned, but seemed remarkably incurious. There was no indication that they would be turning over every stone. The attitude seemed to be, that’s not my job, but if you really must insist, a routine inquiry will be made; we hope that satisfies you.
At the least, knowing what mistakes have been made in the past (such as intimidating witnesses, jumping to conclusions, and failing to gather all available data), can be used to create effective protocols and policies going forward. Numerous forensic clues for which technology did not exist in the 1950s might be applied now, to what criminologists might call, cold cases. Possibly, they could solve some of the most spectacular UFO sightings, for example those which occurred over the White House decades ago. Doesn’t AARO consider that worth looking into? Apparently not.
That lack of interest in historical context is a glaring omission, which AARO seems, appallingly, to shrug off.
It is no wonder, then, that some potential witnesses indicate a distrust of AARO, and therefore, will not report to it. If “the truth is out there,” then the bureaucratic attitude might be, that’s a good place for it.
The situation is made more complicated by hordes of hoaxsters and UFO cultists, who clutter up the files with false and misleading reports. Unfortunately, there is a tendency to indict honest and competent reports by association with them.
The UFO phenomenon, whatever it turns out to be, if ever we find out what it is, may fall into the category of so-called “far out physics,” something so unlike what we might expect, that we have nothing in our experience to which to relate it. For example, dark matter, dark energy, and singularities in the cosmos, are in that category. Our best scientists have failed to solve those mysteries.
Until we get a reliable agency, with aggressive methods of getting at the truth, we may not know whether we are simply uninformed, perhaps by an incompetent agency, or are being stonewalled. AARO can do much to dispel such notions, but only by expressing more curiosity about UFOs.
In order to succeed, it needs to go where no investigation has gone before.
This commentary was sparked by the following linked article.
Here's What I Learned as the U.S. Government's UFO Hunter | Scientific American
My comments follow.
By now, I have become a UFO skeptic, but that has not changed my skepticism about government agencies. I do not necessarily believe anything they claim, nor anything they deny. They lie.
While I guard against being overly cynical, there is ample reason to guard against being gullible when it comes to government agencies. Rarely, if ever, has any agency head admitted that the need for his agency has diminished to the point that it should be abolished. Almost all of them request more money than they received the year before, not less.
When it comes to UFOs, however, there may actually be some justification for the practice of deception. If hostile foreign nations believe that we are on the cusp of retro-engineering some vastly advanced technology, they may fear us. At the least, they may waste time and effort attempting to discover what we have.
On the other hand, it may be our own Congress that is wasting our tax dollars rummaging around looking for planetary aliens, instead of solving the real problem with earthly illegal aliens.
Video of "Jellyfish UFO" and interview with "second-hand" witness. Click on the link below the image,
