--by Robert Arvay
Recent developments are accumulating in dramatic fashion,
including reports that the government has recovered actual physical material
from UFOs, material that includes quote, “Off-World
Vehicles Not Made on This Earth.”
First, some context.
Few mysteries in modern times, have so captivated the public
attention for so long, as the question of UFOs.
What are they? Is there some
ordinary explanation, or is the truth so astounding, that the government dares
not release what it knows? Can we, the
general public, find out? If we do, can
we handle the truth?
For many years, a lifetime really, the skeptics were
unassailable. Show us the proof, they
demanded. Eyewitness accounts are too
unreliable to be considered as proof.
Photographs are easily doctored, and mostly unclear in any case. What we require is something material,
something we can hold in our hands and analyze.
Only if it is something clearly not made on this planet will we yield
ground. Only if it is, say, some hyper-advanced
technology, or a material not occurring in nature, which we cannot
manufacture—only under such extraordinary conditions, will we consider
extraordinary claims.
The skeptics had a point. Science cannot afford to compromise the rules
of evidence.
In the past few years, however, two major developments have
weighed against the skeptics.
First, of course, is the US Navy’s well publicized admission
that the gun-camera videos of purported UAPs (an updated and more respectable
term for UFOs—Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) are real, not fake. By “real,” we must be careful to narrowly
specify that it is the official videos themselves that are real, not necessarily
the interpretation of what is on those videos.
They could be artifacts produced by software glitches. Expert eyewitness testimony that
contemporaneously occurred, bolsters the claim that the videos do not contain computer
errors, but again, this is not proof, not in the sense of materials in hand,
subject to analysis by impartial scientists.
Second, however, is the claim by some, including generally credible
sources, that physical materials associated with UFOs are actually in the
possession of the US government. It has
been asserted that these materials fit the definition of proof, as demanded by
the skeptics.
Here again, we must tread carefully. The claim that the government has nano-metals
in hand, which could neither occur naturally, nor be made by any earthly
technology, is astounding—even more astounding than the UAP videos taken by US
Navy aircraft. Those videos are powerful
evidence that something unknown, is able to penetrate our military airspace,
and perform maneuvers that defy not only our aeronautical technology, but even
the known laws of physics. Evidence,
yes, but it does not quite cross the finish line of proof--unless we really
have those materials in hand.
Further evidence, however, is beginning to surface—that UAPs
have interfered with our nuclear missile launch sites, rendering them
unreliable as deterrents capable of retaliation. If a foreign power, a nuclear-armed enemy,
believes that we are vulnerable, then, not only is our national security
endangered, but indeed, our very survival is put at risk. Given that under ordinary circumstances, the
threat of accidental nuclear war is ever present, even the perception that we
can be momentarily rendered helpless is not to be lightly dismissed. Irrational enemies such as Iran and North
Korea, or a desperate enemy such as communist China, are inherently
unpredictable, especially at times of crisis.
Are UAPs increasing this lethal danger?
Finally, one more factor further hampers analysis, and that
is the fact of government secrecy. Such
secrecy is often necessary to protect the nation, but at other times, has been
used to protect government officials from accountability for their incompetence
or corruption. We can never be sure
which is the case.
Governments like to keep secrets. Knowledge, as they well understand, is
power. To this end, governments also
practice deception. If hostile foreign
powers believe we have alien technology, they might tend to be more cautious in
their aggressions against us, for fear of that illusory—or real—potential
power. It will therefore be prudent to
keep the enemy guessing.
In short, the existence of highly advanced technology from
other planets is well accepted as a plausible explanation for UAPs. Plausible, but not proof. The government has ample motives to hide
whatever evidence, pro or con, that it has—even if it is proof.
To put the mystery of UFOs into some realistic perspective,
let us note that dark matter and dark energy, according to the world’s top
physicists, are real. They dominate the
behavior of the universe, and yet, no one knows, beyond limited observation,
what they are. Similarly, UFOs are real,
according to the US government, but no one can say what they are, or how
significantly, if at all, they might dominate our future.
UPDATE (October 12, 2020)
In July, the New York Times reported that a small group of government officials, including Reid, and scientists believe objects of “undetermined origin” have crashed to Earth and been retrieved. The publication cited Eric W. Davis, an astrophysicist who worked as a subcontractor and a consultant for the Pentagon UFO program. Davis, who now works for defense contractor Aerospace Corporation, said he gave briefings on the recovery of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Oct. 21 and Oct. 23, 2019.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/trump-good-strong-look-ufos
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