Hey guys, what are your thoughts on the existence of extraterrestrial life and the potential involvement of governments in concealing or studying such entities.

  • Digital Mark@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Is there other intelligent alien life in our Galaxy? Probably. Given how fast life formed on Earth, there must be millions of other life-bearing planets, and intelligence can’t be that rare, but it might be short-lived.

    Are there UFO sightings? Yes, people do see unidentified flying objects. Some of them can be explained, some cannot.

    Are the UFOs aliens? I don’t know, I’m a “curious agnostic” on the subject.

    There’s a LOT of UFO sightings, and evidence from good observers, including US Navy aviators. The US Air Force continues not to cooperate, and officially denies any sightings exist. The very enthusiastic refusal to look at evidence, aside from Project Blue Book, is suspicious.

    It’s technically plausible that someone within 50-ish light years of Earth could have heard our radio, sent a ship here, and use drones or manned ships to observe us without interacting. There could also be many other explanations.

    We don’t know, and until the last couple years there was no effort to investigate.

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      The very enthusiastic refusal to look at evidence

      That just makes me think the air force knows exactly what the UFO was because they were flying it.

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      9 months ago

      With your last statemate that is not true there are records of the american government looking into this back into the sixties. Also researchers like Jacques Vallee have spent decades doing real investigation into the subject.

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        9 months ago

        Governmental research. There was Project Blue Book, as I mentioned, which was inconclusive and then ended.

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          Inconclusive or a complete white wash like the recent AARO? And BTW those were both created by the DoD to investigate the DoD so idk what people where expecting. that’s only the public stuff we know about. according to multiple whistleblowers they have had programs looking into this for awhile including AATIP and UAPTF. Now I’m not saying these guys are telling the truth but one of them went in front of congress under oath and said this. Shouldn’t we look into it especially if tax payer money is being spent on this. Even when ignoring the alien part, this could be fraud on the highest level. And then there’s the whole aerial safety aspect