NASA physics professor says many governments have covered extraterrestrial encounters

Are we alone? Unfortunately, none of the answers seems satisfactory.

Being alone in this vast universe is a lonely prospect. On the other hand, if we are not alone and that there is someone or something more powerful, it is terrifying.

As a NASA researcher and now a physics professor, I attended the NASA contact conference. The conversation.

During the meeting, a worried participant said in a sinister voice: "You have absolutely no idea what's going on there! The silence was palpable as the truth of this statement imposed itself. Humans are afraid of extraterrestrials visiting Earth.

Fortunately, the distances between the stars are prohibitive. That's at least what we, the novices, who are learning to travel in space, to tell us.

I've always been interested in UFOs. Of course, there was the excitement that there could be extraterrestrials and other living worlds. But more exciting for me was the possibility that interstellar travel was technologically feasible.

In 1988, during my second week of graduate studies at Montana State University, several students and I were discussing a recent livestock mutilation that was associated with UFOs. 19659002] A physics professor joined the conversation and told us that he had colleagues working at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana, where they had problems with UFOs that extinguished nuclear missiles

. to say nonsense. But 20 years later, I was stunned to see a recording of a press conference featuring several former members of the US Air Force, with a couple of Malmstrom AFB, describing events similar in the 1960s. It is clear that there must be something to this.

July 2 being World UFO Day, it is time for society to reflect on the troubling and refreshing fact that we may not be alone

. that some of the strange flying objects that surpass the best aircraft in our inventory and challenge the explanation can indeed be visitors from afar – and there is plenty of evidence to support UFO sightings.

THE FERAD PARADOX

The nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi famous for asking questions provoking reflection.

In 1950, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory after discussing UFOs during lunch, Fermi asked, "Where is everyone?" He estimated that there were about 300 billion stars in the galaxy, many of which were billions of years older than the sun, with a high percentage of them likely to be in the sky. To host habitable planets.

Even though intelligent life was growing on a very low percentage planets, then there should be a number of intelligent civilizations in the galaxy. According to the assumptions, one should expect tens to tens of thousands of civilizations

With the rocket-based technologies that we have developed for space travel, it would take between 5 and 50 million of the same. years for a civilization like ours. colonize our galaxy of the Milky Way.

Since this should have happened several times already in the history of our galaxy, one should ask where are the proofs of these civilizations? This discrepancy between the expectation that there should be evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations or visits and the presumption that no visit was observed was dubbed the Fermi Paradox.

Carl Sagan sums up the situation correctly by saying that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". The problem is that there was no well-documented UFO encounter that would be considered a smoking weapon.

The situation is exacerbated by the fact that many governments around the world have covered and classified information about these meetings. But there is enough evidence to suggest that the problem needs to be open to scientific study.

UFOS, TABOU FOR PROFESSIONAL SCIENTISTS

In science, the scientific method requires that hypotheses be testable so that inferences can be verified. UFO encounters are neither controllable nor repeatable, making their study extremely difficult. But the real problem, in my opinion, is that the UFO subject is taboo.

While the general public has been fascinated by UFOs for decades, our governments, scientists and the media, have basically stated that of all UFO sightings are a result of a meteorological or weather phenomenon. # 39; human actions.

No one is really an alien spacecraft. And no stranger has visited the Earth. Essentially, we are told that the subject is nonsense.

UFOs are banned from serious scientific study and rational discussion, which unfortunately leaves the subject in the realm of fringes and pseudo-scientists, many of whom throw conspiracy theories.

I think that UFO skepticism has become something of a religion with an agenda, excluding the possibility of extraterrestrials without scientific evidence, while often providing silly assumptions describing only one or two aspects of the future. 39, a UFO encounter reinforcing popular belief is a plot

A scientist must consider all possible hypotheses that explain all the data, and as little is known, the extraterrestrial hypothesis can not yet be excluded. In the end, skeptics often make science a disservice by providing a bad example of how science should be conducted.

The fact is that many of these encounters – still a very small percentage of the total – challenge the conventional explanation. 19659002] The media amplify skepticism by publishing information about UFOs when they are exciting, but always with a mocking or fanciful tone and reassuring the audience that this may not be true. But there are witnesses and credible meetings.

WHY ARE ASTRONOMERS NOT SELECTING UFOs?

My friends and colleagues often ask me, "Why do not astronomers see UFOs? In 1965, Peter Sturrock, Professor of Space Science and Astrophysics at Stanford University, sent 2,611 questionnaires on UFO sightings to members of the American Astronomical Society. It received 1,356 responses among which 62 astronomers – 4,6% – reported witnessing or recording inexplicable air phenomena.

This rate is similar to the 5% of UFO sightings that are never explained.

As expected, Sturrock found that astronomers who witnessed UFOs were more likely to be observers of the night sky. More than 80% of those surveyed by Sturrock were willing to study the UFO phenomenon if there was a way to do it.

More than half of them felt that the subject deserved to be & 39% to be studied against 20% who felt that this should not be the case. The survey also revealed that younger scientists were more likely to support the study of UFOs.

UFOs were observed using telescopes. I know a telescope observation by an experienced amateur astronomer in which he observed a guitar-shaped object moving in the field of view of the telescope.

Further observations are documented in the book "Wonders in the Sky", in which the authors compile numerous observations of unexplained aerial phenomena made by astronomers and published in scientific journals throughout the 1700s and 1800.

EVIDENCE FROM GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY OFFICERS

Some of the most compelling observations come from public servants. In 1997, the Chilean government formed the Organizing Committee of Studies of Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos, or CEFAA, to study UFOs. Last year, CEFAA released a UFO taken with a helicopter mounted Wescam infrared camera.

The countries of Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden and United Kingdom have declassified their UFO files since 2008.

The COMETA was an unofficial UFO study group composed high-ranking scientists and military officials who studied UFOs in the late 1990s.

They published COMETA report

They concluded that 5% of encounters were reliable but inexplicable: The best guess available was that the observed gear was extraterrestrial.

They also accused the United States of concealing evidence of UFOs. Iran has been concerned about spherical UFOs seen near nuclear power plants that they call "CIA drones" that would be about 30 feet in diameter, can reach speeds up to Mach 10, and can leave the atmosphere.

with the fastest experimental aircraft, but unthinkable for a sphere without lifting surfaces or an obvious propulsion mechanism.

In December 2017, the New York Times published an article on the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, a $ 22 million program. Luis Elizondo, former leader of the Pentagon, aimed to study UFOs

. Elizondo resigned from the program to protest extreme secrecy and lack of funding and support. Following his resignation, Elizondo, along with several other members of the defense and intelligence community, was recruited by the Tom DeLonge Academy of Arts and Sciences, recently founded by Tom DeLonge to study UFOs and interstellar travel

. launch of the academy, the Pentagon declassified and released three videos of UFO encounters taken with infrared cameras mounted on F-18 fighter jets.

Although these revelations arouse a lot of interest, I remember a quote from the retired army. Colonel John Alexander: "The revelation has arrived … I have lots of generals, including Soviet generals, who have come out and said that UFOs are real, how often do senior officials need to to manifest and say that it is true? "

A SUBJECT WORTHY OF A SERIOUS STUDY

There is much evidence that a small percentage of these UFO sightings are unidentified structured craft with flying capabilities.

Although there is no single case for which there is evidence that would withstand scientific rigor, there are cases with simultaneous observations by several reliable witnesses, with radar returns and photographic evidence revealing patterns of activity

Declassified information from secret studies is interesting, but not scientifically useful

This is about a subject worthy of an open scientific inquiry, until there is a scientific consensus based on evidence rather than on previous expectations or beliefs. If there are indeed extraterrestrial devices that visit the Earth, it would be very useful for us to know them, their nature and their intention.

Moreover, this would represent a great opportunity for humanity, promising to expand and advance our knowledge and technology. as well as reshaping our understanding of our place in the universe.