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The powers that be are edging closer to an admission of contact with extraterrestrials https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html
progressoid
(49,999 posts)nope
Ex Lurker
(3,816 posts)you don't get more credible than that.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)Are they credible?
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)any means necessary.
War of the Worlds (the original) where mankind could not defeat them but alas, a virus did.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)I dare them, damn overlords
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Ancient Aliens . . . tv series.
Wherein the "overloads" gave that special gene the ability to speak to a few chimpanzees and then watched them evolve into humans.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)Humans 3.0 will replenish the planet when they wipe us out and start over again, I just know it
Hotler
(11,445 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)captain queeg
(10,251 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)Show us how the X files was a documentary, I dare them
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...I've been studying this issue for 50 years, and have done some hands-on investigating myself. There is no doubt but that there is *something* going on outside out current scientific paradigms. I remain, however, skeptical that it involves literal "aliens". No, I suspect the phenomenon is all-too-human...but that doesn't mean that it is necessarily mundane, or that it won't require the rewriting of our history books...
Ex Lurker
(3,816 posts)what's your theory?
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...I will say, however, that I suspect--that is all--that, specifically, the famous Roswell incident was actually about secret Nazi technology, and the infiltration of Nazis, and Nazism, into our government. And for what it's worth, a deceased relative who worked in one of our intelligence agencies strongly hinted that to me once. But he was a spook, which meant that he lied for a living. So: who knows...?...
Kid Berwyn
(14,971 posts)To paraphrase Jacques Vallee, we may get the Visitors we deserve.
CatLady78
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Is that Trump's deal...? Maybe on his planet he is a stable genius..
lastlib
(23,308 posts)--Arthur C. Clarke, Reunion
hunter
(38,328 posts)Here's some Top Secret footage from the 'eighties when I was a contractor for them:
It was brilliant to cover up all this extraterrestrial research as television fantasy, don't you think?
I'll tell you what I know. Faster-than-light travel is impossible in this universe. There are no flying saucers, no starships.
Intelligent species such as ours choose among three fates:
1. We quickly burn out and become extinct, sometimes in spectacular wars, sometimes by damaging the biospheres that support us beyond repair, sometimes by stupid misadventure.
2. We establish comfortable, stable civilizations that can persist for millions of years in our home systems, using technologies that would seem at once primitive and magical to twenty-first century mankind.
3. We recognize the cosmic intelligence that permeates everything and we are eventually invited into it.
I love the universes of Star Wars or Star Trek, places with wise Vulcans and Klingons seeking conquest, but they are no less fanciful than Lord of the Rings.
42bambi
(1,753 posts)appearances should be studied for the security of our world. I have an open mind - but we need more than a so called grainy image. I'll wait.
42bambi
(1,753 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)Leith
(7,813 posts)That does not mean that it is a spaceship from another planet."
Even someone as level-headed and intelligent as President Carter claims to have seen a UFO. I still don't believe he did.
panader0
(25,816 posts)I firmly believe intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. I also firmly believe that laws of physics preclude any extraterrestrial contact.
The government isnt covering up contact with aliens - the government is safeguarding technology we are not yet ready to admit to developing and possessing.
Initech
(100,104 posts)👽👽👽