There have been a lot of stories in the news regarding the congressional hearing that focused on unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and it has drawn mixed reviews. Where are the aliens coming from? Is anybody out there?
The first public congressional hearing into UFO sightings in the U.S. in over 50 years ended with few answers about the enigmatic phenomenon.
Lue Elizondo has come out against what he considers excessive government secrecy shrouding UFO research and has stated flatly that we now have sufficient evidence to prove in a court of law that UFOs as probable technological artifacts (UFO spacecraft) exist.
Elizondo cites imagery from fighter gun cameras and other imaging systems, backed by radar evidence that an object matching the picture was there. He has expressed the opinion that we are not alone, not even on our own planet.
So, where are UFOs coming from?
Nobody is fielding the question yet regarding where they are from. Still, we can make informed guesses that they are from other planets. Perhaps similar in many ways to Earth (small, solid planets in the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ of their stars.
Planets, that is, orbiting at just the right distance to have liquid water; with atmospheres, rich chemistry of the kind we think produces and sustains biological life, etc.);
Or maybe the UFOs are coming from other dimensions, parallel universes, or another place only theorized at this point by exotic physics.
UFOs coming from other planets?
Other worlds with advanced sentient races who have discovered physics beyond our own. Their discoveries must then include:
- Faster-than-light travel or an equivalent.
- Super-high power energy sources.
- The ability to mask a crew from the effects of inertia.
What physics would the Aliens have to solve?
Strictly a guess on my part, but our own physicists have solved the physics of the very large, which we call Relativity, and the physics of the very small, which we call Quantum Mechanics.
Since we do not believe there are two separate kinds of fundamental particles, but just one, then there should be a physics theory that would describe the behavior of both large-scale and small-scale matter inside a single theory.
Scientists refer to this theory as the “Grand Unification Theory,” or the “Theory of Everything.” Our closest stabs at it, as far as I know, are M-Theory and a few other candidate extrapolations of a promising superstring theory.
Have the aliens already contacted us?
As to why the aliens have not contacted us, I would respond, how do we know they have not? Many sightings happen around nuclear power plants or bomb test sites, so the U.S., as a nuclear pioneer, may have been contacted as much as 70 years ago.
We know of America’s penchant for secrecy on this topic, suggesting that if Washington had been contacted, they wouldn’t tell the general public.
If they have not, it would probably be a combination of things.
Interspecies communication may be more difficult than we think. Real extraterrestrials would not be the nearly human people we see in science fiction.
They may come from radically different worlds and non-mammal origins, communicating more like squid or grasshoppers than with vibrating vocal cords and words. We may be as alien to them, in short, as bacteria and as baffling to communicate with.
They may be wary of disrupting our belief systems or even causing societal breakdowns due to the unknown repercussions of contact, likely based on previous experience.
In anthropology, it has been demonstrated many times that contact between an advanced and a primitive society generally has catastrophic effects upon the primitive, regardless of the intentions of the advanced.
They may have protocols forbidding it until we demonstrate some predetermined level of technology that we are close to achieving now – hence the strong interest without apparent formal contact.
Is the universe teeming with other civilizations?
If I were to speak candidly, I would expect that there are either no sentient civilizations out there besides ours, or else there are many. I would suggest many. If faster-than-light travel is possible, then it will be expected. It would have led long ago to some kinds of accords or understandings between spacefaring civilizations regarding the treatment of other habitable planets.
One such accord would involve leaving young civilizations like ours in a kind of hygienic isolation in order to develop at the native species’ natural rate. If no such accord existed, then the first few species to achieve faster-than-light travel could have spread like a virus across thousands or millions of star systems, dominating or destroying any less advanced native sentients they discovered.
If no “non-interference” agreement protected us (in effect, Star Trek’s “Prime Directive”), then our Goldilocks planet would most likely already have been colonized ten or a hundred times over by now. The fact that we have not been can be seen as evidence that somebody else’s Prime Directive protects us. What are your thoughts?