In recent months, UFO reports have been released from both NASA and the Pentagon, as well as whistleblower testimony before a US Congressional committee in July. The essence of the situation, according to the whistleblowers, is that UFOs are real, they are numerous and they represent a threat to national security.
One of these whistleblowers, David Grusch, a former Air Force pilot and US intelligence official, went even further, accusing the US government of being in possession of the crashed ships, along with the “non-human biological” bodies of their pilots. .
Another whistleblower, former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, urged the government to take UFOs more seriously, saying, “If everyone could see the sensory and video data I witnessed, our national conversation would change.”
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Amid these claims, the Pentagon’s All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) has maintained that “there is thus far no credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity, extraterrestrial technology, or law-defying objects.” known to physics.”
AARO said in an October report that most of the UFO sightings it is currently studying would likely “resolve to ordinary phenomena” with an increase in data quality, an area both AARO and NASA are working on. to improve.
Still, the office’s head, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, recently said political that discovering evidence of extraterrestrial activity would be better than the alternative.
“The best thing that could come out of this work is to prove that extraterrestrials exist,” Kirkpatrick said. “If we don’t prove that they are aliens, then what we will find is evidence of other people doing things in our backyard. And that’s not good.”
Kirkpatrick announced last week that after 18 months on the job, he will leave AARO at the end of the year.
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In answer to the question “Are aliens real?” Kirkpatrick said there is a need to change the level of public conversation about a possible extraterrestrial reality.
From a scientific perspective, he said, the community would agree that it is “statistically invalid to believe that there is no life in the universe, no matter how vast it may be.”
“However, the likelihood that such life is intelligent and that it found Earth and that it came to Earth and that it crashed repeatedly into the United States is not very likely,” he added.
Kirkpatrick said the process of searching for signs of life in the universe as a whole begins very objectively, with sound scientific discourse. As that search moves toward the solar system, the conversation, he said, turns into science fiction.
“And then as you get even closer to Earth and cross the Earth’s atmosphere, it becomes a conspiracy theory,” he said.
The public conversation, Kirkpatrick said, needs to move away from baseless claims of conspiracies and government cover-ups and toward a place of scientific evidence and scientific benchmarks.
“You have to have a hypothesis,” he said. “You have to have measurable data with that hypothesis, and then the data has to meet it. And you have to put that out in a peer-reviewed journal so you have something to compare it to.”
Kirkpatrick said his office has investigated more than 30 whistleblower complaints so far. But he noted that Grusch has “refused” to talk to AARO.
“If you have evidence,” Kirkpatrick said, “I need to know what it is.”
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