talking aliens

Let’s talk aliens. No, seriously, let’s talk, aliens.

I am of the opinion, have always been of this opinion, there are aliens. They are here, now. They have always been with us. Yes, I had a paper back copy of the ‘chariots of the gods’ in the 70s and ‘other’ UFO literature. I watched the TV series ‘Project Bluebook.’ I watched Star Trek! Aliens, real and fiction, populated my childhood life. I dare anyone to give me a present-day alien conspiracy theory that I can’t relate back to an episode of Star Trek. I even thought about writing that book. It’s been written. By someone more studious and knowledgeable than I. If you can find a copy of, ‘alien book here’ I recommend it: "Hollywood Vs. The Aliens," by Bruce Rux.

I don’t know how to engage in the discussion that will bring more meaning to it. I am baffled by arguments for and against. For example, when the US Government released 'updated' information about the Roswell crash, in what, the late 90s, after years of saying it was nothing but a weather balloon, adding that there were essentially crashed test dummies in the balloon to study what happens to bodies at high altitudes. So, first up, the government lied- at least in as much that there was more to the story. But the new information just raises another question- something I don’t remember anyone else being bothered by. Am I really expected to believe that a farmer from the 1940’s can’t discern the difference between mannequins and flesh and blood? He has livestock, right? Probably seen a dead carcass before. Flesh looks different than plastic. Or, take the Phoenix incident.  Explain how ‘flares’ fly in formation? For upwards of an hour. Explain how a formation of flares pings in on both aircraft and ATC radars? Why does ATC tell an American Airlines plane on final approach to go around? But most astounding to me was the fact that I did not learn about this sighting until June, when it made front page of the USA Today newspaper. The incident happened in March! Why did something that was witness by so many people, including aircraft and ATC and the Phoenix International airport towers take months to go public? Could it possibly be that one can’t keep that many witnesses silent? Were the News agency were forced to comment? The Dallas News that night gave it maybe 30 seconds of air time and made jokes. Their jokes were not as contemptuous as the one the Governor of Arizona pulled at the conference. (I am not the only one to draw a comparison to the movie Close Encounters, when the meeting with the governor had brought in a Big Foot guy.)

Why does everyone giggle, ridicule, scoff, and change the subject? Why are we so uncomfortable with this subject?

So, I am interested, sometimes a little angry, at how dismissive reporters and journalists have been to the subject. Doesn’t one actually have to investigate something before you draw a conclusion? I am extremely concerned by the hostility from the academics, especially scientists. So, if we forget all previous evidence for UFO’s to date, and only go with the ‘Tic Tac” UFO incident, released by the US Government, believe it or not, once again we are faced with evidence of lying. Specifically, the government had denied any active investigations of the phenomena since Project Bluebook. In fact, they were spending millions to track ‘aerial phenomenon!’ Okay, I get that. I actually appreciate lying. Sometimes, it is necessary. House MD, “Everybody lies!”

People lie for all kinds of reasons. We lie to kids, appropriately, when we don’t answer precisely to a question that requires an emotional and or age level criteria for full disclosure. Sometimes we lie for fun. Santa Clause is a fun lie, isn’t it? Sometimes we lie to test understanding, to see if someone will call our bluff. We give people, especially children, information based on their ability to understand and cope. Do you remember when the towers came down? The first Presidential speech that followed wasn’t full of ‘stay home, be with family, mourn…’ It could have been. For the first time in a long time, we came together as a nation. We could have gone so many different ways with that. I got married directly after that. That wife was at the World Trade Center when the first plane hit. The second plane went over her head. She walked back to Astoria. Not one single crime was reported that day. Business handed out shoes and water to people leaving the city. We came together. The first Presidential speech wasn’t about this, it was about ‘go back to work. Business as usual.’ Seriously, if people had stayed home, the economy would have tanked worse than it did, people would have gone hungry. Food would not have been distributed. Now, imagine, the government comes out and says UFOs are real. What would happen.

Nothing. They just proved that with the tic tac release. The world continued to operate the way that it does. We are now ready for a bigger level of disclosure. It’s coming. The people in power needed to be certain that all of society doesn’t come to a halt when this story comes out. People will need to go to work, do what they do to keep the food and the structure going, because if the structure fails, lots of people die.

Back to the thing that bothers me about academics. Multiple ‘scientists’ including Neil DeGrasse Tyson, were interviewed on TV about the object, watching the video footage with us, ripe for commentary. There was laughter, some scorn. I will even say there were some reasonable statements as well, such as “there is insufficient information here to make conclusions.” I disagree with that statement, but I can accept that as a reasonable statement. This is my question, though. When I see this video, and I see an object that makes right angle turns, defying ‘physics’ and has no visible means of propulsion, my next question after “I have insufficient information to draw a conclusions” is “Can I have more of this?!” Seriously! Where is the excitement and the curiosity. I thought scientist like data. Yeah, there’s insufficient data there, but there’s a whole hell of a lot of data there! People say, show me the video! There it is! Multiple videos, from multiple cameras, chasing the same object, on multiple radar imaging systems to boot. The aircraft are tracking it. Eyes are on it. The Nimitz Carrier Fleet is tracking it. You would think this alone would be enough! A hundred objects flew over the Whitehouse in the 50’s… “Nothing to see here. Go on about your business…”

We have more reasonable evidence for a thing than it takes to put a man in jail. Seriously, a man could go to jail on witness testimony alone. Don’t believe? How many men have been released after twenty years or more of being incarcerated only to have DNA evidence exonerate them? The questions is no longer “are there aliens and are they here,” but “what next?”

And it’s complicated question. Part of it is, what do we do with all the government agencies, black op or not, and private industrial sectors that have participated in, and quite probably broke all legal bounds in terms of collecting and withholding information, with profit being the most likely motivator. No oversight usually means abuse. It doesn’t have to mean that. It could be some people were genuinely looking out for the rest of us. We just have insufficient information for conclusions. Good or bad, a general amnesty is likely going to have to be implemented before full disclosure can occur.

You may ask, if the aliens are there, why haven’t they helped us and ended this game. Well, Star Trek’s Prime Directive is probably the best analogy here. Aliens likely have more ethics than Hollywood entertains. If they’re here, and if they meant us harm, there isn’t squat we can do about that. They could nuke us from orbit, drop a comet or asteroid on us and we quietly go the way of the dinosaurs, or a million things we might not even known enough to consider. If you're millions of years more advanced, they could push a damn easy button and be done with us. The assumption is, we're here because they care, or they're interested.

That could change.

Imagine for a moment, technology continues to advance. Like in Star Trek, at some point we would have warp drive. Now, we’re going to meet folks. If they’re here, and we’re not ready to be out there, they may interfere with that. Are we ready to be out there? We can’t get along with our species who live just down the street. Are we ready? We’re still bickering over resources, going to wars, destroying the biosphere in multiple ways… Are we ready?

Imagine if you will, telepathy is real. Imagine for a moment, everyone on Earth is suddenly, instantaneously, simultaneously telepathic. We’re broadcasting and receiving 24-7- and we're all equally sovereign. Knowing what you know about your own thoughts, would you be favored or out of favor? I imagine after such an event, half the world would be dead from either murder or suicide. We’re really not geared for the truth. Most abduction stories include telepathy in the narrative. They know us better than we think. They may know us better than we are capable of thinking. Consider the reports from fighter pilots who have locked on and are considering opening fire when suddenly the UFO’s responds before the pilot touches the button, as if it had predicted or anticipated the move. It’s as if they knew in advanced what the pilot intended, and they got out of the way. Telepathy is on the table, whether that is a biological aspect we have yet to fully develop or understand, or it's a technological feat. We are going to have to come to grips with this in some form or fashion.

Now, imagine, as I have invited you to, that tech becomes so great, and so abundantly cheap and everyone has access, you have the ability to make a spaceship in your garage and leave Earth at any time. I guarantee you, I have a spaceship, I am gone. I suspect a lot of people would go. There would be a mass exodus. If we’re trigger happy on the Earth, then that could be a serious concern for aliens. Not a threat, per say… But let’s say 3 billion people suddenly leave Earth, looking for a homestead… Do you remember the old west? Remember the movie "Explorers" where the kids got the download to build force-fields space travelling bubbles, down-laded into their dreams? Cheap, affordable, antigravity, space travel is just around the corner and people will carry pocket spaceships the same way Pokémon players have pocket monsters.

Now, add to this equation- time travel. Not only can we travel in space with our homebuilt spaceship, but you can travel through time. Space-time are fundamentally linked, probably the same thing, and if you can travel in one, you can travel in the other. Now, 3 billion new space time travelers come on line and they want to go back into time to live their lives in an era they imagine was a better place and time in history… That would be a serious threat to our time line. The great filter in the Drake’s equation doesn’t account for this. Societies that reach a point in their history where time travel is now feasible, and they go back and create a paradox where they block their species from even coming into existence, or, suddenly, they fortify their history. The Great Silence isn't because there are no alien civilizations, but rather all sentient species come to a technological threshold where time travel is not only inevitable, but necessary for their survival, and they rewrite their history, pushing their 'noisy' period so far back no new civilization would detect them.

We’re facing this dilemma. Right now. Blowing ourselves up with nukes, not likely. But when the world knows that any high school kid in his garage can build a time machines with materials that were available to HG Wells, you got a serious existential problem. We can't stop people from going into schools and shooting unarmed kids. How the hell do you stop people from going back in time and writing it to suit their fancy? The Prime Directive isn’t the only reasons why aliens might not interfere. They may want to watch to see what we do with ourselves. How we treat ourselves is a test. How we treat our future selves, well, we seem to be flunking that test, too. And now, new equation, how do you treat the people of the past? We could be reinventing ourselves right now, and not even knowing it. Maybe the aliens are us, from the future. Maybe every bad thing we are going through now is just growing pains. Not one of us alone knows enough to answer this; this kind of sophisticated interaction will require a community mind, a group decision. We need a lot more people practicing compassion, forgiveness, and love.

Before the birth of my son, 5 years ago, if you had given me a time machine, I would have rewritten my history. I would have changed world history. Now, I would relive my life a million times over, as bad as I thought it was, a million and again without changing a thing just so I could meet my son. That’s love. Time travel is the equation that is not factored into any of this. Our time travels stories still lack sophistication because we're not use to practicing this story sense. "City on the Edge of Forever" was likely one of the best episodes of original Trek ever. If all beings had the ability to time travel, even within their own world line- meaning, you could communicate to your younger self to go right instead of left, then that could, in theory result in you not existing. That is assuming you are the culmination of all your prior experiences. If you believe the poets and the metaphysicists, you may not be who you think you are, but that does not mean your present experiences and or history is not important. Every time you played a game and reset it, you learned something.

If you want to know why the aliens haven’t contacted us in a big way yet, well, the answer is both complex, and simply: Love.