The Mexican government releases film captured by a Mexican Air Force pilot of flying objects they cannot identify that “tracked” the military jets. This is the first release of military photographic evidence of such objects by a government, if I understand the news reports.
These are real objects. These objects are flying. These flying objects are unidentified. Because they are unidentified, they cannot be confirmed to be extra-terrestrial. Their source is unknown.
The British government has released information about unexplained objects near one of their military bases and recently the French government opened their “UFO” files. The Russian government acknowledged that film taken by private citizens and thousands of Russians of flying objects over St. Petersburg (I think, it may have been a different city, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Moscow) could not be identified or explained.
The “space alien” explanation violates most everything we know about physics, starting with the requirement of faster than light travel.
Simple probability convinces me that there is other life in the universe. I remain skeptical of intelligent, tool-using life elsewhere in the universe, although I don’t think it’s anything like excludable without question. I think the likelihood of contact between us and intelligent, tool-using life from elsewhere in the universe is very small, although I am unable to discount that possibility to (near) zero. Please go HERE for a discussion of the sheer probabilities of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (the “Fermi Paradox”).
Similarly, most of the so-called evidence of alien contact is mere poppycock if not an outright hoax. Nevertheless, there are some things that are incapable of being dismissed cavalierly. I do not believe this film is conclusive. I do think this film is thought provoking.
Finally, I think almost everything any government of the world is doing about anything whatsoever should be transparent to the governed. Thus, I would urge the United States government to release what it knows and any evidence it holds. There is no topic whatsoever that I believe should be “off the table” when it comes to scientific examination and widespread comment. Yes, for me this includes discussions of ghosts, fairies, leprechans, the Loch Ness Monster, the soul, life after death and “near death” experiences, … when I say “everything”, I mean everything. It is better to know a horrible truth than to live in ignorance.
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