Aliens are here

UFOs may be more than conspiracy theories, with credible reports suggesting alien encounters.

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Someone once asked Neil DeGrasse Tyson to explain his view about UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects). His response was a classic one. He said "we must not forget what the U in UFO stands for." His argument was that we cannot spot something unusual in the sky and just believe that what we witnessed was a spaceship of aliens from another world. For decades, the UFO saga has been one of ridicule and shame, and one that belonged to the realm of conspiracy theories. The UFO was right up there with the moon landing being fake and the earth being flat.

That may have been a mistake according to Luis Elizondo who wrote a very compelling book about the continuous Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) sightings, which can't be ignored or pushed under the conspiracy theory rug. The book is called Imminent. For decades, the US army and naval aviators have been witnessing aerial vehicles in the sky, the speed and silence of which have convinced them that it was otherworldly technology. Perhaps we see them because they want to show themselves off to us. And we don't know about this because that is how the gatekeepers of information and the lords of secrecy want it to be.

Many scholars and authors made the case in books and articles that 9/11 was a major intelligence failure. They also further argue that the invasion of Iraq was also an intelligence failure because they wrongfully assessed that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Let me pour some common sense on that total nonsense; these were no intelligence failures. They were totally by design. This is what the US intelligence community wanted. The CIA knew about two of the 9/11 bombers when they entered the US through Los Angeles in January 2000, a full 18 months before the execution of the big wedding attack. The CIA decided not to share the information with other US agencies. The only chemical weapons in Iraq were the ones provided by the US during the 80s for use against Iran. The US intelligence ignored all this and treated the information of Ahmed Chalabi as divine word over the issue of WMD. The choice to sit over information and not share it with other US agencies responsible for keeping America safe by consuming exactly this kind of intelligence resulted in lives being lost and money being wasted.

Today, America is having a deja vu moment. The author Elizondo rightly quotes George Santayana who said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." There are certain US agencies including the CIA that know about the presence of aliens on our planet, keeping an eye on sensitive military installations, and God knows what else. I know it sounds totally bonkers but retired officers including the author of the book who have direct knowledge, not an idea or opinion, have testified in congressional hearings. The New York Times and others have published major pieces about it.

Information about these alien encounters are kept in secrecy for two major reasons. One, if naval aviators witness these alien vehicles in air, they are afraid to report them because there is a culture of being ridiculed by colleagues within the chain of command and can result in security clearance being taken away and promotion being denied. Two, that mindset of preventing information from spilling into other US government agencies is still very much intact. And that is the mistake that the author points to in the book as potentially inviting trouble again, only this time not from some bearded ragtag militia living in caves of Afghanistan but instead from an enemy whose presence we have yet to acknowledge and whose make up we have yet to understand.

If you see something unusual in the sky, don't be afraid to report it because at the end of the day, it is the citizen sighting of these UAP that might make the difference.