February 28th, 2008UFOs Are Not Extra-Planetary Vehicles
However, despite what locals might think, these unidentified craft are not piloted by non-human explorers.
Before getting too far into this post, I’d like to say that I do believe there is life elsewhere in the universe; sentient or otherwise. If we ever discover we’re alone in the universe, then it will be a sad day for the human race. That said, I feel we are only a few decades away from discovering life on other worlds, and only a few centuries away from discovering sentient life outside our solar system.
The Intelligence Factor
Let’s look at this from the perspective of an intelligent government body, assuming there ever is such a thing. Sending a crewed vehicle across the cosmos is no small feat. It requires resources, training, goals and, most of all, rules.
Assuming there is a civilization advanced enough to make the leap between planets and solar systems, what would the purpose of their visit to this world be? Reconnaissance? Primitive culture studies? Communication? Trade? Slave aquisition? Extradition of disguised aliens among us?
Who can say for certain, but one thing is clear; if any of these possible reasons were the case, some foreign government body or institution would have strict rules to follow. Avoid human contact. Avoid human recording devices. Avoid giving away technological secrets. The list would be endless and exhaustive, but altogether saying the same thing: don’t give the humans any reason to expand their military technologies further.
We are a very trigger-happy people. Sure, billions of us have been domesticated to avoid confrontations and unnecessary violence, but when the threat is big enough, we’ll demand precautions, defenses and, potentially, retaliation.
I don’t want to sound like Jiuliani, but how many of us demanded military action against the Taliban in 2001 after the destruction of WTC towers one, two and seven? If memory serves, most of us wanted the American military to level the entire country of Afghanistan and turn it into the planets’ largest parking lot. If this is how we react to threats from technologically starved humans, just imagine how we’d react to a threat from outside our understanding.
No, the risk would be too great for the alien people. We’re just not socially ready for such knowledge, so they clearly understand that they must remain hidden from view, regardless of their intentions.
Human Racism Eliminated?
One possible positive aspect of alien visitors coming to Earth would be the drastic decline, if not elimination, of human prejudices and racial biases. No longer would people worry about who’s white, black, yellow or red. Instead the racial bias would be much, much simpler: Us vs. Them.
I’ll admit that the possibility of a sudden unity of mankind does have its benefits. No longer would we be squabbling over little things like border incursions or who’s politician said what. Instead, we’d have a singular fear to bring us all together, even if the visitors came in peace and spoke in our mother languages without any problem.
But What’s In It For Them?
However, at the end of the day, the question comes down to this: What’s in it for them?
If they’re coming to Earth to collect information for a potential invasion of our world, they’ve done a pretty piss-poor job of hiding their existence. Wouldn’t an invasion be much more effective if our governments didn’t know of a technologically superior foe coming from above? I would think so. You can’t tell me that this other species of sentient life would have just as much hubris as a 17 year-old boy who feels the world is his oyster and that nobody can beat him at his own game. Anyone that’s studied our history for more than 100 years could see that we’ve survived through some pretty desperate times and won the day.
If the plan is to have an open communication with the human race, then they should know the best way would be to actually communicate, rather than fly over our cities. We’ve been broadcasting our languages into space for almost a century now, so the odds of there being a language barrier would be slim and none. How hard is it to make a text-based translator that’ll do a rough conversion? Sure, it wouldn’t be perfect. But it would likely be intelligent enough to make the visitors understood.
Are they trying to study us in order to make detailed records that we can later access when we join the galactic community and get a library card? If this is even half true, then the visitors have done a pretty bad job of keeping us in the dark about their existence. Such knowledge would change government policies around the world almost instantly, which would skew the histories, which would make the record keeping rather dull and tedious … if we know we’re being watched, we act quite different.
Regardless of the reasons someone might offer for an alien race to come visit our world, an intelligent species would never act so carelessly and make their presence known in such obvious ways.
The Verdict?
Do UFOs exist? Yes, of course they do. Are they piloted by extra-terrestrial creatures? No. Have we been visited by another sentient race in the past? Undoubtedly. But I don’t have any proof to show a definitive ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer.
What’s your take on the matter? Have aliens really come to Earth on a regular basis to be filmed hovering in our skies? I’d be curious to know what you think about these things.
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