On November 23, the DoD announced a new Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) as the successor to the U.S. Navy’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. This follows leaked UFO footage from the Navy and the Pentagon's recent confirmations that UFOs do indeed exist.
My work for wanttoknow.info includes UFO news. From this work and from talking with other UFO enthusiasts, I've come to view the current level of UFO disclosure as a limited hangout. It seems likely that the government knows a great deal more about the UFO phenomenon than they're sharing with the public. But by admitting to some knowledge and forming groups like AOIMSG, they can control the story, in part by making it seem much less interesting than it actually is.
It's wild that there are things flying around and we don't know what they are. Are they unconventional aircraft manufactured in some secret lab? Are they extraterrestrial or extradimensional in origin? Are they quasi-physical manifestations of some kind of spiritual energy? We don't know. And I love that we don't know.
Whatever the real story turns out to be, I feel like it might be way weirder than we expect. As a science fiction author, I have mixed feelings about this. Characters like Hequa, a basically-human extraterrestrial who comes to earth, are fun to write. But an alien race made of sparkling clouds or something even stranger might be impossible to write. Making cloud sparkle interesting and relevant is probably beyond my skills as an author.
So far, the government's UFO disclosure hasn't even produced enough substantive information to inspire a story. That may be by design, if the limited hangout theory holds true. But it may also simply be because the phenomena itself doesn't mesh well with our attempts to measure it.
Personally, I'm hoping we live in a Star Trek universe filled with amazing species for our kind to learn from. Rationally, I know this is exceedingly unlikely. And, given humanity's track record here on Earth, even if it were the case, our leaders would probably screw it up. Still, it's a nice thought.
There are of course amazing species for us to learn from throughout terrestrial ecosystems. It would be pretty embarrassing if advanced extraterrestrials came to Earth and observed our treatment of these ecosystems. "What happened to all of your fish?" they might ask. "Where are all of the insects?"
(Feature image from Pixabay.)
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Star Trek must be real somewhere...
Maybe the Federation is actually in the Delta Quadrant and they haven't gotten here yet.
Maybe the planet is already surrounded by ships that have cloaking devices: )
Truly, I hope so.
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