Did flying saucers really land on Earth

Perhaps you will not find a teenager in the whole world who does not know the game "Fortnite". It has been widely used on smartphones, along with all kinds of computers and gaming devices, to the extent that the number of its users has exceeded 25 million people during one day, especially during the peak of the epidemic last year, and recently it has witnessed interest. Wide due to the new "UFO" season.

In the version of the game issued in June 2021, it appears (1) that a huge flying saucer has started trying to occupy the island that players are competing over, with the emergence of aliens with new weapons, which has raised that demand for the game again, and perhaps the game developers are from "Epic Games" they hope that this innovative idea will help attract more customers after the relative decline of the Corona wave that kept them in homes, because the whole world is currently, and during a decade ago, is witnessing a growing interest in UFOs.

California freak incident

All that recent talk about flying saucers begins with a strange story. During a regular exercise for a group of US Navy ships off the coast of California, the radar picked up a flying vehicle approaching at a constant speed and not responding to any radio signals emitted by the ship to identify it. Here, an emergency was declared immediately and two aircraft of the category were sent. (F18) to track that vehicle and stop it if it was a threat, but the two pilots had to return to the base after a while due to lack of fuel while the flying vehicle remained hovering in the range of ships for several hours

This story was part of an affidavit(2) by Christopher K. Mellon - who worked for 20 years in intelligence departments in the United States of America - during a press conference in October 2017, in which he touched on that strange incident recorded by the US Navy in 2004. Recently, and in light of the release of the video clip, the Pentagon admitted The incident was correct, which caused a sensation, because the testimonies this time came from soldiers and official bodies.

The Pentagon also added that it had funded within its budget a $22 million program to search for potentially threatening unidentified flying objects. The program began in 2007 and then closed in 2012 under the pretext of diverting funding to more important purposes, but it continued after that, in part, under the sponsorship of a group of investors.

This program was not secret (3) in the intelligence sense, as some claim, but it was only run for military purposes in the first place, and the aim was to study those cases in which soldiers, or even civilians (to a lesser extent), monitor an abnormal movement that contradicts what we know about The laws of propulsion systems or the laws of motion, analyze them and try to come up with a possible explanation.

The vehicle that rotates against the laws of physics

The spacecraft, which was spotted by the US Navy, only added to the controversy over an already existing mystery. Day after day, allegations appear on popular television programs and on social media claiming that there are “clear indications” of the arrival of these flying objects from space, but these statements have nothing to do with the official authorities, and there is no strong evidence of them except for “low-quality” videos. According to the statement of the US Department of Defense itself. Despite the strangeness of some of these passages, they also bear simple and usual interpretations.

To understand this idea, let us consider a famous example. In one of these videos, a strange body appears with two protrusions at the top and bottom, moving quickly, and then changing its direction directly and rotating around itself, and with the reaction of the observers, we discover that we are facing something that makes movements that are unnatural for planes, or vehicles in general. , from this type.

But do you know that those images were taken in ranges other than visible light, we mean radar and infrared?! Perhaps you did not know that, and therefore you think that what is in front of you is a real picture of something, but it is an unreal impression that is actually caused by the reflection of the lighting, which means that the dark parts of the picture are actually the strongest light source, and vice versa, besides that, the pictures These ranges are usually distorted and imprecise.

Imagine, for example (4), that you took a picture of one of the lamps, then after that you used any of the smart phone applications to reflect the lighting, here the light rays emerging from the sides of the lamp will appear as black protrusions, this is also the situation in the case of the famous Pentagon video, these protrusions are not the sides of a plate A bird, but rather the rays of light emanating - perhaps - from an aircraft due to the flames emerging from the back of it. In addition, the rotation of this body - in this way - may express the rotation of the camera itself, and it is common in this type of two-axis cameras that the light emanating from the body appears to be moving in a fixed background due to the internal correction.

At some point during the day today, a military observation balloon belonging to the Air Force crashed into a cattle ranch near Chavez County, New Mexico, but because the weather balloons take a strange shape for the citizens, whoever saw them thought that he was in front of something strange, perhaps coming from outside this The planet, and although the US military has already announced that this is just a balloon containing monitoring tools, this did not prevent a chorus of American citizens - as usual - from promoting conspiracy theories saying that the state is obscuring the matter, and that there are indeed aliens and UFOs.

In addition to weather balloons, there are many atmospheric phenomena that people usually mistake for space bodies. Take, for example, the report (6) "Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14", which is the results of an analytical study of 3,200 UFO sightings in the United States. American studies between 1951-1954, in which it was stated that most of the testimonies (70%) could be explained by acceptable theories, while 22% of them remained incomprehensible.

A person can see a bright celestial body, such as the planet Venus, which does not appear much, and he thinks that it is a ship from another planet. The International Space Station, for example, passes every few days in front of us in the sky as a very bright star, and crosses the entire horizon in a few minutes, when someone sees it, and he Not knowing it, he imagines he saw something that "cuts the whole sky in three minutes". It's always a sensational headline, especially in newspapers and magazines that look for interaction before anything else.

Add to that other usual phenomena, such as jets emerging from some aircraft, or unusual ones, such as lenticular clouds, which are clouds that take an oval or circular almond shape that form in mountainous areas, so you will find that many UFO testimonies come from mountain areas in California. These observations could also be related to some kind of optical illusions such as mirages on the horizon, or astronomical phenomena in some areas such as the aurora borealis (Aurora), or even the experimental balloons of some weather research, etc.

Zeitgeist

In fact, the Blue Book report is not the only one in this context. For his part, (7) the American astronomer Alan Hendry believes that most of these observations were in fact ordinary phenomena, and due to lack of experience or misunderstanding, people misunderstood them. Of the 1307 cases analyzed by Hendry, 88.6% had clear explanations and only 8.6% were unknown. Indeed, Hendry reported that among this unknown percentage, 7.1% still had a possible but uncertain explanation, and only 1.4% of cases remained. No plausible explanation possible

In Hendry's study, half of the observations were related to astronomical phenomena, and a third of them were related to weather or observation balloons, and the rest were advertising planes, clouds, birds, or others. He asked the Intelligence Committee in the US Congress, which gave the ministry 180 days to announce its report, which is supposed to explain the heated debate about the incidents that we talked about at the beginning of the report.

In the report issued on June 25, the Pentagon said that it studied 140 weather events between 2004-2021, and the statement stated that most of the clips were of poor quality, but they could be interpreted within five lists that all fall under possible and regular objects, whether they are objects. Atmospheric phenomena that could create false perceptions such as birds, balloons, or drones, natural atmospheric phenomena such as ice crystals that could create false infrared or radar signals, classified Defense Department high-tech vehicles, or advanced programs For foreign systems such as China or Russia.

The Pentagon confirms, then, that most of the alleged sightings about UFOs have a clear scientific explanation, and that the remaining incomprehensible percentage can be attributed to problems in the quality of video shooting, in the accuracy of the observation, or in the novel itself. At that particular point, perhaps we should contemplate the results of an analysis conducted by three researchers in this field, who are the intelligence officer Carl Pavlock, the writer William Moore, and the physicist Stanton Friedman, after interviews with 300 people who had testimonies about a specific incident, which is the alleged fall of a flying saucer in Roswell area in 1991.

Of all these individuals (9), it appeared that only 41 persons could be considered “real witnesses, directly or indirectly.” As for the rest, they reported their testimony based on “hearing it from others.” The strange thing is that only 23 of these indicated that they witnessed Physical evidence or debris. Of those, only seven indicated anything that indicated extraterrestrial origins for the wreck.

According to anthropologists Susan Harding and Kathleen Stewart, Roswell's stories (10) are a prime example of how discourse moved from distant parties to become a dominant trend that fuels prevailing thoughts and feelings, and with the masses of the eighties preoccupied with conspiracy theories, some anthropologists believe that what happened from the succession of testimonies The matter is similar in its mechanism of frequency and construction to the stages of creating legends!

And with the atmosphere of uncertainty imposed by the epidemic, it seems that conspiracy ideas and theories have found a fertile environment for growth again, including of course UFOs and aliens, in addition to that some are gaining from these allegations, take, for example, a case that occupied public opinion months ago, by Haim Esheed, who is A Zionist university professor, and former director of space programs at the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

In an interview with the newspaper "Yedioth Ahronoth", Eshid (11) claimed that the Israelis and the Americans have communicated with aliens, and that there is a partnership between the two parties in order to understand the "essence of the universe", indicating that a secret base under the surface of Mars resides in which representatives of the United States are accompanied by Aliens, and that the matter is confidential "because humans are not yet ready for this news." This controversial statement came in the context of the Zionist professor's announcement of his soon-to-be-published book entitled "The Universe Beyond the Horizon - Conversations with Professor Haim Eshed". book marketing?

This is possible, of course, especially since what Escheid and others say is not based on any confirmed scientific or observational evidence, but is just "speech sent" that ignores the fact that exceptional claims require exceptional evidence, but we don't see this happening, only someone comes out to throw an argument that is not based on it Little evidence, to serve his material and moral interests, or to strengthen his ideological and racist claims.

Take, for example, the theory that is promoted from time to time about aliens building pyramids and other monuments in Asia and South America. (12) Anthropology professor from the University of Colorado Sarah Cornick asks: Have you ever heard any of the “ancient aliens” theorists say that The Colosseum was built by aliens, not the Romans? Or that it was not the Greeks who built the Parthenon but aliens?

No, in fact they will say that these entities were built by humans, because the promoters of these theories are usually extremists who believe in "white supremacy", so you will find that their claims are directed mainly towards the people of South America, Africa and Asia, because they assume that they are less than They build these great civilizations, so the only explanation that saves them from this dilemma is that aliens helped them. In a study on the same matter, Jarrett Fagan (13) of the University of Pennsylvania confirms that the promoters of these theories are usually "extremely nationalistic, racist, and hateful."

During a search that lasted more than 60 years for any sane space signals, and until the moment of writing these words, scientists have not been able, even once, to monitor any concrete evidence of the existence of other forms of life in outer space. Aliens may already be there, but we do not see them - yet - for some reason, or perhaps there is no one at all, and only we live in this vast universe!