UFO's – The Definitive Guide to Our Most Interesting Question

I do not know a single soul that denies interest in the question, are we alone? No matter your background, ethnicity, political leaning, career path, or diet fad, the question of extraterrestrial life is something that sparks excitement and curiosity in each of us.

I myself have been fascinated with this topic for some 20 years since I was just a little boy. I have studied, watched, read, and listened to countless articles, stories, documentaries, and books. I have even had what I believe to be an encounter myself, when I was 26 years of age, photographing the stars at night in the middle of the Canadian wilderness. I even have an image of the thing I saw, however blurry and strange it appears. I will go further into this topic later on in this article but for now, I want to touch base on some of the most important factors of our most interesting question.

To begin, the idea of aliens and UFOs brings forth questions that undermine our very understanding of reality. Not just because we are yet to understand whether planet Earth is one of a kind and if we are some unique species that has reached a level of intelligence unknown by a being within the universe. But because the how, what, why, and who are almost unanswerable.

We can never know that which we do not yet know. This whole question is a myriad of complications. I am trying to piece together many facets of it, from reality to infinity to multi-dimensional. There are many reasons a secret as big as this might be kept from the public eye, however, there is only so long that secrets can be just that, especially on a scale as grand as this one.

Below you will read a very mixed bag of ideas, and, although I may not have the answers you seek, I might have something here that is of interest to you.

Technology and Unstoppable Progression

Over the past 70 years, humans have made unsurmountable progress in technological advancements. Exponential growth, year after year, helps us define and improve upon previous generations of thinkers to enable a more technologically adapted world. Go back in time 100 years and give someone an iPhone and they would think you came straight out of a science fiction book. However, technology alone is not enough to produce the world we live in. This world needs human ambition above all else to excel into the next stages of apparent evolution. We cannot stop making stuff. We cannot turn back now. The factories are not going to close. The technology we have is not going to end its advancements here in 2020, no matter how good we have it.

Humans have a tendency to continually reach for more. We don’t just want the apple from the tree, we want to own and splice the seeds that made the tree in the first place so we can just produce the apples without the tree. We want shortcuts.

I'm not bashing technology here, it has improved our lives in ways unimaginable 1000 years ago. We truly have improved the global population's lives by the use of tech. The problem is, will we know when to stop. This leads to further questions, further investigations into the reasons we do this, and just like the question we seek to answer above, we end up bending reality in the search for answers.

Let us continue down this long and winding path and let me thank you for coming along.

Alien Technology

What if our rapid advancements in technology were not from our own ideas and production but of that of another species, one that has reached a level of technological superiority that we are not yet aware of. Think about this for a moment;

The Big Bang (which was most likely not the beginning of the universe but a natural cycle on a scale of time we cannot understand) happened around 13.77 billion years ago.

The first stars formed within around 400 million years.

Earth came around 8 billion years after that.

Homo Sapiens have been here for some 300,000 years.

Neanderthals lived around 1,000,000 years before supposed extinction.

We thought the earth was flat until the 3rd century BC.

We figured out the earth rotates around the sun in 1543.

We figured out electricity around 300 years ago.

Humans split the atom in 1938.

The internet began in 1983.

Nowadays a car can drive itself. We have holographic imaging. Quantum Computing has completed calculations that the best supercomputer would take 2 billion years to calculate.

We can safely complete heart surgery today even though we only discovered germs in 1890 and 100 years ago we were sticking ice picks into the skulls of “unwell” patients to fix brain issues. We are splicing genomes and creating genetically altered babies. I am only including a tiny fraction of the capabilities of our technology at this current time in 2020.

And yes, of course, I can also see the probable line of human ingenuity and factors that create a very plausible scenario that all of this technology was created by the hands of humans.

However, not only is it much more fun to imagine alternative scenarios, it is also an option that cannot be ruled out when all the evidence has been laid out in front.

I nfinity

Whether you believe in the infinite universe theory or the big bang theory, both explanations are outstanding. I want to take a moment to discuss infinity and time. Please note, I am not a scientist, I am not the person you should be coming to for scientifically resolute information. However, what I do want is to speculate possibilities.

Mathematical infinity exists. And on the mathematical scale, you can have a variety of infinities. There is no natural process that is known to us that holds a beginning and an end. Everything is continuous. Yes, you could speculate that an action has a beginning, for example, when you pick up a fork to eat a piece of food, the beginning of the action is when your muscle fibers twitch and your body begins to move. However, this takes only an action/reaction understanding and does not represent the possibility of what I consider continuity.

The better we get at measuring, the closer we get to the apparent beginning or end. This will go on forever. The further into the universe we peer, the more we see. The scales in which we perceive the world change vastly every time we improve the tool we use to measure it. The better the microscope, the smaller the molecule and so on.

Maybe beginnings and ends are only possible in a dimension in which time is linear.

Maybe that is our dimension, maybe it is not. However, one thing I have thought about is that if space and time are able to be bent, if the fabric of reality is warped, what would we say about this dimension we exist inside. Again, what we don’t know we don’t know appears to be of high importance to us.

Quantum Mechanics

Quantum mechanics will screw with your head. I am a moron so please bear with me but what I want to do describe a couple of interesting facets of quantum mechanics, not because standing alone they give us an explanation into alien phenomena, but, because a better perspective on our understanding of reality can aid in the bigger picture.

This science deals with the behavior of matter and light on an atomic and subatomic scale attempting to describe and account for the properties of molecules and their constituents.

So let’s start with Quantum Superposition. In Quantum Mechanics, measurement equates reality. Only when molecules have been measured are they determined. This basically means that before measurement the molecules exist in two places at once. They are both a wave and a particle. Only when we look at the molecule do we see it exist in one place alone. Check out Schrodinger’s Cat Paradox for more on this.

Quantum Entanglement. This phenomenon occurs when a pair of molecules or group remain connected so that actions performed on one affect the other, even when separated by great distances. They do so by transmitting data to one another faster than the speed of light. Something we are yet to understand fully.

Gravity, Space & Time

Let's try to understand time a little better. Einstein described time as the fourth dimension and space the three-dimensional arena in which time manifests. Space shows us coordinates such as length, width, and height. Time provides an additional 4th co-ordinate, direction.

Imagine placing a bowling ball on your bed. As the weight of the ball presses down on the surface and sinks it causes the surrounding area to bend. Now imagine a fourth-dimensional fabric called space-time that exists throughout the universe. A grand, infinite bed if you will. Each object resting on this fabric of space-time creates its own dimple in the material, this dimple is a bending of space-time around the object and is what causes the object to move along a curved path. This is what we call gravity.

Einstein’s theory of relativity says that time slows down or speeds up depending on how fast you move in relation to something else in space. The faster you move, the slower time progresses. This is why engineers have to make micro-calculations for satellites in space. Each day the clocks onboard these crafts flying at extreme speeds gain 38 microseconds.

This is called time dilation. The effect in a sense is time travel. An astronaut returning home will be younger than an identical twin that remained on earth.

Some scientists have speculated that if you could travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum you would be able to create a wormhole between points in space-time.

Hypothetically speaking, if we were to be able to effectively and safely travel faster than the speed of light, time would no longer exist in a linear fashion. We should be able to traverse the dimension of time at our will. Past, present, future would be accessible.

We are nowhere near the technological advancements necessary to produce this, but that doesn’t mean that something else has not reached this stage.

NASA is working on a wormhole machine though, just saying.

Gravity Propulsion & Element 115

Also named Muscovium, this elements existence was confirmed in 2013 when Russian scientists smashed atoms together. However, this was not the first time the public had heard of this element.

Some 30 years ago a man by the name of Bob Lazar came out to the public with information about element 115. Lazar worked at a secret American government facility in Nevada called S-4, and came out in 1989 to the public to disclose secrets of flying saucers and advanced alien tech. Lazar claimed that he had been hired to work on alien craft at this top-secret base. Inside this base were 9 different flying saucers, some of them were fully operational. Lazar says his work there was based in combustion and how the crafts move. This is where things begin to get very interesting.

There are many facets to Lazar's story that need the light of day but I want to focus solely on two things that stand out.

First, Lazar tells us that these spacecraft move using a gravity propulsion system. To put that in perspective, everything we have now moves based on some form of ejection. Throw stuff out the back and the vehicle moves forward. This is the only propulsion system we know and it is based on how we understand reality and the mechanics of physics.

The gravity propulsion system that Lazar speaks about is something we could have never imagined. First off, we don’t even fully understand gravity today. The idea that we could use it to our advantage, manipulate it, and govern it is something out of sci-fi books. The implications of managing gravity this way would change our very understanding of reality. Human nature would be unequivocally different.

The machine onboard the craft creates a gravitational forcefield around the UFO and allows it to bend the fabric of space-time to move. Imagine that same scene from earlier with the bowling ball on the bed. Now, place your fist in front of the bowling ball a few inches and press down, this weight will move the ball towards you. This is technically, and very simply, how the craft manages to move. Distorting the space in front of the craft to allow the craft to fall forward.

The way the craft can do this is by using what Bob Lazar calls an Antimatter Reactor and element 115. This reactor is another thing from sci-fi movies and something we are far from being able to produce today. So far only a tiny amount of antimatter has ever been made. However, element 115’s existence was confirmed in 2013 and renamed Muscovium, so far it has been found to have no use due to its short life span. Many theorize that this is not the same material that Bob Lazar spoke of working with at S-4.

Obviously, these implications are massive and the idea takes some getting used to. However, one thing I do want to note is, planets are so far away from each other that we can’t possibly begin to imagine traveling the vast distances with the technology we currently have.

Even with the fastest engine we can make and the most streamlined spacecraft and the best scientists working on planetary slingshots etc. it would still take at least 6,300 years to reach our nearest neighbor. It just doesn’t make any sense to me that we are going to navigate the vastness of the universe in the same manner in which we navigate the space around earth.

A Brief History

It is not as if this is a new idea, is it? For as long as we have spread messages and told our stories, we have shared ideas and sightings of ‘Sky People’ and craft coming down from the heavens. Cave art and ancient paintings from many millennia ago, show a story that is as consistent as the sightings and experiences shared by people today. Religious paintings and artifacts tell much of the same.

A French cave painting from 13,000 B.C. shows a saucer with what looks like beams of light emitting from the bottom.

An Italian Cave Painting from 10,000 B.C. seems to depict two space suit-wearing beings.

And it doesn’t stop there. All the way through the Sumerians, the Mayans, the Aztecs. Accounts from the Egyptians, Romans, Greeks. Recordings made by people all over the world from the moment they were able to paint upon walls.

UFO’s

A fascinating article from the New York Times in December of 2017 brought light to a secret Pentagon program in which billions were being allocated in the investigation of UFOs named AATIP. In April of 2020 the Pentagon released three Navy videos to the public and confirmed the existence of UFOs, or as they are calling, unidentified aerial phenomenon, UAPs.

For the first time in history, we have a public announcement and declaration that there is something unknown to us out there. This does not immediately mean aliens of course, it could be a secret wing of an even more secret government or private corporation with an advanced technology that the public, and maybe even most major countries, world leaders and heads of state are unaware of.

The video footage that was released is outstanding in and of itself. However, what backs up the footage (especially in today's age when deepfake and photoshop talent is almost imperceptible from reality) are the testimonies from the pilots and co-pilots, along with the other witnesses such as engineers, radar specialists, etc. On top of this data, you will also find that these cases are not isolated. They are not rare. It is not the first time this has been seen by American pilots, or Russian or British, etc.

It turns out it is not the first time it has been seen by pilots from all over the world, since the time we began taking flight. People smarter than I have put in way more time and work getting the details and the stories and data from some of the most reputable and respected names in government, armed forces, space exploration, and science.

What they find are stories that are of a consistent nature and footage that seems to show saucers and crafts of varying styles visiting earth. There do appear to be similarities in UFO sightings and it is important to note these characteristics as they may lead us towards a clearer picture.

Anti-Gravity propulsion

The crafts appear to be able to move at any angle, without needing to rotate the craft. No wings or rotors can be seen on the craft and they are usually saucer-shaped, tic-tac-shaped, or spherical.

Sudden, instantaneous acceleration

These crafts have been observed moving in ways and at speeds that would crush a human pilot based on the amount of g-force created. These UFOs have been identified by the navy and pilots as moving more than 30 times the speed of sound. One such incident occurred off the coast of San Diego. The U.S.S Nimitz aircraft carrier was able to track the object for just a short period of time witnessing it travel an outstanding 3,600 miles an hour. The fastest jet on Earth can get to about 1/3rd of that speed.

Zero signature/sonic boom

Using our understanding of physics, when something travels faster than the speed of sound a sonic boom should follow. This is not seen to happen with any of the UFO sightings. What is more, is very rarely do witnesses see any signature whatsoever from the craft. No engine fumes, no smoke. There is some heat given off by some of the craft and that can be detected on radar but tracking systems do not seem to work on these saucers very well in the first place. Occasionally a witness on the ground seeing a low flying UFO will record some form of a signature, maybe a glow emitting from the craft. Witnesses of this nature go further to say that when the craft lifts up into the air further, the signature disappears.

Splitting the atom and nuclear bombs

There appear to be more cases recorded than ever before from the moment we split the atom and used it to create devastating destruction across the globe. The idea is that this feat of technological brilliance and the unbelievable chaos that ensued from it may have notified our space neighbors of our existence. I do not partake in this idea too much, however, If I was to go down the rabbit hole, I would say this about it.

Close encounters of the 3rd kind appear to carry with them a message. Many witnesses that have come in contact with these beings say that through the use of telepathy the being sends a very distinct and clear message. This message appears to be “Do not screw up Earth, it is fragile, there are not many planets like this one and it needs to be looked after and cared for”. It is an interesting message that could be many things; some form of global consciousness, an idea that is sparked through an enlightening moment, an epiphany of sorts. However, it could also be something much more, I will get into the specifics of this message later in the article.

For now it is worthwhile to note that Nuclear Missile silos across the globe from Russia to America have witnessed a one by one disabling of their nuclear missiles with the arrival of strange UFOs caught on radar. Fighter jet pilots that have attempted to shoot down UFOs have stated that their weaponry was unusable. Armed services on the ground such as police that have witnessed a close encounter with the 3rd kind have stated that guns would not work, they even go as far to say they were unable to lift the gun from their holster, as if the being was stopping them.

Maybe, when a civilization reaches a certain level of intelligence and technological advancement we stop being a bunch of violent apes. There are many maybes though, I’ll let you make your own decision.

A note on Monoliths and Ancient Civilizations

Some anomalies appear throughout history that provide us with a different picture of the past. As we progress with technology like carbon dating and Lidar scanning we uncover data points that provide us with a different picture of history. We seem to have accepted the fact that we regularly come across stone structures of unknown origin that very obviously appear to have been made by the hands of a race with advanced construction technology.

The Pyramid of Giza is the most obvious example but this alone is too much of an enigma, it seems to warp our understanding and put us in a place of obscure acceptance. The great Sphinx has previously been thought to exist some 4000 years ago, however, new data is showing that this information could be very wrong.

The Sphinx could be as old as 12,000 years based on water erosion marks along the side of the enclosure that do not allow the current prediction methods to be applied. The now-famous Gobeklitepe monolith sight in Turkey dates back some 12,000 years and appears to be one of the oldest agricultural sights or temples we have ever found.

Easter Island is another example, along with Stonehenge and many more. It is worth noting how much of our past still remains unknown to us.

It is very possible that due to asteroid impact or another grand catastrophe we have lost large swaths of data about what came before us. There are chances that there have been civilizations as intelligent if not more than we are today. Just because we don’t find iPhones in the ground when we dig doesn’t mean our ancestors were stupid.

Abductions, Inseminations & Encounters with the 3rd kind

Countless abductions have been reported over the past 70 years, starting with the infamous Betty and Barney Hill case in 1961. Usually, there are similarities in these stories and those consistencies are as follows. Small child-like beings, metallic rooms with smooth almost seamless panels. Big eyes, big head, sometimes lacking in a mouth.

Witnesses of beings state a strange abnormality in time. Some note it apparently feeling like it stopped. Others note that it feels as though they were there for mere minutes, it often turns out that hours have actually passed.

This strange dilation in time is something that interests me and seems to be consistent with the idea that if these beings are using gravity to bend spacetime then there may be a chance that they are traveling in the 4th dimension to do so and when they distort the gravitational field in order to move the craft, they also distort time. In my eyes, this is what would allow them to travel the vast distances of space easier.

The sightings confirmed from witnesses the world over are always of a similar vein too. It is worth noting that there may be psychological factors involved in what we see and why we see it in the manner we do. Let's chat about what these things look like.

Greys are the archetypal alien. They are reported to have small, child-like bodies, thin and frail, with large heads with big eyes. Often no mouth or nose is seen and usually an absence of genitals. They do not talk but appear to send telepathic messages.

Venusians are another visitor purported to be seen. They are said to look like human angels. The incarnation of perfection.

There is a possibility that we are seeing concepts that our mind makes into shapes resembling faces and bodies. It could be that the real “alien” is so impossible for us to imagine because it moves through different dimensions that we actually just create these physical properties and associate them to what we see.

Humans are prone to picking out faces in things, we do it in toast and soup and the stars. We notice patterns quickly and effectively. Maybe we are using patterns to allow us to understand the phenomenon in front of us. That is not to say that what is happening is not really happening, but that it may be so foreign to us that we fabricate a reality we can barely understand to fit the experience into.

In the Deep

If I were an alien race with interest here on Earth, or, if I was a previous intelligent civilization on Earth, eventually I would realize that to live under the oceans would be the best way to maintain safety. Safety from other races, from asteroids and meteors, from earthquakes and tsunamis.

Maybe there was an advanced civilization before us, maybe there have been more than one. They may have been wiped out by any number of reasons and we could easily have went this far without finding enough evidence to prove it.

If life came from the oceans in the first place and they have remained largely unaffected by the extreme conditions found on the earth's surface then why could a race of super-intelligent beings not develop there?

Crafts are continuously mentioned to be seen entering our oceans and disappearing. Radar specialists have said that they watch these things zip in and out of air space and in and out of the water. The famous Tic-Tac incident came with it, a sighting of a much larger craft just beneath the water. It would appear that whatever is visiting us or was here before us is using the cover of the oceans to establish operations.

My Encounter

The early hours of 1:30 am in the Canadian wild. I’m at a lake edge, mountains on the horizon line, stars bright above me. I am busy taking photographs of the stars when I notice one of the stars grow bigger and brighter. It grows so big and bright that it must be as big as the moon in the sky. It glows blue around its edges ever so quickly, about 3/4s of a circle sits around it, dark black in the center with a break of darkness cutting through the circle's edge. This all happens in 3 or 4 seconds.

Then the light shrinks again back into a star and moves quickly across the canvas of stars above me. It moves strangely, erratically up and down and to the left. And vanishes out of sight. Then I hear a loud splash in the lake in front of me, I turn and run so fast to my car and drive away in absolute terror.

My camera was taking snaps the whole time. The photo that captured the event turned out blurry, even though both images on either side of it were crisp and focused and the focus ring was never touched during the night. In the image you can see a white bright light 10 times that of a star in size, streaking to the left of the image.

To be honest, it looks more like a meteor than anything else. And maybe it was, it all happened so fast.

Why Aliens are Us from the Future with a Message

At a school in Zimbabwe in 1994, 64 children reported meeting aliens from a UFO encounter. The story is interesting and worth looking into on your own accord but what I want to bring up is the apparent message from these visitors.

Do not destroy planet Earth. Be careful of technology. Take care of the environment.

An interesting set of messages for a possible dimension/time-traveling super race. Why would they care about Earth when they can traverse the dimension of spacetime so freely and have access to an almost infinite number of exoplanets, some, maybe more hospitable than Earth.

I don’t know why the visitors would spread this message if they were not intrinsically involved in the health of the planet. Surely if you are living in the oceans of Earth you would care about this race of idiotic apes blowing the place up, maybe then you would be forced to make contact to try to infect the mind of these apes with a change in consciousness.

However, if aliens are the Gods that I believe them to more resemble, then I do not see why they would bother spreading this message. Maybe as a test, maybe as a factor in our evolutionary growth.

However, there are so many possibilities to consider. It could just be that this race of beings is us from the future, trying to reach out to our civilization before we go too far down the path of technology. Before we give in to our desires and remove ourselves from the sphere of animal existence.

What if we crack the wormhole in the near future, what if we make AI and quantum computers and test-tube babies and we become the aliens. What if we use the wormhole of the future to peer back in time to the present and we choose a time when we were on the cusp of innovation and we try to send ourselves a message. That sounds pretty human of us.

Psychedelics

A short note on something of interest. Psychedelic experiences are somewhat of an alien experience. The realness of an otherworldly hallucinatory experience is so profound that it makes me think our ideas and concepts of aliens are very human. We give them bodies and faces and want them to have fingers and craft to move in and language to communicate with. It may be that aliens are of a different kind altogether, only accessible in a form of consciousness that is not confined by human tendencies.

Conclusion

With each year that passes, more information is released that aids us in the most interesting exploration of our most fascinating question. Are we alone? I absolutely do not think we are alone, I think the universe is probably filled with life, but I also think there is an aspect of this equation that we do not understand yet because of the confines of our own reality.

Can you even begin to imagine all that would change if we had the confirmation of an intelligent species other than ourselves? And not just another intelligent animal species, but another species that followed a similar vein to us, a technologically advanced civilization. It would change our understanding. It would give us faith that we are on the right path. Or it would create mass panic and spark the apocalypse. Come on, show yourself!