Mills The Questions Nobody Asks

Where Do You Go From Here
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 979-8-9850788-0-0
Verlag: BookBaby
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 370 Seiten

The Questions Nobody Asks features multiple sections that are designed to promote the art of conversation. Examining such issues with others is a way to know them. When, if ever, will human beings learn to get along? When will we put race, color of skin, wealth, fame, politics and religion aside enough to accept each other as equals and live in harmony with each other? When we learn to focus on our similarities instead of our differences?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mills, Robert

Leseproben

HYPOTHESIS TWO What if Aliens have Visited Earth? Most discussion about aliens on Earth take the form of two theories – whether or not aliens exist is one and whether or not aliens have visited Earth is the other. Claims of alien visitation vary from sensationalized accounts in supermarket tabloids to more credible accounts from respectable sources. The term ‘unidentified flying object’ goes back at least to the 1950s: it is recorded in 1953, in a book by the US aviator and writer Donald Keyhoe. The Oxford English Dictionary also cites Edward Ruppelt, an officer in the USAF, who stated that he’d invented the term in 1956 as a more general one to replace the term flying saucer. Strange objects in the sky were first named flying saucers in the 1940s: the first OED citation is from The Times, in 1947. They were so called because of an account by a US pilot, Kenneth Arnold, who stated in various newspaper and radio interviews of that year that he’d seen ‘saucer-like’ objects in the sky while he was flying past Mount Rainier. The media seemed to have quickly changed this to the snappier “flying saucer” and the term was born. By the time Ruppelt and his USAF colleagues were investigating reports of these sightings in the 1950s, it was clear that ‘saucer’ was too limited a description, since the objects in question were said to be of many different shapes: hence Ruppelt’s invention of ‘UFO.’ The earliest alien report that really caught on was when a New Hampshire couple claimed they were captured by aliens on a late-summer evening in 1961 as they drove through the White Mountains. This first widely publicized alien abduction claims soon begat a legion of others. Even today, theories of alien visits spread like wildfire in the mainstream news if they are made by someone with reasonable credibility or authority. While Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard University’s astronomy department, didn’t propose that aliens were even close to Earth, he and a colleague suggested that the cigar shaped object called Oumuamua which passed by the sun in 2017 might have been a probe sent to the vicinity of Earth by an alien civilization. The theory, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, elicited some derision from scientists. The minor controversy led NASA physicist Silvano Colombano to say that scientists essentially rock the establishment when they theorize about extraterrestrial life. “General avoidance of the subject by the scientific community” creates a catch-22.” While scientists might appear crazy for posing questions about aliens, how will we ever know about alien life or any possible alien missions to Earth if no one in the scientific community examines the concept? Colombano himself got caught up in the debate last year, when Fox News reported he claimed aliens had indeed come to Earth, pointing to a document of his on the space agency’s website. But Colombano was quick to correct the Fox News story, saying it was taken out of context and that he believes an alien visit is only theoretically possible. “My perspective was simply that reports of unidentified aerial phenomena should be the object of serious study, even if the chance of identification of some alien technology is very small.” There was a time that the mere idea of UFOs seemed like a loose-thread tear right through the fabric of reality, but when the New York Times published an undisputed account that the Pentagon had spent five years investigating “unexplained aerial phenomena” — the response among the paper’s mostly liberal readers, exhausted and beaten down by “recent events,” was markedly different from the one in those movies. The news that aliens might actually be visiting us, regularly and recently, didn’t provoke terror about a coming space-opera conflict but something much more like the Evangelical dream of the Rapture. “The truth is out there,” former senator Harry Reid tweeted, with a link to the story. Thank God, came the response through the Twitter vent. “Could extraterrestrials help us save the Earth?” went one typical reaction. Suddenly, aliens were an escapist fantasy — but also more credible (legitimized by the government!) than mere fantasy. That Pentagon report, which featured two gripping videos of aerial encounters, was just one beat in a recent search-for- extraterrestrial-intelligence (or SETI). In October, an object passed through our solar system that looked an awful lot like a spaceship (Oumuamua); astronomers spent much of 2016 arguing over whether the weird pulses of light coming from a distant star were evidence of an “alien megastructure.” An army of Silicon Valley billionaires are racing to make first contact, and our new super-powered telescopes are discovering more conceivably habitable planets every year. Then, in March, a third video emerged, featuring a Navy encounter off the East Coast in 2015, with the group that released it hinting at an additional trove. “Why doesn’t the Pentagon care?” wondered a Washington Post op-ed. The defense Department claimed they initially withheld the release of the footage to ensure that nothing in the video was classified. The Pentagon has confirmed the authenticity of newly leaked videos and images showing multiple UFO sightings by U.S. Navy personnel, as the government prepares to release a highly anticipated first-of-its-kind report on UFOs this summer. An 18- second video shows what is described as three pyramid-shaped UFOs hovering over the warship USS Russell at night in July of 2019 off the San Diego coast. At one point, the pyramid-shaped crafts reportedly hovered 700 feet over the tail of the Russell. This is the first video the public has seen from the July 2019 incident in which mysterious UFOs described as unmanned aerial vehicles reportedly harassed at least three U.S. warships during military exercises over multiple days — at one point matching the speed and bearing of one destroyer for 90 minutes while performing “brazen” maneuvers. Months earlier, an FA-18 pilot reportedly used his cellphone to snap photos of three different unidentified aircrafts off the coast of Oceana in March including two UFOs dubbed the “Metallic Blimp” and “The Sphere.” The unidentified aircrafts captured by the pilot in March 2019 were able to remain stationary in high winds, with no movement, beyond the capability of known balloons or drones, according to the mysterywire.com. “I can confirm that the referenced photos and videos were taken by Navy personnel,” Department of Defense spokesperson Susan Gough told Fox News. “The UAPTF [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force] has included these incidents in their ongoing examinations.” The video and images were leaked to filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, who made the documentary “Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers,” and KLAS TV’s chief investigative reporter George Knapp. Corbell and Knapp independently confirmed the leaked documents are unclassified images that were part of a series of classified briefings intended to educate members of the U.S. Intelligence Community about UFOs traveling in restricted airspace. “This is explosive information,” Corbell told Fox News. "This is probably the best UFO military filmed footage certainly that I’ve ever seen, but I think also that the world has ever seen." In a separate event, three photos, leaked to Corbell, purportedly from the USS Omaha, show a “spherical” UFO descending into the ocean seamlessly disappearing without destruction. According to Corbell, a submarine unsuccessfully attempted to find the unidentified aerial vehicle. “This is an extraordinary piece of technology,” Corbell said. “Whoever is operating these technologies are far more advanced than anything we have in the U.S. arsenal and that should be a warning sign. We need to find out the intent of the operators of these vehicles.” The Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) is now investigating what these unidentified aircrafts are. The UAPTF was formed in the summer of 2020 in an effort to improve the Department of Defense’s “understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins UAPs” particularly those “incursions by unauthorized aircraft into our training ranges or designated airspace.” The fact that the UAPTF is still investigating these new incidents as unidentified aerial phenomena means they’ve already ruled out that they are balloons or basic drones from another country. “These craft are not pushing something out the back to go forward,” Corbell explained. “They are gravitationally propelled craft that are trans medium — that can go from space to air to sea without destruction.” The Pentagon’s candor and decision to even acknowledge that the video and images of pyramid shaped aircrafts and UFOs over waters near Oceana are in fact real — is exciting UFO...