There's all the hub-bub going on now about
UFOs (or do we call them UAPs - "unidentified anomalous phenomena," now?), and the Congressional House hearings on this topic that are in the news.
It gives one pause to ponder whether there really might be something to all the fuss as to whether aliens from light years away truly have visited us in the past -- or are doing so right now.
And if it really is true that aliens in their mysterious spacecraft have been visiting us, hopefully with the intention of sharing advanced technology with us, such as a cancer cure, then by all means, let us investigate further through Congressional committees and the like, to see just what is going on.
But be that as it may, I am now going to suggest that the whole notion that aliens have visited us in spacecraft, and unfortunately some of those craft have crashed (that's right, more than one according to some accounts), and then the crash debris and alien bodies found have been retrieved by our military, and secreted away to hidden government facilities, where we are doing reverse technology to develop advanced spacecraft of our own, is nonsense.
Reasons why it's nonsense:
1. The aliens have traveled an enormous distance across space to get here, surely a formidable task. But when they get here they can't even navigate through the earth's atmosphere without crashing, and wind up crashing their vessels not once, but
multiple times? REALLY?
2. Surely, even if crashes had occurred, they would have some sort of standing crash-retrieval procedure in place, in which a follow-up craft of theirs would fly to the crash scene, retrieve crash debris and bodies of deceased comrades, scoop them and the debris all up and take it away, to keep it from falling into our hands. It only makes sense they would have a procedure in place to do that.
3. It might also be the case that the commander of such alien craft would, if crashing were imminent, follow a standing order to self-destruct himself, his crew and his craft, in order to prevent any of it from falling into our hands.
And it seems
most implausible that the aliens' attitude would be "It's okay if the earthlings find our crashes, retrieve everything there, and use it to figure out how to build advanced technology spacecraft for themselves, from what we have left in crashes for them. Sure, we're okay with that, that's fine" HAH!
So what really did happen, say at Roswell, back in 1947, if it wasn't aliens crashing there, and leaving their craft there for us to find?
Well, we've all heard the various non-alien explanations given so far, from weather balloons to balloons launched to listen for Soviet nuclear bomb tests, etc. Maybe it actually was something like that.
But, you know, it's actually pretty easy to come up with bizarre, but still credible, explanations for what happened at Roswell, and maybe even other places.
It just takes a little imagination.
For example, I will now play conspiracist here and suggest just one more non-alien explanation, one that, whether it bears any resemblance to what actually happened or not, would serve to "fit the bill" as a descript
ion of what happened. It would explain all the data we know about
Roswell.
It's a wild idea I once had about
Roswell a while back. And it's probably already been presented on a website somewhere.
Namely, that the Roswell incident was a deliberate hoax planned and executed by U.S. military intelligence for the purpose of conducting a psychological study of how the American public would react in the event of an actual invasion from outer space.
In detail, it goes like this.
Around 1947, the Pentagon had become concerned about what the American public's attitude might be if ever faced with an actual invasion by aliens from outer space. After all, in 1938, a mere nine years earlier, the infamous radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds had caused mass panic and hysteria across the country. The staff at the Pentagon had to have been worrying if the same reaction might occur during a real alien invasion.
So they decided to do a psychological study to see if that might happen. They had a military intelligence team construct a fake flying saucer, design and build rubber dummies to look like space aliens, and make curious looking bits of metal pieces to seem of "alien" origin, and they then scattered all of these items about in places around Roswell where it was known people would encounter them. They then sat back and watched the people's reactions when they did, taking notes.
Probably an effective approach. For example, much has been made of people's "deathbed confessions" that they "saw aliens" at Roswell. Well, they did see something. But what they saw were those rubber dummies, not real "aliens!"
An example of how that happened. The article linked below reports Lt. Walter Haut's supposed deathbed confession in which he claims to have seen the retrieved flying saucer and dead aliens in a secret hangar. (Haut was the information officer at Roswell who released the news about the retrieval of the crashed saucer).
The article claims
"Haut recalls how he was taken into one of the hangars at Roswell called Building 84 where he saw the craft. He describes it as a metallic egg-shaped object around 12 to 15 feet in length and around 6 feet wide. His account described it as windowless and without wings, a tail, landing gear or any other features. Two bodies were on the floor and partially covered, he claimed, and were around 4 feet tall with large heads. Haut concluded his note: "I am convinced that what I personally observed was some kind of craft and its crew from outer space."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/roswell-officers-deathbed-confession-theory-27063641
Or did he really just see a fake flying saucer and rubber dummy "aliens?"
Apparently Haut was one of the people whose reaction was to be observed.
(Oh and by the way, the above report describes the alien craft in detail, and as being in one piece, and apparently with no dents, scratches or other damage to it. But if the craft was reported as having crashed, how can that be?)
The Pentagon was especially interested in how the nation as a whole would react as the story was being reported in the media of the time, newspapers and radio.
They probably concluded from their observations that there wasn't going to be a mass panic as there had been before in 1938.
So the Pentagon felt reassured that their psychological study had been a success.
But then the Pentagon realized that it had a problem. They concluded that it would not be good for the Pentagon's image to let it be known that it had engaged in this sort of activity, conducting secret psychological experiments on the public, possibly denigrating the Pentagon's image in the eyes of the American people.
So the study was classified, and has remained so since the Roswell incident.
And maybe the fake flying saucer and rubber dummy aliens they used at Roswell are now stored away on an Air Force base somewhere, well out of public view.
But flash-forward to the present, and once again the public is wrestling with what the truth is about the UFO question, from Roswell on.
But also with the likelihood that the Pentagon is still interested in avoiding public disclosure about what it did in 1947, and may have done again in later years.
So is David Grusch, now testifying in hearings, a whistleblower, or is he in fact impersonating one? In reality is he the Pentagon's man, working under top secret orders, to give "testimony" that supports the Pentagon's effort to distract from "psychological studies" that it has done in the past, and is maybe still doing even now? Are Grusch's top secret orders to make the public think only about the "aliens," and not about what the Pentagon did in 1947 and maybe later?
So if there really is a "cover-up" going on now, how about it's the Pentagon covering up its own past "psychological study" activities at Roswell and maybe later? Okay, so how's that for a ready-made conspiracy theory? Or maybe it's the truth for all I know. Or maybe not.
But getting back to this thread's title, unfortunately it doesn't look like kindly aliens will be bringing us a prostate cancer cure, in an act of interstellar friendship, any time soon.
No, I guess we'll just have to find that on our own.