> Mr. Davis, who now works for Aerospace Corporation, a defense contractor, said he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about retrievals from "off-world vehicles not made on this earth."<p>> Mr. Davis said he also gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Oct. 21, 2019, and to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee two days later.<p>I'm not well rehearsed on the recent history of the subject but this sounds like confirmation of crashed extra-terrestrial vehicles from a reliable/not crazy source quoted by the New York Times? I'm surprised that this isn't bigger news...
Non-paywalled link <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200724025436/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20200724025436/https://www.nytim...</a>
Doesn't this render the "SETI v. METI" debate moot? The argument against first contact signalling was presupposed on a security via obscurity argument. We terrans are such an insignificant, technologically primitive speck in the cosmos. That the slightest ping would surely result in our colonization. But now the atomic fact: visitors from distant worlds have arrived. Isn't it time at least in theory to develop inter-species communication protocols? Or do we just assume they can read our hearts and minds?<p>Reworking the SETI Paradox: METI's Place on the Continuum of Astrobiological Signaling<p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01167" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01167</a>