The reason we know there is no mothership is because there is no increased funding to defense contractors, no reallocation of military resources, no perceived panic from politicians, etc.<p>NASA tracks debris floating around in Earth orbit. If there were objects entering and leaving orbit they would have been observed.<p>It is possible all the UFO noise in recent years is the emerging stage of a mass hysteria.
Terrible headline. This is a hypothesis. Everything about alien life remains hypothetical. This paper the article cites not once uses the word "theory".
UFO hysteria happens basically every decade.
A new somehow always blurry video. Pilots reporting lights they can't explain etc.<p>When serious UFO researchers look at the presented evidence, the U in FO is in almost all cases replaced by things like planes,weather balloons, venus, meterorites, light reflections, dirt on camera lens etc. etc. It is a multi-disciplinary effort to debunk those things and whatever a pilot is reporting to have seen, means very very little.<p>So another nothing burger.<p>Which begs the question: Who benefits from reporting like this? (other than it being politico click bait?)
I'm very disappointed in Avi Loeb's recent work. The lack of scientific rigor he's put into these extraterrestrial theories overshadow his many years of being a rigorous physicist. for shame.
Well, there's some level of long tailness that you have to get into in defence. Otherwise you're just always holding the Maginot Line. I don't think it's immediately wrong that some number of their ideas are outlandish. If zero were, then I'd assume we'd lose the next war. If 100% were, I'd also assume we'd lose the next war.
Andrew Bustamante, the Everyday Spy guy and former CIA operative, has an interesting breakdown of increased UAP phenomena. A confluence of open loop thinking and innate fear of death exacerbated by DoD acknowledgement of UAP activity. Andrew has a new TV show in development where he investigates UAP and admits he doesn't yet have a rational theory for many of the sightings.<p>Interviews like these [1] add fuel to the alien origin theories. My hope is that this will start opening up proper academic research funding for UAP before this all escalates into false flag conspiracy theories and one world government hysteria. Otherwise, the next presidential election cycle in the USA is likely to go completely off the rails like it started to with QAnon nonsense.<p>Feels like we're entering a similar environment to the late 1930's where stunts like Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast can easily spark mass hysteria.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccTi-RTMg1s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccTi-RTMg1s</a>
i would place a larger degree of probability toward hollow asteroid type extraterrestrials, than the overt 100ton beryllium construction variety, just out of materials efficiency.