The Truth Is Out There

The legendary sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke once famously said, “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not, both are equally terrifying.”

The fact that there are unidentified aerial phenomena flying around our skies on a daily basis, performing mind-melting manoeuvers, with apparently complete immunity and zero fear of the U.S. navy, is now in no doubt.

There really is, unequivocally, no doubt that these surprisingly assorted types of craft are buzzing around up there constantly, and have been doing so for quite a while. From the 1952 White House sightings to Commander Fravor’s ‘Tic-Tac’, it is now impossible to claim that UFOs are the exclusive reserve of tin foil hat wearing loonies.

In fact, we may be close to the official admission that we are playing host to extraterrestrial visitors; what used to be called ‘Disclosure’.

Towards the end of this month - though there is a possibility it might be late - we expect to see an official report, demanded by Congress back in December, from the U.S. Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, concerning these ‘UAPs’.

We know that back in 2007 the Pentagon spent roughly $22m on a project known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which looked into these worrisome objects. It seems, though, that the focus of its investigation was to determine first and foremost if the objects posed an immediate threat, and as a corollary, if they came from Russia/China/any other nation on Earth.

By 2019, the Senate Intelligence Committee - then chaired by Marco Rubio - decided that it needed to know what was actually going on. It wanted some answers, and so commissioned the report which is due to drop at the end of this month.

Speculation is rife about what the report will contain; will it be a milquetoast nothing-burger, confirming very little beyond what we already know, or will it be a civilisation defining turning point at which humanity collectively acknowledges we are not alone?

From leaked scraps and the whispers of insiders, it seems the former is a lot more likely. It seems like the report is probably going to conclude that these objects aren’t U.S. assets, almost definitely aren’t Chinese or Russian assets, and beyond that, the Department of Defense and the Intelligence services have no idea what they are. Which is more or less the position we already find ourselves in.

Let's throw around some wild speculation about what these UAPs might actually be.

Starting with the most prosaic and cynical explanations, some have said that these anomalies can still be put down to technical glitches and human error. This seems absurd to me, at this point. Others suggest that it is a manufactured ‘boogeyman’ so that the U.S. ‘military-industrial complex’ can justify a new wave of budget expansions. Though not beyond the realms of possibility, that just doesn’t seem to hold much water. Yet others have opined that it is an elaborate smokescreen, of a type, designed to divert attention away from the Great Reset and the establishment of a global new world order. Plausible; though fails to take all factors into account.

So then, assuming - and it is still a big assumption - that we can rule out Earth-based political machinations, as well as the idea that they are advanced craft built by humans, what then are we left with? We are left with two possibilities; either we must throw up our hands, admit we don’t have an explanation, and leave it there, or, these are indeed objects from another world.

Whilst we wait with bated breath to see what the U.S. military and intelligence services have concluded, I for one no longer feel it is neither illogical nor idiotic to believe they are in fact alien. Perhaps this is a manifestation of the all too human desire to believe in the fantastic and the grandiose in lieu of solid evidence. Perhaps so. This article may well age very badly.

If it is the case that the origin of these UAPs is somewhere beyond our solar system, a whole new vista of questions arise; least of all, how will humanity react to this greatest of all disclosures? It has long been thought that it would be very dangerous territory. That huge swathes of humanity would basically lose their minds, that the fabric of society would unravel, that religions would be exposed as nonsense, that our delicate understanding of the universe would be so profoundly shattered that we would be reduced to sitting in the shower, hugging our knees, rocking back and forth, hoping it would all just go away.

Personally, I have more faith in the human spirit than that. I feel like we would very quickly, if not immediately, accept it as just another part of the strange and beautiful cosmos we find our pale blue dot spinning through. As the evolutionary biologist John Haldane once said, “My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose… I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy.”

The truth, in whatever form, however bizarre, is out there.