“I think that the fundamental mistake that many scientists make is that they assume that extraterrestrial beings are only 100-200 years beyond our civilization, not thousands, millions of years beyond ours.” ~ Michio Kaku
If I had to name my top five favorite scientists of all time, they would probably be: Nikola Tesla, John Hagelin, Carl Sagan, Fred Allen Wolf, and Michio Kaku. Einstein would be lucky to make top ten in my book.
When I was young, I used to watch The History Channel and The Discover Channel all the time. This was back before Nazis, 2012, Global Warming, 9-11, UFOs, The Da Vinci Code, Nostradamus, and Jesus documentaries comprised 90% of all the shows on those two channels. During that time, UFO documentaries were few and far between, but also really good and informative, even inspiring.
One of the earliest videos on aliens and UFOs that I can recall seeing was Carl Sagan explaining the Drake Equation. Shortly after seeing it, they stopped airing Carl Sagan’s documentaries and started showing newer stuff.
The opening quote of this article comes from one such program on the possibility of extraterrestrial life. In that show, physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explains his rather unique perspective on the matter, which was very memorable to me and has stayed with me ever since. Between Sagan, Kaku, and similar documentaries on UFOs, I became intensely fascinated with the subject.
Around my freshman year of college, I began to get into more of the conspiratorial aspects of UFOs. The first three documentaries of that nature I ever saw were:
- Evidence: The Case for NASA’s UFO, by David Sereda
- Behold a Pale Horse, by William Cooper
- The Disclosure Project, headed by Steven Greer
To this day, I still rely on them when introducing people to the subject of UFOs and alien life.
“At any given time, there are approximately 1500 aliens on this planet … Humans, for the most part, don’t have a clue.” ~ Kay, Men in Black
I consider it fortunate that I had such a well-grounded baseline for the topic of UFOs and aliens, because there are a lot of cooks, fakes, and hoaxes out there. From that point on, my mind was wide open to the idea and I continued to learn about aliens and UFOs from the likes of as Bob Lazar, George Carlin, UFO Hunters, Crop Circles, and many others.
In particular, I find Lazar’s accounts to be the most revelatory, since he actually worked on reverse engineering and testing the propulsion of the alien craft. His findings on the use of eka-bismuth (or should we say vibranium?) in a miniature particle accelerator to create a gravitational wave distortion (possibly interfering with superlight waves) for propulsion and unwired electrical power makes a great deal of sense and could be the answer to many problems on earth involving energy and space travel.
Of course, I can’t really think of anyone both powerful enough and caring enough that has the type of funding necessary to build such devices while also wanting humanity to have them.
“We’re not hosting an intergalactic kegger down here.” ~ Zed, Men in Black
For a long time, I believed that human beings might be entirely behind the UFO phenomenon and that the saucers were simply secret man-made crafts. But more recently, I think they are actually alien in origin and it’s only been since the mid-twentieth century that humans have attempted to reverse engineer them.
Obviously, a lot of questions are raised about why they don’t show up, why haven’t we seen them yet, and so forth. For every question out there, there’s also a viable answer. Why haven’t we seen them? Maybe we’re not sure what we’re looking for. Maybe some governmental body is actively keeping us in the dark. Why don’t they come down and visit? Maybe we have nothing to offer them that is of interest to them (like Michio Kaku’s analogy of ants next to a highway). Maybe it’s like Star Trek where-in they have a prime directive to not interfere with planets that haven’t reached a certain state yet.
Quite frankly, I think it’s a greater mystery is why they would come and visit us than why they wouldn’t, given how backwards and self-destructive our species tends to be.
We need to put ourselves in their shoes. Maybe, in continuing to fight amongst ourselves, we simply haven’t earned the right to interact with them. Not yet, anyway. As agent Kay from Men in Black puts it, “Human thought is so primitive, it’s looked upon as an infectious disease in some of the better galaxies.” If we were the ones traveling to another planet, would we readily immerse ourselves in harmful contagions if we had no way of shielding ourselves from them? Think about it.
And if they had any hand in creating us, maybe we’re just a failed and forgotten experiment; or, at best, maybe they’re just on the other side of the glass sitting patiently observing us to see what we will do next.
“Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the earth was the center of the universe … and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that people were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.” ~ Agent Kay
Generally speaking, people tend to pigeon-hole extraterrestrial activity into one of two categories: enlightening or destructive. They’re either angels here to save us or demons here to enslave us, and we portray them as such in our fictions.
I think such dualistic thinking is disingenuous to them and to us. It fails to take into account the potentially broad spectrum of possibilities. Just as not every human being can be classified as hero or villain, so too do I feel that not every ghost, alien, or other such entity can be classified as belonging to either one of two categories. More likely, I think there are good aliens, bad aliens, and indifferent aliens. Some wish to do us harm, some wish to help us, and some don’t really care either way; they’re just trying to make a living for themselves and fulfill their basic needs and be happy, just like us.
The only thing that really differentiates us from them is that their origins, technology, culture, customs, and possibly their physical forms are unlike ours. Otherwise, if they are intelligent, sentient beings, it’s reasonable to assume that they have minds and souls not unlike ours.
What those differences actually are and which ones are good and which are bad, I don’t really know. I’m sure some probably look like greys and some look like us and some may even look like lizards. But until they arrive, your guess is as good as mine. I await with baited breath the same as anyone else.
The Darkness Files 