>>145799>The super duper advance alien got shot down? They advanced so much but they are still in conflict?Why does having advanced technology mean they'd necessarily be peaceful or that they wouldn't have another group in conflict with them?
>And yet we still have the same level of tech.Do you really think that the public is privy to the full extent of the government's technological capabilities? We don't know what SAPs might be making use of.
>Come on, anon. They are just trying to tell you to look for aliens up in space, while ignoring the illegal aliens jumping the fence.If UFOs are a distraction, then why aren't they actually distracting anyone with the topic? The Grusch hearing should have been front-page news when they happened, but instead they were treated as a side story. If there really are highly compartmentalized programs making use of advanced forms of technology of non-human origin, then that's also one of the most important stories there could possibly be. Whatever forms of energy and propulsion the craft are making use of has the potential to solve our energy needs and maybe give us greater insights into physics and the nature of reality. It would also be a massive egg in the face of the media and governmental gatekeepers and goodthinkful NPCs who have spent decades ridiculing people interested in paranormal topics and government conspiracies.
The government's been studying UFOs for decades going back at least to Project Sign and spreading disinformation on the topic, whether that be trying to downplay their involvement or that there's anything unusual going on (like the swamp gas and weather balloon cliches) or poisoning the well by taking the opposite approach and deliberately introducing falsehoods into the discourse of UFO enthusiasts (see Rick Doty).
I think enough people are starting to see what's going on that things will change in the next few decades. There appears to be a sea change currently underway in terms of how the topic is viewed, and I'm hoping Cold War culture of secrecy and disregard for inquiry will end up supplanted by a more open-minded approach.
>The universe is huge, the odds of a shitty planet generating life and that life surviving long enough to make tech to cross the void and finding another shitty planet that generated life to crash on it sounds stupidly low.We don't even know that UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin to begin with. I doubt they're just coming from another planet like in a '50s sci-fi movie. There seems to be too much overlap with other paranormal phenomena.