Why UAP (UFOs) leave me cold

Unless ET shows up by its own initiative....

Last week, during a US congressional hearing, a former intelligence officer turned whistleblower and two military pilots shared testimonies about their encounters with so-called ‘unidentified anomalous phenomena’ (UAP), more commonly known as UFOs. Everyone expected great news and historical revelations but, overall, they didn’t tell us much more than what was already known, and did not furnish, at least not publicly, any proof of the existence of ET vehicles flying throughout the skies or even underwater. We still have to be happy with the usual fuzzy and unsharp low-resolution movies or images that, after all, from a scientific point of view, are not enough. The evidence remains far from conclusive.

Whereas, if this hearing was useful for anything, it was for the authority and credibility of its testimonies. A former Air Force Major and two U.S. Navy pilots made their deposition under oath in front of Congress members. So, we have good reasons to take seriously what they say. Especially considering that also several other pilots have reported similar encounters in recent years.

So, yes. I’m inclined to believe that ET is ‘out there’ observing us. Concerning is also that there seems to be a lot of undisclosed information about UAPs that is kept secret for reasons we can only speculate about.

A metallic ‘orb’ caught by a drone over the Middle East in 2022.

Nonetheless, I’m not impressed or particularly excited. Why not?

Because I don’t see this from the point of view that the vast majority seems to take. When we ask questions such as “Why don’t they show up?”, “Why don’t they try to enter into communication with us?“, “What kind of incredibly sophisticated technology and spaceships do they use?”, “Did some of their space probes crash?”, “Might we be able to find the crashed space probe and retro-engineer their technology?”, etc., humans tend to associate aliens with a character from a too anthropocentric perspective and think with a much too restricted 20th-21st century technology and science.

Instead, let us take an evolutionary perspective and change the roles.

Imagine that we, as humans, with the technology of the 21st century, land on a planet populated by chimpanzees (sort of ‘Planet of the Apes’ sci-fi film situation, but with the apes not nearly as cognitively evolved as the Homo sapiens). We might slaughter them, or lock them up in some interplanetary zoo, use them for experiments (this would corroborate certain popular claims of alien abduction, but I will not go down this rabbit hole…), colonize their planet, and exploit its resources. Fortunately, if ETs are here, this doesn’t seem to be their intention. Therefore, let us be somewhat optimistic and believe that we have also will have learned some lessons from our evolutionary past and have become a less aggressive species. The most interesting (and civilized) thing to do would that to study this planet, with chimpanzees being the most evolved species, in their natural habitat without interfering too much (or interfering without them being aware of our interference). After all, this is what we already do with part of the animal kingdom. We have created protected zones and natural parks where animals are free to live to a large degree undisturbed. And I hope we will do so, once we might find life in our solar system, say, for example, under the frozen surface of the Jupiter moon Europa.

From this perspective, imagine the chimpanzees on this planet, find traces of human activity and suspect our existence asking “Why don’t they show up?”, “Why don’t they try to exchange bananas with us?“ “What kind of incredibly sophisticated tree climbing technique do they use?”, “Did some of their members fall from a tree swinging from branch to branch?”, “Might we be able to find one of them and retro-engineer their jumping technique?”

The point is that there might be no way of communicating with an ET civilization, no more and no less than we can enter into a conversation with chimps. The form of communication of an ET might stand in comparison to ours, like our rational, analytic form of communication that uses words, and abstract concepts, with its mathematics and sciences, stands to the language of apes. There isn’t much to communicate, to begin with. And, perhaps, also no interest in doing so. Our own species might in the future transcend the use of words and language. We might develop forms of trans-rational, spiritual, intuitive, and non-abstract or telepathic forms of communication that are much more efficient and immediate than the use of the spoken language and the written word. We already know that there are cognitive spheres that go beyond the symbolic mind. Precisely this should impel us to think beyond our ordinary word-, linguistic-, rational- and physical-human logic.

And when we speak of the ‘technology’ of UAPs we might have a misconception of it, like gorillas think of our technology in terms of bush ropes. Will they be able to retro-engineer the Space X Starship?

Aliens might have even gone beyond technology. Consider that science and technology, in their industrialized modern forms, are, from an evolutionary perspective, something that began just a blink of an eye ago. What are a couple of centuries compared to hundreds of millions of years of evolution? And it might be transcended by a future evolution in another (or few other) blinks of an eye. The alien dominion over matter might no longer be technological, but of a completely different quality that we even can’t imagine.

They might even have moved beyond physical appearances. Already in modern science, with the detection of the so-called ‘dark matter’, we know that there must be some forms of matter/energy or whatever ‘stuff’ out there of which we aren’t aware with our ordinary perceptions. Those UFOs might not be material appearances but some sort of ‘holographic projections’ from a ‘subtle physical’ dimension (that would explain how they seem not to be subjected to friction, can travel through water at high speeds, and zigzag around subjecting themselves to incredible accelerations.) This would be perfectly in line with our scientific knowledge (yet, as far as I’m aware, nobody ever thought of this eventuality.) Yet, I don’t spend my time on these wild speculations.

The bottom line is that we simply don’t know. Probably we have not the slightest clue and don’t know what we are talking about. Again, imagine the chimp that thinks in terms of bananas, bush ropes, or stone tools (that would be already sophisticated tech) trying to guess how a nuclear reactor works.

So, I find most of the speculations regarding UFOs (or UAPs) incredibly naïve. Unless you are a creationist that believes the ultimate aim and pinnacle of evolution is the human species, it is quite obvious that we must conclude how we are still an incredibly primitive and cognitively unsophisticated species compared to other alien civilizations that might be ahead of us by millions of years of evolution. We are the pan troglodytes, perhaps even much less than that (perhaps not much more than ‘worms’?) compared to aliens that can travel interstellar distances and might have trans-rational cognitive abilities we can’t even imagine. What is decisive is not only the different technological development, but also the level of consciousness and spiritual maturity that other civilizations might have developed, and that probably goes way beyond ours.

It is from this perspective that I look at the question of ET civilizations.

But why does this make me less excited about UAPs?

Simply because we won’t know much about them unless they will take the initiative. They probably are looking upon us, studying our evolution throughout history, waiting as long as it takes to see us grow and mature, making our homework and evolving to higher states of consciousness. They won’t show up as long we will remain primitive, aggressive, only-rational, and, in a certain sense, the most perverse species on the planet. We won’t be able to detect, find, trap, or identify any crashed space vehicle with our ‘bush rope’ technology. We will continue to see always blurry and pixelated images or movies that will excite us about everything and make us conclude nothing. It is not (or not only) the Pentagon or the ‘deep state’ (whatever that means) that keeps their existence secret. It’s ET that simply doesn’t consider us mature and worthy enough to be informed.

Thus, when it comes to UFOs, UAPs, ETs, aliens (… name it…), I step back. I don’t think great announcements of close encounters of the third kind are going to happen anytime soon. This is not like the other findings in science that are directly related to our technological development and research efforts. No matter how advanced our science will be, we won’t be allowed to know, unless they will allow us to know and, especially, we will be willing to develop spiritually. I see some people, dedicating their life to the search for UAPs, waiting for the imminent ‘great disclosure’, and are left with a deep sense of frustration each time there is a new congressional ‘revelation’. Unfortunately for them, I’m afraid, the topic will remain a distraction for generations to come.