An image of a UAP captured via a night vision device. BBC.
UFO reports skyrocketed in 2022 compared to 2021 within the US National Intelligence UAP reporting program. BBC. 510 sightings were compiled in 2022 compared to the years first program in 2021 that compiled 144 sightings, meaning 366 reports were new. Of those almost half were explained with 26 sightings being confirmed drones, 163 being balloons and 6 being radar clutter. However, more than 100 remain unexplained. The report was designed to destigmatize UAP reporting as the objects may be a threat to safety and could even be hostile activity. Though no evidence of extraterrestrial life was included in the report, the report did mention that some of the UAP's exhibited unusual flight characteristics.
My Comment:
It is always amazing to me that the UFO phenomenon went from something that would get you labeled as a tinfoil hat nutter just a few years ago but is now openly acknowledged as something that is absolutely happening. Sure, you can still be a tinfoil hat nutter but you can also be a government agency that can take these kinds of reports and analyze them and report on them.
What gets me is how little impact this had. If you had told people in the 1990's or even the early 2000's that the government would be openly discussing UFO's (or the new term UAP) people would have been incredulous. But in the past few years the government has openly acknowledged that they have no idea what these things are. That's a fairly huge difference in how things used to be but the impact appears to be minimal.
It is deeply concerning that the government doesn't know what these things are. None of the options seem very good given the flight characteristics of these things. Credible witnesses say they can defy physics and that means that there is someone out there that has technology far greater than what is publicly known.
I guess it is possible that all of these sightings are in fact either false or misidentified. Given that some of these sightings, most notably the ones involving the Navy, have multiple forms of confirmation, including radar and other technology along with the good old Mark I eyeball it would be fairly inexplicable if this was some kind of massive computer glitch along with mass hysteria. But I guess it is possible, which means there is a huge problem with both our technology and our fighting men.
Another possibility is that there is a government or a group on earth that has dramatically better technology than everyone else. The kind of physics breaking stuff that would possibly allow you to take over the world. Some people say that actor is the United States and if that's the case then the entire UAP program is just a soft disclosure of our new technology.
For their part the government explicitly denies this (which is what you would expect them to do) but I personally don't think that this is the case. If they did have this kind of tech, they would probably be using it in Ukraine. And if it was US tech they probably would want to keep it a secret and not show our national enemies that they have this technology. Plus it would be very hard to keep such a breakthrough secret.
The inability to keep breakthroughs a secret also makes me suspicious that this is any human group causing these reports. You would really need government level resources to get this technology and even if you could get them otherwise, I doubt you couldn't keep it secret long. This kind of technology would revolutionize all aspects of life on earth and I doubt that it would not have been leaked by now if it was something humans made.
That doesn't mean that it's aliens though. It is very possible that these reports, even the 2004 USS Nimitz report and the 2014 USS Theodore Roosevelt reports, could be some kind of unknown natural phenomenon. What that could be is beyond my expertise but there are all kinds of weird natural known things, like ball lightning, that could be explanations for most or all of these reports, and it could be something that can be seen physically and with our technology. I think this is probably responsible for at least some of the reports.
The last option is the most unthinkable one and that UAP's are actually alien to our world. Such a thought would be unmentionable just a few years ago but now it is at least accepted as a possibility. I think it is fairly unlikely due to our understanding of physics and the vast distances in space and the fact there appears to be no other advanced life in our solar system. It's very likely that interstellar travel is mostly impossible.
But if it's not and these really are aliens? Then the world changes overnight and the questions immediately become are they hostile and what are there intentions regarding both us and our planet? If they are friendly, how do we open relations with them? And if they aren't, can humanity even survive? My guess is if aliens are real and they are here our best hope is that they treat us like equals. If not, then we might simply be screwed, as there is very little we could do to prevent such a race from taking over, or, even worse, exterminating us.
None of these explanations are good and all of them represent a threat. Even a lack of knowledge on natural phenomenon could be a threat if these sightings are a prelude to some kind of disaster. If it's earth based then there is a group or groups with technology far beyond are understanding. And if it's not from this earth... nothing good happens.
Regardless, I do find this topic fascinating, if for no other reason it's an example of a conspiracy theory going mainstream. That seems to be happening an awful lot lately and makes me wonder how many conspiracy theories are true, at least in part...
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