On September 15, 2023 in Mexico City, Mexico, a model of what was said to be “two alien bodies” was shown by a journalist before the Mexican Congress earlier this week.
Talk of extraterrestrials returned to the forefront after the US space agency (NASA) released a report on Thursday that reiterated there is no evidence that extraterrestrials are behind hundreds of “unidentified anomalous phenomena”. “Flying saucers” and so on.
But the space agency has not ruled out any possibility. He also pointed out that the general public should be more involved in the issue, for example by devising a system to collect records taken from mobile phones.
Before NASA released its new report, the Mexican parliament hosted a journalist with an interest in alien affairs, who presented lawmakers with two alien “corpses” found in Cusco, Peru, and were appraised. A thousand years old.
When did the fascination with aliens begin?
Reports of “flying saucers” became an American cultural phenomenon in the 1940s and 1950s, according to a report published on the official website of the Library of Congress. Sightings of UFOs in the sky have become a Hollywood staple, providing insights into potential threats posed by these creatures.
The question then is: are these visitors from other worlds, who are said to be peaceful and benevolent, or will they attack and destroy humanity?
The report points out that talk of extraterrestrial life came only after the destructive power of the atomic bomb was discovered and people began to think about the possibilities of technological progress. He adds that fear of the scale of destruction during the Cold War proved fertile ground for anxiety among people and could be exploited.
According to American National Public Radio, the roots of Americans’ obsession with UFOs go back to July 1947. According to UFO enthusiasts, on that date, the US Air Force intercepted an alien spacecraft and its occupants near Roswell, New Mexico. .
The story returned to the forefront in 2019, when activists warned of plans to attack a secret US military base in the US state of Nevada known as “Area 51” because it “harbors aliens”.
The matter started with an activist’s call on Facebook, in which he said: “Together we are taking over Area 51, they can’t stop us all,” and he set the date for today, September 20, 2019. .
More than a million people responded to the call on Facebook, although the person who came up with the idea later said it was a joke.
Area 51 is the common name for the US airbase where top-secret operations take place, and the mystery surrounding Area 51 has contributed to the creation of conspiracy theories around it.
The most popular stories claim that the site contains the bodies of a space shuttle and its pilots after it crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1974. The US government says there are no aliens and it’s just a crash object. Nothing but a weather balloon.
People claim to have seen unidentified flying objects hovering above or near the site, while others claim they were abducted by aliens and subjected to experiments before returning to Earth beyond.
In 1989, a man named Robert Lazar said he worked on alien technology at Area 51 and that he had seen medical photographs of aliens and that the government was using the facility to test for unidentified flying objects.
The painting, which shows unidentified flying objects, is part of an exhibition by British graffiti artist Banksy at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.
Soviet craze?
Journalist Anne Jacobson, who published a book in 2011, published information about Area 51 for the first time, indicating that it was used to conduct secret nuclear tests, develop weapons, and later test surveillance aircraft.
He wrote that a plane called the Oxcart was designed by the CIA to travel three times the speed of sound at 90,000 feet to spy on the Soviet Union and Cuba.
He pointed out that Area 51’s contact with extraterrestrials contributed to the creation of a mysterious atmosphere that benefited the US intelligence services.
He adds: “The CIA used this ambiguity to its advantage by promoting the alien myth.”
In his book, Jacobson cites one of his sources as saying that the vehicle or plane that crashed in New Mexico was the result of a Soviet human experimentation program, with child-sized pilots modeled after said aliens. In the novel “War of the Worlds” written by Orson Welles, it is a science fiction novel.
He adds: “According to my source, it is to create panic in America by believing that a UFO (flying saucer) has landed in the US with extraterrestrials. One of the most interesting documents is the official notes between the second director. The CIA, Walter Bedel Smith, and the National Security Council spoke of the level of fear that the Soviets would use UFOs to stage a hoax against the United States, increasing the pressure on our early warning system and exposing the United States to attack. “
What is confirmed to date?
Flying saucer model
Despite the information provided by Jacobsen, the talk of flying saucers and extraterrestrial life did not stop in America, neither did the public nor the president nor the government nor its security services.
In 2017, the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) conducted a multi-million dollar secret program to study and research unidentified flying objects in 2007, but it was shut down in 2012.
In 2021, US Department of Defense officials announced the creation of a special task force to investigate reports of sightings of unidentified flying objects (flying space dishes) flying in restricted US airspace.
The Pentagon said the special task force would work to assess items of interest and “neutralize any associated threats.”
A Defense Department report that examined 144 unidentified flying objects since 2004: “There are no clear indications of an extraterrestrial explanation for these flying objects,” but it did not rule it out.
Some of these events may be related to technology from other countries, such as China or Russia, and some may be related to weather or natural phenomena, such as ice crystals that can be recorded by radar, the report added.
The report also said that some of these observations could be linked to “secret technology programs owned by US companies”.
Last May, NASA called its first public meeting on the findings of a special committee established last year on flying saucers under the new name “Unidentified Flying Objects” instead of “Unidentified Flying Objects.”
In its study, NASA found no evidence of alien existence. He confirmed more than 800 sightings of unidentified flying objects. But those views that are “probably really unusual” make up 2 to 5% of the total database.
In one of the reported “anomalous” cases, the study found that there was nothing “strange” about the objects in question, except that they could not be “captured,” NASA later confirmed.
As they followed it, it became clear to them that these things were farther away than their plane had thought. Later, it was discovered that the lights they suspected were actually the lights of a commercial airliner bound for a major airport.
For their part, some experts believe that over time, new physical phenomena may be discovered that explain some of these “strange” phenomena.
Some scientists assert that mysterious phenomena or “objects” are not necessarily proof of alien existence.
Is this just an illusion?
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On September 4, 1967, six UFO-like objects were found in different parts of the United Kingdom, and it was discovered that it was a hoax by two 21-year-olds.
How do we explain what some people, especially in the US, say were “abducted” by extraterrestrials until the scientific facts became clear at a time when NASA and the Pentagon were searching for extraterrestrial life? Earth?
In addition to the frequent coverage of flying saucers in movies, books, politics, and the media, the widespread talk of flying saucer sightings in the sky may be due to the high concentration of such cases in the United States.
This has led psychologists to look for the possibility of some distinct characteristics among people who report seeing flying saucers or encountering extraterrestrials.
Research shows that people who report contact with extraterrestrials have a different psychological profile compared to participants who do not report such sightings.
A 2007 study of participants living in the United Kingdom by Goldsmiths College, University of London, found that these people show high rates of schizophrenia, hallucinations, and belief in the existence of paranormal forces, and they may be more. A level of elaborate imagination, in addition to high levels of … self-reported sleep paralysis.
A 1996 study at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom found that people’s belief in the existence of unidentified flying objects was associated with higher rates of psychosis or schizophrenia. However, he added that this has nothing to do with believing in extraterrestrial life.
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