theme song: calling occupants

I don't often repeat a daily theme song, but perhaps it's time to bring back a song I mentioned back in 2010.

I've been reading a lot on the web and watching a lot of videos since the UFO news broke in the USA Congress. I can already tell that I've ruined my search history algorithms. This fringe exploration is how people end up being brainwashed into fascist movements. I keep telling YouTube to stop showing me certain channels, and hopefully my Google account will eventually recover from this detour. Anyway, I'll share today's theme song with a few totally unsupportable opinions about the recent UFO news.

Read the opinions that are pure conjecture...

I find credible many of the stories about sightings of craft. Going back decades, there are just too many stories from too many credible people. Now, we can also add corroboration from radar, infrared, and other technologies. There are also tales of deathbed confessions, but we wade here into territory of second-hand accounts which are less trustworthy.

I find uncredible, however, all of the stories about encounters with aliens. From the modern feel-good stories like "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: Contact Has Begun" (2020) to the older danger stories of Barney and Betty Hill to the even older mixed-outcome stories from Aleister Crowley, I just don't find any of them believable. People either have to be hypnotized to remember something (that maybe never happened at all), or they're stories told by somebody selling something: a book, a retreat, a movie, or an ego that needs soothing. The medical experimentation stories in particular seem unlikely, since they always seem to involve technology comparable to our own, not incredibly advanced like Star Trek or Star Wars fictions. And animal mutilations? That destruction seems unfortunately like a very human thing to do by a disturbed person benefiting from tech tools but without public oversight and accountability. The positive stories border on wishful thinking, with semi-visible healing entities and curious coincidences. Each of these biological encounter stories, however, puts a seed into the human mind that flourishes easily, as we often need narratives to explain our thread of life (past into future) in this universe.

By accepting the stories of extraterrestrial craft, then I also accept the stories of USA government coverup. Beginning with Roswell, which sounds plausibly like a botched coverup started too late, it seems likely that somebody within this government knows a lot of details that they aren't sharing with the public. From there, it also seems reasonable to conjecture that we will soon experience a staged "attack" to provide a fear-mongering narrative that helps perpetuate the continuing suppression of the real details. That's my short-term prediction.

From the sworn testimony provided so far to Congress, it seems that there are multiple civilizations represented by multiple craft designs. If we accept this point, then there are a few ideas that follow from it. Either 1) they are all very nearby while using sub-lightspeed transportation, or 2) they can visit Earth from far away by a transportation technology that isn't limited by the speed of light. Both of these scenarios make imminent invasion seem VERY unlikely. It would put these multiple civilizations either in conflict with each other (for galactic conflict over resources potentially spanning epochs) or in cahoots (begging the question how any such cooperation could be continued for epochs between potential enemies). I just don't believe invasion is likely. I find it FAR more likely that cooperation within certain rules is what explains the activity of these multiple civilizations. Given that UFO encounters seem to span decades, perhaps even centuries and millenia, all without the destruction or enslavement of humanity, then this long history makes the peaceful option the MOST likely explanation for what is happening now.

I suspect that whatever is happening now is less likely the stories of invasion from "Independence Day" (1996), "Buckaroo Bonzai" (1984), or "Three-Body" (2023). Instead, I suspect it is more likely the stories of curiosity and reluctant assistance from "The Abyss" (1989), "Contact" (1997), "Interstellar" (2014), "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), and maybe even an occasional "E.T." (1982).

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I'm still hopeful for our long-term future, and I want others to be hopeful too. Curiosity is its own kind of magic. Be curious.