They'll say this is "glazing," but sometimes you gotta stick up for work you find compelling. I'm looking forward to this series. I think the question of whether or not humanity is truly in solitude among the vast expanse of the universe has been made too easy to dismiss. People are told that this question is stupid on premise, and that you should know not even to be curious about it.
If you want orthodoxy, unfortunately, this is the wrong place. That sounds like such an annoying statement, but I honestly think that The Free Press needs to be asking these kinds of questions. If for no other reason than commitment to its editorial goals. The moment that The Free Press stops being interested in these questions and bringing this kind of series to its pages is the moment that it risks institutional complacency.
I will admit now that I am not sure that this series will change my mind on the subject. But it doesn't have to. The moment I stop being interested in these questions, because they might sound "too outlandish," or I'm afraid of the judgment I might receive, is the same moment I risk becoming complacent in my own inquiry into the world.
Respect to whoever proposed this at the story idea meeting, and I'm looking forward to having a guide that I trust will keep it real with me while re-examining a question that I haven't thought about for probably five solid years.
In this house, we are fans of Will Rahn. Intrigued!
Like a fool I got interested and set aside time to watch this. More of the same, mealymouthed blah blah blah. Don’t advertise this as something new and interesting. It damages your credibility. Now I am less likely to read your future work.
Great topic. Statistically there could be, and probably are, millions and probably more intelligent-life aliens way out in the vast universe. However, interstellar travel for us and aliens is impossible acorrding to Newtonian physics. There are many reasons including massive distance, the difficulty of inventing the kinetic speed to approach the speed of light, the amount of fuel needed even using fusion and antimatter, would make interstellar travel astronomically impossible. The list goes on and on. If you really want to search for aliens I suggest you visit Tonopah Nevada.
How come these super-advanced aliens who can zip around the universe (or galaxy anyway) have spent so much time since WW2 spying on primitive humans? They obviously aren't picking up any tech tips. Don't they have better things to do?
For the first time I’m questioning my subscription if the FP is treating this topic this seriously—along with interviewing this (nutty) ‘expert’, and for a whole series at that.
Hire a respected scientist on staff; interview a physicist as one of your “experts”—or just read what one has to say on this topic (here’s the scoop: the many violations of physics in these alien spacecraft interpretations means it’s certainly the wrong interpretation!). A country with increasing acceptance of antisemitism and of alien visitations, is a sure sign its education in both history and science is in sharp decline; and not a good bet for a bright future. Very disappointed.
am not sure Will why you didn't comment on the Prime documentary that's gotten a lot of air time on Bill Maher called Age of Disclosure. seems like it was a piece that hit on all the themes above in a pretty thoughtful way, interviewing gov officials from both the left and right (and concluding that UAPs are one of the few things both parties actually DO agree on. think a review of the movie is in order pls.
Current estimates suggest there are about 2 trillion galaxies - odds are we're not the only ones. That said, suppose a group of aliens from another solar system, let alone galaxy, has mastered the technology of traveling through space/time and does a fly by of earth. It would take an incredible amount of societal cooperation and advanced knowledge to achieve such technological mastery.
What the aliens would see is a species following little (or larger) dogs. They'd observe the humans feeding the dogs, talking to the dogs even though the dogs could not understand the human's language, picking up the dogs feces, and spending inordinate amounts of money and attention on the dogs. The aliens' data gathering suggests that the humans on average value the dogs more than they value each other. The humans also obsessively watch themselves on these tiny little hand held devices.
The aliens would also observe the humans waging war on each other constantly - statistically the males would kill each other, their wives, girlfriends, sometimes their children and themselves - though there was a small percentage of violence committed by the females. The humans also appear to constantly wage war on other groups of humans with each new technology that they discover.
The aliens would likely conclude that the humans are some primitive species that worships the dogs as gods - competing to prove their loyalty to the dogs through their performances recorded on these hand held devices. The humans are in constant conflict with each other, devising various ways to physically kill or socially subordinate each other into hierarchies in order to please their dog masters. Why else would the humans not solve all of their conflicts with communication, reasoning and cooperation - the dogs seem to be able to do this without killing each other?
Having observed all of this, the aliens would likely shrug their shoulders and move onto some other more enlightened planet and not waste time trying to interact with the humans.
“Why are clean-cut senators like South Dakota’s Mike Rounds seem so convinced that the government isn’t telling Congress the truth about this phenomenon?”
I am more and more convinced that while UFO’s may exist, TFP editors don’t. Perhaps that’s why they are going so hard to video?
I'm not sure about Bigfoot, but I'm absolutely certain that Skunk Apes are abundant in the Florida swamps! There's much hard evidence of such at the Skunk Ape Research Center and Gift Shop on Tamiami Trail in Ochopee, Florida, not too far from Everglades City, which was once one of the major locations for South American imports in our country. Many sightings documented at the Research Headquarter, most accompanied by gunfire!
Smart people shouldn’t spend too much time thinking about UFO’s, and generally don’t.
I have no doubt things appear in the sky that the average person sees and can’t explain. I also have no doubt that there is an explanation, and it is not “aliens exist and they’re being hidden.”
If they existed, we’d know it, just like we eventually find out about all government cover-ups (Watergate, Tuskegee, Iran-Contra, the actions of J. Edgar Hoover, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, My Lai, the list goes on.)
Turns out many earlier sightings were of the stealth bomber.
In many cases, like that one, the government probably would rather people believe this is alien technology rather than disclose secret defense projects. And I think that’s totally justified.
If you have a later-model iPhone you can get a transcript by going to “podcasts,” downloading The Free Press Interviews, and bringing up “What Does The Government Actually Know About UFOS?”
Scroll down, and you should see an automatically generated transcript. I upgraded my phone last year, I’m not sure which models it works on, but I hope it helps some people.
There is a very interesting podcast on this by an astrophysicist who has studied this phenomena. It’s called, ‘God and UFO's with Astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross.’ He has a much different perspective than most, but one I also came to my own conclusion to based on personal experiences and gut.
I know what they are: what we see in the skies are not craft, but creatures. Just like deep sea creatures can occasionally break out of their element and into the air, so deep-space creatures can dip into our atmosphere. Look at the way they behave: buzzing planes then disappearing, like insects exploring whether they can eat or mate with the aircraft. How they only appear in dark remote areas, like wild animals peering at a campfire from the darkness outside. They aren’t “manned” by anything, they themselves are the entity. They’re no weirder looking than a lot of deep sea creatures,
They'll say this is "glazing," but sometimes you gotta stick up for work you find compelling. I'm looking forward to this series. I think the question of whether or not humanity is truly in solitude among the vast expanse of the universe has been made too easy to dismiss. People are told that this question is stupid on premise, and that you should know not even to be curious about it.
If you want orthodoxy, unfortunately, this is the wrong place. That sounds like such an annoying statement, but I honestly think that The Free Press needs to be asking these kinds of questions. If for no other reason than commitment to its editorial goals. The moment that The Free Press stops being interested in these questions and bringing this kind of series to its pages is the moment that it risks institutional complacency.
I will admit now that I am not sure that this series will change my mind on the subject. But it doesn't have to. The moment I stop being interested in these questions, because they might sound "too outlandish," or I'm afraid of the judgment I might receive, is the same moment I risk becoming complacent in my own inquiry into the world.
Respect to whoever proposed this at the story idea meeting, and I'm looking forward to having a guide that I trust will keep it real with me while re-examining a question that I haven't thought about for probably five solid years.
In this house, we are fans of Will Rahn. Intrigued!
Like a fool I got interested and set aside time to watch this. More of the same, mealymouthed blah blah blah. Don’t advertise this as something new and interesting. It damages your credibility. Now I am less likely to read your future work.
Great topic. Statistically there could be, and probably are, millions and probably more intelligent-life aliens way out in the vast universe. However, interstellar travel for us and aliens is impossible acorrding to Newtonian physics. There are many reasons including massive distance, the difficulty of inventing the kinetic speed to approach the speed of light, the amount of fuel needed even using fusion and antimatter, would make interstellar travel astronomically impossible. The list goes on and on. If you really want to search for aliens I suggest you visit Tonopah Nevada.
How come these super-advanced aliens who can zip around the universe (or galaxy anyway) have spent so much time since WW2 spying on primitive humans? They obviously aren't picking up any tech tips. Don't they have better things to do?
For the first time I’m questioning my subscription if the FP is treating this topic this seriously—along with interviewing this (nutty) ‘expert’, and for a whole series at that.
Hire a respected scientist on staff; interview a physicist as one of your “experts”—or just read what one has to say on this topic (here’s the scoop: the many violations of physics in these alien spacecraft interpretations means it’s certainly the wrong interpretation!). A country with increasing acceptance of antisemitism and of alien visitations, is a sure sign its education in both history and science is in sharp decline; and not a good bet for a bright future. Very disappointed.
am not sure Will why you didn't comment on the Prime documentary that's gotten a lot of air time on Bill Maher called Age of Disclosure. seems like it was a piece that hit on all the themes above in a pretty thoughtful way, interviewing gov officials from both the left and right (and concluding that UAPs are one of the few things both parties actually DO agree on. think a review of the movie is in order pls.
Current estimates suggest there are about 2 trillion galaxies - odds are we're not the only ones. That said, suppose a group of aliens from another solar system, let alone galaxy, has mastered the technology of traveling through space/time and does a fly by of earth. It would take an incredible amount of societal cooperation and advanced knowledge to achieve such technological mastery.
What the aliens would see is a species following little (or larger) dogs. They'd observe the humans feeding the dogs, talking to the dogs even though the dogs could not understand the human's language, picking up the dogs feces, and spending inordinate amounts of money and attention on the dogs. The aliens' data gathering suggests that the humans on average value the dogs more than they value each other. The humans also obsessively watch themselves on these tiny little hand held devices.
The aliens would also observe the humans waging war on each other constantly - statistically the males would kill each other, their wives, girlfriends, sometimes their children and themselves - though there was a small percentage of violence committed by the females. The humans also appear to constantly wage war on other groups of humans with each new technology that they discover.
The aliens would likely conclude that the humans are some primitive species that worships the dogs as gods - competing to prove their loyalty to the dogs through their performances recorded on these hand held devices. The humans are in constant conflict with each other, devising various ways to physically kill or socially subordinate each other into hierarchies in order to please their dog masters. Why else would the humans not solve all of their conflicts with communication, reasoning and cooperation - the dogs seem to be able to do this without killing each other?
Having observed all of this, the aliens would likely shrug their shoulders and move onto some other more enlightened planet and not waste time trying to interact with the humans.
Why don't you interview a rational scientific expert on debunking all of the so called UAP/UFO.
https://www.youtube.com/@MickWest
If these things are so clever that they dart about without limits, come into and go out of existence, etc - then what difference do they make?
They seem indifferent to our concerns. Next question
“Why are clean-cut senators like South Dakota’s Mike Rounds seem so convinced that the government isn’t telling Congress the truth about this phenomenon?”
I am more and more convinced that while UFO’s may exist, TFP editors don’t. Perhaps that’s why they are going so hard to video?
I find UFOs boring, but mention Bigfoot and I am listening!
I'm not sure about Bigfoot, but I'm absolutely certain that Skunk Apes are abundant in the Florida swamps! There's much hard evidence of such at the Skunk Ape Research Center and Gift Shop on Tamiami Trail in Ochopee, Florida, not too far from Everglades City, which was once one of the major locations for South American imports in our country. Many sightings documented at the Research Headquarter, most accompanied by gunfire!
I’m off to investigate!
Smart people shouldn’t spend too much time thinking about UFO’s, and generally don’t.
I have no doubt things appear in the sky that the average person sees and can’t explain. I also have no doubt that there is an explanation, and it is not “aliens exist and they’re being hidden.”
If they existed, we’d know it, just like we eventually find out about all government cover-ups (Watergate, Tuskegee, Iran-Contra, the actions of J. Edgar Hoover, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, My Lai, the list goes on.)
Turns out many earlier sightings were of the stealth bomber.
In many cases, like that one, the government probably would rather people believe this is alien technology rather than disclose secret defense projects. And I think that’s totally justified.
ok, I WANT TO READ TRANSCRIPTS OF THIS SERIES.
I agree.
If you have a later-model iPhone you can get a transcript by going to “podcasts,” downloading The Free Press Interviews, and bringing up “What Does The Government Actually Know About UFOS?”
Scroll down, and you should see an automatically generated transcript. I upgraded my phone last year, I’m not sure which models it works on, but I hope it helps some people.
Thank you, but I have a cheap, out of date, android.
The phrases "should think" and "smart people" do not belong in the same sentence.
I was wrong. "Smart people should think for themselves."
There is a very interesting podcast on this by an astrophysicist who has studied this phenomena. It’s called, ‘God and UFO's with Astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross.’ He has a much different perspective than most, but one I also came to my own conclusion to based on personal experiences and gut.
I know what they are: what we see in the skies are not craft, but creatures. Just like deep sea creatures can occasionally break out of their element and into the air, so deep-space creatures can dip into our atmosphere. Look at the way they behave: buzzing planes then disappearing, like insects exploring whether they can eat or mate with the aircraft. How they only appear in dark remote areas, like wild animals peering at a campfire from the darkness outside. They aren’t “manned” by anything, they themselves are the entity. They’re no weirder looking than a lot of deep sea creatures,