Government Breaks Silence: Strange Encounters | UFO's Investigating the Unknown (Video - 42mn)

   I have always been fascinated by UFOs. What are they? Where do they come from? And as many other controversial subjects, we've been told dutifully that they were mostly illusions, a trick of the mind, weaker people falling prey to their inner demons and beliefs. Nothing to see there, then?

   But see they kept doing, military and civil pilots, people trained to make the difference between flying toasters and their imagination, most of the time sober and not prone to fly of fancy. And the descriptions kept piling up, diverse, surprising, often original and unlikely. What to make of it?

  Here's an interesting, recent and original investigation from National Geographic below. 

  Personally, I have come to believe the following:

  1 - The Universe is infinite and is pregnant with life. Life must therefore be everywhere. (We can only observe a 35 billion light-years sphere in a 13.7 billion light-years old Universe, an interesting paradox in itself but the whole Universe must be much larger than that. Probably infinite.)

  2 - Still, I do believe in the "rare Earth" hypothesis. Life is complex and therefore rare. It requires exceptional circumstances to emerge as our own solar system proves. Likewise most stars cannot generate life: Too short lived, too much radiations, too little "metallicity" (any atom except hydrogen and helium is a metal by definition generated by a star explosion. Nova or super-nova.) So a goldlilock planet around a rare sun in a special zone of the galaxy is required.

3 - The "zoo hypothesis" is the right one. Advanced civilizations, if they exist, do not interfere with less advanced ones as interference always end up in destruction. We will never be contacted, as long as we are in our "human" condition. It would destroy us one way or another. This is probably a known rule respected by all life forms.

4 - You do not "discover" advanced civilizations. They are for our purpose perfectly invisible. Using technologies we do not fathom for purposes we do not understand. Our own world in a few decades in unknowable. More advanced civilizations are unthinkable. Forever beyond our intellectual horizon, AI included.

5 - For that reason, Area 51 and "debris " from alien crafts are bogus beliefs. Advanced beings do not cross the Universe to end up somehow crashing on our shores. Reverse engineering of alien technology is likewise meaningless. What could Rome's most brilliant minds would have done with a micro-processor? (Without understanding mater, electricity, waves, relativity, without a microscope to observe it, without anything really!) And that's just a mere 2,000 years of technological progress! 

What then, do nothing? Not quite. We can still learn with more observations, statistical tools and modelization. We'll probably never know anything exact about "them", (as for physics and the uncertainty principle where you cannot know exactly location and other properties of a particle at the same time.) but we will understand more and more until we become what they are if evolution is convergent which is likely.

 In the meantime, enjoy the mystery.