So… UFOs are real?

Relax, UFOs are fun. If you don’t want to play along, go read something else. Otherwise, strap in and let’s go for a ride.

Something weird happened in 2017. The most mainstreamest of the mainstream media publications, The New York Times, released an article about Pentagon’s UFO program, a covert operation which had been investigating ‘UAPs’ (unknown aerial phenomena) for a long time. UFOs of course having always been a topic only weirdos care about, be it Fox Mulder or Juhan Af Grann. But suddenly here it was on the front page of the most prominent publication of the world. And nobody knew what to do with it. So they ignored it and carried on with their life.

But now the cat’s out of the bag. With New York Times’ validation, UFOs crossed the Overton Window and became a legitimate topic of public discourse. Sort of. Over the past few years there have been more validated US Navy & Pentagon -approved videos of UFO sightings, and generals & politicians talking about them but somehow the larger public is still comatose on the subject: Freaking UFOs flying around breaking the laws of physics.

Now don’t get me wrong. You’ll have a hard time finding someone who’s more suspicious of the US corporate mainstream press than me. But you can’t have it both ways. If you’re using the New York Times as a source to debunk misinformation about racism or Covid, maybe you should believe them when they tell you that UFOs are real and nobody has any idea what they are.

Maybe the most interesting aspect of the modern UFO phenomenon is how the tables of mis-/dis-information have turned. With covid-19 or Trump/Biden election, it was New York Times that was hailed as the truth, and publications like New York Post as right wing disinformation. Now with UFOs, the biggest debunkers are the likes of NY Post and NY Times & Washington Post seem convinced they’re real. Who knows what’s going on. But I know what my stance is.

I grew up on X-Files and Stargate and got online when Internet was still fun and free. I’ve spent way too much time on the UFO topic not to be convinced that there’s SOMETHING there. What that something is, that’s the million dollar question. UFOs aren’t automatically aliens. They’re unidentified flying objects. But they sure as hell aren’t Chinese or Russian drones either. If any nation discovered technology that can basically bend gravity, you think they would mainly use it to fly around randomly and not to dominate the world technologically, financially and militarily?

Which finally brings us to the meat of the issue. If UFOs are real, and they sure as hell seem to be, how long has this been happening and what does it all mean?

If UFOs are real, is the UFO mythology real?

You’ve seen X-files. You know about the grey aliens, the cigarette-smoking man, the government cover-up, Roswell, Tunguska, cow mutilations, abductions and all the rest. UFOs aren’t just UFOs. They are a worldwide conspiracy of highest order: Aliens probing us, living amongst us and working with our governments. And if you’ve seen Ancient Aliens, you also know that the aliens most likely made us, built our pyramids and left messages in our DNA.

Maybe.

But all joking aside, there have been stories about UFOs for decades, centuries or even millenia, depending on what you count as UFO stories. I mean former US President Jimmy Carter had a UFO incident. We even had one in Finland in 1969. We’ve grown accustomed to dismissing those stories as meaningless hallucinations. But were they? Again, if UFOs exist, why wouldn’t have they existed in the 60’s? Bob Lazar became famous in the 80’s for claiming that the US government was studying a crashed UFO and it’s propulsion system in Area 51 and was widely mocked. Pretty interesting that his descriptions of the physics involved seem to track 100% with the latest sightings.

Of course the most well-known UFO incident of all time is the Roswell crash of 1947. But that one has been hashed out enough. Let’s go further back. Here’s the painting Babtism of Christ from 1710:

Looks pretty UFOish to me. Ok, on to the 15th century then:

If you don’t see a dude looking at a UFO, I don’t know what to tell you. But let’s not stop there. Here’s The Annunciation With Saint Emidus, 1486:

Yeah. I don’t know either. One more:

That French cave painting dates somewere around 13 000 B.C. So there’s that.

Yeah yeah yeah just tell me what it all means

I don’t know. But it’s interesting. Way more fucking interesting than the culture war or politics. But also weird and confusing. Here’s a fun little tidbit to end on: The first officially released Pentagon videos were first leaked and published by “To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science”. Good luck figuring that company out. The CEO is Tom DeLonge from Blink-182 and it’s board is full of ex-CIA & government high-ups. Here’s what their ‘science and technology division’ does:

TTSA collects documents and physical materials from public and private sources related to the UAP phenomena to study it and then transitions the transformative technologies behind it to wider applications of public benefit. The company’s consulting and research arm features top former officials from the Pentagon, CIA, Department of Defense, and Lockheed Martin Skunkworks.

All I know is that I want to live to see the Blink-182 guy prove to the world that aliens are real.