Various conspiracy theorists over the years have claimed the U.S. government is fully
aware of the existence of alien life, but have continued to hide their existence through
pathetic cover-ups.
While such a scenario can be interesting to discuss with friends, recent credible Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) footage has proved hiding such information is a logistical nightmare and the U.S. government is as much in the dark as its citizens.
UFO theorists reignited their beliefs on April 27, 2020 when the Pentagon released and confirmed an old circulating video of a UFO caught by U.S. service members on a training exercise in the Pacific.
“As I got close to it . . . it rapidly accelerated to the south, and disappeared in less than two seconds,” David Fravor, a retired U.S. Navy pilot who spotted the UFO, said in a May 19 interview with CNN. “This was extremely abrupt, like a ping pong ball bouncing off a wall. It would hit and go the other way.”
Conspiracy theorists rejoiced with the Pentagon’s confirmation of this video, revealing there might be new evidence that needs confirmation.
“This new revelation, I think, takes us to some very interesting territory and at least lays the groundwork for serious adult conversation about this that goes beyond sci-fi memes,” said Nick Pope, former head of the British government’s UFO research project in a May 1, 2020 USA Today interview.
While many conspiracy theorists believe the government is hiding the threat of UFOs, some lawmakers believe the opposite, that the U.S. isn’t doing enough to research them.
Many lawmakers have pointed out the inefficiency of current UFO data collection from the U.S. This data collection is divided between multiple government branches, according to a Jan. 13 Guardian article.
In response, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff proposed the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal 2021. This bill would require the Pentagon and various military branches to release information about UFOs to lawmakers.
The act can help solve this problem by relaying UFO footage to various government branches, according to the
bill’s proposal.
The bill states there’s “no unified, comprehensive process within the federal government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena, despite the potential threat.”
While it might be funny to make fun of a UFO government task force, just because an object is classified as a UFO doesn’t mean a space alien is piloting it. Bills including this one are important for national security.
Most of these UFO sightings could be foreign planes or drones spying on our country. To laugh these sightings off or to deny them as a threat to national security should be taken seriously.
Hiding these sightings to the public would be counterproductive to the goal of properly identifying these objects.
Even Edward Snowden, who exposed top secret government documents, said on episode 1368 of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast that the U.S. government is most likely not hiding UFOs because he couldn’t find any information containing aliens.
“I went looking on the network, right, I couldn’t find anything,” Snowden said. “If it’s hidden and it could be hidden, it’s hidden really damn well, especially for people on the inside.”
While Snowden didn’t have access to the data that could contain alien evidence, the lack of any evidence whatsoever reveals how unlikely the government is hiding such information.
It would be extremely difficult to keep high ranking politicians and government workers in the dark from this information.
While I believe that aliens do exist, I do not believe the U.S. is hiding alien life from us. Hiding such shocking information would be almost impossible with how decentralized the current data collection system is.
