[likeabbas]

For those who don't know, there's a very significant movement happening within factions of the US government to push disclosure on potential non-human intelligence visiting earth. This 15 minute guide is worth the read https://www.uap.guide

Other significant efforts searching for alien life include the Galileo Project by Dr. Avi Loeb of Harvard https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home

Edit: For those who don't know, the 2022 NDAA was passed that included legislation the protect whistleblowers from disclosing to congress about unacknowledged black projects regarding reverse engineering programs that congress was not privy to. https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/uap-related-provisions-of-th...

> ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Defense, acting through the head of the Office and in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, shall establish a secure mechanism for authorized reporting of— (A) any event relating to unidentified anomalous phe- nomena; and (B) any activity or program by a department or agency of the Federal Government or a contractor of such a depart- ment or agency relating to unidentified anomalous phe- nomena, including with respect to material retrieval, mate- rial analysis, reverse engineering, research and develop- ment, detection and tracking, developmental or operational testing, and security protections and enforcement.

[technothrasher]

> there's a very significant movement happening within factions of the US government to push disclosure on potential non-human intelligence visiting earth.

<yawn> Pushing for disclosure is very different than there being anything to disclose. Get back to me when they actually disclose anything worthy of being attributed to non-human intelligence.

[likeabbas]

In case you're not aware, the 2022 NDAA includes legislation to provide people whistleblower protection to disclose unacknowledged black projects regarding reverse engineering programs to congress. This legislation comes directly from Christopher Mellon and Lue Elizondo's work behind the scenes of getting whistleblowers to testify to the congressional intelligence committees. https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/uap-related-provisions-of-th...

[sammalloy]

There is zero consensus that there is a "non-human intelligence visiting Earth". There is, one could argue, a phenomenon of some kind, either real or imagined, but nobody seems to know what it is. And yes, I’m familiar with the subject, and I’ve been following it for decades.

Also, I think "disclosure" is somewhat of a misnomer. If people don’t know what it is, there’s nothing to disclose. People have been beating the disclosure drum for years. Nothing really has happened except some people made a bit of money selling people on the idea.

And for all intents and purposes, our world-spanning civilization is much too primitive to even begin to disclose something like this if it were true. 85% of the people on this planet believe in superstitious nonsense. We aren’t ready to accept the existence of aliens on other worlds or parallel universes, let alone accept our own brothers and sisters who have a different skin color.

Given what I’ve seen of humanity, the zoo hypothesis is the best thing we can hope for. We just are incredibly stupid as a species at this time and place. I can’t imagine why any alien would want to have anything to do with us.

[mjh2539]

"Consider the great fifteenth century philosopher, theologian and cardinal Nicholas of Cusa. He suggested that the universe is infinitely large and has no center and that all bodies in the universe, including both the earth and the sun, are in motion in infinite space. He also theorized favorably about the existence of intelligent life on other planets, which he thought was probable due to God’s creativity,

<<We surmise, that in the solar region there are inhabitants which are more solar, brilliant, illustrious, and intellectual—being even more spiritlike than [those] on the moon, where [the inhabitants] are more moonlike, and than [those] on the earth, [where they are] more material and more solidified . . . We believe this on the basis of the fiery influence of the sun and on the basis of the watery and aerial influence of the moon and the weighty material influence of the earth. In like manner, we surmise that none of the other regions of the stars are empty of inhabitants—as if there were as many particular mondial parts of the one universe as there are stars, of which there is no number.>>"

https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/what-can-catholic-...

[likeabbas]

There's zero consensus, but there's enough evidence that congress decided to include some interesting legislation in the latest NDAA https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/uap-related-provisions-of-th...

[Zigurd]

The "interesting legislation" is more likely to find Cold War-style fuckery of the sort that led to the "red mercury" hoax and other intentional misdirection, and the amplification of conspiracy theories by adversaries than it is to find aliens.

[likeabbas]

You should at least read the link and the history of how the legislation came to be before judging.

[cactusplant7374]

The novelty factor is one reason. I can’t imagine being so advanced but not interested in other life forms.

[sammalloy]

Sure, the "show me what you got" factor, but what if it is only interesting to higher order primates? Maybe the aliens are too busy playing in infinite fun space or just have sublimed out of biology?

https://youtu.be/m1fZ7Ap6ebs

[bsder]

Funny how both UFO and Angel/Devil sightings went down just as ubiquitous personal video recording devices became commonplace...

[Arrath]

Been too long since we've had a nice grainy photo of bigfoot.

[pohl]

Just yesterday I was wondering why — with the ubiquity of surveillance, phones, and body cams — we haven’t yet seen footage of good cops intervening to stop people like Tyre Nichols from being beaten to death.

[bsder]

Because they don't exist. Cops that intervene wind up ostracized by the rest of the force.

Until more cops are more afraid of winding up like Chauvin and landing in an actual jail than they are afraid of other police, this will not change.

[zirgs]

It took massive riots to bring him to justice though.

Daniel Shaver's case was even more fucked up imo. The cop forced him to play "Simon says" at gunpoint and walked free after that.

[actionfromafar]

Regular criminal gangs are more afraid of their peers than the police most of the time, so it might be a long wait.

[infradig]

Disclosure == Rapture for the #ufotwitter crowd. It's basically a religious cult.

[likeabbas]

There are significant people involved with this.

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon.

Dr. Avi Loebb - Astrophysicist at Harvard.

Dr. Gary Nolan - Pathologist at Stanford

[belter]

"...An UFO has landed in America...the only country UFO's only seem to land in..." - https://youtu.be/HIVZa7c7WZU