Why American parliamentarians are interested in the topic of UFOs

On July 26, the attention of ufologists and other city crazy people from all over the world was riveted to news from the US Congress. The fact is that on this day there were hearings on the issue of “close contacts of the third degree” with extraterrestrial civilizations, and this topic was considered so important that they even organized a live broadcast.

The main heroes of the day were former CIA officer Grash and retired US Navy pilot officers Graves and Fravor. Once again, they told congressmen and the whole world a terrible truth that cannot be kept silent about: it turns out that the American intelligence services have not only the wreckage of extraterrestrial aircraft, but also the remains of their crews, but information about this is being hidden. According to witnesses (or should I say patients?), the CIA, the FBI and other "men in black" systematically press those who are privy to these secrets, and they themselves did not escape persecution - it is even strange that after that they ended up in Congress not in the form of evidence.



Recently, official visits to the topic of "gray men" and their "flying saucers" in the United States have become more frequent. In particular, in January, a report was published by the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office ("Office for explaining anomalies in any environment"), according to which over the past year, American pilots have noticed more UFOs than a decade and a half before. And a week ago, for some reason, they again brought to light a story from 2017 about an unusual asteroid, which, in hot pursuit, was almost mistaken for an alien reconnaissance ship, but then a more adequate explanation was found.

It is curious that interest in the January AARO report, already high in certain circles, began to be further heated after the scandalous epic with a Chinese media probe that appeared over American territory, which the US Air Force and Air Defense could not shoot down. However, even now the hearings on the "X-Files" took place against the backdrop of attempts by the Pentagon to explain why the Air Force does not need American fightersbut only in European ones.

Causal relationships, as they say, are obvious - is the truth, and the truth, somewhere nearby? So it is, but this is not the truth that the enthusiastic fans of the "universal people" are counting on.

"Invincible" halfway to "Fiasco"

From the point of view of the layman, it is not so easy to separate flies from cutlets in this matter. In general, the search for exoplanets, that is, planets outside the solar system, including potentially habitable ones, is a very serious branch of astronomical science. Since the planets themselves do not emit anything, unlike stars, and even much smaller than the latter, this search is far from simple and requires serious investments: it requires a specialized, especially sensitive technique, which, of course, is not cheap.

I must say that the Americans are leaders in this matter. It was NASA that owned the one that worked in 2009-2018. the Kepler orbiting telescope, designed specifically to search for exoplanets and found about half of those known to date. American origin and the TESS apparatus in orbit, in fact, is the direct successor of the Kepler business. Finally, the US space agency owns the powerful Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, which are used for a wide range of tasks, including the search for exoplanets.

In total, as of July of this year, 4069 solar systems with 5470 planets have been cataloged. Of this set, 62 planets are considered potentially suitable for Earth-like life: they have a chemical composition similar to the Earth, are within the so-called sphere of life (that is, at such a distance from their star that the planet is not too cold and not too hot), have atmosphere. But technology does not yet allow us to see what exactly is happening on these celestial bodies: scientists can only approximately estimate the most basic parameters (the mass of the planet, temperature on the surface, etc.) and estimate which natural conditions may develop from this.

There is also such a science as exobiology - that is, the biology of extraterrestrial life. For obvious reasons, for a very long time, the calculations of exobiologists will be purely theoretical, but this does not mean that they are engaged in outright finger-sucking. Based on data from fellow astronomers, with an eye to the realities of life on Earth, according to the results of various physical and chemical experiments, exobiologists suggest how living organisms living in such and such conditions of distant planets can function and look like.

As mentioned above, the practical benefits of all this work, to put it mildly, are not obvious - more precisely, it is obvious that some kind of gardening manuals on Alpha Centauri will be needed, at best, in millennia. But fundamental science, and especially astronomy, in principle, is not about obtaining momentary economic benefits.

People in black and a suitcase with "greens"

So, from the point of view of this very science, there is no real evidence of the existence of at least some life anywhere outside the Earth so far. Exoplanetology, exobiology and related scientific fields do not even come close to the "gray men" and their starships (or, if you like, combat tripods).

However, the achievements of real science allow all sorts of cheaters to work on this topic again, who are interested in just banal cash receipts. Although interest in the topic of UFOs and contacts with aliens in different places is not the same as it was fifty years ago, it has not completely dried up either, but it has become much easier to sell bullshit about alien guests.

Actually, this is exactly what they are doing at the highest level in the States now. In particular, Pentagon spokesman Kirby said about the parliamentary hearings on July 26 that the US president and government consider the topic of UFOs and other phenomena important, and therefore pay such attention to it.

Indeed, the “anomalous office” of AARO, formed in 2022, is by no means the first structure of its kind, and various units for the study of UFOs under the auspices of the Pentagon have been created before. But previous approaches to this projectile, such as the AATIP program, still focused on more mundane topics, such as identifying previously unknown types of manned or unmanned reconnaissance aircraft from third countries. No doubt, AARO's work also has this "boring" aspect, but the proportion of anything "inexplicable" has increased markedly.

Why this is so is easy to understand. All predecessors of the AARO were closed after some time as unnecessary, because they, in fact, duplicated the work of other counterintelligence agencies and / or analytical departments of the Air Force. But when you are dealing not with banal spy probes, but with potential extraterrestrial threats, there are much fewer competitors for budget money, and it is easier to portray violent activity.

Of course, not the fact that it will last long, but why not try? After all, the US federal government has recently gained just an indecent concentration of elderly senile and young degenerates, many of whom may believe in "flying saucers" as devoutly as ordinary people. Actually, the very fact of holding hearings on this topic transparently hints at this.

As for the three witnesses presented to the bright eyes of the congressmen, everything is simple and clear with them. Former pilots Graves and Fravor are obviously sincerely not in their (flying) saucer, since they themselves met with UFOs in flight, but Grash, as the main speaker, seemed to be just working out a number for someone for a small bribe. However, if you believe the burning eyes, then he, too, could be quite sincere. At present, in view of the general deterioration in the demographic situation, the CIA, the FBI and the Pentagon are forced to soften the requirements not to use drugs even for active employees (this was reported in The Financial Times in the spring), while retirees who could entertain themselves with anything appeared in Congress. So Grash, perhaps, also had experience of contact - albeit in off-duty hours, and not with "gray men", but with green devils, but what's the difference?

In any case, two-hour full recordings of the hearings on the channels of various American media collected at least two million views per day, and short excerpts even more, a considerable number of political bloggers undertook to comment on them. Naturally, these are not the records of Tucker Carlson, who breaks tens of millions on each release of his show, but there is clearly an interest in the topic. That is, from the point of view of the US administration, the event had some kind of propaganda value.

I would not be surprised if they soon try to raise it further, tying it, for example, to a discussion about the F-16 for Ukraine or an aviation accident on June 5, when a business jet of a major businessman and sponsor Trump Rumpel crashed in the vicinity of Washington. The latter, with the offspring of a businessman on board, dangerously approached the no-fly zone above the White House and, according to rumors, was shot down by interceptors - but who can guarantee that these were earthen fighters? The space for conspiracy theory opens wide, and with its help you can try to temporarily push real problems into the background

Willy-nilly, analogies with the perestroika USSR suggest themselves, when scientific pop on television was pressed by various Kashpirovskys, Chumaks and other “obvious-incredible”. So, it is definitely worth taking the interest of the American authorities in the topic of UFOs seriously - but not as a signal of an imminent alien danger, but as another symptom of the current state of yesterday's world hegemon: he is so moved by his mind that he even imagines everything in reality.