With all the news about UAPs and congressional inquiries into them, you would think that the United States government would have a plan in the event of an alien invasion. Today, we look at what exactly that plan is. You might be surprised.
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Right now, as you’re watching this, a visitor from another star system is sailing past Jupiter and making its way to the inner planets at 137,000 miles per hour (221,000 km/h).
It was discovered on July first and within days there were headlines and social media posts proclaiming that it could be an alien spaceship. Usually citing the Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who published a paper suggesting it might be “evil alien technology.”
To be fair, Loeb and his team make it clear in the paper that this is a “pedagogical exercise” – more of a thought experiment – and that the answer is most likely something a lot more mundane. But that didn’t get any headlines, did it?
But we do know it came from outside our solar system because the speed it’s traveling is way too fast to be captured by the sun’s gravity, so there’s no chance it’s a local comet or asteroid.
It was given the name 3I/ATLAS after the ATLAS survey telescope team that found it. And 3I because it’s the third interstellar object that’s been discovered, after 2I/Borisov in 2019 and the one you’re probably most familiar with, Omuamua in 2017.
Omuamua made a lot of waves both because it was the very first interstellar object we’ve ever seen, and because it too got a lot of headlines claiming it might be an alien spaceship due to its weird shape and the way it accelerated toward the sun.
And the author of the paper that got all those headlines was, of course, Avi Loeb.
Avi Loeb is actually a very respected astrophysicist, especially in the field of black holes – he was even friends with Stephen Hawking back in the day.
But in the last 10 years or so he’s kinda gone all in on extraterrestrials. Basically everything that gets discovered he seems to chalk up to aliens these days.
In 2023, some metallic spheroids were found off the coast of Papua New Guinea that were suspected of being from a meteor that fell there in 2014, and because it contained an alloy not found on Earth, he wrote a paper suggesting it was, of course, aliens.
Now Loeb and his supporters would claim that he’s not saying all these things are aliens, but he wants people to be open to the possibility of extraterrestrials and take the subject more seriously.
The fact that he’s written three books on aliens and has a monetary incentive to hype the subject I’m sure has nothing to do with it.
Just a coincidence.
He’s not alone though. Right now a LOT of people are taking the subject of aliens very seriously, with military reports of UAPs and congressional hearings looking into them as a potential threat, interest in aliens is at an all-time high.
But what if it is aliens? What if tomorrow we suddenly had incontrovertible proof that aliens don’t just exist, but they’re here? Like what if a UFO landed on the front lawn of the White House?
These are scenarios that sci fi writers have been speculating about for over a century. But what if it wasn’t sci fi? What if it actually happened? What would happen next? What’s the plan?
If the US government is really taking the threat of UAPs seriously, surely there’s a plan in place for what to do about it right?
Well, I decided to look into it. So today we’re going to talk about the actual plans for alien contact.
But yeah, that’s kind-of the fundamental question to start with – why would they come here in the first place?
But whatever the reason, let’s just say the aliens have found us. Now what?
But back to the real world, I think the lesson to take away from this video is what Seth Shostak said, if the aliens attack, head for the hills. Because you are on your own. There is no plan.
If you’ve got any ideas, please share the in the comments because we gotta start somewhere.
Although, again, the most likely scenario by far would be finding proof of aliens out in space somewhere. Which would be pretty cool.
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