Non smoking gun
Honorable
UFOs 101: Hype, uproar, disinformation and mystery: 'Here we go again.'
Greg Eghigian is a professor of history at Pennsylvania State University who developed a virtual classroom lecture series that probed the history, evolution, and impacts on society of the Unidentified Flying Object phenomenon.
Greg Eghigian is a professor of history at Pennsylvania State University who developed a virtual classroom lecture series that probed the history, evolution, and impacts on society of the Unidentified Flying Object phenomenon.
One thing I thought about Hawkings warnings was he would probably have been consulted by government if they did have any evidence, and a public comment would be his only way to voice disquiet.Within the larger picture of UFOology is the omnipresent question: Are we on our own within the Universe at large? There are those backing the verdict that we're not a "home alone" civilization and knowing that fact means everything would change.
"I'm not sure I believe that," Eghigian said. Actual contact communication, while significant, wouldn't bring about world peace, he said, "as I don't have enough confidence in the human race. That's something history teaches you … to be very cynical about humanity."
Eghigian admitted that sometimes he shares a similar unease expressed by the late Stephen Hawking about alien encounter and how that might not necessarily serve us and serve our own interests as a species.
"I don't know what would come out of it in the end," Eghigian added.