UFOs: skeptics, disclosure, and contact

[nivek]

Leaked Pentagon footage shows UFO making 'impossible' moves before going supersonic speeds​

Shocking video of a UFO appearing to escape from a US military drone at impossible speed has been obtained from the Pentagon. Jeremy Corbell, investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, and co-host of the WEAPONIZED Podcast, revealed the recording on Tuesday, which allegedly shows a mushroom-shaped craft flying over Syria's Suwayda province in 2021.

In what could be compared to a scene in a science-fiction movie, the drone's camera watched as the object appeared to either be hovering or flying at normal speed before accelerating to near-light speed and vanishing from view. According to Corbell and WEAPONIZED co-host George Knapp, the video was taken by an MQ-9 Reaper drone and obtained from a source in the intelligence community and the Pentagon.

It's the latest evidence of non-human craft, the investigative journalists said have been leaked from the Department of War's 'vault' containing military footage of UAP, which stands for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena and is the new term for UFOs. Officially, the Pentagon has stated there has never been any physical proof collected that would confirm the existence of UFOs or extraterrestrial beings.

However, the newly obtained video appeared to capture a clear example of what Corbell and Knapp called 'observable' behavior among non-human craft. In this case, that was instantaneous acceleration. Once the Air Force drone's camera locks onto the UFO, the recording shows the object seemingly knowing it had been targeted as it begins to maneuver erratically to break the lock before instantly speeding off to the right of the camera.

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b-SxFi96cE&t=521s


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[nivek]

President Obama declares aliens are REAL as he gives inside track on Area 51​

Barack Obama declared that aliens are 'real' before firmly dismissing long-running conspiracy theories that extraterrestrials are being hidden at Area 51. The candid exchange offered a rare glimpse into what presidents may know when it comes to one of America's most enduring mysteries. The former president made the remarks when interviewer Brian Tyler Cohen asked him directly: 'Are aliens real?'

Obama's answer was direct: 'Uh, they're real, but I haven't seen them,' he said, before immediately addressing speculation surrounding Area 51, the secretive US military facility in Nevada that has long been at the center of extraterrestrial conspiracy theories. 'And they're not being kept in uh what is it? Area 51!' Obama continued. 'There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.' His comments — delivered with a mix of humor and authority — amounted to a clear rejection of claims that the U.S. government is secretly housing alien life forms at the classified base.

Area 51 has fueled decades of speculation, particularly since the Cold War, when its remote desert location and classified operations made it a natural target for rumors about UFOs and extraterrestrial cover-ups. The US government has acknowledged the facility's existence but has consistently said it is used for testing advanced military aircraft.

Cohen then asked what question he most wanted answered upon entering the White House. 'Where are the aliens?' Obama replied with a laugh. The exchange came as part of a wide-ranging interview in which Obama reflected on his presidency and post-White House life.

Later in the interview the former president admitted that any return to elected office would likely cost him his marriage, joking that his wife Michelle would leave him if he ever attempted a political comeback. The former president made the candid admission during a wide-ranging interview in which he faced up to the fact his days in politics are firmly behind him.

'First of all, I'm not a politician anymore and I can't be, right?' Obama began. 'I mean, I guess technically I could run for, you know, city council or something, but I'm not in elected office. I don't have levers of power. I'm term limited out. And by the way, I believe in the Constitution and also I believe in my marriage and Michelle would divorce me if I even if I could run again.'

The remark, delivered with Obama's trademark humor, offered a rare public window into the influence Michelle Obama holds over her husband's decisions.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw


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[Dejan Corovic]

President Obama declares aliens are REAL as he gives inside track on Area 51​

Barack Obama declared that aliens are 'real' before firmly dismissing long-running conspiracy theories that extraterrestrials are being hidden at Area 51. The candid exchange offered a rare glimpse into what presidents may know when it comes to one of America's most enduring mysteries. The former president made the remarks when interviewer Brian Tyler Cohen asked him directly: 'Are aliens real?'

Obama's answer was direct: 'Uh, they're real, but I haven't seen them,' he said, before immediately addressing speculation surrounding Area 51, the secretive US military facility in Nevada that has long been at the center of extraterrestrial conspiracy theories. 'And they're not being kept in uh what is it? Area 51!' Obama continued. 'There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.' His comments — delivered with a mix of humor and authority — amounted to a clear rejection of claims that the U.S. government is secretly housing alien life forms at the classified base.

Area 51 has fueled decades of speculation, particularly since the Cold War, when its remote desert location and classified operations made it a natural target for rumors about UFOs and extraterrestrial cover-ups. The US government has acknowledged the facility's existence but has consistently said it is used for testing advanced military aircraft.

Cohen then asked what question he most wanted answered upon entering the White House. 'Where are the aliens?' Obama replied with a laugh. The exchange came as part of a wide-ranging interview in which Obama reflected on his presidency and post-White House life.

Later in the interview the former president admitted that any return to elected office would likely cost him his marriage, joking that his wife Michelle would leave him if he ever attempted a political comeback. The former president made the candid admission during a wide-ranging interview in which he faced up to the fact his days in politics are firmly behind him.

'First of all, I'm not a politician anymore and I can't be, right?' Obama began. 'I mean, I guess technically I could run for, you know, city council or something, but I'm not in elected office. I don't have levers of power. I'm term limited out. And by the way, I believe in the Constitution and also I believe in my marriage and Michelle would divorce me if I even if I could run again.'

The remark, delivered with Obama's trademark humor, offered a rare public window into the influence Michelle Obama holds over her husband's decisions.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw


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at what timestamp in video he talks about aliens?

 

[pigfarmer]

Not saying anything about ET but Area 51 is rife with underground facilities.

 

[Rick Hunter]

If I'm not mistaken, President Obama has been asked about this before and responded in the same way. Sounds to me like her personally believes in ET, but that's more of a personal belief rather than anything he was exposed to as president.

 

[nivek]

Secret 'immovable' UFO is hiding in plain sight in purpose-built structure claims US congressman​

A US congressman has made shocking claims that a hidden object, so massive it cannot be moved, has had an entire building constructed around it at a secret overseas location. Rep Eric Burlison said on Monday that the facility is 'guarded like it's some kind of commodity,' adding, 'You have committees that protest their turf.' The lawmaker acknowledged he has no firsthand proof, saying the information comes from accounts he has heard from government and non-government sources. 'I'm not going to mention the country because I heard of it inside of a closed setting, and I want to protect my classification level,' Burlison said. He added that the object is 'not in the facility that's been widely reported in the news,' pushing back on speculation about its location.

Burlison also said he has struggled to access UAP-related sites even near his office in Washington, DC, calling attempts to visit foreign facilities 'somewhat insurmountable.' 'But it doesn't mean that I'm not going to continue to try,' he said. He blamed congressional bureaucracy for blocking oversight, saying committees 'love turning each other down' when jurisdiction overlaps. Burlison made the comments during an interview on Newsmax's 'Finnerty,' where he discussed his efforts to gain access to classified UAP programs and sites. He said navigating the congressional system is difficult, describing 'the very nature of the difficulty of the red tape system within, within the bureaucracy of Congress' as a major obstacle. Despite the barriers, Burlison said he is committed to transparency if definitive evidence of extraterrestrial life is found.

'If I come under any hard evidence, whether it's physical or video evidence that is absolutely definitive, while I'm going to do what I can to protect our national security and our nation's interest, I will not hold back on telling the American people that we are alone or not alone in this universe,' he said. He added that such information should not be withheld from the public, arguing, 'That is something that no government has the right to withhold from its people.'

Burlison is a member of the congressional oversight committee involved in the ongoing investigation into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), commonly known as UFOs. While speaking on NewsMax, he was asked if the object's location was in South Korea, but he did not confirm.

Social media users suggested the site could be in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province, which is home to a circular structure. This location has gained notoriety in UFO/UAP communities as the alleged 'Coulthart UFO/UAP Site,' based on claims popularized by investigative journalist Ross Coulthart, podcaster Joe Rogan and others. It is rumored to house a massive crashed or landed extraterrestrial craft that was reportedly too large to transport, leading to a building or structure being constructed around it for concealment.

However, a South Korean UFO researcher who visited similar sites has disputed these claims, stating that the facility dates back to the 1970s and has no connection to UFOs, with multiple comparable aviation installations existing across the country. Burlison, who has become a household name in the UAP world, revealed earlier this month that he had requested and was granted access to secure locations, such as Area 51, which have decades-old ties to UFOs and secret government projects. Speaking on the ALN Podcast, Burlison said that the request to President Donald Trump and his staff included visiting US military bases and facilities where evidence suggests unidentified craft, materials, bodies, or archives allegedly exist.

Although the US government and the Pentagon have officially denied that there has been any physical evidence of UFOs or alien life ever recovered, Congress has heard from multiple whistleblowers claiming that secret programs have covered up the truth. In fact, Burlison has previously claimed President Trump has been 'fully briefed' on the existence of aliens, UFOs recovered by the military since the 1940s, and alien-human hybrids allegedly living on Earth today.

'The White House has told the DoD to make it happen. The extent to which they've been involved is literally just saying to the Department of Defense, 'we're backing his request. Do what you can to make it happen,'' he said.

Over the years, multiple US military sites have been linked to non-human craft, including facilities, anonymous sources have said, that were housing crashed spaceships and experimental aircraft constructed using reverse-engineered alien technology. These include Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, the Atlantic Undersea Testing and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) in the Bahamas, and the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), home to Area 51.

'There is reportedly an object that is not in this country that is so large it cannot be moved, that they've built an entire building around it,' Burlison said during the January 30 podcast. The congressman noted that this facility outside the US was classified so he was unable to reveal its exact location, but it was on his list of places he had requested to visit as part of the committee's investigation. 'It's going to involve a lot to make that happen, but that may be the final destination.'

Rep Eric Burlison said the massive object is hidden at an undisclosed location, but Social media users suggested the site could be in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province, which is home to a circular structure

This location has gained notoriety in UFO/UAP communities as the alleged 'Coulthart UFO/UAP Site,' based on claims popularized by investigative journalist Ross Coulthart, podcaster Joe Rogan, and others

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[pigfarmer]

Trump to release government UFO and ‘extraterrestrial life’ files: ‘Extremely interesting and important’



President Trump announced Thursday that he will order top administration officials to identify and release government files related to UFOs and aliens.
“Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

“GOD BLESS AMERICA!” he added.
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President Trump announced on Truth Social Thursday he would release files pertaining to “extraterrestrial life.”AFP via Getty Images
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), the chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee’s task force on the declassification of federal secrets, celebrated Trump’s announcement.

“Looks like we are about to have a ton of hearings on this ! Thank you @POTUS!!!” Luna wrote on X.

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Former President Barack Obama claimed that aliens exist on a recent podcast appearance.Brian Tyler Cohen

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), who is also a member of the declassification task force, posted, “It’s time. Thank you ⁦@realDonaldTrump.”
Earlier Thursday, Trump chastised former President Barack Obama for saying aliens are “real” in a recent interview.
“He gave classified information, he’s not supposed to be doing that,” the president told reporters on Air Force One.
“I don’t know if they’re real or not, but I can tell you he gave classified information.”
“He made a big mistake,” Trump went on. “He took it out of classified information. No, I don’t have an opinion on it. I never talk about it. A lot of people do. A lot of people believe it.”
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Razor wire and security cameras at the entrance to Area 51 in Rachel, Nevada.REUTERS

Obama noted that he hasn’t “seen” any aliens, but was adamant that “they’re not being kept in Area 51,” in an interview with podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen that aired Saturday.
The former president later clarified that his remarks were made in “the spirit of the speed round” of questions, indicating that he was simply suggesting it is statistically probable that there is life elsewhere in the universe. Obama said he saw “no evidence” of alien life as commander-in-chief. After Trump’s announcement, Cohen, who was criticized on social media for not pressing Obama for more details about UFOs and aliens, quipped: “Yall b—hed at me about a follow up question but now we’re gonna get the truth about aliens and UFOs you’re welcome.”

 

[Rick Hunter]

This is progress, but just because the prez tells an agency to release something doesn't mean they are going to do it. If something is still classified or release could harm national security/reveal sources and methods/other get out of jail free cards they might play, then the law is one their side and they don't have to release it.

 

[pigfarmer]

Obama said nothing, backtracked from it with his usual ummms and ahhhhs and then Trump had a typically confusing Trumpian response which will add up to nothing beyond a brief flash in the news pan.

When someone orders the DOE to cough up their secret files - if a President can actually do that - then we'll have something to jabber about. In fact, much like those Epstein files the secrets they keep probably aren't the juicy ones everyone lusts for like ET, its probably things that are entirely human and too hideous to ever see the light of day. More like intentionally exposing citizens to radioactive or otherwise toxic substances, who knows what else but it probably isn't crashed flying saucers.

 

[pigfarmer]

Steven Greenstreet @MiddleOfMayhem



EXCLUSIVE: Former director of Pentagon's UFO office responds to President Trump's order to release the "alien" files and gives a preview of what the public should expect.

Pentagon scientist Sean Kirkpatrick, PhD, says he had access to ALL the top secret UFO files while he served as director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) 2022 - 2024.

In 2022, Congress mandated the creation of AARO and tasked Kirkpatrick with finding answers to the UFO mystery.

With the sweeping powers of Title 10 and Title 50 authorities, Kirkpatrick spent 2 years investigating every single top secret UFO document and looking inside every top secret basement for any evidence of UFOs and aliens. Not even Area 51 could turn him away.

He had the keys to unlock all of America's secrets and what he found... was shocking.

He retired in December 2024, issued a report to Congress, and quickly went public to sound the alarm about a "UFO religion" that had infiltrated the US government and sent Congress on a wild goose chase for fake aliens and paranormal monsters.

He said some members of this UFO religion hold high positions of authority within the military and represent a potential threat to national security due to their irrational decision making, unpredictable behavior and fringe beliefs.

Bafflingly, both Congress and the news media mostly ignored Kirkpatrick's report, and his warnings, and have since continued head-first into an abyss of unhinged UFO mania, wasting taxpayer resources and scaring the public.

And that brings us to this week, where President Trump says he will mandate the release of all "UFO" and "alien" files inside various government agencies and departments.

(It should be noted that Trump and the Trump family have been lobbied by members of this UFO "religion" in recent years)

So what does Sean Kirkpatrick think about all this? My (SG) questions and his (KP) answers below:

SG: I'm curious what your thoughts are on the recent hoopla of Obama saying aliens were "real" and Trump saying he's going to mandate a wide release of UFO and "alien" files.

Since you had access to all these "files" while director of AARO, what can the public expect to see if/when such "files" are released?

KP: Most files of interest have been released including the ones I had declassified on Kona Blue. We worked hard among the National Archives and all of the supporting archives to find and release the documents in accordance with Congressional direction.

The public will likely see just as much new response as when Congress passed further legislation instructing industry to come clean on the alien tech they were supposedly hiding.

The public shouldn’t expect any further revelations as there really aren’t any. Sometimes the truth isn’t what you want to believe.

SG: UFO believers are claiming victory at Trump's announcement, using it as evidence of the government acknowledging aliens have visited Earth via extraterrestrial UFOs. Your response?

KP: Only the truly naïve and rationally challenged would claim this is an admission. This is both a distraction and a diversion from the fact that we’re about attack Iran and a response to Obama’s public attention on the matter.

SG: Any other thoughts on this new development?

KP: I expected this would eventually happen for a variety of reasons. I think this is a further waste of taxpayer money and valuable time when we have far more existential matters to worry about. When no new revelations occur, there with be an outcry of conspiracy and cover up.

When videos are released without analysis or explanation, there will be a flurry of pseudoscience and uneducated speculation to fill the gaps.

We are rapidly slipping back into the dark ages and out of enlightenment, and our leadership is leading the way.

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I have been, unfortunately, the only mainstream journalist to consistently cover this "UFO" story accurately.

 

[Rick Hunter]

Hmm, Kirkpatrick might actually believe what he is saying but I see no way that he could have actually accomplished what he said he did. The US Government is a massive entity.

 

[pigfarmer]

On one hand you have Kirkpatrick saying 'nothing to see here' and I suspect he's being honest and on the other you have Barbara Luna(tic) and others talking about interdimensional beings, demons and so forth.

Kirkpatrick was warning about the cult attached to this interest which should be the real point behind what he said not the presence or absence of ET.

 

[nivek]

Mystery as UFO vault with 3.8 million files is wiped clean hours after Trump demands alien docs released​

A massive public archive of declassified US government files vanished just one day after President Trump ordered the release of all UFO-related documents.

The Black Vault, run by researcher and ufologist John Greenewald Jr, had its main server reportedly wiped clean on February 20, deleting hundreds of gigabytes worth of files on UFOs, declassified CIA projects, and major conspiracies, including the assassination of JFK.

Greenewald shared the news online, explaining that some server directories had their permissions, the safeguards on who can access or edit them, and the file ownership logs changed without explanation.

Black Vault has become a go-to resource for anyone wanting to see exactly what the government has quietly made public over the last 80 years.

Greenewald has spent three decades organizing information on hidden programs and little-known incidents that suggest the US has been involved in top secret efforts to recover and take advantage of alien technology.

Troves of declassified files the public can freely search through on the Black Vault detail military base reports, witness testimonies, and even CIA directives since the 1940s and 50s which have been unsealed without widespread public knowledge.

The researcher has also publicly revealed every time a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was returned by the CIA, FBI, and other government organizations with little or no response.

The timing of the potential sabotage came just hours after the president's history-making declaration, ordering the Pentagon to disclose anything 'related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).'

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[pigfarmer]

So, nobody takes an image or runs a backup? Of the four servers were any physical? I doubt it. A virtual instance could be restored in a couple minutes.

Maybe this is a good argument to keep a secret physical server in your bathroom.

 

[nivek]

Mysterious disappearance of UFO-linked Air Force general sparks nationwide search​

A retired US Air Force general who led laboratories linked to UFO research has been reported missing from New Mexico. William Neil McCasland, 68, was last seen around 11am Friday near Quail Run Court NE in Albuquerque, the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) said.

The sheriff's office issued a Silver Alert, a public notification system used to locate missing seniors or individuals with Alzheimer's, dementia, or other medical conditions. 'Due to his medical issues, law enforcement is concerned for his safety,' the office said.

McCasland, a veteran of Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, previously led both the Phillips Research Site and the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson in Ohio.

Some UFO enthusiasts have linked those facilities to secret studies of advanced aerospace technology and unexplained phenomena, though officials maintain they focus on national security and experimental defense projects.

The FBI told the Daily Mail that they are also involved in the hunt, but that the Sheriff’s Department is leading the search. ‘The FBI Albuquerque Field Office is involved in this investigation, as it is standard practice for the FBI to assist our local law enforcement partners if we have a tool, tactic, or technique that could benefit their investigations,’ a spokesperson said.

‘The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) is leading this investigation.’



Col. Justin Secrest, commander of Kirtland's 377th Air Base Wing, told the Albuquerque Journal the base is working closely with local law enforcement. 'Our thoughts are with his family during this difficult time,' Secrest said.

The BCSO shared a missing person's report for McCasland on Facebook, writing: 'Unknown clothing description and unknown direction of travel.' By Sunday afternoon, the BCSO said New Mexico Search and Rescue was assisting in the investigation, the Albuquerque Journal reported.

Anyone with information was urged to text BCSO at 847411 or call the Missing Persons Unit at 505-468-7070.

McCasland oversaw research at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where he managed the Air Force's $2.2 billion science and technology program, along with additional customer-funded research.

Wright-Patterson has long been linked in UFO lore to the alleged study of materials from the 1947 Roswell incident, though official reports attribute the debris to Project Mogul balloons.

He retired from the Air Force in 2013 and later held private-sector positions, including director of technology at Applied Technology Associates.


He claimed that the US government and contractor groups already possess free energy technology, sometimes referred to as zero-point energy, that could make conventional energy sources obsolete, stating: 'One inch of air could power the U.S. for hundreds of years.'

DeLonge suggested that TTSA was being restrained from releasing all the information government insiders had provided, but that the organization sought investment from private sources to develop this technology for energy and aerospace purposes.

He further stated that TTSA expected to create a working anti-gravity craft, and the company's SEC filing noted that its aerospace division is 'dedicated to finding revolutionary breakthroughs in propulsion, energy and communications.'

An email tied McCasland to Wright-Patterson, alleging he oversaw the lab where Roswell materials were supposedly sent and scheduling emails showed a planned meeting with DeLonge, Podesta, and someone signing as 'Neil McC,' consistent with McCasland.

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[nivek]

I hacked NASA and finally found the truth about UFOs… the cover-up is astonishing​

A British computer hacker has stepped out from the shadows to retell his discovery of an alleged UFO photo while accessing NASA's systems.

Gary McKinnon was accused of perpetrating the 'biggest military computer hack of all time' after breaching 97 government sites in 2002. Though he has long insisted he was not searching for aliens, McKinnon said he was looking for evidence of suppressed energy or propulsion technology when he allegedly infiltrated NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

That is when, he claimed, he found a high-resolution image of a cigar-shaped craft hovering above Earth. 'Then there's like slowly a hemisphere started appearing, and I'm thinking that's a planet. What the hell? And then suddenly there's a big, straight kind of silvery line, cigar-shaped object, McKinnon said while speaking on the American Alchemy podcast with Jesse Michels.

He also claims to have discovered a spreadsheet labeled “non-terrestrial officers,” suggesting the individuals listed were not based on Earth. Moments later, he said, someone appeared to take control of his screen. 'They right-clicked, disconnected and boom, that was it. I was cut out,' McKinnon recalled.

Following the hack, McKinnon faced a decade-long extradition battle with the US, where he was threatened with up to 70 years in prison, but the British government ultimately blocked it. There is still a live arrest warrant out on McKinnon, placing him on the Interpol red list so he cannot enter the US.

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[Dejan Corovic]

This is really spooky.

There was an abduction case back in 1974 in US and space beings told to abductees about future wars in Iraq and even Ukraine, and even they predicted assassination of some political leader but it is not clear which. It might be Iranian leader who was recently killed, or it might be Putin who might be killed in future.

Space beings predicting future events is nothing new, but this is one startling because we are watching these wars right now.

Another thing is how can they predict future when future doesn't exist? This is completely off the track.


View: https://youtu.be/cdvOvf3C4RE?t=584

 

[Rick Hunter]

In antiquity, the aliens were gods and the contactees were prophets. I'm currently reading the Book of Enoch.

 

[pigfarmer]

Earth rise from Apollo 8.

I can't help but wonder why in the incomprehensible vastness of Everything why any other species would know or care about this tiny speck at all much less the behavior of the tribes that inhabit it.

 

[Rick Hunter]

Ida know, maybe as a model for how not to be a civilization?