The extraterrestrial debate

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Aliens: the age old question of “are we alone?” Recently, there has been more and more proof that we are not. 

Thomas Ray Wilson was the Director of Intelligence for the Joint Chiefs from 1997 to 1999. From there, he was Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, 1999-2002. Dr. Eric Davis was a scientist for the National Institute for Discovery Sciences. 

Wilson and Davis met at 10 am on October 16, 2002. Wilson arrived with two Navy officers in uniform, while he was in civilian clothing. The two sat in the back of Wilson’s car for a little more than an hour, in the back of the EG&G Special Projects Building. One interesting thing about that is that EG&G’s “Special Projects” division was the operator of the Janet Terminal at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, which became famous or notorious as the airline to fly employees and contractors to remote government sites in Nevada and California – places like Area 51.

They discussed a very important date from 1997, which involved UFO researcher Stephen Greer, Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, and US Navy Lt. Commander Willard Miller, who met Wilson and two other individuals, Admiral Michael Crawford and General Patrick Hughes. Mitchell and Wilson recalled the day as April 9, 1997. 

The meeting was to bring attention to the existence of deep black and rogue private organizations involved in studying alien technology and bodies, and essentially needed to be brought under formal control by the U.S. government. 

Davis’ notes gloss over this part of the meeting but focus on what was discussed after the formal meeting. This was a two-hour conversation between Lt. Commander Miller and Wilson on “UFOs, MJ-12, Roswell, crashed UFO/alien bodies, etc.”

Wilson, in fact, said that “he knew about intelligence on US mil/intell on UFO close encounters – and foreign gov’t encounters. Seen records.”

This meeting started some very important conversations about extraterrestrial life and how much the government actually knew. 

Skip forward to April 2020, the Pentagon officially released UFO videos. The three videos, showing rapidly moving objects, have been circulating since September of 2019, but were reposted by the Pentagon to clear up confusion as to if the videos were real or not. 

This has raised many questions, has the government been keeping other videos such as this to themselves? How much do we actually know about whether we are alone or not? Why has the government kept information from the public? 

Another recent phenomenon, there has been multiple reports of possible life in Venus’ clouds. Telescopes in Chile and Hawaii have spotted a chemical called phosphine, a noxious gas associated with life. While nothing is confirmed, this is a huge step towards exploring possible life on other planets. 

While concrete evidence is still being dug up from all sorts of nooks and crannies, we can reasonably conclude that we are not alone in the universe. Many use the term “infinite universe”- which is technically incorrect (if the universe does not have a set volume, no matter how big, we would just be instantly sucked in)- to describe our universe fairly. In a universe bigger than imaginable, there is no way we are the only life. No matter what you believe, there are far too many planets, stars, galaxies, and solar systems for us to be the sole survivors in a vast universe.