The unknowns of UFOs and aliens return
That three US military personnel have testified under oath before a House of Representatives committee that the US government is in possession of extraterrestrial spacecraft and the biological remains of their occupants has once again startled a busy and divided public opinion on Earth. It is certainly a step up from the many conjectures that in the past have fuelled the imagination and provoked real terror among at least part of the battered human race.
This time we are not dealing with the great hoax spread by Orson Welles over the radio on that Halloween night in 1938 when his deep and convincing voice caused panic among millions of listeners who believed that "an invading army from Mars" was preparing to conquer the Earth at sidereal speed. Since then, both in the United States and in many other parts of the world, including Spain, there have been numerous reports of alleged sightings of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects), most of them by Air Force pilots or Navy operators, captured while performing their routine duties.
Although in the popular imagination the term UFO or UFO persists in English, the US Department of Defence changed it to the broader concept of UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenons), corresponding in Spanish to the acronym UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenons). This has led to an increase in the number of reports of all kinds of space threats, whether by balloons, drones, unmanned aircraft, drones or even manipulated or camouflaged birds.
The Pentagon has significantly increased the number and volume of its dossiers. According to statements made by the military, now in reserve, David Grusch, Ryan Graves and David Fravor before a committee of the lower house of the US Parliament, the government has stored in secret warehouses reliable evidence of alien spacecraft that have arrived on Earth, as well as the biological remains of their occupants, "non-human beings". The remains of these craft were described as "black cubes inside transparent spheres, floating and moving without any apparent propulsion". The most articulate of the three witnesses, former intelligence officer David Grusch, told MPs that he had "seen one of these craft go from stationary to hypersonic speed in a fraction of a second".
The three witnesses acknowledged that the government has been closely monitoring extraterrestrial-related phenomena for decades, specifically since the 1930s, but that until now at least it has deliberately withheld information not only from the public but also from Congress.
Each of the three explained their own personal experiences to the deputies, all of them agreeing that the technology available to the artefacts they encountered allowed them to manoeuvre and travel on a much larger scale than those possessed by NASA or the Armed Forces. They did not rule out, however, that at least some of these phenomena detected were sophisticated drones of some foreign power, without mentioning any specifically, but admitted that, if so, "there is a serious and urgent national security problem".
The Pentagon report, which served as the basis for the creation of this House committee, makes no reference to the extraterrestrial or alien origin of the phenomena, but instead emphasises the possible involvement of foreign governments. In this regard, it is worth recalling the recent destruction of a Chinese spy balloon, which flew from west to east over the US skies before President Joe Biden gave orders to destroy it, collect its remains from the sea and analyse it thoroughly.
In any case, the members of the committee have had the opportunity to watch a number of videos showing several of these UAPs, objects that appeared and disappeared in a nanosecond, but which gave off intense flashes of blinding light. In addition to the witnesses directly involved, UAPs will continue to fuel the imagination and anticipatory stories of more than a few film and television scriptwriters, at least before the sightings are followed by an encounter. But by then, it may already be too late.