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Originally Posted by Electrickjet
I don't think it's necessarily been a coordinated plan outside of NATO member nations, but do believe various governments have all been sitting on this info.
Understandable. It's far fetched, they have no hard data and you'd come off as a freakin' nut job (until very recently). Bad for your career, to say the least. But I agree there's probably no big conspiracy.
It's starting to look like there's more to *some* UFO sightings than observer error/optical illusion, etc. And I'm the furthest thing imaginable from the tin-foil hat crowd.
Been pondering why this is all turning up now... multi-spectrum sensor capabilities have existed as long as I've been in the mil (80's) but this stuff has been more prevalent in the last 15 years. We started using radio a lot about 100 years ago... so there's an approx 100 light-year, ever-expanding sphere in which any advanced civilization should know that we're here. So maybe they just noticed us recently? Due to radius cubed math the number of stars (and thereby potential advanced civilizations) in our broadcast sphere is increasing exponentially.
Why does the Navy notice it? Maybe because we have lots of platforms with multi-spectrum capability? Maybe like you say they avoid land or national territories? I'm 1000% certain that anybody with the technology to do those things (and possibly travel between stars) would only be observed by us if they wanted to be. The concept that somebody could have the capability to travel over interstellar distances, then crash in Roswell and be captured by the USAF is laughably ludicrous.
Starting to look unlikely that it's other nations, if they were that far ahead of us Taiwan and Hawaii would be under a Red flag with gold stars, and Gazprom would be drilling on the North Slope. Or not, since they probably wouldn't even need oil.
Sooo.... what's left? Interstellar travelers? That's so technically daunting that if you're seriously considering it you also have to seriously consider time travel and alternate dimensions. Super-luminal travel technology would be very closely related to time travel from a physics perspective.
Seems pretty unlikely that there would be advanced intelligent life native to our solar system other than us (we have the good real estate for carbon/water based bio chemistry), but from a physics perspective that may be an easier pill to swallow than hyperdrive. Although it's a big universe out there. As long as we're reaching, it's almost more rational that there's an advanced human civilization that split off from us millennia ago and has remained hidden (that would explain a lot of mythology). They could be hanging out on other planets, under the ice caps, even under the sea floor.
DoD is supposed to release a public statement next month. Not expecting answers, but rather that they'll rule some things out. I've talked to a couple flag officers about this, leadership is concerned and willing to invest resources to learn more.