UFOs: What a pile of garbage!

Pro-UFOs (as if to support the alien UFO hypothesis) and ancient astronaut buffs are happy to claim evidence that aliens were once, or are currently, here as mere people, tourists, scientists, colonizers, or whatever. that is, sharing with us this Third Rock rising from the Sun. Now, a logical objection to this scenario is that there is no obvious alien debris, garbage site, kitchen dump, or ruin of any kind left behind. There is no fossil evidence of any non-terrestrial creatures or possible mythological and extraterrestrial hybrids (such as the centaurs, the sphinx or the sirens). So far no skeletons of ET itself have been discovered. We have yet to find the burial remains (if any) of an alien Cyclops.

That’s not to say there aren’t some pretty weird fossils in the geological record, that is, within rock strata, but nothing that can’t ultimately be interpreted as terrestrial and in Darwinian evolutionary terms. Trilobites, for example, were terrestrial.

As any paleontologist is happy to point out, the fossils we do have amount to only a tiny fraction of those that still exist within the geological rock record; all fossils (discovered or not) are only an incredibly small fraction of all those creatures (including plants) that once fossilized. Of those that were once fossilized, many have been destroyed by natural forces; those subsets, all those potentially undiscovered fossils, or fossils that no longer exist, are themselves an ultratiny fraction of all those creatures that once lived and died. Most (almost all) creatures when they die serve as food for something else, even if it’s just bacteria. They biodegrade one way or another, the usual dust to dust and ash to ash scenario. Translated, the odds that a lone Joe Trilobite (out of billions) has ever been fossilized, discovered, and ultimately delivered to adorn a museum display is astronomically against the grain. So that should also apply to ET. Some bona fide ET artifact, even an ET itself, might well exist buried in the ground, but that’s no use if that artifact remains buried or, more likely, has been destroyed over geological eons by various and destructive natural geological processes.

In short, if such extraterrestrial artifacts and fossils exist, they are so few in number, so eroded, weathered, buried, and/or biodegraded that the proverbial needle in the haystack is easy prey by comparison. If anyone is familiar with the History Channel documentary series “Life After People,” infrastructure, when left unattended to the mercy and forces of nature and the ravages of time, doesn’t survive that long before falling apart. It is said that “man fears time, but time only fears the pyramids.” Despite that observation, it is obvious that time has taken its toll on those ancient wonders of Giza in Egypt. In another 50,000 years, perhaps ten times longer, even the pyramids will have been recycled back to sand as wind, rain, pollution and earthquakes strut their destructive stuff.

Still, perhaps an amateur archaeologist or paleontologist or just a lucky prospector or individual looking for the right place at the right time might stumble upon the find of the century; an alien would actually be the find, not only of the century, but of all time.

Those same natural geological forces and biological agents would also strut their natural recycling and decaying material into ET waste. But, aside from that probability, ET can and does have the option to remove its own debris from our planet. One also needs to ask; would we necessarily recognize and distinguish ET garbage from all other forms of human garbage? Would there be any obvious differences that would suggest that extraterrestrial garbage is in any way different from human garbage? If we didn’t immediately conclude that a metal bolt we found was extraterrestrial, would we go to the trouble of subjecting it to complex analysis, analysis that would be necessary to confirm that this metal bolt of garbage was not ordinary? rubbish but extraordinary rubbish? I conclude that the lack of ET garbage is not evidence of the lack of ET

The lack of garbage dumps and alien artifacts could also mean that aliens clean themselves up (unlike the litter-prone humans on which much of human prehistory is based: excavations of our ancient garbage dumps, technically called kitchen trash cans). The ET ‘gods’ (ancient astronauts) took all of their stuff with them when they left, including the end products of their genetic experiments (aside from their last end product: us humans and our hominid ancestors, which had self-extinct ), the half-and-half hybrid (like the Minotaur) of our mythology.

Unless we humans start blasting our garbage into space, say toward final incineration in the solar furnace; well, let’s just say that option is going to increase disposal rates several thousand times, and therefore it’s not a realistic option, for us. Therefore, we have no choice but to use Planet Earth as a garbage dump, much to the delight of archaeologists who again base much of ancient human history on such detritus. But, as noted above, time, natural forces, and biological agents eventually take care of most forms of human waste: solid, liquid, and gaseous.

There is another solution to ET’s lack of garbage. A technologically advanced ET is probably equally advanced in recycling technology. If you’re going on interstellar travel, you’d better be damn efficient at recycling. Anyway, I don’t remember anyone on ‘Star Trek’, for example, leaving their trash behind: an artifact, maybe like a book about Chicago mobsters, yes, but not trash! Even that book was a violation of the Prime Directive! ET would pay more attention to rules and regulations.

Whether the extraterrestrial artifacts have been eroded by time or their detritus has been carefully removed or recycled by ancient alien astronauts, any remaining physical evidence, interpreted as evidence of ET, will be evidence of our relatively modern eras, not the geological past. . That evidence could be contained within human mythology or human archaeological relics that represent in one way or another the ‘gods’, entities that could be extraterrestrial beings: figurines, works of art, monuments, etc. or half-and-half hybrids (such as the Sphinx stone monument that rests near the trio of those great but crumbling pyramids on Egypt’s Giza Plateau). However, any archaeologist worth his salt will tell you that these are all human works. Some out-of-place anomalous artifacts have been discovered, but while they are anomalies or curiosities, they are not so extraordinary as to make a strong case for the existence of aliens. But, in conclusion to that observation that all roads pointing to alien ‘gods’ were paved by humans, well, the absence of direct evidence linking aliens on Earth is not the same thing as evidence that aliens they are absent on Earth.

But speaking of artifacts related to aliens or ancient astronauts, there have been many authors other than Erich von Daniken who have made a career out of pointing out archaeological evidence suggestive of aliens. Clearly, a lot of it is embellishment, wishful thinking, and often just plain nonsense, but, like most of life’s little mysteries, this isn’t an either/or situation. There are a lot of shades of gray here and I’ve seen quite a few artifacts, especially images, that are quite suggestive of aliens in our past and of course, if it’s past time, why not present time? Add mythology as a complement to archeology and the evidence for the ETH tightens.

Finally, consider your own environment: home, work, community. Within that sphere in which you exist for the most part, what proof do you have that meteors exist? Has a meteorite fallen in your backyard? crashed at your workplace or anywhere within your everyday environment? What about an airplane? You see these strange flying objects all the time, but you don’t find any artifact of them, an artifact that falls to earth in your backyard, your workplace, or within your community. You probably don’t have any real physical evidence to prove that meteorites or planes exist. It’s all just an eyewitness reality on your part. Of course, if you claim to see a ‘shooting star’ or a Boeing 747 flying overhead; no one is likely to spoil your sighting. So can we dismiss UFOs just because there are no artifacts to be had conveniently, but just general eyewitness testimony?

Based on your own terrain, you have as many artifacts for ET as you have meteors or planes (unless you were unlucky enough to piss off the gods and have a plane or meteor land on your roof).

But wait, what about the July 1947 Roswell, New Mexico UFO crash and other alleged UFO crash-related incidents? Unfortunately, even if it is true, the alleged alien artifacts are not in the hands of the scientific community. There are no peer-reviewed articles in academic journals on the studied remains. There is no end point in the literature that is not controversial. The alleged artifacts are not displayed in museums. Only the elite who need to know have access, and they’re not talking. So Roswell is a yes, but as proof positive, it’s a no-no, at least so far.

However, there are modern UFO artifacts of all kinds. In geology, not all fossils are bones or shells. In fact, not all fossils are even the remains of living things, but rather events. For example, there are impressions of fossilized raindrops in now-solid rock; ditto wavy markings. But with regard to the form of living things, there are fossils of only their burrows, and more often only of their footprints. A UFO ‘footprint’ is similar to a trail on the ground left after a UFO landing, such as the Socorro, New Mexico landing on April 24, 1964, as witnessed by local police officer Lonnie Zamora. The magnetic traces left on metal objects like cars or the physiological effects incurred on human (or plant and animal) tissue is something else that can be treated and analyzed in a laboratory. So, in a way of speaking, there are UFO ‘artifacts’.

So the search for UFOs or ancient astronaut artifacts is similar to the old search for a needle in a haystack. But that’s something scientists employed in the scientifically legitimate Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) pursuit can relate to. That needle/haystack argument is their fallback position when SETI scientists are pressed to explain why they themselves haven’t detected ET (even if it was and not here) in more than five decades of searching the skies for that radio beam. artificial or optical beacon. . They would say, and rightly so, that absence of proof is not the same as proof of absence. And that concise saying also helps to understand why UFOs (and ancient astronauts) are not garbage. The absence of ET garbage is not necessarily the same as evidence of the absence of ET.