US authorities ‘might need proof of aliens however fears it can look incompetent’
Donald Trump is facing even more pressure to release the X-files after claims the US may have evidence of aliens but doesn’t want to “look incompetent”.
The renewed calls for the Orange Manbaby, 79, to tell the public everything his administration knows comes after he claimed he would release them, but didn’t specify exactly when. It comes after Barack Obama said aliens do exist but he had never seen one.
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb, a professor of science at top US university Harvard, said the US government might have detected objects that are “extraterrestrial in origin” but are yet to release it to the public.
He said: “They might have detected some anomalous objects which are extraterrestrial in origin. In that case, they materials and data is already here. In that case, it is up to the US President to release that.”
Professor Loeb previously warned 3I/Atlas could be an “extraterrestrial artefact” about to make first contact. Speaking exclusively to the Daily Star, he said: “I don’t know if that evidence exists. Barack Obama said aliens are real and that was the first question he asked.
“He said he never saw any evidence. They might not be sure about it or it might belong to an adversarial country. Or they may prefer to not show incompetence in being unable to identify objects in the sky.
“The US taxpayer gives a lot of money to the US military to protect the skies, if they were to admit they couldn’t figure it out, they’d ask why?”
Professor Loeb said Earth is now entering an era where interstellar visitors – space objects which come from a different galaxy from ours – are likely to become more common.
And he believes we may have been visited by more than we know about, but we didn’t realise because we weren’t looking for them.
As well as 3I/Atlas – which whizzed past Earth within about 210 million kilometres of the sun last year – other objects have previously been confirmed to have passed through the Milky Way from other galaxies – 1I/’Oumuamua in 2017, 2I/Borisov in 2019.
Professor Loeb believes they were only spotted by chance by astronomers as they were lit up by The Sun as they raced through the solar system.
He added: “Even before 2017, we could have found something like 3I/Atlas many times over. When we have found something, it was by accident. Our telescopes can only capture things moving at tens of thousands of kilometres per second.
“If something were moving much faster than that, we might miss it because it can move in a single snapshot. We could have something one tenth of the speed of light and it’s 10 times faster than our fastest rockets and the technology we have.
“Now we start a new era where we can look for new objects. In particular, we can watch for anomalies in the objects we detect to determine what isn’t the familiar human-made crafts we know about.
“Some of the interstellar objects might collide with earth, so we can send an expedition and scientists can investigate. Only by investigating the objects can we truly know what they are.
“Oumuamua had property that were quite unexpected and Borisov was pushed by something other than the Sun and was very flat. It had and extreme shape and was 10 times longer than it was wide.
“And 3I/Atlas came within the orbital plume of planets. What interests me is if any of these could be technological in origin.”
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