Alien lifeforms watching war-torn, divided Earth could be ‘pretty disappointed’ by humanity’s ‘unintelligent’ obsession with war and conflict, says Harvard physicist Avi Loeb
Hippy aliens would be disappointed by humans if they ever come to our planet, a top scientist has suggested. Harvard professor Avi Loeb reckons extraterrestrial beings would hate how obsessed people are with killing each other on our war-torn planet.
The theoretical physicist said: “If I were looking at Earth from a distance, I would be pretty disappointed. Most of our investing is dealing with conflicts to prevent other people from killing us or us killing others.
“Look at the Ukraine war over a little bit of territory. That is not a sign of intelligence.” Prof Loeb, who directs Harvard’s Institute for Theory & Computation and leads the Galileo Project, argues that although extraterrestrial life is likely, any observers might see humanity as a potential threat.
He said: “They might be laughing at us. They might be watching us … to make sure we will not become predators, that we will not become dangerous to them.”
It comes as interest in UFOs and possible alien life has heightened in recent months following comments by high-profile US politicians. Donald Trump recently vowed to released America’s real-life X Files which could reveal once and for all if little green men actually exist.
The US President said he will direct all agencies, including the defence department, to “begin the process of identifying and releasing” all Government documents on extraterrestrial life because of the “tremendous interest”. Former American president Barack Obama also recently claimed aliens are “real” but he ”hasn’t seen them” and “they’re not being kept at Area 51”.
A survey by the Pew Research Center back in 2021 found around two-thirds of Americans said their best guess is that intelligent life exists on other planets. About half of US adults said UFOs reported by military personnel are “definitely” or “probably” evidence of intelligent life outside Earth.
Bill Diamond, president and chief executive of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, California, said: “We don’t want to think this is the only place in this extraordinarily and incomprehensibly large universe where life and intelligence and even technology have emerged. It sort of says about humans, ’We don’t want to be alone.’”
He claimed that, “absolutely, there are such things” as UFOs. His organisation is dedicated to exploring and understanding life and intelligence in the universe. He said: “People observe things in the sky that they can’t immediately identify or recognise as either human engineering such as planes or drones or helicopters, or animals, such as birds, and therefore they don’t know what they are.
Mr Diamond said he doubts any genuine visit from an advanced civilisation could be hidden for long. He said: “If any civilisation has mastered interstellar travel, they have technology and capabilities beyond our wildest comprehension.
“If they want to interact, they will; if they don’t, they won’t. If they want to be seen, they will be, and if not, they won’t be.”
UFOs are now more commonly referred to as UAP, unidentified aerial phenomena, a shift in language that reflects uncertainty rather than conclusion. Retired Rear Adm. Timothy Gallaudet argued that evidence shows them moving through both US airspace and oceans.
He said: “The nonhuman intelligence that operates them or controls them are absolutely real. We’ve recovered crashed craft.”
He argued more material should be made available for scientific analysis, including what he describes as a Navy “trove ” of footage. And he added: “When you look at these things in our airspace having near collisions with our aircraft, that’s a real valid concern.
“We are just not sure of what they are and what they intend to do with their interaction with humanity. That could be a national security threat, or not.
“When has ignorance ever been a good national strategy? Whether it be scary, harmful or not, or a mix, I think seeking the truth is in our best interest.”
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