An alien invasion could trigger a global financial and political crisis, a space boffin has warned. Alien-hunter Avi Loeb said the stock market may crash if we are visited by ETs due to financial uncertainties.
And he warned that all nations must show restraint against UFOs, adding: “An irresponsible militaristic response from one of them towards the visitor could have a devastating effect on all of us.”
He said: “Realizing that we are visited by the products of a sibling in the cosmic family of technological civilizations would also have a profound impact on geopolitics. It would pose a potential threat to all earthlings because we are all in the same boat.”
The Harvard professor said he expected us to encounter a technological device guided by AI rather than a biological visitor such as ET, as portrayed in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 hit film.
But he warned: “One thing is clear: we must observe our dating partner to learn more about its qualities and intent and make sure that it is not a serial killer.”
The first batch of secret US government files on flying saucers was released to the public earlier this month.
Avi, who warned aliens are likely to be smarter and more advanced than humans, previously said he felt they could “teach us things that we can imitate, that we can aspire to, will give us a meaning to our cosmic existence”.
And in his latest blog post, he writes: “The discovery of cosmic neighbours will affect religious beliefs by implying that God is not a parent of a single child.
“But the same discovery will also be humbling to secular people, because it would suggest that our cosmic siblings are more accomplished than we are. After all, their technological products reached our home planet before we reached their point of origin.
“Perhaps alien brains do not possess better cognitive skills but they simply had the benefit of more than a century of science and technology since discovering quantum mechanics.
“Once we meet their amazing vehicles, we would be shocked to learn about their advanced science and technology.”
Earlier this year, financial expert Helen McCaw wrote the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey to urge a contingency plan be drawn up if it was proven aliens did exist.
She wrote: “If banks start failing, the payment system will collapse, and you’ll have rioting… it’s madness not to consider it and plan.”
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