Is ET BS?

Money for Nothing

If it’s one thing we’ve learned from both Hollywood and organized religion, imagination and story-telling can provide a big payoff. Is it any different when we journey to the realm of the discussion of extraterrestrials visiting our earth?

There’s profit for the prophets, and the monetary angle of promoting little green—or gray-- men should be examined as it has an effect on the credibility of those who serve us the existence of extra-planetary humanoids on a flying saucer.

Many readers are familiar with the rather wild haired gentleman who offers his “expertise” on a variety of UFO and ET related television programs. They’re out there, and they were here, he says.

Giorgio A. Tsoukalos has an unconfirmed estimated net worth of four million dollars, and the majority of his discernible expertise comes from promotion of important bodybuilding contests. He has a degree in communications, and he certainly is an excellent communicator. He’s fun to watch.

But, should we listen to him? As far as can be determined academically speaking, he has no science background, no astronomy background, no astrobiology background—just a communications degree, which isn’t exactly hovering up there in STEM land.

If we wish to listen to him, it should solely be out of politeness.

Dr. Steven Greer, a retired medical doctor, is another well known personage to those who watch “documentaries” about UFOs and ETs. Now the good doctor has a B.S. in Biology, and an MD, (which is exactly hovering up there in STEM land). He is the founder of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI).

His organization claims some 4,000 cases of traces of UFO landings. Maybe the pilots just stopped for gas and then zoomed back up to whatever planet they were from, because there has been no credible confirmation of these landings—at least none that have made main stream media.

In his 2013 documentary, Sirius, it was claimed that a fifteen inch skeleton, the Atacama skeleton was of alien origin. It wasn’t, it was, after genetic testing, human, and just the remains of a deformed individual.

It should be noted that Dr. Greer was able to retire from the practice of medicine and become a full time saucer seeker, so it’s a safe bet that his well-produced (if not well evidenced) documentaries have done rather well from a financial point of view.

The above are just two of the examples of those out there who make a living from promoting and promising the “I want to believe” X-Files types, that yes, they are out there those little green men, and they’ve been visiting us without having left a phone number to contact them.

With regards to electronic evidence of the existence of extraterrestrials, let’s take a quick look at the results of the SETI program, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.

A flying visit to their site informs us that this organization which started out with two workers now has about 100. Star search must be good, but how have the SETI fellows done?

Well, according to their site, there has been no evidence of extraterrestrial life found. This organization has been around for forty years, and they have found nothing with respect to ETs. Not even a promising radio signal from out there.

Yet they have been funded for forty years.

What about the recent government investigations into extraterrestrial craft and presumably life?

These were the key takeaways from the hearing:

First, The DoD has failed to provide transparency on the existence and effectiveness of programs related to UAPs not only to Congress, but to the American people. Second, Congress and the American people have fundamental questions on the topic of UAPs and incursions near sensitive military installations. Increased disclosure and transparency are needed to provide security and information.

That’s it. No ETs were harmed—or found—in the making of this hearing. No UAP or UFO or BVD sightings were found to be extra-terrestrial. 

But what of the recently disclosed footage from Navy pilots observing unidentified aerial phenomena buzzing about in the not so friendly skies? Was there any proof adduced that they were extra-terrestrial?

No. However, they exhibited abilities not known to be possible to the pilots. Is that proof of an extraterrestrial origin? No. Pilots are pilots, they are not cleared for the kind of work that DARPA and its equivalents might be doing under wraps and that are financed by a black budget that was, in 2019 according to Trump, eighty six BILLION dollars. That can buy a whole bagful of way out wonder technology.

Advanced technology from right here on good old Gaia is zipping around for years before it’s discovered by John Q. Public. For example, we the people learned of the U-2 in 1960 when the Russians got lucky and bagged one with a missile. That plane had been operational since the mid-fifties, but until the shoot down, nobody knew who didn’t have a need to.

Why You Should Care

Ever since Klaatu came down for a visit in the 1951 The Day The Earth Stood Still, portraying an ET who cared about our welfare, a segment of the public has been seriously awaiting his return, or the factual equivalent thereof.

Fantasy is nice to play at, but when it’s funded by cold hard cash, and when it’s funded by your tax dollars, or charitable contributions, then, we need to look at this fantasy with a wide open skeptical eye.

No doubt, there are those out there who would seek to personally profit from our desire to have confirmed that we are not alone, that in fact, there is a Mr. Spaceman out there who is just waiting to come down and help us out with our math homework, so we can approach light speed in our space explorations and be disintegrated by minute particles in space hitting our craft in the process.

We especially need a peek at a black budget that at least, is seven percent of our military budget to see what kind of woo-woo is being funded and how much it’s costing, because there’s one truth out there that nobody disputes—government spending is out of control, and is often wasted on nonsense.