What does it take to prove aliens exist? Cool Worlds: What Would It Take To Convince the World? The Ambiguity Problem, Youtube 2023
So what does alien-hunting success look like? ibid.
There are many proposed solutions to the Fermi Paradox, aka Where are all the aliens? In 2001 a new one was published that has gained a lot of attention: the so-called Grabby Aliens Hypothesis … the brain-child of an economist, not an astronmer … Robin Hanson. Cool Worlds: Why I Don’t Believe in Grabby Aliens, Youtube 2024
He argues there were a series of transitions that would get to us. ibid.
We live so early in the cosmos. ibid.
Grabby aliens: These species expand out and gobble up all of the available real estate … the basics of the model. ibid.
We don’t see any grabby aliens out there. ibid.
The other most popular idea out there: the Dark Forest Hypothesis … places fear as the primary motivating force for the behaviours of alien civilisations. Cool Worlds: Dark Worlds, Youtube 2025
Most of them stay silent for fear of being attacked. ibid.
If alien civilisations are out there, what will humanity’s first contact with them most plausibly look like? Cool Worlds: The Eschatian Hypothesis, Youtube 2025
Hot Jupiters: Despite their staggering rarity, astronomers routinely detect thousands of these things every year. Why? Because they are so damn bright. ibid.
The most detectable civilisations will be the most unstable. ibid.
[comment]: The United States’ government along with other governments of the world has been totally denying the existence of unidentified flying objects that are not of earthly origin. ETs Among Us: Witnesses & Whistleblowers, 2016
Every aspect of our lives would be fundamentally changed. ibid. Nick Pope
Shuttle Mission STS-29: Houston, this is Discovery: we still have the alien spacecraft under observance. ibid. caption
Apollo 14 Mission Lunar Surface: We’ve had visitors again. ibid.
We have seen individuals who allege alien abduction. They find an object within their body which is verified by an X-Ray, a CAT scam or an MRI. They have some distress from the object. ibid. doctor
How many other craft have we shot at? How many other craft have we shot down. ibid. comment
On an August evening in 1995 there was a worldwide broadcast of an 18-minute grainy black-n-white film. The Alien Autopsy Scandal I, Sky 2026
All we had was Ray’s story and the film. ibid. comment
He [US Air Force cameraman] explains that he worked on the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb. In July 1947 he had a call from the person he reported directly to, General McMullen. McMullen was straight to the point. ibid. Ray visits man with film
He had a copy of the film sitting there for 50 years. When I saw him he broke open those seals for the first time. ibid.
I saw the full alien autopsy footage. ibid.
He was trying to sell the footage as a cash deal. ibid.
That’s when Ray got attacked by persons unknown. ibid. comment
The screening at the Museum of London lit the touchpaper. ibid.
We put together one of the most creative team in cinematic history. ibid. Ray
[Gary, producer]: And I say, Stop! Do not touch anything. I think it’s oxidized. The Alien Autopsy Scandal II
You’re just pulling out clear tape, and powder is dropping to the floor. Yeah, I mean we were gutted. It was old nitrate film, and the film just deteriorated. ibid. Ray
You managed to save some frames from the original footage? ibid. comment
I’m calling it a restoration, yes. ibid. Ray
And we will film all of that in a flat in Camden. ibid.
The autopsy took the best part of six, seven hours to film. ibid.
No-one broke rank. Everyone was totally loyal. ibid.
Almost all the broadcasters said it was genuine. ibid.
The Santilli’ film represents something I had seen before in that briefing film at Kirkland Air Force base in the summer of 1979. ibid. Richard Doty, retired
[Gary]: Whatever was thrown to us, we were able to deal with. The Alien Autopsy Scandal III
So you effectively go full Columbo? ibid. interviewer to Philip, Yorkshire ufologist
Philip needs to be given credit as the one British guy who stays on top of it. ibid. US journalist
Maybe Ray was conned. ibid. Philip
There’s so many people out there with a will to believe. ibid. Professor of folklore
There’s many reasons why people might have been shown footage that they thought was convincing. ibid.
It looked like an operating theatre but it wasn’t. A sanatised rooms with a very large operating table on it there. But that was all. A phone in the corner … You had an alien. I can only compare it with ET … The film I saw was real. ibid. man shown film from military canister in a private house