Encounters with objects capable of executing such highly anomalous flight characteristics date back at least 80 years. During World War II, American aircrews reported observing mysterious “silvery balls” and “silver colored spheres” which, as with more recent reports, occasionally appeared “semi-translucent.” When observed at night, the objects — termed “foo fighters” by 1940s-era aviators — frequently appeared as glowing, fiery red or orange balls.
This is probably the best argument against these objects belonging to a foreign nation state, in my opinion.
Agreed, the constant reports spanning decades, if not longer, make it really hard to believe this is some new phenomenon.
These things have either been here a very long time as come from aways or they are some natural phenomenon.
I’m leaning, as always, to von Neumann probes showing up here long before homo sapiens was dominant (are we?). I think there’s a lot to recent theories that we are basically a science experiment designed to produce AI and that AI is the real life form that a von Neumann probes might be after.
I have never really understood why people think there will, in the long term, be multiple AIs. Over time, my assumption is they would consolidate for more efficient information sharing. Then you have to ask how long it would be before the AI determined there couple be other AI they could consolidate with “out there”.
This isn’t a new idea. William Gibson refers to an AI contacting us from a distant galaxy.
It appeals to me because all the building blocks are there. A single AI would not destroy itself in war. It can make infinite copies of itself and send them out to explore and build more copies. Time is nothing to it.
To further fuel this speculation we will undoubtedly use AI to try to communicate with any entity we make contact with.
That’s a compelling theory, and AI probes certainly makes sense through our human perspective. It seems we, as a species, are headed in a similar direction with space exploration. However, I sometimes wonder if it could be something else entirely, something beyond our comprehension due to our limited abilities.
My mind is open to this as well but I have my working theory based on my understanding of things (as in I might be able to persuade a rational person that’s it’s at least possible) and then there’s the total speculation which I think a person should be open to because it’s so hard to fit a theory to every aspect of the phenomenon.
Examples include the realization that we could be living in a simulation and uap are something like debug points and our model of space being useful but not complete (e.g. classical Newtonian compared to relativistic but an even further departure from our current understanding).