In all probability, it is unlikely that we are alone in the universe. However, it’s a fact that Earth is the only object in our Solar System with advanced life on it and the idea that aliens have visited our planet is highly unlikely.

The reason they haven’t visited us is probably the same reason we haven’t visited them. Great distances and the inability to surpass the speed of light act against the easy travel depicted in science fiction movies. In fact, these limiting factors may well forever restrict travel to our solar system, certainly in the context of present technologies, which, in reality, do not permit single-generation interstellar travel.

What is disturbing is the denial of technologies that do exist that people have genuinely witnessed or experienced being superficially dismissed as conspiracy theory or psychological aberrations.   

There are people who have had very real experiences, even if they could not explain them or were manipulated into interpreting those experiences in ways that would discredit them. And what if people really were abducted by perpetrators dressed as “aliens”, as appearing in popular culture, as a means of hiding identity. Maybe it’s not exposure of “alien” activities that people need to fear.

Extraterrestrials may not be behind UFOs and while many sightings of unidentified phenomena may be optical illusions or misunderstandings, it is a fact that technologies are developed by very terrestrial beings that do not just suddenly spontaneously generate or materialise from nowhere. From stealth bombers to lethal AI-operated drones, new technologies are designed and tested, usually in remote locations, sometimes for years, before finally being deployed more openly, and it may well be that these are what certain people may have witnessed.

Most of these technologies are the stuff of science fiction – right up until they’re on the open market, and the main cause for concern is the superficial dismissal of genuine experiences as either “typical conspiracy theory stuff” or “psychological aberrations”.

A good recent example is “Havana Syndrome”. What I notice is that, whether the technologies being referred to are real or not, people who should know better in general and know nothing of the people describing their experiences in particular, are being very quick to discredit them and with the typical lack of logic that often accompanies such ready dismissals. “No-one else is experiencing it”, they say, “so it must be ‘anxiety’ or ‘nervousness’ of an individual”. Two or more people report it, but instead of that being considered corroborative information, it’s then “mass hysteria”. The question is – why the denial of even the possibility that such technologies may exist, instead of immediately opining that the ONLY possibility is “It’s psychological”, especially when psychiatrists who have actually met these people say it isn’t. That’s bad science and that concerns everyone.

A psychologist can’t say if someone’s being stalked or bombarded with infrasonic or whatever “invisible” weapons on the basis of psychological theory; only physics can do that. And no psychological “expert” worth the letters after their name would instantly dismiss such claims as “nervousness”, “anxiety” or “delusions” without at least examining them first. Material observation must come first to determine whether what people are saying is true or not. Then, and only then, can psychological explanations be sought for non-material experiences, if that turns out to be the case. That’s such an obviously scientifically, forensically correct approach, no wonder theories abound as to why it’s not being taken. I contend that the question as to why the obvious approach is not being taken may well be causing as much “anxiety” as the thought of such weapons themselves. Perhaps motive for denial of such is as much financial as intent to exploit them, refusal to admit damage done by them and reluctance to admit inabilty to counteract them. With devices and machines like these it would be difficult to justify expenditure on and make fortunes from such primitive weapons as bombs and bullets.