New Ideas on UFOs Enter Debate

Commentary

Are you ready to be shocked?

Imagine that you are there in Baltimore in 1844 when the first telegraph message arrives. Imagine the world as it was then: no cars, no electric lighting, no photographs, not even hand-cranked sewing machines.

The message arrives after traveling as dots and dashes over 40 miles of copper wire from Washington. It is translated using Morse code and reads, “What hath God wrought.” The implication is that this is something truly out of this world.

Not shocked yet? You look up from the telegraph machine and someone says to you, “In less than 200 years, you won’t need the wire to send the message, and what will be transmitted to you—on a far smaller device—will be 10,000 libraries’ worth of words, images, and sounds and even a sort of artificial intelligence that can analyze and solve problems.”

Back then, your likely reaction to this person is either extreme shock or saying, “That’s ridiculous.” Finding it ridiculous is the reasonable, logical, healthy, and sane response. However, it is completely wrong.

Now if someone—such as a whistleblower with high-level security clearance and testifying before the U.S. Congress—tells you that non-human vehicles have been recovered, that they were reverse-engineered, and that they defy the laws of physics as we know them to be, how would you react?

You may find it ridiculous. Yet for the past 10 years, people from the government, such as David Grusch and Luis Elizondo, have been making such statements. Meanwhile, others, such as Harvard professor Avi Loeb, billionaire aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), and many, many other high-profile figures—not to mention countless common folk—have suggested that these shocking claims likely have some merit.

As reported in Popular Mechanics last year, U.S. Navy Lt. Ryan Graves described frequent encounters between Navy personnel and UFOs, observed on radar and visually, that defy ordinary explanation. These suggest objects that are not of, or not entirely of, this dimension, such that they can move between air and sea at extremely high and low speeds without needing to slow down, without splashing, and even without emitting heat—yet still leaving an observable radar signature (which means that they have mass and are probably some kind of metal).

Looking at all the facts, it seems possible to me that the U.S. government or the military-industrial complex, which President Dwight Eisenhower warned about in 1961, does indeed have its hands on extremely advanced, possibly non-human, technology. There is no smoking gun, such as a UFO on display at the auto show or a big-eyed alien sitting down for an interview, but the sheer amount of circumstantial evidence is mounting.

Just last month, Loeb, speaking on American Thought Leaders, said: “I had a visitor to my home who used to be a senior executive at Lockheed Martin. And he noted that the idea that Lockheed Martin received materials from crash sites that may be extraterrestrial technological material is not necessarily wrong. And then I asked another former employee of Lockheed Martin. He denied any such connection.”

Yes, it is safe and rational to stick with the latter piece of information, but the former is getting harder and harder to deny. If what Grusch, Elizondo, and others have been telling us is true, let me explain why you should not be shocked. Return to the benign example of a telegraph machine and the simple use of electricity across a copper wire. If you think about it, electricity itself is not so simple. When electrons move in the same direction, electricity is created. But what is an electron? Is it matter that carries a weight like an extremely tiny marble? Or is it more like light, acting similar to a wave with a frequency that carries radio to your car or X-rays through your body? Well, scientists say it is both, because sometimes it acts like a wave and sometimes like a particle with weight. They call it particle-wave duality, but it is a clever way of sidestepping an enigma that they do not fully understand to this day.

Reality as we know it in the visceral, ordinary, day-to-day sense exists within one dimension, and another reality, or dimension, may operate at the same time and in the same place such that the electron seems to move between the two dimensions—ours and another, particle and wave. To put it another way, if you turn on your light switch and are not surprised by light coming out, then you shouldn’t be too surprised when you find out that there are UFOs that may bounce about unconstrained by the rules in our ordinary, physical reality. The UFO is simply acting like a large electron.

Such an interdimensional perspective shouldn’t lead to panic or distress. Instead, it should lead us right back around to the great traditions of the past, which often contain phenomena that cannot be understood from a material perspective. The miracles of holy figures who engendered moral virtues take on a new light when seen through an interdimensional lens. Perhaps some of these figures could, through the untapped potential of the human mind, access parallel realities and, because of that, work wonders and miracles such as flying, healing, and mind-reading.

In a recent interview with Benny Johnson, Vice President JD Vance posited that the aliens that may be behind the UFOs are better thought of as “demons.”

He said, “Every great world religion, including Christianity, the one that I believe in, has understood that there are weird things out there, and there are things that are very difficult to explain.”

This, in my view, is the right way to approach the issue and not feel overwhelmingly shocked. The spiritual perspective, one grounded in traditional morality and one that has been increasingly dismissed for the past few hundred years, may turn out to offer the greatest truths and insights—greater than UFOs. That, I believe, is what God hath wrought.

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.