E.T. Phone Fucking Home…
ET phone fucking home, holy shit. A few days ago, the House of Representatives held a congressional hearing on the long-needed transparency regarding UAPs (UFOs) by the federal government. What came from it was revolutionary, in my personal opinion. Multiple military and government officials testified to the existence of these advanced technologies and the somewhat nefarious tactics used by the federal government in the past decades to hide them from the public.
I have always been fascinated with the potential of alien life. Ever since I was a 17-year-old kid hitting my dab pen in my bedroom, looking up at the stars, I have known something is out there. Believing there’s something bigger out there provided me with this feeling of inconsequentiality, but in the best way possible. It gave a sense of comfort, knowing that even those who sat on the highest seats in our world all looked like specks from above. It’s like circling around a pond for hours but then, through some bushes, finding out there’s a canal that leads to a whole ocean. There becomes more to play with, more that’s possible.
Throughout the years, I stapled in my confirmation bias by watching documentary after documentary about alien life. In college, I even started a group chat where my fraternity brothers and I would debate the notion of extraterrestrial life and the universe. That chat was called “Bob Lazar”. Now, for those of you who don’t know Bob Lazar, holy shit, are you in for a rabbit hole. Bob Lazar was a whistleblower who came out in the late 80s, claiming that he had been working on a government project in Los Alamos where they had been reverse-engineering alien technology. At first, Mr. Bob was labeled as a nut and conspiracy theorist, but as the years went on and more information came out, his claims became more and more legitimized.
That brings us to today—or, well, really, a few days ago—where, at said congressional hearing, these modern “whistleblowers” came out to criticize the government on the most legitimate platform about the same bullet points Mr. Lazar had been ridiculed for less than 35 years ago. Yet, public reaction to possibly one of the most ultimate questions—not just culturally, but socially, scientifically, and globally—is being answered, but no one cares. Or at least, not how you would expect.
In my experience, over the course of the past 80 years, more and more people have come around to the belief that, yes, there is alien life. Even the boomers. The new question isn’t a definitive yes or no; rather, it’s when. Yeah, they’re there, we know that, but when will we see something that can empirically say so? People like myself expect some out-of-nowhere landing of a spaceship on the Hollywood sign that shakes the world to its core and induces panic. But what if it isn’t going to be like that? What if it will just be the progressive slow burn of information we’ve been seeing? I mean, slap a tail on me and call me little piggy—the government literally just confirmed the existence of alien intelligence, and we are still more concerned about the Jake Paul fight. If this isn’t indicative of the numbness that has protruded into the zeitgeist of the UFO specter, I don’t know what is.
It’s possible, though, that we keep on this trail—this little flirtation tease we have with our federal government that’s left us perpetually blue-balled. Just constantly edging. From Navy encounters, blurred videos, and government testimonials, they keep us just satisfied enough not to care and trust them, and just horny enough to keep the conversation, the dreams, and the stories real.
The main alibi for hiding what they may or might not have is in the defense of national security. Albeit, if that’s the case, I understand—kind of. Do they believe that hard evidence of aliens will leave us in a panic, send us into a childlike frenzy that will cause an uncontrollable anarchist state? Maybe. Who knows? But given the fact hearings like these have taken place, and Ralph’s still hasn’t been raided, I’d say we’d be able to handle the situation more maturely than Big Brother thinks.
I guess we can only wait and see, though. The world seems to be shifting into a new chapter, and the new president-elect has promised to be more transparent about UFOs—but then again, he’s said that before. If anything, this new rise in otherworldly conversation can serve our day-to-day lives. It can keep us hopeful about what’s beyond our horizons and our eyes out for the ocean that’s just a beat away from our pond. And if not that, it at least gives us a reason to binge some alien movies.