Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

Last night after all my Thanksgiving guests had left, I ended up watching a program on the History Channel about UFOs and what may happen if an alien intelligence ever decided to visit us. I’m a bit of a space junkie and I have my own ideas about extraterrestrial intelligence. I understand the hurdles of interstellar travel and the extent of technology required for such undertakings.

I think it’s safe to say that any visitors to the Earth would be much more technologically and scientifically mature than we are. In the grand scheme of things, 10,000 years isn’t even a snap of the fingers, and, considering the almost exponential scientific and technological progress of the western world over the last century, imagine what a similar, dedicated extraterrestrial society could accomplish in 10,000 years’ time. It’s literally unimaginable. If another technological civilization is just a proverbial blink of an eye older than we are, then it’s likely they’re more advanced than we are as well.

The show I was watching last night backed up that idea to an extent. Witnesses reported craft that hung silently in the air, made right-angle turns while moving, shot away from them at tremendous speeds, all seemingly in disregard for the laws physics, or at least the well-being of passengers, as we know them. These witnesses painted a picture of spacecraft that are not to be messed with. Extraterrestrial intelligences seem to visit the Earth, originating from presumably astronomical distances, in small, zippy, maneuverable craft that seem to challenge reality… Except for one mistake the aliens seem to regularly make…

Why the hell don’t they turn their damn lights off?

These visitors are smart enough, and confident enough in their abilities, to come all this way to observe us without so much as a phone call to make sure we’re home, and they give themselves away because neither Kodos or Kang can remember to press the button(?) that turns off the lights. I find that hard to believe. If alien visitors wanted their presence to be known, there are quite a number of other ways to do it, and the fact that we haven’t heard from them directly is a good indicator that they don’t want to talk, and probably don’t want to be seen. And surely an intelligence advanced enough to master space travel doesn’t need lights to observe us.

None of it makes sense. All of the people were sure of what they saw and there was some video and photographic material to back them up. A number of the witnesses, for instance, the airline pilots, are honest, trustworthy people for the most part who are not given to panic and silliness, especially in the air with a plane full of passengers. Nevertheless, they saw what they saw. I don’t have any answers, only more questons.