CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, ALIEN.

Earth shaking article written in May of 2021

At the end of June the US Congress will receive a historical report from the Pentagon. This report will have to explain what the best funded security agency in the world knows about UFOs, or UPAs, as they are called in military circles.

Packed into a $2.3 billion coronavirus-relief package bill passed in December 2020, there was a stipulation requiring the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to deliver an unclassified report on UFOs. The Congress gave the Pentagon six months to produce this information, and now this time is almost up.

As we might expect, all matters of National Security will be considered, so a lot of the juicy information will probably be scratched out. In spite of this, many mainstream media like the New Yorker magazine, the New York Times or even our La Vanguardia have commented on the event. The reason for this media hype is that this is the first time in history the Government of the USA admits openly that it can’t explain certain phenomena it detects.

Moreover, many Intelligence and military officials have recently admitted that UFO sightings are recorded on a daily basis all over the world. Even ex president Barack Obama has appeared on a talk show confirming this fact.

So it 's official. After 70 years of bad reporting and even worse movies (ok maybe Star Wars or Alien can be exceptions), it has been finally admitted. UFOs do exist.

But what exactly are UFOs?

Before we discuss this, let’s watch a brief CNBC clip which shows some video footage that has been released by the US Navy within the last decade:

Many of these videos have been accompanied by stories told to the public, not by astonished, mid-western farmers, but by trained US Navy officials. These leaked images, many say, have been the starting point of the Government’s change in policy concerning the open discussion of UFOs.

In the numerous stories circulating the web during the last six months, many hypotheses have been considered, and in my opinion it is perhaps good to brainstorm a bit.

Here is my list of possible explanations for UFOs:

- They are inventions of our Governments, to scare us and to take our rights away.

- They are aliens (or humans) from other times (didn’t Einstein say space and time were the same?)

- It’s the Russians or the Chinese. (That is, someone else, but not us)

- It's a new secret high tech being released in a marketing strategy we’ll never forget.

- They are satanic beings from other dimensions

- They are benign beings from other dimensions

- They are actually aliens from other galaxies.

In any case, and weird theories apart, I often wonder why it is so hard for us humans, who have been detecting, fotographing, analysing, classifying and declassifying UFOs for almost 70 years, to discuss the topic in a straightforward manner.

All photographs seem blurred. All theories are debunked.

Well, this reporter’s idea is that basically, we can’t see UFOs clearly yet because we can’t conceive of them. Let's consider the following example.

Imagine you are an aborigine from Central America, living peacefully around the end of the xvth Century. All you know are the ghosts of nature, the strength of your body and the miracles that abound your world.

For example, those tiny amounts of water that fall from heaven every time big black masses cover the sky. You don't have precise words for temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure or wind speed yet. The more vague words existing in your language to describe nature (words like sky, wind or rain) are evidence of the still basic conception you have of the universe.

One day, over the horizon towards the East you see three entities appear like nothing you’ve seen before. They are similar to the rafts you know and master well, but much larger, and much more complex.

These strange rafts contain things you will understand and name in a distant future. Things like sails, oars or pulleys. They carry inside many other wonders it will take your civilization centuries to comprehend. These mysteries include books, maps, compasses, pencils, cannons, Bibles and King’s edicts.

At first, you can’t believe your eyes.

Are they gods? Are they demons? Am I crazy? Is it our enemies secretly disguised as gods or demons?

And here we are. Just like our native americans that day, more than 500 years ago. We’ve been scratching our heads for 70 years trying to make sense of something which exceeds our mental capacities.

I personally have to struggle to imagine what kind of religion, art, philosophy, politics and of course, science, a civilization which is able to master the distances of the cosmos might have.

And what kind of sense of humor, diet or musical tastes are enjoyed by a being that can cruise the universe's strange geography, with its pulsars, quasars, black holes and white dwarf stars?

I give up!

Maybe (quite surely) all the words listed above are laughable stone age mysticisms to a race that can surf eons of space time as safely as we can hop on an airplane to Australia.

In any case, it seems like humanity will take a major step forward in understanding what UFOs are, and what they are not, in a few weeks’ time. We’ll see how it goes.