Pro-UFOs (as in support of the UFO alien hypothesis) and ancient astronaut hobbyists are happy to claim evidence that aliens were once, or are currently, here as ordinary people, tourists, scientists, colonizers or whatever, sharing this with us. Third Rock from the sun. Now a logical objection to this scenario is that there are no obvious alien detritus, garbage sites, kitchen garbage cans, or ruins of any kind left behind. There is no fossil evidence of any possible non-terrestrial creatures or mythological and extraterrestrial hybrids (such as centaurs, the sphinx or mermaids). So far no skeletons of ET itself have been discovered. We have yet to find the burial remains (if any) of an alien Cyclops.
That is not to say that there are not quite strange fossils in the geological record, that is, within rock strata, but nothing that ultimately cannot be interpreted as terrestrial and in Darwinian evolutionary terms. Trilobites, for example, were terrestrial.
As any paleontologist is happy to point out, the fossils we have represent only a small fraction of those that still exist within the geological rock record; all fossils (discovered or not) are just an incredibly small fraction of all those creatures (including plants) that were once fossilized. Of those that were once fossilized, many have been destroyed by natural forces; Those subsets, all those potentially undiscovered fossils, or fossils that no longer exist, are themselves just a very small fraction of all those creatures that have ever lived and died. Most (almost all) of the creatures when they die serve as food for something else, even if they are just bacteria. They biodegrade in one way or another, the usual scenario of dust to dust and ash to ash. Translated, the odds that a single (in trillions) Joe Trilobite has ever been fossilized, discovered, and ultimately turned over to the grace of a museum display is astronomically against the grain. So that should also apply to ET. There may well be some genuine alien artifact buried in the ground, even an alien itself, but that does no one any good if that artifact remains buried or, more likely, has been destroyed over geological eons by various destructive natural geological processes. .
In short, if such alien artifacts and fossils exist, they are so few in number, so eroded, degraded, buried, and / or biodegraded that the proverbial needle in the haystack is easy to pick up by comparison. If anyone is familiar with the History Channel documentary series “Life After People,” the infrastructure, when left unattended to the mercy and forces of nature and the ravages of time, does not survive that long before turning to dust. It is said that “man fears time, but time only fears pyramids.” Despite that observation, it is obvious that time has taken its toll on those ancient wonders of Giza in Egypt. In another 50,000 years, perhaps ten times longer, even the pyramids will have been recycled back to sand as wind, rain, pollution, and earthquakes strut their destructive material.
Still, perhaps an amateur archaeologist or paleontologist or just a lucky old prospector or individual looking in the right place at the right time might stumble upon the find of the century; An alien. In reality it would be the find, not only of the century, but of all time.
Those same natural geological forces and biological agents would also show their natural recycling and decomposition material in the ET waste. But apart from that probability, aliens can and do have the option of removing their own debris from our planet. You also have to ask; Should we necessarily recognize and distinguish extraterrestrial garbage from all other forms of human garbage? Would there be obvious differences to suggest that alien garbage is somehow different from human garbage? If we didn’t immediately come to the conclusion that a metal bolt we found is extraterrestrial, would we go to the trouble of subjecting it to a complex analysis, analysis that would be required to confirm that this junk metal bolt was not ordinary? garbage but extraordinary garbage? I conclude that the lack of ET garbage is not evidence of a lack of ET.
The lack of garbage dumps and alien artifacts could also mean that aliens clean up after themselves (as opposed to the garbage-prone humans on which much of human prehistory is based – excavations of our ancient garbage dumps , technically called kitchen trash cans). The extraterrestrial ‘gods’ (ancient astronauts) took all of their stuff with them when they left, including the end products of their genetic experiments (aside from their ultimate end product: humans and our hominoid ancestors who had become extinct by themselves themselves). , half and hybrid halves (like the Minotaur) of our mythology.
Unless humans start throwing our garbage into space, say towards final incineration in the solar furnace; well, let’s say that option will increase waste disposal rates several thousand times and is therefore not a realistic option, for us. Thus, we have no choice but to use planet Earth as a garbage dump, much to the delight of archaeologists who again base much of ancient human history on such debris. But, as noted above, time, natural forces, and biological agents ultimately deal with most forms of human waste: solid, liquid, and gaseous.
There is another solution to the lack of alien junk. A technologically advanced ET is likely to be equally advanced in recycling technology. If you go on interstellar travel, you better be very efficient at recycling. Anyway, I don’t remember anyone on ‘Star Trek’, for example, leaving their trash behind: an artifact, maybe like a book about Chicago gangsters, yes, but no trash! Even that book was a violation of the First Directive! And I would pay more attention to the rules and regulations.
Whether the alien artifacts have been eroded by time or ancient alien astronauts carefully removed or recycled their debris, any remaining physical evidence interpreted as ET evidence will therefore be evidence of our relatively modern eras, not the past. geological. . That evidence could be contained within human mythology or human archaeological relics that represent in one way or another the ‘gods’, entities that could be extraterrestrial beings: statuettes, works of art, monuments, etc. or the hybrids of halves and halves (like the stone monument of the Sphinx that rests near the trio of those great but crumbling pyramids on the Giza plateau in Egypt). However, any archaeologist worth his salt will tell you that these are all the works of humans. Some anomalous artifacts have been discovered out of place, but while they are anomalies or curiosities, they are not so extraordinary as to justify the existence of aliens. But, in conclusion to that observation that all roads pointing to extraterrestrial ‘gods’ were paved by humans, well, the absence of direct evidence linking aliens on Earth is not the same as evidence that aliens they are absent on Earth.
But speaking of artifacts related to ET or ancient astronauts, there have been many authors, aside from Erich von Daniken, who have made a career out of pointing to archaeological evidence suggesting extraterrestrials. Now, clearly, a lot of that is adornment, wishful thinking, and often just plain nonsense, but, as most of life’s little mysteries are, this is not an one-or-the-other situation. There are many shades of gray here and I have seen quite a few artifacts, especially images, that are quite suggestive of aliens in our past and of course if it is past tense, why not present tense? Add the mythology to complement the archeology and the evidence for ETH is reinforced.
Finally, consider your own environment: home, work, community. Within that sphere in which you exist for the most part, what proof do you have that meteors exist? Has a meteor landed in your backyard? crashed at your workplace or anywhere within your everyday environment? What about an airplane? You see these strange flying objects all the time, but you don’t find any artifacts of them, an artifact that falls to the ground in your backyard, your workplace or within your community. You probably don’t have any real physical evidence to show that meteorites or airplanes exist. Everything is just an eyewitness reality on your part. Of course, if you claim to see a ‘shooting star’ or a Boeing 747 flying overhead; no one is likely to waste their sighting. So can we get rid of UFOs just because there are no artifacts to be had conveniently, but just general eyewitness testimonies?
Based on your own patch of grass, you have as many artifacts for ET as you do for meteorites or planes (unless you’ve been unlucky enough to really piss off the gods and have a plane or meteor land on your roof).
But wait, what about that July 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico and other alleged UFO crash related incidents? Unfortunately, even if it is true, the supposed alien artifacts are not in the hands of the scientific community. There are no peer-reviewed articles in academic journals on the remains studied. There is no literature that is not controversial. The alleged artifacts are not exhibited in museums. Only the elite who need to know have access, and they are not speaking. So Roswell is a yes, but as a positive test, it is a no-no, at least so far.
However, there are modern UFO artifacts of all kinds. In geology, not all fossils are bones or shells. In fact, not all fossils are the remains of living things, but events. For example, there are impressions of fossilized raindrops in now solid rock; the same goes for ripple marks. But with regard to the form of living creatures, there are only fossils from their burrows and, more frequently, only from their footprints. A UFO ‘footprint’ is similar to a trail on the ground left behind after a UFO landing, as stated by the Socorro, New Mexico landing on April 24, 1964, as witnessed by local police officer Lonnie Zamora. . Magnetic traces left on metallic objects like cars or physiological effects on human (or plant and animal) tissues is something else that can be treated and analyzed in a laboratory. So in a manner of speaking, there are UFO ‘artifacts’.
So the search for UFOs or ancient astronaut artifacts is similar to the old search for the needle in a haystack. But that’s something that scientists employed in the scientifically legitimate Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) search can identify with. That needle / haystack argument is their backing position when SETI scientists are pressed or pressured to explain why they themselves haven’t detected ET (even if it’s out there and not here) in more than five decades of searching the skies. that artificial radio beam or optical beacon. . They would claim, and rightly so, that absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence. And that concise saying also helps to come to terms with why UFOs (and ancient astronauts) aren’t junk. The absence of the ET garbage is not necessarily the same as the evidence for the absence of ET.
