Skeptical as I also am, cases in which a professional astrophysicist is willing to risk his career by being so open about his extreme viewpoints have always drawn my attention.

In general, professional astrophysicists (like all people) are sometimes crackpots and/or opportunists selling a book. There is little risk when your profession doesn't takes it seriously.

 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ad...an-made-says-threats-increasing-exponentially
Congress Admits UFOs Not ‘Man-Made,’ Says ‘Threats’ Increasing ‘Exponentially


and the first picture in this bogus article is a picture that been debunked several times.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/2021-05-29/navy-ufo-videos-skeptics

I agree it's mainly not Man-Made crafts of some sort, it's likely natural phenomena that aren't well understood, optical/EM illusions and misidentifications.

 

SETI pioneer Frank Drake, of 'Drake Equation' fame, dies at 92​

Drake is best known for the equation that bears his name, a formula that estimates how many detectable alien societies may exist in our Milky Way galaxy. Drake devised his famous equation in 1961, a year after he initiated Project Ozma, which used a radio telescope to hunt for possible signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.

 

Sure, there are a lot more videos of things "Unidentified but Known"

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ax...ed-releasing-them-will-harm-national-security

The U.S. Navy says that releasing any additional UFO videos would “harm national security” and told a government transparency website that all of the government’s UFO videos are classified information.
In a Freedom of Information Act request response, the Navy told government transparency site The Black Vault that any public dissemination of new UFO videos “will harm national security as it may provide adversaries valuable information regarding Department of Defense/Navy operations, vulnerabilities, and/or capabilities. No portions of the videos can be segregated for release.”

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4315

 

Some of the videos looked like simple "Lens Flare". The rules that govern government acquisition processes favor small businesses snd the skills and quality that some small businesses promise vs what they can deliver is astounding. Sometimes the product delivered is accepted because of project timelines and cost overruns. Crappy lenses from glass casting, lens grinding, lens polishing, AR coatings, mounting, etc and lack of communications between them can easily cause an unplanned lens flare and Generals in charge of programs to call it a UFO instead of admit they have crappy optics.

 

Advanced alien civilizations haven't contacted us because of the age of our Sun

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The authors state that since all stars in the galaxy are not the same, it makes sense if alien civilizations are a bit picky about where they would like to put up their colonies. Another study in 2021, had suggested that long-lived civilizations would rather pick the low-mass K and M-dwarf star systems to maximize their longevity in the galaxy.

 

Advanced alien civilizations haven't contacted us because of the age of our Sun
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Aaaaaannnndddd .... that's probably yet another reason why no aliens have contacted us yet ...

 

Advanced alien civilizations haven't contacted us because of the age of our Sun
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The guy in the quoted post says an M Dwarf is the preferred kind of star for a habitable planet but the article below says a Dwarf M is the wrong kind of star... I'll only know who is right once I visit an M Dwarf.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/25/world/exoplanets-search-narrowed-scn/index.html

 

https://www.yahoo.com/now/many-military-ufo-reports-just-124417602.html

WASHINGTON — Government officials believe that surveillance operations by foreign powers and weather balloons or other airborne clutter explain most recent incidents of unidentified aerial phenomenon — government-speak for UFOs — as well as many episodes in past years.
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It was not clear how much of the new intelligence report would be made public. But of the cases that have been resolved, most have proved to be either errant junk in the sky, like balloons, or surveillance activity, officials said. Incidents recorded in the past year, for which more data has been collected, have turned out to have ordinary, earthbound explanations.
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At the hearing, Bray also explained why the government was not releasing more information about the incidents.

“We do not want potential adversaries to know exactly what we’re able to see or understand, or how we come to the conclusion,” Bray said. “Therefore, disclosures must be carefully considered on a case-by-case basis.”

 

Aaaaaannnndddd .... that's probably yet another reason why no aliens have contacted us yet ...

they are real sticklers when it comes to prime directive...

 

The missing plan for alien first contact

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In popular culture, extraterrestrials are often cast as second-class citizens or less than human. If it weren't for the intervention of ET's human friend, the titular alien would have been cut open on an operating room table. In the 2009 film District 9, millions of alien "prawns" are packed into South African slums – an allegory for human bigotry and cruelty in real life.

 

If I was an Alien, I would be pissed that we arnt all naked, like shown on the side of Voyager!

 

We have a plan for Alien contact.

 

We have a plan for Alien contact.

I'm going to ask for asylum.

 

I'm going to ask for asylum.

They won't give it.

 

 

LOL....

 

NASA unveils plan for next-gen telescope to search space for signs of life: reports

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The Habitable Worlds Observatory was announced Monday at the latest American Astronomical Society meeting, and its goal is searching for signs of life on habitable exoplanets.

 

https://apnews.com/article/politics-nuclear-weapons-1100eb5ee11ea739d124ae49ca36b00d
UFO reports rise to 510, not aliens but still a threat to US