Aliens and UFOs
The subject of aliens and UFOs has gained greater public attention in recent years for a number of reasons. The modern trend of news networks toward sensationalism motivates them to report UFO sightings that in the past would have been ignored. The volume of inexpensive digital recording devices in public hands has made recordings of UFO phenomena far more common. A proliferation of television shows on the paranormal, UFOs and ancient aliens have raised awareness of credible accounts, recorded evidence and alternative theories that were previously confined to an underground following. And of course, the public fascination with the 2012 controversy has stirred a renewed interest in such topics.
Although I’ve personally had no encounters with aliens (at least, any of which I’m aware!), I’ve witnessed what I can only classify as unidentified flying objects on two occasions. In both instances, the aerial phenomenon took the form of moving lights. The first appeared star-like, but moved in ways that could not be accounted for by any man-made craft, meteor or other natural phenomenon. The second took the form of a group of lights that looked like the symbol for a king in chess notation, except slightly distorted. Three red globes of light were arranged in a roughly triangular formation with a bar of yellow light beneath them like an underline. The array moved in a straight line, but its velocity varied constantly like an object drifting through a volume of viscous fluid having a slight wave action so that the object’s speed seemed to undulate. When it reached near the horizon, it transformed into a single, pulsating red ball of approximately the same size as the entire previous array. After hovering there for perhaps no more than ten seconds, it shot almost straight up at a blurring speed and vanished. Unfortunately, neither of these displayed any visible features indicating an artificial construction, as is the case with numerous reported sightings.
One of the challenges with these phenomena is perhaps best embodied in the saying, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” UFO sightings and alien encounters are by no means common experiences. It’s difficult to accept such paradigm-changing claims solely on the testimony of others, especially in the absence of any “official” acknowledgement. Even photographic evidence is suspect because of the present-day ability to digitally manipulate images in almost limitless and highly convincing ways. I believe most folks accept the existence of UFOs to the extent that they recognize that people are witnessing aerial phenomena they cannot identify as any known man-made object or natural occurrence. To further accept the idea they are artificially constructed craft commanded by alien intelligence is quite another matter.
Space does not allow me to launch a comprehensive argument here for or against UFOs being alien-controlled craft. There are already a multitude of books, articles and TV shows available on the subject, and all presented by persons far more qualified than I. However, there are certain aspects to this phenomenon that I believe are difficult for any thinking person to ignore. First, one has to weigh the sheer volume of reported UFO sightings by people from all walks of life, some by highly qualified observers like pilots and police, especially when confirmed by radar. Then there’s the plethora of photographic and video evidence. The idea that every single one of these reports is the result of mistaken identity, delusion, hallucination or falsification is inconceivable. Likewise, I don’t believe all the available photographic and video evidence can be similarly dismissed. Every single image and piece of footage? Such a position is even more unbelievable than the premise it seeks to deny. One must also consider the numerous historical reports that bear a striking resemblance to modern accounts, but hail from an age before computers, digital recordings and Adobe Photoshop. Clearly, something is going on.
The case for alien encounters and abductions is a bit more troublesome. But here again, it’s difficult to dismiss the available body of reports as so much hysteria, especially when you consider the uncanny similarities between them. I’ve read several works where the authors interpreted alien abductions as purely psychological in nature. But all these were based on the assumption that true alien abduction is impossible, and therefore must have some other explanation, however tenuous. Most scientists accept the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in our galaxy. If an advanced civilization possessed the technology to travel here, they’d surely also have the means to perform every action attributed to them in abduction accounts. As bizarre as these reports may first seem, there’s no harm in keeping an open mind. If aliens are actually performing the kinds of procedures on humans as are reported, it’s hard to imagine their intentions are friendly.
I find intriguing the notion that ancient astronauts visited earth thousands of years ago and influenced both our culture and development. The historical and archaeological establishments look upon this with an exclusionistic attitude—since it must be impossible for aliens to have visited in ancient times, then no evidence, no matter how provocative, can ever be interpreted that way. This reminds me so much of the 19th century scholastic community who dismissed reports of meteorites from the countryside, assuring the ignorant commoners that rocks can’t fall from the sky simply because there are no rocks in the sky!
I must admit that Erich Von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods? gave me pause to reconsider mainstream archaeology’s comforting pat on the back that everything was fine and under control. Their reasoning is simple—since no technology could have possibly existed in ancient times, then all ancient stonework throughout the world was accomplished with primitive hand tools, moved by rolling on wood logs and lifted into place with dirt ramps. Period. And since there is no other possible solution, there is no obligation to try and determine how some of the more challenging work was actually done.
You can sort of get away with conventional explanations to an extent with the Great Pyramid of Giza, especially since much of it is made from softer limestone. But things are more complicated for numerous sites in South America where some of the stonework is much bigger and heavier, and built with much harder stone and more precision. The details in the stonework at Puma Punku in Bolivia are so precise as to look like cast concrete of the highest quality. The creators of the Nazca lines complex in Peru appear to have leveled the entire peak of a mountain during its construction. And we are to blindly accept that all this was accomplished with primitive stone and bronze tools—in some cases, even without the use of the wheel—but without any explanation as to how this possibly could have been done? Conventional archaeology should have to do better than that. Another argument frequently used against ancient astronauts is that we’ve never found any traces of what we’d recognize as advanced technology at these sites. But if we too had the technological ability to easily move huge stones and shape them precisely, why would we bother to develop an elaborate technological infrastructure for all kinds of synthetic materials, or bring along the means to establish that infrastructure when traveling to a distant world, if we could just carve whatever we needed out of the existing rock once we arrived?
I don’t wish to spend too much time on this ancient alien controversy, especially since there are already countless books on the subject. I present it only as another aspect of aliens and UFOs in general. But before moving on, I’d like to share my own viewpoint. When I look at all these monumental ancient stoneworks, the same question keeps entering my mind. What were they thinking? Forget for a moment about how it was all done—I want to know why. Why did the Easter Islanders commit the considerable human resources (and the island didn’t provide much) to make all those statues? What compelled the Incas to build such monumental works at such a human toll, or to level a mountaintop to construct lines that can only be appreciated from high altitudes at a location so inhospitable that the ground bears a stronger resemblance to photos from the Martian Rovers than to just about anywhere else on earth? Why commit the labor force, as well as the housing materials and foodstuffs to support them, and the devices to mine the stone and transport it from miles away, all which had to be hauled up to the tops of these mountains? And even if we’ve determined that Stonehenge in England was some sort of astronomical observatory, why was it necessary to exert the considerable effort to build it on such a scale? Who woke up one morning and said, “Let’s tie up all our resources and pour our guts out to make this megalithic structure without any precedent?” What line of reasoning led to such an absurd degree of motivation? What were they thinking? If we could ascertain that, I believe it would provide answers to many of the mysteries surrounding these ancient wonders.
The main objection launched by conventional science against UFOs as alien spacecraft, abductions, ancient astronauts and the like is the assertion that interstellar travel is unfeasible due to the technological hurdles of making such a journey in a reasonable number of years (infinite energy, which is not possible, is required to propel a mass at light speed, so all such travel would have to be sub-light speed, thereby taking a very, very long time). Some have suggested this might be overcome through the use of a natural or artificial wormhole, by folding space or some other similar tactic. The problem here is that a volume of mass required to bend the space in the region of even the closest star sufficiently to draw it into the proximity of our own region of space so that a ship might make the short hop-across would be so huge as to probably fill most of the visible sky. So, as interesting as these ideas seem, they are still the stuff of science fantasy.
The problem with all these schemes is that they attempt to devise a means of traversing vast distances within the confines of space-time. Supergeometry, on the other hand, overcomes this obstacle by allowing these distances to be crossed outside or above space-time. Since the speed of light is the uppermost barrier of physical space-time, this mode of travel would be at super-lightspeed.
But the supergeometric principle behind superlight travel is not like the warp fields of Star Trek that allow a ship to move within space-time at multiples of the speed or light (warp 1, warp 2, etc.). It’s based instead on the fact that the physical, geometric dimensions of space-time begin to fold in on themselves as velocity approaches lightspeed. This phenomenon, demonstrated by Einstein’s relativity theory, has some bizarre characteristics. A person looking out the front portal of a ship traveling at just below the speed of light (since to travel at lightspeed requires infinite energy) would still be able to see the stars that the ship had just passed! This is because time and space are more compressed at this incredible velocity so that the stars already passed (i.e., the past), those that the ship is currently passing (the present) and those yet to be encountered (the future) appear gathered together in an almost flat landscape in front of the ship. For this to take place, not only time, but the geometric dimensions of space are also being similarly compressed so that the physical distances between the stars are shrunk as well. It’s important to keep in mind that the ship’s near-lightspeed velocity is not the cause of this phenomenon, but that its velocity places the ship in a stratum of space-time that naturally has this compressed quality.
Think of a bicycle wheel with the rim representing the location where the dimensions of space are fully unfolded, while the hub at its center represents the speed of light where all those dimensions are tightly packed together into a single nucleus. As you move from the rim closer to the center, the time and distance required to travel one revolution around the wheel is reduced significantly, while the spokes draw closer to each other.
If we were to propel the ship above the speed of light, we’d find the dimensions of space-time so tightly wrapped together that they become virtually indistinguishable from one another. In this superlight realm, the normal spatial distance between Chicago and Brussels is so tightly compressed that they are now adjacent to one another. This kind of spatial compression already exists without the need to artificially fold huge expanses of space-time to create shortcuts or bridges.
The idea of a superlight realm positioned over normal space-time is by no means imaginary. Quantum observations and the characteristics of certain paranormal phenomena, coupled with the work of theoretical physicists like Louis De Broglie and David Bohm, and cutting-edge scientific concepts such as “configuration” space, show that patterns of material order also exist superphysically or supergeometrically (what Bohm called implicate information).
An alien race having mastered this supergeometric technology could certainly bypass the insurmountable distances of normal geometric space, and so establish a practical means of travel from their home world to ours. Moreover, this technology would give their ships the ability to reproduce all the strange behavior attributed to them—behavior virtually identical to that observed in paranormal phenomena! Just as in paranormal events, UFOs reportedly hover and levitate without any apparent physical means of propulsion, appear and disappear, abruptly change speed, direction and even shape, as well as the occasionally reported psychic effect. This distinguishes supergeometry as a superior solution to other ideas on interstellar travel, since it employs the very same system of theoretical mechanics to explain both the behavior of UFOs and paranormal events. Additionally, the very same set of supergeometric principles that enables a ship to be propelled like this could easily be applied to move and shape some of the massive stonework found at ancient archeological sites. Supergeometry certainly provides the conceptual framework that allows us to legitimately consider the very real possibility of UFOs, aliens and ancient astronauts.
Aliens are sometimes spoken of as “inter-dimensional” beings. Based on the supergeometric model, it may be more accurate to see this as superdimensional, since they would come in and out of local space by bypassing dimensionism altogether. And while the idea of implicate information makes it theoretically possible that ethereal beings could originate from such a realm (as in angels, demons and other mystical entities?), I think it far more likely that they would come from another region of normal dimensional space in the galaxy, and use this superdimensional realm as a corridor between their region and ours.
As for how supergeometric mechanics provides for material masses to be transported superluminally, you’ll have to read Behind The Cosmic Veil.
The subject of aliens and UFOs has gained greater public attention in recent years for a number of reasons. The modern trend of news networks toward sensationalism motivates them to report UFO sightings that in the past would have been ignored. The volume of inexpensive digital recording devices in public hands has made recordings of UFO phenomena far more common. A proliferation of television shows on the paranormal, UFOs and ancient aliens have raised awareness of credible accounts, recorded evidence and alternative theories that were previously confined to an underground following. And of course, the public fascination with the 2012 controversy has stirred a renewed interest in such topics.
Although I’ve personally had no encounters with aliens (at least, any of which I’m aware!), I’ve witnessed what I can only classify as unidentified flying objects on two occasions. In both instances, the aerial phenomenon took the form of moving lights. The first appeared star-like, but moved in ways that could not be accounted for by any man-made craft, meteor or other natural phenomenon. The second took the form of a group of lights that looked like the symbol for a king in chess notation, except slightly distorted. Three red globes of light were arranged in a roughly triangular formation with a bar of yellow light beneath them like an underline. The array moved in a straight line, but its velocity varied constantly like an object drifting through a volume of viscous fluid having a slight wave action so that the object’s speed seemed to undulate. When it reached near the horizon, it transformed into a single, pulsating red ball of approximately the same size as the entire previous array. After hovering there for perhaps no more than ten seconds, it shot almost straight up at a blurring speed and vanished. Unfortunately, neither of these displayed any visible features indicating an artificial construction, as is the case with numerous reported sightings.
One of the challenges with these phenomena is perhaps best embodied in the saying, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” UFO sightings and alien encounters are by no means common experiences. It’s difficult to accept such paradigm-changing claims solely on the testimony of others, especially in the absence of any “official” acknowledgement. Even photographic evidence is suspect because of the present-day ability to digitally manipulate images in almost limitless and highly convincing ways. I believe most folks accept the existence of UFOs to the extent that they recognize that people are witnessing aerial phenomena they cannot identify as any known man-made object or natural occurrence. To further accept the idea they are artificially constructed craft commanded by alien intelligence is quite another matter.
Space does not allow me to launch a comprehensive argument here for or against UFOs being alien-controlled craft. There are already a multitude of books, articles and TV shows available on the subject, and all presented by persons far more qualified than I. However, there are certain aspects to this phenomenon that I believe are difficult for any thinking person to ignore. First, one has to weigh the sheer volume of reported UFO sightings by people from all walks of life, some by highly qualified observers like pilots and police, especially when confirmed by radar. Then there’s the plethora of photographic and video evidence. The idea that every single one of these reports is the result of mistaken identity, delusion, hallucination or falsification is inconceivable. Likewise, I don’t believe all the available photographic and video evidence can be similarly dismissed. Every single image and piece of footage? Such a position is even more unbelievable than the premise it seeks to deny. One must also consider the numerous historical reports that bear a striking resemblance to modern accounts, but hail from an age before computers, digital recordings and Adobe Photoshop. Clearly, something is going on.
The case for alien encounters and abductions is a bit more troublesome. But here again, it’s difficult to dismiss the available body of reports as so much hysteria, especially when you consider the uncanny similarities between them. I’ve read several works where the authors interpreted alien abductions as purely psychological in nature. But all these were based on the assumption that true alien abduction is impossible, and therefore must have some other explanation, however tenuous. Most scientists accept the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in our galaxy. If an advanced civilization possessed the technology to travel here, they’d surely also have the means to perform every action attributed to them in abduction accounts. As bizarre as these reports may first seem, there’s no harm in keeping an open mind. If aliens are actually performing the kinds of procedures on humans as are reported, it’s hard to imagine their intentions are friendly.
I find intriguing the notion that ancient astronauts visited earth thousands of years ago and influenced both our culture and development. The historical and archaeological establishments look upon this with an exclusionistic attitude—since it must be impossible for aliens to have visited in ancient times, then no evidence, no matter how provocative, can ever be interpreted that way. This reminds me so much of the 19th century scholastic community who dismissed reports of meteorites from the countryside, assuring the ignorant commoners that rocks can’t fall from the sky simply because there are no rocks in the sky!
I must admit that Erich Von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods? gave me pause to reconsider mainstream archaeology’s comforting pat on the back that everything was fine and under control. Their reasoning is simple—since no technology could have possibly existed in ancient times, then all ancient stonework throughout the world was accomplished with primitive hand tools, moved by rolling on wood logs and lifted into place with dirt ramps. Period. And since there is no other possible solution, there is no obligation to try and determine how some of the more challenging work was actually done.
You can sort of get away with conventional explanations to an extent with the Great Pyramid of Giza, especially since much of it is made from softer limestone. But things are more complicated for numerous sites in South America where some of the stonework is much bigger and heavier, and built with much harder stone and more precision. The details in the stonework at Puma Punku in Bolivia are so precise as to look like cast concrete of the highest quality. The creators of the Nazca lines complex in Peru appear to have leveled the entire peak of a mountain during its construction. And we are to blindly accept that all this was accomplished with primitive stone and bronze tools—in some cases, even without the use of the wheel—but without any explanation as to how this possibly could have been done? Conventional archaeology should have to do better than that. Another argument frequently used against ancient astronauts is that we’ve never found any traces of what we’d recognize as advanced technology at these sites. But if we too had the technological ability to easily move huge stones and shape them precisely, why would we bother to develop an elaborate technological infrastructure for all kinds of synthetic materials, or bring along the means to establish that infrastructure when traveling to a distant world, if we could just carve whatever we needed out of the existing rock once we arrived?
I don’t wish to spend too much time on this ancient alien controversy, especially since there are already countless books on the subject. I present it only as another aspect of aliens and UFOs in general. But before moving on, I’d like to share my own viewpoint. When I look at all these monumental ancient stoneworks, the same question keeps entering my mind. What were they thinking? Forget for a moment about how it was all done—I want to know why. Why did the Easter Islanders commit the considerable human resources (and the island didn’t provide much) to make all those statues? What compelled the Incas to build such monumental works at such a human toll, or to level a mountaintop to construct lines that can only be appreciated from high altitudes at a location so inhospitable that the ground bears a stronger resemblance to photos from the Martian Rovers than to just about anywhere else on earth? Why commit the labor force, as well as the housing materials and foodstuffs to support them, and the devices to mine the stone and transport it from miles away, all which had to be hauled up to the tops of these mountains? And even if we’ve determined that Stonehenge in England was some sort of astronomical observatory, why was it necessary to exert the considerable effort to build it on such a scale? Who woke up one morning and said, “Let’s tie up all our resources and pour our guts out to make this megalithic structure without any precedent?” What line of reasoning led to such an absurd degree of motivation? What were they thinking? If we could ascertain that, I believe it would provide answers to many of the mysteries surrounding these ancient wonders.
The main objection launched by conventional science against UFOs as alien spacecraft, abductions, ancient astronauts and the like is the assertion that interstellar travel is unfeasible due to the technological hurdles of making such a journey in a reasonable number of years (infinite energy, which is not possible, is required to propel a mass at light speed, so all such travel would have to be sub-light speed, thereby taking a very, very long time). Some have suggested this might be overcome through the use of a natural or artificial wormhole, by folding space or some other similar tactic. The problem here is that a volume of mass required to bend the space in the region of even the closest star sufficiently to draw it into the proximity of our own region of space so that a ship might make the short hop-across would be so huge as to probably fill most of the visible sky. So, as interesting as these ideas seem, they are still the stuff of science fantasy.
The problem with all these schemes is that they attempt to devise a means of traversing vast distances within the confines of space-time. Supergeometry, on the other hand, overcomes this obstacle by allowing these distances to be crossed outside or above space-time. Since the speed of light is the uppermost barrier of physical space-time, this mode of travel would be at super-lightspeed.
But the supergeometric principle behind superlight travel is not like the warp fields of Star Trek that allow a ship to move within space-time at multiples of the speed or light (warp 1, warp 2, etc.). It’s based instead on the fact that the physical, geometric dimensions of space-time begin to fold in on themselves as velocity approaches lightspeed. This phenomenon, demonstrated by Einstein’s relativity theory, has some bizarre characteristics. A person looking out the front portal of a ship traveling at just below the speed of light (since to travel at lightspeed requires infinite energy) would still be able to see the stars that the ship had just passed! This is because time and space are more compressed at this incredible velocity so that the stars already passed (i.e., the past), those that the ship is currently passing (the present) and those yet to be encountered (the future) appear gathered together in an almost flat landscape in front of the ship. For this to take place, not only time, but the geometric dimensions of space are also being similarly compressed so that the physical distances between the stars are shrunk as well. It’s important to keep in mind that the ship’s near-lightspeed velocity is not the cause of this phenomenon, but that its velocity places the ship in a stratum of space-time that naturally has this compressed quality.
Think of a bicycle wheel with the rim representing the location where the dimensions of space are fully unfolded, while the hub at its center represents the speed of light where all those dimensions are tightly packed together into a single nucleus. As you move from the rim closer to the center, the time and distance required to travel one revolution around the wheel is reduced significantly, while the spokes draw closer to each other.
If we were to propel the ship above the speed of light, we’d find the dimensions of space-time so tightly wrapped together that they become virtually indistinguishable from one another. In this superlight realm, the normal spatial distance between Chicago and Brussels is so tightly compressed that they are now adjacent to one another. This kind of spatial compression already exists without the need to artificially fold huge expanses of space-time to create shortcuts or bridges.
The idea of a superlight realm positioned over normal space-time is by no means imaginary. Quantum observations and the characteristics of certain paranormal phenomena, coupled with the work of theoretical physicists like Louis De Broglie and David Bohm, and cutting-edge scientific concepts such as “configuration” space, show that patterns of material order also exist superphysically or supergeometrically (what Bohm called implicate information).
An alien race having mastered this supergeometric technology could certainly bypass the insurmountable distances of normal geometric space, and so establish a practical means of travel from their home world to ours. Moreover, this technology would give their ships the ability to reproduce all the strange behavior attributed to them—behavior virtually identical to that observed in paranormal phenomena! Just as in paranormal events, UFOs reportedly hover and levitate without any apparent physical means of propulsion, appear and disappear, abruptly change speed, direction and even shape, as well as the occasionally reported psychic effect. This distinguishes supergeometry as a superior solution to other ideas on interstellar travel, since it employs the very same system of theoretical mechanics to explain both the behavior of UFOs and paranormal events. Additionally, the very same set of supergeometric principles that enables a ship to be propelled like this could easily be applied to move and shape some of the massive stonework found at ancient archeological sites. Supergeometry certainly provides the conceptual framework that allows us to legitimately consider the very real possibility of UFOs, aliens and ancient astronauts.
Aliens are sometimes spoken of as “inter-dimensional” beings. Based on the supergeometric model, it may be more accurate to see this as superdimensional, since they would come in and out of local space by bypassing dimensionism altogether. And while the idea of implicate information makes it theoretically possible that ethereal beings could originate from such a realm (as in angels, demons and other mystical entities?), I think it far more likely that they would come from another region of normal dimensional space in the galaxy, and use this superdimensional realm as a corridor between their region and ours.
As for how supergeometric mechanics provides for material masses to be transported superluminally, you’ll have to read Behind The Cosmic Veil.