Ashu M.G. Solo is a resident of Wilmington.
Research on unidentified anomalous phenomena shouldn’t be considered controversial. People should demand that governments around the world release their UAP files.
The U.S. government started referring to unidentified flying objects by the term “unidentified aerial phenomena” when the Department of Defense established the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force in 2020. But the term “unidentified aerial phenomena” had been used by UFO researchers since at least 1987. In 2022, the U.S. government started using the acronym UAP for the term "unidentified anomalous phenomena." This was to include unidentified sightings in the air, in the sea, in space and in multiple mediums. The new terminology covers a broader range of unexplained sightings, not just flying objects, and helps overcome the cultural stigma associated with reporting sightings of UFOs and engaging in research on UFOs.
With U.S. Congress holding hearings on UAP, NASA investigating UAP, Congress establishing the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office to investigate what dangers or threats UAP might pose and the U.S. government releasing numerous UAP files, the subject of UAP no longer receives the ridicule and stigma from narrow-minded people that it once did.
Famous astrophysics communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson previously ridiculed the idea of aliens having visited Earth, but even he now takes this idea seriously and wrote a book on this for the general public, titled “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter.” The Galileo Project at Harvard University said, “Science should not dogmatically reject potential extraterrestrial explanations because of social stigma or cultural preferences, factors which are not conducive to the scientific method of unbiased, empirical inquiry.”
Many of the videos of UAP captured by the U.S. military appear to show technology way beyond the limits of known human technology. For example, a U.S. Reaper drone captured a video of a Hellfire missile apparently striking a UFO and bouncing off it on Oct. 30, 2024.
It’s extremely foolish to attack UAP that are not threatening humans. This could be viewed by aliens much more advanced than us as an act of war or act of hostility. There needs to be an international agreement to not attack UAP that aren’t threatening humans.
Universities, research funding organizations and research publishers should not negatively view research on UAP and ancient astronaut theory. They should support the rigorous scientific study of UAP and ancient astronaut theory.
President Donald Trump recently ordered the release of files held by the U.S. government on UAP, as well as the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Trump’s predecessors should have ordered the release of these files. They were foolish to let Trump get the credit for ordering the release of these files.
Governments around the world should publicly release their files on UAP. With the release of UAP files, researchers will be able to study them and determine if different UAP can be explained. Researchers are being deprived of valuable information that they could be analyzing.
There was no panic among the public after UAP files were released by the U.S. government. There was no information among the released UAP files that could jeopardize national security. The U.S. government was keeping the UAP files secret for no good reason. The U.S. government should have released the information on different UAP when it was first obtained.
The public is being deprived of information on one of the most interesting questions and phenomena in the history of the world. The public wants to know what governments around the world know about UAP. The public wants to know what governments around the world know about whether aliens have visited Earth.
People around the world should demand that their governments release their UAP files. They should contact their elected representatives by email or phone, write letters to the editor, start petitions, etc.
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