Humans have always been intrigued about whether life exists anywhere else in the universe. People claim to have seen UFOs in our skies, and some so-called experts also say that the US government is hiding proof that aliens have visited us. Recently, a former US intelligence officer Luis Elizondo claimed that the aliens are hiding on the Earth and threatening humanity. Then there are the so-called alien mummies that were unveiled at a Mexican congressional hearing by UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan.
All this chatter about aliens has led millions of people to believe in the existence of aliens. However, a new paper suggests that too much alien talk is leading to a “widespread societal problem.”
“This belief is slightly paradoxical as we have zero evidence that aliens even exist,” Tony Milligan, a research fellow in the philosophy of ethics at King’s College in London wrote for The Conversation.
He adds that to think that aliens will make contact by visiting us seems absurd.
“What’s more, given the vast distances between star systems, it seems odd we’d only learn about them from a visit. Evidence for aliens is more likely to come from signals from faraway planets,” he added.
Milligan says that “dangerous” statistics show that nearly a quarter of Americans believe they have seen a UFO.
He believes that recent federal hearings on the matter of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) and UFOs are further fuelling conspiracy theories and this can prove dangerous to democratic institutions.
Notably, Luis had also said that the US government has known about their existence for years and is hiding extraterrestrial vehicles.
A pre-UAP commission 2019 Gallup poll showed that 68 per cent of people believe that “the US government knows more about UFOs than it is telling,” he said.
The constant discussions on aliens can also derail actual efforts to find extraterrestrial life, he says.
“Too much background noise about UFOs and UAPs can also get in the way of legitimate science communication about the possibility of finding microbial extraterrestrial life,” Milligan states.
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