Harvard UFO study claiming aliens could be on Earth disguised as humans is a 'thought experiment,' expert says  

AKA A CONSPIRACY THEORY

Louis Casiano
Thu, June 13, 2024 

A recent paper published by Harvard and Montana Technological University which speculates that an unidentified, technologically advanced population could possibly be living secretly among humans on Earth seems to be more of a "thought experiment" than an attempt to prove it so, a UFO expert said.

The team that wrote the paper hypothesized that sightings of UFOs, or UAP, unidentified anomalous phenomena, "may reflect activities of intelligent beings concealed in stealth here on Earth … and/or even walking among us."

The beings could be disguising themselves as humans to blend in, and may have come from Earth’s future or might have descended from intelligent dinosaurs, the researchers said.

Recording of UFO flying by the USS Omaha off the coast of San Diego in July 2019.

"I see this more as a thought experiment. Just putting some ideas out there in a way to try and break away from this rather binary ‘either it’s aliens or it's just a misidentification,'" Nick Pope, who ran the British government’s UFO program, told Fox News Digital. "They're not claiming to have found any evidence of this, but they're trying to kickstart a debate about this, not just with the public but inside science and academica, which has traditionally been very stuffy and skeptical about all this."

The academics at Harvard and MTU admitted that their research may be regarded with skepticism by many, but urged the scientific community to consider their claim "in a spirit of epistemic humility and openness."

The scientists explained the hypothesis of aliens on Earth.

They believe that "remnant forms," which are beings from an ancient, highly advanced human civilization, are walking among humans on earth. The researchers also shared the possible existence of a non-human underground civilization that may be "descendants of unknown, intelligent dinosaurs."

Third, there could be hidden occupants, likened to earthbound angels or fairies, on Earth that have traveled to Earth.

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A paper published by Harvard and Montana Technological universities speculates that an unidentified, technologically advanced population could possibly be living secretly among humans on Earth.

Despite the assumption in popular lore that UFOs could be spaceships, many are just objects that can't be readily identified, such as drones and satellites, said Pope, who analyzed UFO sightings while working for the British Ministry of Defense.

"We looked at about 200 to 300 reports each year," he said. "Most were misidentifications, but some were more interesting, particularly when our pilots saw them."

The federal government has for decades been tight-lipped about information on UFOs, which has fueled conspiracy theories about what it knows. During a May 23 Congressional Oversight Committee, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., asked Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm about "suspicious occurrences" of UFOs around nuclear facilities.

She said the Department of Defense concluded there's no evidence of UFOs or aliens.

"But there may be drones that may be nefarious," said Granholm, who emphasized there are safety protocols and defenses in place.

A Fox News Digital-created UFO hotspot map based off information from the Department of Defense.


Pope said governments hide things from the public all the time, but whether they possess crashed UFOs or aliens in a hanger somewhere isn't known.

"I don't know that but I know a lot do believe it and take it seriously," he said. "That's why I think it's interesting after years of ignoring this subject, Congress is now looking into it more closely. And they've had some classified briefings, but they've also had some public hearings. So there's no smoke without fire."

Fox News Digital's Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Chris Eberhart contributed to this report.




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Harvard researchers suggest aliens may live among us, underground or on moon

Cameron Kiszla
Thu, June 13, 2024 a



A recent legitimization of reports of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena — commonly called UAPs and formerly referred to as UFOs — has brought more eyeballs to the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

While a long-awaited government report issued earlier this year “found no evidence of aliens or extraterrestrial intelligence,” as reported by the Associated Press, two professors from Harvard University and a colleague at Montana Technological University suggested humanity may just be looking in the wrong places.

Instead, reality could be something similar to science fiction movies like 1988’s “They Live,” in which special glasses allow a man to see the aliens who’ve disguised themselves as humans and live in plain sight.

“UAP may reflect activities of intelligent beings concealed in stealth here on Earth (e.g., underground), and/or its near environs (e.g., the moon), and/or even ‘walking among us’ (e.g., passing as humans),” wrote Tim Lomas and Brendan Case of Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program and biological anthropology professor Michael P. Masters of MTU in a report this month. “Although this idea is likely to be regarded [skeptically] by most scientists, such are the nature of some UAP that we argue this possibility should not be summarily dismissed, and instead deserves genuine consideration in a spirit of epistemic humility and openness.”

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Their writing makes “a case for scientific openness to a concealed earthly explanation” for UAPs, argues that too often, scientists and others try to put UAPs into two categories: human-made technology and “extraterrestrial explanation,” something akin to ancient alien civilizations elsewhere in the universe.

While those explanations are probably more likely to be true than a lunar alien civilization, the researchers said, but that’s no reason to discount it entirely.

Such theories “are far-fetched on their face; we entertain them here because some aspects of UAP are strange enough that they seem to call for unconventional explanations,” they said.

I want to believe: Trump gives surprising answer on the existence of UFOs

Josh Marcus
Thu, June 13, 2024

Donald Trump has revealed whether he believes in UFOs during an interview with social media personality Logan Paul released on Thursday.

While the former president said he doesn’t personally believe in UFOs, he acknowledged the growing contingent of people in- and outside of government who believe aliens exist might have a point.

Trump described meeting with military pilots who had strange encounters with unidentified anomalous phenomena, as the government refers to them.

“I met with pilots, like beautiful — Tom Cruise but taller — handsome perfect, people. ‘Sir, there was something there that was round in form and going like four times faster than my super jet fighter plane,’” Trump recalled being told. “And I looked at these guys and they really mean it.”

“Am I a believer? No,” Trump continued. “Probably I can’t say I am. But I have met with people that are serious people that say there’s some really strange things that they see flying around out there.”

Donald Trump talked UFOs and a whether he believes they exist when he sat down with Logan Paul for an hour-long interview. (Impaulsive/YouTube)

The former president then joked that he’s more unconcerned about “illegal aliens,” a derogatory name for undocumented migrants, than space aliens.

“When you say aliens, I say, ‘Are they illegal aliens?’” Trump told the podcast hosts.

“These [UFOs] might be illegal, but we don’t want to test them.”

Trump said he’s constantly asked by members of the public about aliens and legendary incidents like the 1947 UFO sighting in Roswell, New Mexico.

“You have no idea how many times I’m asked that question,” he said.

In April of 2020, during the final year of the Trump administration, the Pentagon released a series of videos of military pilots encountering UAPs. It followed up the release with a futher bundle of videos the following year.