>A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin.
>The information, he says, has been illegally withheld from Congress, and he filed a complaint alleging that he suffered illegal retaliation for his confidential disclosures, reported here for the first time.
>Other intelligence officials, both active and retired, with knowledge of these programs through their work in various agencies, have independently provided similar, corroborating information, both on and off the record.
>The whistleblower, David Charles Grusch, 36, a decorated former combat officer in Afghanistan, is a veteran of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). He served as the reconnaissance office’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019-2021. From late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA’s co-lead for UAP analysis and its representative to the task force.
Sounds like /boo/llocks to me. You can't travel faster than the speed of light; it's the universe's speed limit and if you could go faster than that, then light would too. So there is effectively a limit to how far you can travel in space, and aliens will struggle to reach us, I'm afraid. I would love it to be true more than anything, but unless aliens are coming here from within our own solar system (in which case it would be near-impossible to keep them a secret), then I'm not buying it. If it was a boring and shit theory that nobody cared about, I might entertain it a little more, but when something outlandish is also exciting and cool, that just strikes me as a time to maximise my scepticism. Sorry. The CIA didn't kill JFK either.
There's absolutely something going on here. If you wanted to take the simplest possible option and discount aliens then it still leaves the US Government apparently having a massive black project that doesn't answer to anyone and Congress seeming to have the herculean task of actually prying any accountability at all on what's been a multi-generation disinformation campaign for unknown reasons.
It's actually not impossible at sub-light speed if you have the patience. Even assuming there is some magic barrier, the solar system has had multiple close passes from nearby star system as it bumbles around the galaxy that could leave Von Neumann probes and the like.
But if the alien stuff is right on the propulsion system
>You can't travel faster than the speed of light; it's the universe's speed limit and if you could go faster than that, then light would too.
As far as I understand there's quite a bit of disagreement with this in the scientific community these days. According to Einstein's relativity, yes, it's a hard limit; but not because it shouldn't be possible, only because everything else goes weird if not.
With physics on that level being more or less entirely theoretical, there have been plenty of things over the years that have gone from cast iron fact nobody would dispute, to outdated and proven falsehoods- For years we thought there was another planet between Venus and the sun, because Newtonian physics said there should be. Some French bloke got a Nobel prize for "discovering" it and everything; except it never existed.
Plenty of physicists are starting to look at the supposed impossibility of FTL as one of those things, in order to solve some of the gaping black holes we still have when trying to reconcile Einstein, Hawking, and the entire clusterfuck that quantum physics represents.
Consider that "alien craft" doesn't have to mean flying saucer full of little green men, and that if it's a probe or something, it could still have been sent thousands of years ago by an alien civilisation that recognised our solar system as a potential candidate for life merely by telescopic red shift spectroscopy or whatever that whole thing is. It's not out of the question. While I don't think it's likely by any means, I don't think it's at all impossible.
>>5467 >For years we thought there was another planet between Venus and the sun
If Mercury's getting Plutoed I will go to Cape Canaveral and slap NASA myself
We need a horrendously unacceptable mnemonic, like the one we all use for resistor colour codes but aren't allowed to talk about. Mnemonics are only really memorable if they're incredibly offensive.
