"It's not trivial to say what these things are," he said. Related: UFO Watch: 8 Times the Government Looked for Flying Saucersīut such skepticism should not be taken as a dismissal of the E.T. They don't address climate change they don't steal our molybdenum." "If the aliens are here, you gotta say they're the best houseguests ever, because they never do anything," Shostak said. If these UFOs are indeed alien spacecraft, what exactly are they doing? Why were they sent here, across the vast gulfs of space and time? "The aliens are kind of keeping pace with technology."Ĭommon sense also argues against jumping to the E.T. "The sightings always recede to the edge of what technology allows you to do," Shostak said. Such reasoning is bolstered by the current tendency of UFOs to manifest as blobs or blurs on the displays of advanced instruments rather than as crisply defined objects in cellphone photos. "As anybody who uses Microsoft products knows, whenever you upgrade any technical product, there are always problems," Shostak said. That detail suggests the sightings might stem from some sort of software bug or instrument issue, he said. He also noted that, according to the recent Times story, the Navy pilots began spotting the UFOs after their jets' radar system was upgraded. (That previous sighting occurred near San Diego).Ĭoastal regions are where you might expect to find a rival nation's advanced reconnaissance craft, Shostak said, because incursions over the continental United States would be more obvious and easily detected. He pointed out, for example, that the sightings occurred off the coast, as did a similar 2004 observation unveiled in conjunction with the December 2017 stories. There are multiple possible prosaic explanations for the Navy pilots' observations, said Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI ( Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California.
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