"I don't see too much harm in it, to be really honest about it," Shostak replied. With regard to the public's fascination with alien life, Pogue asked, "Is there anything wrong with people believing whatever they want to believe?" But no matter what that report winds up saying, Seth Shostak doubts it will change anyone's mind. Next month, if all goes well, the Pentagon's UFO research group (now called the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force) will finally go public with a report requested by Congress. Just like we are doing archaeology on Earth, we can explore archaeology in space in search for past cultures that are not around anymore." I think this should be a mainstream activity. Loeb said, "The scientific community refuses to discuss it. Loeb, Kean, and Shostak all agree on one thing: That the government and the scientific community should spend more effort and money on the search for alien life. ![]() "But it's a different thing to say, 'And not only are they out there, but they've come to visit!' The evidence, to my mind, is not good." "Yeah, I have no doubt that there's extraterrestrial intelligence," said Shostak. ![]() "And yet, you work for SETI, whose mission, supposedly, is to find it?" "You sound like a skeptic about there being extraterrestrial intelligence," said Pogue. Don't you think they would have found some of these saucers if they were really around?" Shostak wasn't persuaded by the Navy videos, either: "Think about the fact that there are 750 or so satellites up there, whirling around the Earth, making those photos you find on Google Earth. There are a lotta people here who know a lot more about asteroids than I do, and they say: Look, it looks like an asteroid, it quacks like an asteroid, it has all the characteristics of an asteroid." SETI's Seth Shostak said, "I am not convinced that Avi's right about this. "So, we suggested that perhaps this object is a technological relic – in fact, a sail produced by another civilization, and the first indication that such a civilization exists." Sort of like a sail reflecting light, instead of reflecting the wind as you find on a sailboat," said Loeb. "And in order for that to happen, the object had to be very thin. Its hyperbolic orbit was inclined relative to the ecliptic plane of the Solar System and did not pass close to any of the planets on the way in.ĮSO/K. `Oumuamua originated from interstellar space and will return there with a velocity boost as a result of its passage near the Sun. ![]() Unlike all asteroids or comets observed before, this orbit is not bound by the Sun's gravity. Pictured: Trajectory of object (named `Oumuamua) through the Solar System. Finally, it was accelerating away from the sun, as though being pushed. Loeb identified three other strange characteristics of 'Oumuamua:įirst, it seemed to be flat, like a pancake. "Prior to the discovery of ʻOumuamua, we have never seen an object from outside the solar system," Loeb said. Until last year, he was the chair of Harvard's astronomy department. "We cannot really chase it it's moving faster than any rocket that we can produce," said Avi Loeb, who teaches astrophysics at Harvard. 'Oumuamua (which means "scout" in Hawaiian) is something that a Hawaiian telescope glimpsed in 2017, just as it was leaving the solar system. Now, the military's secret program was only one 2017 surprise. I mean, maybe it is from some other place in the universe." And, you know, you can ask yourself, well, then, what we call the extraterrestrial hypothesis is a valid one. "We'd have to say what's confirmed is that we don't know what – let's call it a ship or an object – we don't know what it is. Has there ever been a confirmed extraterrestrial ship?" Pogue asked, "I don't think I've ever spoken to anyone who has seen more reports, paperwork, photographs, interviews as you on this topic. Kean said, "That's always the biggest question: Is it Chinese? Is it Russian? Could it be their technology? And if it is, we're in trouble, because they're way ahead of us." As we collect additional data, we expect to close the gap between the identified and unidentified to avoid possible strategic surprise." ![]() "The Department of Defense … take(s) any incursions by unauthorized aircraft … very seriously. A post shared by JEREMY KENYON LOCKYER CORBELL Pentagon declined "Sunday Morning"'s request for an interview, but offered a statement that said, in part:
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