Pro-UFOs (as if to support the alien UFO hypothesis) and ancient astronaut buffs are happy to claim evidence that aliens were once, or are currently, here as mere people, tourists, scientists, colonists, or whatever. that is, sharing with us this Third Rock coming out of the Sun. Now, a logical objection to this scenario is that there are no obvious extraterrestrial detritus, garbage sites, kitchen dumps, or ruins of any kind that they have left behind. There is no fossil evidence of any non-terrestrial creatures or possible mythological and extraterrestrial hybrids (such as centaurs, the sphinx, or mermaids). So far no skeletons of ET itself have been discovered. We have yet to find the burial remains (if any) of an alien cyclops.
That’s not to say there aren’t some rather strange fossils in the geological record, that is, within the rock strata, but nothing that ultimately can’t be interpreted as terrestrial and in Darwinian evolutionary terms. Trilobites, for example, were terrestrial.
As any paleontologist is happy to point out, the fossils we have amount to only a small fraction of those that still exist within the geologic rock record; all fossils (discovered or not) are only an incredibly small fraction of all those creatures (including plants) that ever fossilized. Of those that have ever fossilized, many have been destroyed by natural forces; those subsets, all those potentially undiscovered fossils, or fossils that no longer exist, are themselves an ultra-tiny fraction of all those creatures that ever lived and died. Most (almost all) creatures when they die serve as food for something else, even if it’s just bacteria. They biodegrade one way or another, the usual scenario of dust to dust and ash to ash. Translated, the odds of a lone Joe Trilobite (out of billions) ever being fossilized, discovered, and ultimately given to grace a museum exhibit is astronomically against the grain. So that should also apply to ET. There might well be some bona fide ET artifact, even an ET itself, buried in the ground, but that is of no use if that artifact remains buried or, more likely, has been destroyed over geologic eons by various destructive forces. natural geological processes.
In short, if such alien fossils and artifacts exist, they are so few in number, so eroded, weathered, buried, and/or biodegraded that the proverbial needle in a haystack is easy prey by comparison. If anyone is familiar with the History Channel documentary series “Life After People”, infrastructure, when left unheeded to mercy and the forces of nature and the ravages of time, does not survive that long before falling apart. It is said that “man fears time, but time only fears the pyramids.” Despite that observation, it’s obvious that time has taken its toll on those ancient wonders of Giza in Egypt. In another 50,000 years, perhaps ten times over, even the pyramids will have been recycled back to sand as wind, rain, pollution, and earthquakes strut their destructive material.
Still, perhaps an amateur archaeologist or paleontologist or just a lucky prospector or individual looking for the right place at the right time might stumble upon the find of the century; an extraterrestrial would actually be the find, not only of the century, but of all time.
Those same natural geological forces and biological agents would also strut their natural recycling and decaying material into ET waste. But apart from that probability, ET can and does have the option of removing its own debris from our planet. One also needs to ask; would we necessarily recognize and distinguish ET garbage from all other forms of human garbage? Would there be some obvious difference that would suggest that alien junk is somehow different from human junk? If we didn’t immediately conclude that a metal bolt we found was extraterrestrial, would we go to the trouble of subjecting it to the complex analysis that would be necessary to confirm that this junk metal bolt was anything but ordinary? rubbish but extraordinary rubbish? I conclude that the lack of ET garbage is not evidence of lack of ET
The lack of garbage dumps and extraterrestrial artifacts could also mean that aliens clean up themselves (as opposed to the littering-prone humans on which much of human prehistory is based: excavations of our ancient garbage dumps, technically called kitchen trash cans). The ET ‘gods’ (ancient astronauts) took all their stuff with them when they left, including the end products of their genetic experiments (aside from their last end product: us humans and our hominid ancestors, which had gone extinct on their own). ), the half-and-half hybrid (like the Minotaur) of our mythology.
Unless we humans start throwing our garbage into space, let’s say towards the final incineration in the solar furnace; well, let’s just say that option is going to increase waste removal rates several thousand times, and is therefore not a realistic option, for us. Thus, we have no choice but to use Planet Earth as a garbage dump, much to the delight of archaeologists who again base much of ancient human history on that detritus. But, as noted above, time, natural forces, and biological agents eventually deal with most forms of human waste: solid, liquid, and gaseous.
There is another solution to the lack of ET garbage. A technologically advanced ET is probably equally advanced in recycling technology. If you’re undertaking interstellar travel, you’d better be damn efficient at recycling. Anyway, I don’t remember anyone on ‘Star Trek,’ for example, leaving their junk: an artifact, maybe like a book about Chicago mobsters, yes, but not junk! Even that book was a violation of the Prime Directive! ET would pay more attention to rules and regulations.
Whether the alien artifacts have been eroded by time or their debris was carefully disposed of or recycled by ancient alien astronauts, any remaining physical evidence, interpreted as ET evidence, will be evidence from our relatively modern eras, not from the geological past. . That evidence could be contained within human mythology or human archeological relics that represent in one way or another the ‘gods’, entities that could be extraterrestrial beings: figurines, works of art, monuments, etc. or half-and-half hybrids (like the stone monument of the Sphinx that rests near the trio of those great but crumbling pyramids on the Giza plateau in Egypt). However, any self-respecting archaeologist will tell you that these are all the works of humans. Some out-of-place anomalous artifacts have been discovered, but while they are anomalies or curiosities, they are not so extraordinary as to make a strong case for the existence of extraterrestrials. But, in conclusion to that observation that all roads pointing to extraterrestrial ‘gods’ were paved by humans, well, the absence of direct evidence linking extraterrestrials to Earth is not the same as evidence of the absence of any. aliens on Earth.
But speaking of artifacts related to aliens or ancient astronauts, there have been many authors besides Erich von Daniken who have made a career of pointing to archaeological evidence that suggests aliens. Clearly, much of it is embellishment, wishful thinking, and often just plain nonsense, but, as are most of life’s little mysteries, this is not an either/or situation. There are many shades of gray here and I’ve seen quite a few artifacts, especially images, that are quite suggestive of aliens in our past, and of course, if it’s past tense, why not present tense? Add mythology as a complement to archeology and the ETH evidence tightens.
Finally, consider your own environment: home, work, community. Within that sphere in which you exist for the most part, what proof do you have that meteors exist? Has a meteorite struck your backyard? crashed at your workplace or anywhere within your everyday environment? What about a plane? You see these strange flying objects all the time, but you don’t find an artifact of them, an artifact falling to the ground in your backyard, your workplace, or within your community. You probably don’t have any actual physical evidence to prove that meteorites or planes exist. Everything is just an eyewitness reality on your part. Of course, if you claim to see a ‘shooting star’ or a Boeing 747 flying overhead; chances are no one will mess up your sighting. So can we dismiss UFOs just because there are no artifacts to conveniently have, just general eyewitness testimony?
Based on your own terrain, you have as many artifacts for ET as meteors or planes (unless you were unlucky enough to anger the gods and have a plane or meteor land on your roof).
But wait, what about the July 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico and other alleged incidents involving UFO crashes? Unfortunately, even if true, the alleged alien artifacts are not in the hands of the scientific community. There are no peer-reviewed articles in academic journals on the remains studied. There is no final point in the literature that is not controversial. The alleged artifacts are not displayed in museums. Only the elite who need to know have access, and they’re not talking. So Roswell is a yes, but as proof positive, it’s a no-no, at least so far.
However, there are modern UFO artifacts of all kinds. In geology, not all fossils are bones or shells. In fact, not all fossils are even remains of living things, but rather events. For example, there are impressions of fossilized raindrops in now-solid rock; ditto wavy markings. But with respect to the shape of living things, there are fossils of only their burrows, and more often only of their footprints. A UFO ‘footprint’ is similar to a trail on the ground left after a UFO landing, such as the Socorro, New Mexico landing on April 24, 1964, as witnessed by local police officer Lonnie Zamora. Magnetic fingerprints left on metal objects such as cars or physiological effects incurred on human (or plant and animal) tissue is something else that can be treated and analyzed in a laboratory. So, in a manner of speaking, there are UFO ‘artifacts’.
So the search for UFOs or ancient astronaut artifacts is similar to the good old search for a needle in a haystack. But that’s something the scientists employed in the scientifically legitimate Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) can relate to. That needle/haystack argument is their alternative position when SETI scientists are pressed to explain why they themselves have not detected ET (even if it was and not here) in more than five decades of searching the skies for that radio beam. artificial or optical beacon. . They would say, and rightly so, that absence of proof is not the same as proof of absence. And that pithy saying also helps explain why UFOs (and ancient astronauts) aren’t junk. The absence of ET garbage is not necessarily the same as evidence of the absence of ET.