Bundestag Releases
UFO Report; Humanity Still the 'Crown of Creation' (Der Tagesspiegel, Germany)
"Will ET
never communicate with us; will there never be a Close Encounter of the Third Kind? 'No,' say Bundestag researchers,
who listed in their ten-page report anyone and anything of importance to substantiate
this assertion. … That humanity is and remains the crown of creation is an
opinion shared by the authors of this report. However, what explains the many
witnesses who swear they've seen UFOs - including military personnel and others
who cannot be suspected of being prone to fantastical notions?"
There are many related files that remain top secret, which
is why conspiracy theories and fantasies about UFOs and extraterrestrial life
abound. Whether they have in fact already landed - at Area 51 in the Nevada desert,
for example, or in the lignite mining areas of the Lausitz region - is what one
Christian Democratic Union Bundestag member wants to know. Yet it took a Supreme
Court decision for a top-secret report by the Bundestag Research Service to
finally be brought into the public spotlight.
Landing by
extraterrestrials 'out of the question'
The sad news for all those for whom the world is not enough
is: the federal government considers "an extraterrestrial landing on the
soil of the Federal Republic of Germany, according to the current state of
scientific knowledge, out of the question." Considering the fact that
France and Britain are preoccupied with the existence of UFOs and
extraterrestrial life would seem to suggest that German agencies and ministries
would also be so occupied. However, no such thing was confirmed in this case.
"No," say Bundestag researchers, who listed in
their ten-page report anyone and anything of importance to substantiate this
assertion. Even for sympathizers of the supernatural, it is hard to persevere when
confronted with the weight of these arguments.There is, for instance, Nobel Prize winner and physicist Enrico Fermi [1901-1954],
who calculated the probability of life in outer space. According to Fermi, a
civilization capable of interstellar colonization would long ago have conquered
the entire galaxy. He said that to do so would have taken the extraterrestrials
no more than 50 million years. Our Milky Way is considerably older than that, yet
as far as we know, none but humanity has dominated the earth.
SETI and electromagnetic
waves
Speaking against the existence of flying saucers is the
decades-long search for telltale signals in the universe. The radio telescopes
of Project SETI, for
instance, scan the universe for electromagnetic radiation from
extraterrestrials, because this is the "easiest and most likely
possibility" of "discovering extraterrestrial life in the near future
[interview with SETI's Seth Shostak, upper right]." Critics would argue
that such thinking is far too anthropomorphic: Just because, as a result of radio
and television signals from its inhabitants, the Earth is likely to attract the
most attention in the universe, doesn’t mean by a long shot that
extraterrestrials utilize the same signals. This is particularly true
considering the fact that most of these transmissions are garbage.
After all, scientists concede: even lasers could serve as
signals – and there is no systematic examination being conducted along those
lines. Neither do scientists discount the possibility of life out there
somewhere in some form. However, they prefer to call it "signs of life"
and warn that "this in no way refers to complex organisms let alone
intelligent life." Life is conceivable on planets situated at a distance
from a star similar to the Earth’s distance from the Sun. "Based on
carbon, nitrogen, and water," simple life forms could develop anywhere in
the universe.
Humans remain 'crown
of creation'
That humanity is and remains the crown of creation is an
opinion shared by the authors of this report. However, what explains the many
witnesses who swear they've seen UFOs - including military personnel and others
who cannot be suspected of being prone to fantastical notions?
"The federal government has no knowledge of so-called
UFOs sightings," said then-Chief of Staff of the Chancellery Peter
Altmaier as early as 2008. So why in
1978 did the United Nations encourage states to hunt for UFOs? Because, the
scientists say, during the Cold War, the development of "new aircraft and
spy satellites by military opponents provided an opportunity to better address
such issues." In short, "UFOs" are from the east.
Posted by Worldmeets.US
With a steady stream of news reports on the interest of the CIA and the Pentagon in weather modification and climate...
The universe, aka/the final frontier, nevertheless provides
boundless room for speculation. This will by no means satisfy stubborn UFO adepts.
For instance, the editor of the Web site grenz/wissenschaft aktuell [boundary/science
blog spot] dug up another
UFO file from the Foreign Intelligence Service [the Bundesnachrichtendienst or
BND] that is supposed to remain sealed until 2021. File B206/1914 from the
Federal Archives in Coblenz is keeping the issue of extraterrestrials alive: On
August 26, 1986, three officers working the night shift at the Puttgarten border
control and ferry station observed an unidentified flying object hovering outside the
window of their office. And with the thoroughness expected of Germans, one is
quoted as saying: "Please initiate UFO procedure!"
