When has there ever been a senior official with a significant reputation coming out like this?
That in itself is 'extraordinary' evidence.
Is this proof that life is out there? No, but if you're not updating your priors, you're not rational.
As I'm sure all of you are aware, all of this is statistically improbable to the point that it can likely be safely considered to be untrue. If we're considering probabilities, I think it's far more likely that the US Government is running some kind of psychological operation.
People encountering this topic have a weird tendency to take their own lack of knowledge as "proof" for inexistence of anything worthwhile.
You cannot claim to be an "expert"(in itself a term only referring to human knowledge) in something without actually having checked with other experts in the field.
> There is not a single sample of material.
There are multiple. Maybe look here for starters:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nzkq/stanford-professor-ga...
That’s okay to do, some people are going to do that for a while and need time. But if you stick to denying, just own it, don’t pretend it’s the truth or reality.
For the curious: There’s lots of evidence in photo and video form, and there are tiny fragments seemingly with advanced metallurgy. These are things that have already made it into the public. Check out the YouTube channel: Unidentified.
What’s missing is “official confirmation”, because the government/corporate aspect is afraid of what they don’t understand and can’t control, so they have to deny it. It challenges their authority.
If this insider becomes or helps beget official confirmation: that would be cool. It would mean we actually live in a powerful state that isn’t afraid of reality, however humbling that may be.
Alright I found two that are related to what I mean (that actually shows the fragments):
- https://youtu.be/zNZHTlRFD6E?t=1415
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9xDsOkrPRo
These ones are connected to Linda Moulton Howe.
Here's another one with I guess different fragments related to Gary Nolan (where he just talks with Lex Friedman): https://youtu.be/EBsUIj_UBBE?t=50
"I've never seen anything like this in all my years" ∴ alien metallurgy maybe.
Second video: Are there desirable properties to an alloy of bismuth and magnesium? The 'expert metallurgist from New Jersey' didn't say, just that they didn't know of any way to make it. All that really proves is the limits of the knowledge of one metallurgist from New Jersey. There are any numbers of ways that metal might condensate in layers over time, all unlikely to naturally occur, but any far more likely than ancient aliens.
Third video: Guy literally admits that this is all pure speculation and that no definitive conclusions can be drawn from these random pieces of metal and that none of them are rule out all possibilities besides the existence of visitors with manufacturing technology beyond our comprehension.
Ok...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hellyer#Extraterrestrial_...
The existence of outlandish sounding but unsubtantiated claims remotely similar to the one on topic here is not indicative of anything.
> When has there ever been a senior official with a significant reputation coming out like this?
A former Canadian Minister of Defense did.