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It's hilarious watching how HN upvotes insane theory instead of crazy theory. Wild times!

There is a very very simple explanation, which is that everything he says is true. There is a secret program, they did reverse engineer, they did withhold it from congress, and people did tell him that there is alien stuff.

Why make up silly make believe?

The guy isn't claiming 'oh i saw aliens'. He could simply be telling the absolute truth.

Why so many people told him there were aliens, I dunno, but who cares. Those people aren't the ones whistleblowing and so it doesn't really matter, does it?

I for one believe the guy, 100%

My only complaint is that perhaps he should probably be a bit more circumspect about what actually exists.

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> There is a very very simple explanation

I’m not sure an explanation that presupposes FTL travel is very very simple

Why would faster than light travel be presupposed in any way?

Where do we think the aliens came from, specifically, without it?

They could be von Neumann probes having travelled for a long time. Even without FTL travel, von Neumann probes could colonize an entire galaxy in reasonable time (a few million years). Even just a single successful civilization somewhere in the milky way or even a neighboring galaxy could've accomplished that

Especially since at the point any civilization starts to develop technology, it happens really exponentially. Even just 1 million years, which is nothing compared to geological time scales, is an absolutely insanely long amount of time to develop technology after the initial spark.

Our 300,000 year old species didn't even settle down until a mere 12,000 years ago, we didn't really develop proper government systems until 2-3,000 years ago and learnt flight only ~120 years ago.

Within the last 120 years we went to the Moon (!), developed the integrated microchip, the Internet, AR/VR and built deep space solar communications infrastructure, got smartphones, MRTs... you name it.

Even among all of these marvels, we still poop though.

> Especially since at the point any civilization starts to develop technology, it happens really exponentially.

Most likely, even overall technological development forms some kind of sigmoid function. It's likely to hit an absolute wall at some point.

Obviously, though, we have no idea if we're 0.0001% of the way or 10% of the way to that wall.

we don’t actually think about aliens.

but if you want a list of hypothetical alternate origins, and don’t have access to the wealth of programming generated by Prometheus and made available on Discovery Networks, thanks to some of the minds of our time, this light summary might help…

* center of the earth is actually hollow, “aliens” are just inner earthlings * one of the other planets or otherwise within the solar system isn’t so dead after all * it’s just us - from the future * it’s just us - from the past * no space travel, no time travel, but parallel earths or dimensions or something * they have always been here, we just are too dumb to see them

It doesn't presuppose anything other than that some people told him aliens.

I mean.. just accept it at face value. Stop reading into it.

Stop thinking and believe? Err... No?

Everything we know about the biology, chemistry, physics and astrophysics makes alien contact with the earth an extreme improbablity. Everything we know about government and intelligence agencies makes a global, mutli-national, multi-government, mass conspiracy to hide aliens an extreme improbability.

Against these mountainous-weights of incredibility one needs more than a retired 36 with a shiny badge who has "heard but not seen" some things.

The improbability of his claims is so vast that even "CIA psyop" becomes plausible against them -- not, least, since it's extremely likely the USA exploited the UFO mass hysteria to disguise its air force development programmes.

Nevertheless, the most probable explanation is that government employees in these agencies are often paranoid believers in the folk mythologies of these agencies --- and are able to maintain these superstitons because they never get senior enough to see they are false.

There is a far simpler and more plausible explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36221917

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