Is The US Government Hiding Clean Technology?

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Recently a trailer for a new documentary about aliens dropped. While I always love a good alien story (my grandpa and I were big fans of X Files back in the ’90s) and like the idea of mixing clean technology with aliens even more, I also have to admit that there’s a lot of nonsense, grifting, and even cult-like groups forming in the ET space. So, we always have to look at these things with skepticism.

But, what happens when people with real reputations to uphold start talking about the U.S. government hiding alien technology? Well, that’s basically what is happening here. (article continues after video)

The trailer promises interviews with a number of people who aren’t joining a zoom call from their mom’s basement. People who spent whole careers in government, intelligence, the military (including at least one flag officer), and other serious, life-and-death fields are coming forward with more information about a program to capture and reverse engineer alien technologies. Among these alleged technologies are infinite clean energy and other things that we’d love here at CleanTechnica.

This, of course, can’t be viewed in a vacuum. There have been a number of stories involving serious people and serious media outlets in the last few years. The New York Times took a crack at it in 2017, and there has been a trickle of non-crackpots making similar claims ever since. Most recently, an interview with several military personnel and footage from a military helicopter show such retrieval programs in action:

File this one under “I want to believe.” Why? Because the idea that there’s even better clean technology hidden away somewhere sounds great. If all we had to do to solve pollution and climate change was force the United States government to reveal stolen alien technology, it would be a lot easier than having to implement the technology we have.

The oil companies can lie about EVs being worse for the environment and solar panels not providing reliable power, but it’s harder to get away with shenanigans when god-like beings bring us something better from the cosmos.

But we also have to admit that most of the alien disclosure news in recent years relies on appeals to authority, a common logical fallacy. Yes, retired military officials and intelligence officers are indeed good authorities, especially compared to most UFO people. At the same time, these people are still human (hopefully) and can make mistakes. Some of them might even be looking for a way to supplement their retirement incomes, and this could be a good opportunity. And, this is before I point out that the politicians interviewed are politicians, and thus cannot be trusted by any sane person.

Retired personnel might be the only people who feel like they can get away with talking about UFOs without having their lives ruined, but at the same time the lack of skin in the game makes them less credible witnesses. If a sitting president or other high-ranking public official puts their career on the line with such a claim, it would mean a lot more.

What would mean the most would be if we could have some hard evidence and not have to rely on reputations and personality, fuzzy images of tic tacs and eggs, and stories about meditating to summon UFOs. I’d love to be able to share that with readers, especially if it meant we get some cool little cheap power boxes that give us free energy for life or something.

Featured image: grainy footage that claims to be taken from a military helicopter towing an egg-shaped alien craft. (Fair use, government work)