UAPs and Non-Human Intelligence: What is the most reasonable scenario? ~ Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, PhD
As a culture, we ve thus reached an impasse. On the one hand, the meagre amount of data that has been declassified or leaked isn t enough for us to derive any firm conclusions regarding the nature of the phenomenon. On the other hand, enough has been begrudgingly but officially acknowledged that we can t dismiss the phenomenon under prosaic accounts either. The best we can do is thus to take the data seriously, but not extrapolate from it without basis.
In this spirit, I submit to you that the following tentative premises are justifiable: firstly, there is an engineered technology in our skies and oceans that is not human. The counterargument to this is, of course, that UAPs may be top-secret but very human military devices, often called black technology. Yet, this seems to contradict much of what has been disclosed since 2017. The following passage from the testimony of CDR Fravor to Congress illustrates the point: representative Ms. Nancy Mace asked, Many dismiss UAP reports as classified weapons testing by our own government. But in your experience as a pilot does our government typically test advanced weapons systems right next to multimillion-dollar jets without informing our pilots? To which CDR Fravor responded: No. We have test ranges for that.
Moreover, if UAPs such as the metallic spheres were black technology the US Department of Defence were trying to keep secret, it is hard to imagine why Dr. Kirkpatrick an official of that very department would publicize their existence and even declassify a video showcasing their size, form, flight capabilities, etc. Also, the fact that UAPs often seem to defy our understanding of physics doesn t line up with the black-technologies hypothesis, as it would require not only the engineering to be secret, but also the very advancement of the human understanding of physics. This isn t impossible, but isn t very plausible either. Finally, it is difficult to imagine why such game-changing black technologies which would have to have been around for at least as long as the UAP phenomenon itself were never used in large and conspicuous scales to advance the geopolitical interests of any nation.
Secondly, if there is non-human technology in our skies and oceans, then there must be Non-Human Intelligences (NHIs) active on our planet, engineering and controlling the UAPs. This does not imply that the NHIs are extra-terrestrial; it means simply that they aren t human.
As implausible as these two premises may sound in this particular historical junction, the data, if taken seriously, does not seem to allow for prosaic alternatives. So whatever hypotheses we entertain, they will per force stretch our credulity. Indeed, to insist on prosaic explanations we must disregard the data. The latter is not necessarily invalid it isn t incoherent to imagine that all the data are the spurious fabrications of some sprawling disinformation campaign stretching over decades but it certainly doesn t advance the discussion. It thus seems more productive, at this point, to bite the bullet of what the data suggests at least hypothetically and then check whether we can make sense of it in a manner that renders the data less vexing.
Bernard Kastrup. Whatever you think of his philosophical stances, clearly he’s a smart guy (to me he seems very smart). This is a pretty wild essay from him, but he tries to follow what we know.