Take Me to the Nearest Alien Spacecraft

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In the new play that I participated in last night at the historic Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign, Illinois (“We Interrupt This Program,” written by Bill Odenkirk), the alien character (played by Bob Odenkirk) complains that his spacecraft is such an old model that there is an ashtray in the door. Also, the food is so bad that even a black hole (which eats everything, including light) spits it out.

The show was brilliant but was mostly about humans. The aliens were the focus of a subsequent panel discussion, moderated by Emmy-winning PBS host, Sarah Edwards, and attended by Ahmed Best (Star Wars prequel trilogy), the four-time Emmy winner Bill Odenkirk (The Simpsons, Futurama, Mr. Show) and myself. The event was sold out to an audience of nearly 1,500 people.

Earlier in the day, I gave a special seminar at the University of Illinois, where I reviewed the latest updates on the “Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters” from the vantage point of my leadership of the UAP Science Advisory Council (https://uapsac.com/) in service of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the White House, the Pentagon, the FBI and the Intelligence Community. The video of this lecture is available here.

An hour later, I explained here on Fox 25 Chicago the added benefit from digital data or material evidence over storytelling regarding the nature of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).

The fundamental question underlying all of these discussions is: “Where is the nearest evidence for alien technology?” The popular view in academia is that extrasolar life is mostly confined to birth sites in the habitable zone of stars. In such a case, both biological technological signatures are many light years away from Earth, making their detection highly challenging.

However, adopting this default assumption without conducting an extensive search for alien tech in our backyard makes little sense. In the same fashion that billions of dollars were already invested over five decades in ruling out candidate particles for dark matter, we should invest similar resources and time in the challenging search for alien tech near Earth before converging on the premise that it can only be found far away. Enrico Fermi’s question: “Where is Everybody?” should be turned on its head into an action item: “Let us search right here and now.”

The search for local clues of anomalous alien tech which is markedly better than human-made tech, would be limited by the capabilities of our best sensors and intelligence. Since the U.S. government conducted for decades sensitive searches for adversarial objects as a matter of national security with a budget that is a hundred times bigger than the funding allocated to science, there is a chance that it inadvertently discovered alien tech.

If an alien spacecraft is in possession of the U.S. government or corporations like Lockheed Martin, as some whistleblowers contend, then this material evidence should be presented to President Trump and brought to the attention of the public. Such knowledge must be analyzed in detail scientifically to understand better the origin and intent of the alien visitation in our cosmic backyard. Subsequently, policy makers, economists, psychologists, philosophers and theologians should examine the implications of this new scientific knowledge for the future of humanity.

The material evidence itself will likely become the most attractive tourist destination. Even without reverse engineering alien technology, its owner can make a huge revenue out of turning it to a highly-priced exhibit in a museum or an amusement park.

But the first step in this important journey must be triggered by digital or material evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. Once presented, it will enter the annals of human history by transforming the next State of the Union address by President Trump to a statement about the State of the Universe.

If a nearby alien craft is ready for boarding, I will stand first in line to board it and take a one-way ride away from the terrestrial troubles in my daily news feed. Rather than seek likes on terrestrial social media, I prefer to discuss the wonders of the Universe with other curious travelers in interstellar space.

For that reason, my request to anyone who has relevant information is simple: “Please take me to the nearest alien spacecraft.”

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昨晚我在伊利诺伊州香槟市中心历史悠久的弗吉尼亚剧院参演了一部新剧（《我们打断一下这个节目》，比尔·奥登科克编剧），剧中外星人角色（鲍勃·奥登科克饰演）抱怨说他的飞船太老旧了，门上竟然有个烟灰缸。而且，食物也难以下咽，连黑洞（吞噬一切，包括光）都吐了出来。把它拿出来。

这场演出精彩绝伦，但主要内容还是关于人类的。外星人则成为随后小组讨论的焦点，讨论由艾美奖得主、PBS主持人莎拉·爱德华兹主持，出席者包括艾哈迈德·贝斯特（《星球大战》前传三部曲）、四届艾美奖得主比尔·奥登科克（《辛普森一家》《飞出个未来》《Mr. Show》）以及我本人。活动门票售罄，近1500名观众到场。

当天早些时候，我在伊利诺伊大学举办了一次特别研讨会，从我领导的UAP科学咨询委员会（ https://uapsac.com/ ）为国家情报总监办公室、白宫、五角大楼、联邦调查局和情报界服务的有利位置，回顾了“UAP遭遇的总统解封和报告系统”的最新更新。T本次讲座的视频可在此处观看。

一小时后，我在芝加哥福克斯 25 频道解释了数字数据或实物证据比讲述故事更有利于了解不明异常现象 (UAP) 的本质。

所有这些讨论背后最根本的问题是：“哪里能找到外星科技存在的证据？”学术界的普遍观点是，地外文明……r生命主要局限于恒星可居住区的出生地。 在这种情况下，这两种生物技术特征都离地球很远，这使得它们的检测非常具有挑战性。

然而，采用这种默认假设而不在我们的后院进行广泛的外星科技搜索是没有意义的。 以同样的方式，数十亿美元既然我们花了五十多年时间排除暗物质候选粒子，那么在得出“暗物质只能在遥远的地方找到”这一结论之前，我们也应该投入类似的资源和时间，在地球附近寻找外星科技。恩里科·费米的疑问“人都在哪里？”应该被转化为一项行动：“让我们现在就在这里寻找。”

搜索本地异常外星技术明显优于人造技术的线索，将受到我们最好的传感器和智能能力的限制。由于美国政府几十年来作为国家安全问题对敌对物体进行敏感搜索，其预算比分配给科学的资金多一百倍，因此有可能无意中发现了外星科技。

如果像一些举报人所声称的那样，美国政府或像洛克希德·马丁公司这样的企业确实拥有外星飞船，那么这些确凿的证据就应该呈交给特朗普总统，并公之于众。必须对这些信息进行详细的科学分析，以便更好地了解外星人造访地球的起源和意图。随后，政策制定者、经济学家、心理学家、哲学家和神学家应该研究这一新的科学知识对人类未来的影响。

这些实物证据本身很可能成为最具吸引力的旅游景点。即使不进行外星科技的逆向工程，其所有者也能通过将其转化为高价值的旅游产品而获得巨额收益。在博物馆或游乐园展出。

但开启这段重要旅程的第一步，必须以确凿无疑的数字或实物证据为前提。一旦呈上，它将载入人类史册，使特朗普总统的下一份国情咨文变成一份关于宇宙现状的声明。

如果附近有外星飞船准备好登船，我会我会排队登机，并在我的每日新闻提要中单程乘车远离地面麻烦。 与其在地面社交媒体上寻找点赞，我更喜欢与其他好奇的星际旅行者在星际空间中讨论宇宙的奇迹。

因此，我对任何有相关信息的人的要求都很简单： “请带我去最近的外星宇宙飞船。”

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作者：Avi Loeb（哈佛大学天文系教授）