#4 I hope you have heard a thing about Oumuamua. If not, it is terrible. Oumuamua is something that entered our solar system and left us with a lot of questions. As you read this, it is moving away from us, maybe drifting or with a purpose towards its next destination. When we found Oumuamua in our system, its characteristics differed from regular celestial objects, which is why it got a lot of attention.
Coming closer, this May, Pentagon officially disclosed hundreds of UFO sightings, especially from US Navy. Many of those are recorded using multiple sensors, meaning various devices, including humans, bore witness to it. Some of them were moving hypersonic. Thus, some unidentified flying objects or phenomena exist. They need not be aliens. It can be originated from a different country on earth. But all of those have been mostly ruled out, and the characteristics of these UFOs defy what we know. I am overly excited about these revelations. It is a dream to hear a piece of news about a clear recording of an alien UFO. I believe such information will shatter the socially constructed divisions of humans. Our earth’s atmosphere is a vast space to always be under surveillance. Thus, it is possible to have far more UFOs roaming within our atmosphere, unattended. For now, detailed studies on these spotting have commenced. Let us be hopeful for some fantastic news in the coming years.
Keeping aside the reported sightings from Pentagon, have you wondered why the public did not see any UFOs. Have you seen anything remarkable in our skies beside the regular constants like stars and moon? I have been lucky enough to see meteors with a reddish glow zooming past with a sparkling trail. That happened only once to me. Whenever I see reports about the meteor shower, I try my best to look up but have been unlucky. Nowadays, everyone has a high-end camera with them, and hardly any sightings have been reported. Maybe most of them are so enclosed within their own world that they barely look up. Or these reported sightings were moving hypersonic in some cases, which is too hard for us to notice. Anything moving supersonic would produce a pressure pulse that is unnoticeable. This exists even when a fighter jet flies at less than a Mach. I have experienced this at the famous Bengaluru air show, and I highly recommend to all to witness an air show at least once in your life. So, if these flying objects were to make no noise, we would hardly look up. Most of the time, you look up to a plane after hearing its rumbling. Therefore, it could very well be that they exist among the public but go completely unnoticed.
Coming back to Oumuamua, Prof. Avi Loeb has wondered if we could launch a probe, enter the interstellar visitor and come back with samples. Wouldn’t it be great? With an agnostic approach, the professor launched the Galileo Project, which aims to research these unknown visitors with their own data set. As someone who has always wondered about life beyond earth, I sincerely wish that a remarkable discovery happens before I leave.