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Ethereal Frontiers: UFOs, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Consciousness
Anomalous aerial phenomena, thinking machines, and evolving collective consciousness
This is an excerpt from Sky Gods and the Recipe for Immortality: The secret influence of psychoactivity over science, society, and the supernatural.
Prominent politicians with access to classified intelligence briefings, from Marco Rubio to Kirsten Gillibrand, have expressed concern at frequent unidentified aerial phenomena near sensitive military sites.
John Ratcliffe, the former Director of National Intelligence has also publicly ruled out the possibility of these objects being Chinese or Russian technology. In 2021, NASA chief scientist Bill Nelson explained to an audience at the University of Virginia:
“I’ve talked to those pilots and they know they saw something, and their radars locked on to it… And they don’t know what is. And we don’t know what it is. We hope it’s not an adversary here on Earth that has that kind of technology. But it’s something. And so this is a mission that we’re constantly looking… Who is out there? Who are we? How did we get here? How did we become as we are? How did we develop? How did we civilize?”