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In reply to the discussion: U.S. Has No Explanation for Unidentified Objects and Stops Short of Ruling Out Aliens [View all]skip fox
(19,356 posts)Obviously U.F.O.s are alien space ships carrying graduate students working on Master's theses and Ph.D. dissertations.
Master's students have the triangle ships while their Ph.D. counterparts have the tic-toc shaped ships
They started coming regularly in the 19th century, but really ramped up their studies when post-industrial societies with nuclear weapons appeared beginning in the late 1940s.
There are liberal arts students, folklore students, economic students, history-of-science students, etc., but the most active are the history and political science students who have hypotheses about the sustainability of post-industrial societies.
They don't contact us because that would pollute their experiments and their experiments may provide them the enlightenment to avoid what looks like will be our fate.