Study says debate over UFOs and aliens could cause problems in society

In 2017, The New York Times published an extensive article revealing that the United States government had a team responsible for investigating UFO cases. In 2023, a former US intelligence agent appeared before Congress and stated that the US had alien craft and non-human corpses.

As David Grusch puts it: QBiological remains of non-human beings and spacecraft used in a highly classified reverse engineering program have been found in the country.Advocates claim that there will be more hearings in Congress, and it looks like the debate on the issue will grow.

That same year, NASA released a panel on the study of UFOs. Now, in a new study conducted at King’s College London, a researcher claims: The increase in claims about aliens could cause problems for society..

In his study, False Encounters: Alien Visitation Claims as a Social Problem, scientist Tony Miligan states that the current debate on the subject is a widespread social problem.

Because it is not available Despite the lack of actual evidence of aliens, Miligan finds it alarming that 68% of the North American population believes the government knows what UFOs are.For scientists, this issue can fuel a lot of false news and narratives.

“The contention of this paper is that claims of alien visitation become a social problem when they become part of mainstream discourse to the point that government policy has to respond to them; when they produce background noise that impedes scientific communication; and when they contaminate indigenous origin narratives, making the latter harder to recover,” the study explains.

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Researchers say the growing debate on the topic poses three major problems: The topic has become viral enough to involve governments; it is creating noise in the scientific community; and it may use narratives from indigenous cultures to explain the phenomenon.

In other words, even though there is no scientific evidence to prove the existence of extraterrestrial beings, many people believe that they have visited us.

According to Milligan, the situation is likely to worsen in the coming years, but there are scenarios that could improve understanding of the issue. For example, with increasing informal discussions on the issue, It is possible that several scientific programs will begin to examine the concepts of UFOs and aliens.

“At some point something akin to a scientific research program (SRP) may be necessary. This is an idea already developed by Avi Loeb and Martin Elvis (albeit in significantly different ways and for different reasons). It is not yet clear that we are at the stage where an SRP is required, but such a requirement appears to be on the horizon. The paper concludes by defining a set of framework requirements for any such SRP,” he adds.

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