Forget Hollywood, if aliens ever invade we’ll never be able to stop our total destruction, warns chief ET hunter
IF aliens ever invade Earth humans will never be able to stop the total destruction, a chief extraterrestrial hunter has revealed.
Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, said that if a War of the Worlds were to ever happen we would definitely lose.
Shostak compared the entire human race to the Carib Indians and aliens to Christopher Columbus when the explorer first invaded their lands in the 15th century.
“Say you’ve got a plan, but it’s like the Carib Indians planning what they’ll do if they see Chris Columbus coming across the horizon," he explained.
“He’s going to get into some small boats and come and land on your island. What are you going to do about that?”
“Bear in mind, any alien travellers that could reach us are very much more advanced technologically than we are.
“Our best rockets would take 100,000 years to get to the next star over let alone to one where there might be some aliens – so the conceit that you see in the movies where we take the invaders on is nonsense.
“If they want to come here and flatten Swindon there’s nothing we can do."
He added that our only option would be to possibly negotiate with the extraterrestrial civilisation.
It comes after the Pentagon finally released its UFO report in June.
The long-awaited document detailed what the US government knows about a series of mysterious flying objects that have been observed in military airspaces over the last several decades.
The report, released on the website of the Office of the Director for National Intelligence, examined 144 reports of encounters with what the government deemed "unidentified aerial phenomenon".
Only one of those encounters could be explained by investigators by the end of the study. That case was put down to "airborne clutter".
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Investigators also found no evidence to suggest the sightings represented either extraterrestrial life or a major technological advancement by a foreign foe, such as China or Russia.
"Of the 144 reports we are dealing with here, we have no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation for them — but we will go wherever the data takes us," a senior US official said.
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