Throughout history there have been events at times that defy logical explanation. Visitations by superior beings with special abilities have been marked down as myth or legend. Nevertheless there is somewhat tangible evidence scattered across the planet – the Nazca lines in Peru, ancient ‘astronauts’ depicted in Mesoamerica, the stargate at Aramu Muru, ancient Babylonian texts and even Atlantis.
There are many people that do not believe in intergalactic visitors or even that life might exist on other planets. However, in this vast universe, it’s highly improbable that we are the absolute only ones around. Our own solar system, which holds our Sun and nine planets (I never accepted Pluto being struck off as a bona fide planet) is unimaginably large in itself. It’s taken the Voyager crafts about forty years to reach the outskirts of our solar system!
So now, considering that there are approximately another 200 billion to two trillion galaxies in our universe, doesn’t it seem pretentious and narrow-minded to think that we are truly alone in this infinite universe?
In the last few months, especially, it has been the 1960s Race to Space all over again. United Arab Emirates’s Hope orbiter, The United States Perseverance rover and China’s Zhurong rover and Tianwen-1 orbiter all arrived together in February, with Europe hot on their tail with a launch scheduled for next year; both rovers are racing in different directions, desperately searching for some type of life, the winning post looming in the distance.
There are probably planets out there that have very primitive life, primordial or microbial; but there are possibly planets that hold intelligent life, maybe far more advanced than ours. What to us is the height of science and technology advancement could perhaps be as simple as ABC to them. Therefore it is not unreasonable to think that superior life forms might just have mastered a faster way to traverse the universe; and if this is the case, they may have been doing this for thousands of years.
The stargate at Aramu Muru is a good example of innovative space travel. If we are to believe the legend (see my article “Mysterious History Part 1”), the doorway is a portal to another star system. A shortcut.
Aside from all the varying reports of recent UFO sightings, there are also significant clues dating back thousands of years. Were they left behind by our ancestors, keen to depict their interaction with these advanced visitors for future generations?
Or maybe we will? Professor Avi Loeb, a reputable astrophysicist from Harvard university, has been proclaiming to the four winds that Oumuamua was not a natural object but artificially made.
Loeb’s argument is that, apart from the fact that it came in too fast, it seemed to have an extra propulsion, a push. Comets receive that extra push from their cometary tail, which acts like a rocket. The gases that evaporate go in one direction and hence thrust the object in the opposite direction. Oumuamua, however, lacked a cometary tail, so, whatever gave this object the necessary push is still filed under “Mystery”.
Another object passed by in September 2020, that behaved in a similar fashion to Oumuamua, sporting the extra push without a comet tail. As it happens, it turned out to be a rocket booster from a lunar lander in 1966. Artificial.
The WOW incident is not an isolated one although it’s the most notable. In March 2003, SETI institute observed a signal originating from somewhere between the constellations Pisces and Aries. It was spotted three times. Then in 2010, SETI again detected a powerful signal that endured for 10 seconds. The source was a star comparable to ours with a potentially habitable system at about 100 light years distance. Once more, the signal was observed exactly where scientists expected, and it displayed all the anticipated alien traits.
The most recent possible contact from another star system came from Proxima Centauri, only 4.2 light years away, in early 2019. The SETI institute stumbled upon this short-lived signal and astronomers are hard-pressed to establish the original source. A near Earth or Earth-based man-made originator has now been ruled out but it’s still a mystery. The radio signal was detected by the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, and the shifts in the frequency are consistent with the movement of a planet.
This is all really beautiful and fantastic but there is a dark side too. We have actively transmitted into outer space, albeit only a few times, hoping to reach out to other intelligent life. But what if the life we reach is not exactly benevolent? Do we really want to attract attention to ourselves with all guns blazing and neon signs that say “We are here!”?
Regardless of how few the attempts at contact, our footprint is out there. Voyager 1 and 2 are still travelling after almost 44 years and they have now reached Interstellar space. Pioneer 10 and 11, launched in 1972 and 1973, also carry messages like Voyager. Maybe someone will chance upon our wandering spacecraft one day in the future, and will wonder about this ancient civilisation from planet Earth in the Milky Way galaxy.
“There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with God’s voice mingling among the crystal fires.” Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
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