Extraterrestrial

SETI's Seth Shostak condemns 'alien bodies' claim over lack of evidence

By T.K. Randall
August 5, 2023

Image: The 64-M Parkes Radio Telescope
Credit: Stewart Duff, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (adapted) Writing in an article for MSNBC recently, Shostak - who is certainly no stranger to the topic given that he has been the senior astronomer for the SETI Institute for more than 20 years - has criticized the claims made by Grusch at the subcommittee hearing due to a distinct lack of corroborating evidence.

Grusch stated that he had interviewed dozens of witnesses who had seen or who had even claimed to have been injured by UFOs and was aware of a "decades-long" effort by the US government to retrieve such objects for the purpose of reverse engineering.

"But where is the evidence ?" Shostak wrote."It's MIA. Neither Grusch nor anyone else claiming to have knowledge of secret government UAP programs has ever been able to publicly produce convincing photos showing alien hardware splayed across the landscape."

If there was evidence of these objects, he argues, there would be no shortage of scientists vying to access and study it, while the powers that be would be only too happy to make it available for study.

"What is the point of hiding extraterrestrial technology in a Nevada hangar?" he wrote.

"What would be the goal, at this point, of shutting out the scientific community. The information, technology and — importantly — wealth incentives here seem overwhelming."

Source: MSNBC.com

Tags: Grusch, Alien