The universe is a really big place. A really, really big place. To travel to the nearest star, with current technology, would take hundreds of years. To travel to other stars farther away would take thousands or millions of years. Even if we could travel at a high percentage of C, the speed of light in a vacuum, it could take thousands or millions of years to travel to much of our home galaxy. or neighboring places like the Magellanic Clouds. What's worse, travel through interstellar space would require dealing with low or no gravity, high-energy cosmic rays, and radiation, with only a tiny shell protecting the pilgrim's fragile soft bodies from the empty vastness of the cosmos.
It's hard for us, living here as we do on this tiny, friendly little blue ball, to comprehend just how enormous the universe is — and how hostile it is.
That's why it's a little frustrating to see loony conspiracy theories about the CIA having a secret department that retrieves crashed UFOs.
A secretive CIA office has been coordinating the retrieval of crashed UFOs around the world for decades, multiple sources told DailyMail.com.
One source said that at least nine apparent 'non-human craft' have been recovered by the US government – some wrecked from a crash, and two completely intact.
Three sources briefed on those alleged top secret operations told DailyMail.com that the Office of Global Access (OGA), a wing of the Central Intelligence Agency's Science and Technology Directorate, has played a central role since 2003 in orchestrating the collection of what could be alien spacecraft.
The three sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid reprisals, have all been briefed by individuals involved in those alleged UFO retrieval missions.
Of course the "sources" spoke on condition of anonymity; I can think of two good reasons for that. First, they are trolling the Daily Mail and feeding them a line of crap. Second, they don't exist.
One person, of course, has spoken out publicly.
Though the shocking claims sound like they come from a science fiction novel, they are part of a growing body of evidence suggesting the US government could indeed be hiding advanced vehicles that were not made by humans.
Former top intelligence officer David Grusch told Congress as much in an explosive public hearing in July.
The same month, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sponsored an extraordinary bill to allow disclosure of 'recovered technologies of unknown origin and biological evidence of non-human intelligence' – which has now passed in the Senate.
Sources who spoke to DailyMail.com shed light on how the CIA has allegedly coordinated the secret recovery and storage of these alleged crashed or landed UFOs.
David Grusch talked to Congress. Big deal. He claims to have evidence. Where is it? The "anonymous" whistleblowers told the Daily Mail (not the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, or any of the major American news outlets — not even the Weekly World News, but instead the UK's Daily Mail) that they know of nine vehicles. Where are they? What did they look like? What caused these spaceships, which logically would have to have been robust enough to survive the conditions of space while crossing many light-years, to suddenly malfunction and crash on Earth? Not just one, but nine of them?
That's stretching credulity way past the breaking point.
Look, I'm a science fiction writer myself. In that work, I routinely break the laws of physics asunder; the one fun thing about writing science fiction is the breathtaking abandon with which we just make stuff up, often postulating things that would make an actual physicist or cosmologist burst out in laughter. But that's fiction. Not reality. While I'm mortally certain there must be other life, perhaps even other intelligent life, somewhere in the staggering, ungrokkable vastness of the universe, the odds of an alien intelligence not only detecting us across the light-years but traveling to Earth, to be close enough to us not only in space but in time to make that contact, and close enough to us in biology to make any level of contact possible; that's just so hideously unlikely as to the next best thing to impossible.
So, the Daily Mail claims to have three sources. Three anonymous sources. Great. Let them come forward. Let Mr. David Grusch produce his evidence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and these claims are among the most extraordinary of all.
See some previous RedState reporting on this issue at the links below:
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