My first inclination woukd be something like a chinese super drone.
To me extraterrestrials are like Bigfoot.....I’m gonna have to see it up close and personal to believe it.
However, if they are real, informing the public at large would undoubtedly cause world wide mass hysteria.
All it took was health officials, Covid, and the media to create worldwide mass hysteria. No bigfoot or UFOs needed.
If real and we can communicate, suggest they demonstrate their vaporize rays on an area like DC. We will not negotiate without that demo.
I'm constantly admonished by the normalcy bias folks that the chicoms are hopelessly behind us in military tech, and if they are unable to steal it, they can't even engineer a balsa wood and rubber band airplane.
Regarding mass hysteria, I think what we're witnessing (possibly) is a slow disclosure so that people won't freak out. The old "frog in a steadily warming pot" method.
If people are told (as they are being told) that something is here, but we aren't quite sure what it is...that whatever it is doesn't seem to be trying to make contact and in fact might have been here for a very long time...people don't react with mass hysteria. They just yawn and go about their business.
BTW, the concern isn't just mass hysteria but a stock market collapse that destroys our financial system and causes a collapse of the economy.
As someone who is glued to the market "ticker" all day long, I can honestly say that, so far, the market doesn't seem to give a damn. In fact, most investors think Elon Musk is an alien.
I had this discussion with someone yesterday, would disclosing proof of extraterrestrials cause a worldwide panic, my feeling and our general consensus is that it would not cause any panic at all.
Years ago, when people universally trusted the government or other institutions, it did create some degree of panic.
When Orson Welles made his “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast it created panic, today I think the vast majority of people are so brain dead, so long as the existence of aliens didn’t interrupt their daily lives it would not create much panic.
Over the years this drip, drip of UFO information getting released has created a degree of normalcy about UFOs and Aliens.
I think what would create panic would be if the USA or some other country like China did reverse engineer some type of alien craft and demonstrated its existence to the world, especially if it did show a military capability at the same time.
Imagine here in the USA, if China released publicly proof of a craft demonstrating capabilities that we claim are not possible with our current understanding of physics, especially if it showed some type of offensive military capability.
There are plenty of decent videos available showing these things.
I am not concluding what they are or where they are from…I am merely saying if you really want to see what the talk is about…the evidence is freely available.
“However, if they are real, informing the public at large would undoubtedly cause world wide mass hysteria.”
Our government loves nothing more than creating hysteria in the public. So it’s not real, or they’re hiding it for their own selfish reasons.
See my #72.
I used to think the same— people would lose their collective minds if we had actual contact with an interstellar species. I have to say, though, that I almost think now the response might be “Yeah, so?”
“ I’m gonna have to see it up close and personal to believe it.”
It seems many professional people with nothing to gain, have seen things that are not explainable