How finding alien life in Universe is now close to reality

People used to think that looking for aliens was a waste of time until lately. It is now serious and based on science. Don't believe that science is looking for UFOs, though. Fears of alien attack, on the other hand, are slowing down science. But where we are now is exciting...

A lot of people are looking at threats that might come from space because that's what people do whenever things get worse in the world. This "escape" is also fed by films. There are many films and TV shows on digital media that are about "alien invasions."

Adam Frankis is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester in New York and the main investigator of NASA's first grant to study intelligent life on other planets.

He is also the author of The Little Book of Aliens (2023) and is responding to this event. Frankis says in a piece on Aeon.com that belief in UFOs is getting in the way of scientific research into life in space. We are quoting parts.

"All of a sudden, everyone is talking about aliens these days." The question of life beyond Earth has come back into the public eye after being on the edges of culture for decades. So much so that the next huge space telescope will be designed to look for signs of life on other worlds.

NASA also has a strong and well-funded programme in the study of alien life. While this is going on, newspapers are full of stories about strange meetings with UFOs.

What do you think about these changes? Scientists who wanted to really think about life in the world were made fun of for decades. The lack of sincerity almost put an end to SETI, the search for intelligence from other planets.

Astrobology has become more popular in astrophysics thanks to new technologies and findings, so it is important to know what happened in the past if you want to know what will happen next.

On June 24, 1947, it was a great day to fly in the northwest Pacific. Over Mineral City, Washington, USA, the sky was clear and bright. Kenneth Arnold, a hobby pilot, flew his small single-engine plane over the tallest part of Mount Rainier at noon on his way to an air show in Oregon.

At the same time, he learned that a U.S. Marine Corps transport plane had disappeared and that someone would get paid to find its wreckage. Arnold chose to look around and take a few turns. He didn't know it at the time, but he was flying right through the history of UFOs.

Arnold saw a flash of blue light as he looked down at the ground. Far away, there was a DC-4 flying, but it didn't have any bright lights. After that, the flashes came back.

This time, he knew exactly where they were coming from: nine flying things lined up diagonally. He thought he was seeing some kind of high-tech military plane until they were no longer visible.

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