ET Still Works for the CIA

American Thinker ^ | 17 May, 2026 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

The Trump administration continues to release tranches of previously classified documents on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), the preferred term that includes traditional sightings of UFOs. “Traditional sightings” is a strange admission, don’t you think? Aliens and UFOs have been part of our national conversation for eighty years, long enough to constitute a “tradition,” even though the public has few answers for the questions this “tradition” brings.

Whether the U.S. government will ever provide real answers to unexplained events that have perplexed Americans for generations seems a secondary issue at this point. The more pressing question is this: If our government has been in possession of critical information about the nature of our reality, why should it be empowered to decide what we know? Or asked differently: Why should the government be permitted to keep secrets from us — especially when we are permitted to keep so few secrets from our government?

For decades, the U.S. military, FBI, and CIA dismissed reports of mysterious lights in the sky as hoaxes, misidentifications, or routine weather events. Discussion of the 1947 Roswell incident was regarded as a “conspiracy theory.” First-person encounters with non-human technology or even non-human, sentient beings were ridiculed as delusions.

Over the last fifteen years, though, a steady stream of former government employees — who describe themselves as “whistleblowers” — have testified both in public and under oath that they witnessed fantastic things that cannot be explained by existing technologies or accepted understandings of reality. Although some of these people do have verifiable credentials, records, and careers that suggest they were in positions to have witnessed the extraordinary things that they describe, nobody can know for sure whether they are telling the truth. Or said another way, nobody knows whether they are genuine “witnesses” to the existence of non-human intelligence

[Flaming Conservative]

Then they’d have to be sinless. There’s only one Jesus, who is the atonement for the sins of mankind. He would have to be sacrificed on every world, and that’s just not going to happen.

[Freedom4US]

What’s the point of all that amazing tech if they never use it, except to scare the womenfolk and horses? Seems to me like it would have been real handy in Korea, Viet Nam, etc etc

[cport]

There’s only one God, and one Spirit and one Son, as three. That is true to us within the parameters of the word. Jesus is God in an earthly form, the Spirit is God inside of us. We know the Son as Jesus. I agree with what you said inasmuch as any other self aware and able to make choices would have to be sinless to not need the Son. Good check on that part of my question, as there would be no need for God’s earthly form for sacrifice. But if other beings created with these same attributes of free choice and self awareness, would they not need deliverance as well? And God, with his infinite power and omnipotence, is surely able to do this and not tell us in the Bible? Even further, cord this be a test for us if the capacity of the Great Commission?

As previously mentioned, computers and automobiles and such are not mentioned, but advancements during those times are recognized, so God did indeed give us the capacity to advance. But the are also mysteries mentioned that we will never see until we leave this life. Could other worlds be part of our universe, with other similar beings? Not trying to be snarky, just a genuine question: Is there anywhere in the Bible that states we are exclusive as human beyond the earth? It does state the earth and all its resources are in our dominion. To assume we are exclusive in the universe without it being explicitly stated from God is a very prominent sin of ours, the one that led to the Enemy’s fall; pride/arrogance.

[GingisK]

I agree.

[GingisK]

He would have to be sacrificed on every world, and that’s just not going to happen.

Are you God's personal advisor, or do you sit a little higher? How in the Name of God can you presume to make such a statement?

[Vaduz]

Totally believe aliens are here.

We are them?.

[Reily]

I thought they were wading the Rio Grande and avoiding ICE?

[Flaming Conservative]

No, but the Bible is.

[cport]

Again, not provocative, but where does it say that mankind is exclusive in the universe, definitively?

[GingisK]

Except, of course, it doesn’t even mention this.

[GingisK]

No, but the Bible is.

Are you aware that your response has nothing to do with the questions I asked?

[SPDSHDW]

I love all these “Christians” That don’t get this
And do not get that WE are made in God’s image.
There is nothing higher he created then us.

So unless he scattered Humans around the galaxy, There is no ETs.

Jesus died once. To suggest that he had to Die again and again is counter to the word of God.

[Flaming Conservative]

That’s what I think.

[cport]

So because we pose philosophical theological discussion about this matter, we are now quote-unquote Christian’s. Nice to know that there are still hold outs from The Reformation.