Are space aliens real, and have they visited us?

A little over a month ago I joined the UAP Science Advisory Council. Never heard of UAP? Well, it is the fancy, scientific term (“Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena”) for UFOs.

Now, you might be saying, Liberty, are you serious? Yes, I am. Professor Avi Loeb (Harvard University physicist), in support of President Trump’s directive on UAP transparency, was tasked by the White House with creating this council, which involves the Pentagon, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and the intelligence community.

When I told my father I had joined this council, he asked me if I was “nuts” — direct quote. So I asked him to give me five minutes of his attention so that I could explain what I see as the goal of the council, and why I believe this is not only worth of study, but necessary for both the science and the nation’s security. Give me the same five minutes and let me explain.

There are three main questions that arise when it comes to extraterrestrials. The first is whether life exists anywhere other than earth. I think the answer to that is yes, with a probability of nearly 100 percent.

The second question is whether any of that life is at least as intelligent as we are. I think the answer to that is probably about 60 percent.

Where do those numbers come from? I could invoke fancy terminology about Bayesian statistics, but all it really means is that, based on what we know about how Earth was formed, we can estimate a probability that what happened on Earth has either happened somewhere else already or is happening somewhere else right now.

Human intelligence first appeared on Earth about 300,000 years ago, with........

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