My Galactic Gut Feeling

I think aliens exist. It just makes too much sense that somewhere out there, beyond the reach of our telescopes and satellites, life is thriving … intelligent life. Now, I’m not talking about the classic little grey guys with big eyes or the little green men like  from “Green Children of Woolpit.” The truth is, alien life could be unimaginably different from anything we’ve ever pictured, maybe I’m an alien, not in the citizenship sense but like little green guys but not green kinda way. But surely, given the scale of the universe, there has to be something else alive somewhere.

What really fascinates me and fuels my belief even more is the idea that we might have already made contact or at least that the government knows more than it’s letting on. You might think that sounds crazy, but look at what happened with Paul Bennewitz.

If you’re not familiar, I don’t blame you I’m not tapped into r/UFOs or r/AliensAreReal, but this is some crazy shit that happened here. Paul Bennewitz was an American businessman and physicist back in the late 1970s until the early 1980s when he unfortunately lost his mind, but prior to this he was highly respected in his physicist field. He became convinced he was intercepting signals and evidence of alien activity near Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. What’s wild (and honestly a little creepy) is that the government didn’t just dismiss him or call him crazy. Instead, they went to great lengths to manipulate him. In fact they encouraged him to apply for a federal grant to research aliens and UFO’s and low and behold he got $75,000.

There was a deliberate disinformation campaign designed to feed Bennewitz false data and stories to confuse him. Why? Because they didn’t want the real truth about what he was detecting to get out. That kind of effort to spread misinformation isn’t random. It suggests there’s something so sensitive—and so important—that it requires active cover-up. Unless the cover-up was a creative way to dismiss the “findings” of a crazy man and have everything he discovered be discredited.

If the government spends resources gaslighting one guy over UFOs and alien tech, that points to something bigger going on behind the scenes. You don’t just create a disinformation campaign out of thin air (but if you can, let me know ASAP, I have someone in mind).

So why else would the government dedicate funds and manpower toward confusing people like Bennewitz if not to hide evidence of extraterrestrial life? The official explanation is always national security, but what if the truth is more complicated? What if it’s about controlling a narrative that could change everything we know about ourselves and our place in the cosmos?

Like sure he was nearby a US Air Force Base but then hey why not just tell him like “Hey Paul, you live next to Kirtland Air Force Base… the stuff you’ve been seeing is government stuff and like confidential and not aliens like hey just letting you know.” Something of that sort surely would’ve been better than spending $75k to send a man to the loony bin.

The more I think about it, the more I realize how little makes sense if aliens don’t exist. We’ve found thousands of exoplanets now, some in the “Goldilocks” zone (learned that phrase in a NASA youtube video) where conditions might support life. Our own planet is just a tiny dot in the vast ocean of stars, many near and some far. Evolution happened here, so why wouldn’t it happen somewhere else?

The silence we perceive, often called the Fermi Paradox, might not be silence at all. The Fermi Paradox is the idea that, given the vast size and age of the universe, intelligent alien life should be everywhere, so that gets me thinking hmmmm why haven’t we found any evidence of it? Maybe civilizations are out there but are intentionally avoiding contact or are using methods beyond our understanding. Or maybe the government’s quiet efforts to hide evidence are part of a larger cosmic game we don’t yet grasp (like a very complicated game of hide and seek where no one’s winning).

I’m not saying aliens have landed and are walking among us (impostor) at least not yet. But the possibility that intelligent life exists somewhere else, combined with what we know about governmental secrecy and disinformation tactics, makes it hard to believe we’re alone.

In the end, believing in aliens isn’t about blindly accepting these sci-fi tropes, Ridley Scott and all. It’s about facing the facts of the universe’s vastness, the statistical likelihood of life elsewhere, and strange signals and events for example like the Bennewitz case, and things that may suggest there’s more to this story than we’re told.

So, two main takeaways:

1. If Vegas offered odds on alien existence, I’d take them every time.
2. The Government’s ability to shape someone’s reality like this is WAY more frightening than the possibility of alien life.