Alien invaders will ‘crack Earth open like a NUT’ with advanced space weapons, UFO expert warns
IF ALIENS ever descend upon Earth, humanity wouldn’t stand a chance.
In fact, extraterrestrial invaders would “crack this planet open like a nut”, according to one famed UFO expert.
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Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the British Government, says humans are toast if E.Ts invade because their weapon technology will probably be billions of years ahead of ours.
He says sci-fi flicks where humans vanquish hordes of invading little green men are unrealistic, as their weapons would be so advanced they’d seem “magic” to us.
Bombshell report
US spooks published a bombshell report on UFOs earlier this month.
It concluded that 143 unidentified aerial phenomena sightings by US military pilots since 2004 remained unexplained, fuelling further fears of alien invasion.
The report added: “UAPs clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to US national security.”
Despite this, the UK Government says it has no plans to launch its own investigation into UFOs and the threat they could pose to Brits.
But Mr Pope slammed the “idea we would suddenly pull something out of the bag and defeat an alien invasion”.
He added: “Just to put this in context, the universe is nearly 14billion years old, and there might be civilisations out there with a billion or two year headstart on us.
“Now, if you think about the difference in technology, think how far we’ve come in the last two three hundred years, basically from horse and cart and ships sailing across the ocean using the wind, we have come from that to stealth fighters, space probes and smartphones in just that short period of time.
“Now imagine that hypothetical civilisation or rather civilisations, look, the chances of there being just one other civilisation in the universe are as vanishingly small as the chances of being alone, it’s going to be very crowded out there.
“The chances that we will encounter a civilization and it will be 20/30 years ahead of us in scientific understanding and technological advancement, that’s not going to be the situation.
“They will be, like I say, millions, maybe a couple of billion years ahead of us and their technology will be indistinguishable from magic.”
‘Like a nut’
Mr Pope ran the Ministry of Defence’s UFO Project in the 1990s, investigating reported sightings to see if they had any defence significance.
He’s now a journalist and author, and one of the world’s leading experts on the unexplained.
While humanity is advancing its own technology – in part through space programmes – it’s not advanced enough to take on alien invaders, the former UFO sleuth said.
“Our fastest space probes that we have ever built, if we had pointed them at the nearest star aside from our own sun, they would take 75,000 years to get there,” he added.
“So if we are being visited, a civilisation that has figured out viable interstellar travel is going to be able to crack this planet open like a nut, if they wanted to.”
UK UFOs
Baroness Goldie spoke to the House of Lords last month about UFOs, known to US officials as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs).
She said that while the MoD doesn’t hold information on UAPs, it “constantly monitors UK airspace to identify and respond to any credible threat to its integrity, and is confident in the existing measures in place to protect it”.
She added: “The MoD deals with actual threats substantiated by evidence. The government continues to take any potential threat to the UK seriously.”
Lady Goldie also told the Lords: “The MoD has no plans to conduct its own report into UAP because in over 50 years no such reporting had indicated the existence of any military threat to the United Kingdom.”
One Tory peer, Viscount Ridley, said: “Unidentified does not mean suspicious. Does the minister recognise the US report referred to says there is no clear indication that there is any non-terrestrial explanation for the 144 sightings?
“The idea that in an era of mobile phone cameras, drones and frequent travel there could possibly be alien spaceships whizzing about undetected in our atmosphere on a regular basis is not I think very plausible.
“It’s much more likely that these blurred images have boring explanations, alas.”
Lady Goldie said in response: “The UK air defence community detect and monitor all flying air systems 24 hours a day to provide an identified air picture as part of the UK’s national security posture and our commitment to the integrity of Nato airspace.”
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