Life on our planet Earth, which is a part of our Cosmic Space
( as I have shared below )
is presumed to have begun after the end of the
Hadean
period, existing as simple pond scum for perhaps 2 billion years—single elements, early blue-green algae "cells," floating around in the oceans
& then somehow obtaining a nucleus, eating each other for food & replicating…
At some point, one cell swallowed another and
( for reasons that remain unknown )
**adopted** it vs. eating it & evolved to using it internally…
This created the 1st complex cell of every living thing on Earth,
plants,
bugs,
fish,
birds, and, eventually after
crawling out of the sea
~400 million years ago, our ancestors
at the end of the
Devonian epoch—research
( as of this writing in September, 2026 )
as to how this actually happened continues to offer theories, but none are yet viable
Today's humans evolved as I have shared in the "Whom We Might Be"
story…
Our concepts of things in "outer space" simply did not exist for us until we began to use our brains to think about such objective elements.
As a primitive species, we clearly understood the differences between the cold darkness of night & the warmth of daytime,
sleeping in trees for safety prior to going out to gather food etc—yet we had no idea at all about the history of what the lights in the sky were about
( the Sun, the Moon, the Asteroids & the Stars )
nor any ideas about where they actually reside…
Many thousands of years ago, the visuals of things in the sky began to add value to our lives,
directing how to best plant & reap things like vegetables, wheat & corn in seasons,
creating calendars, sundials & clocks bringing us to where we are today
As part of this research, I asked
Gemini
to create a descriptive webpage of
this,
which generated a great report!
Whilst the many, many reports of the visions in the sky of
UFOs,
"Unidentified Flying Objects"
( also known as
UAPs
"Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena" )
share extended amounts of data, actual objective evidence continues to be sparse…
"objective evidence" here implies that the shared data actually exists vs. just someone's thoughts on the subject!
Any given report on a UFO will share that a sighting had occurred
( in the sky ),
that it was difficult to explain due to the shape, the speed, the motions of the device, etc—yet no physical evidence exists…
A 2+hour YouTube
video
( & a more concise 20-minute one )
"The Great Filter: Why Every Alien Civilization Might Be Dead" shares the concepts of the 9 phases of life:
1) The right star system
The formation of a suitable star-system, including organics & potentially habitable planets
2) Reproductive molecules
The emergence of self-replicating molecules such as RNA
3) Simple single-cell life
The development of prokaryotic life
4) Complex single-cell life
The evolution of complex eukaryotic cells
5) Sexual reproduction
The adoption of sexual reproduction to increase genetic diversity
6) Multi-cell life
The transition to multicellular organisms, our ancestors
7) Intelligent animals
The evolution of tool-using animals with big brains, which are the early humans
8) Technological civilization
The rise of a civilization advancing toward the potential for a colonization explosion, which is where we are today…
9) Colonization explosion
The species successfully colonizing other worlds & star systems without destroying itself… the future of us!
The video covers Astrobiology, the Fermi Paradox, a Space Documentary and others
[quote] The universe contains two trillion galaxies & four hundred billion stars in our Milky Way alone, with billions of potentially habitable planets. The chemistry of life is everywhere. And yet, after sixty years of searching, we have found nothing. No signals. No structures. No evidence that any other civilization has ever existed. This silence is not just puzzling, it may be the most terrifying fact in all of science…
The Great Filter is a hypothesis that somewhere between lifeless chemistry and a civilization capable of reaching the stars, there is a step so difficult or so dangerous that almost nothing passes through it. The question that keeps scientists awake at night is whether humanity has already cleared that step, or whether the hardest part is still ahead of us
In this documentary, we trace the full chain from the origin of life to the threat of civilization collapse. We examine why the origin of life remains unsolved, why complex cells evolved **only once** in four billion years, why technological intelligence appeared in just *one species** out of billions, and why every civilization that develops nuclear weapons, climate-altering industry, and artificial intelligence enters a narrow window where self-destruction becomes possible
We cover the latest findings from NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars, the contested biosignature debate around exoplanet K2-18b, the Breakthrough Listen searches of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, and the cutting-edge research on depopulation, civilization fragility, and the temporal invisibility of radio-bright civilizations. The Great Filter does not tell us whether we are doomed or safe. It tells us what is at stake, and why the silence of the cosmos might be the most important warning humanity has ever received
[end quote, tweaked by me]
Sources:
a) Hanson, R. (1996). "The Great Filter — Are We Almost Past It?"
George Mason University
b) Hurowitz, J. et al. (2025). "Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars"
Nature
c) Cai, X., Jiang, J.H., Fahy, K.A. & Yung, Y.L. (2021). "An Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy"
Galaxies, 9(1), 5
d) Libby, E., Kempes, C.P. & Okie, J.G. (2023). "Metabolic compatibility and the rarity of prokaryote endosymbioses"
PNAS, 120(20)
e) Seager, S. et al. (2025). "Prospects for Detecting Signs of Life on Exoplanets in the JWST Era"
PNAS, 122(39)
Moving on, the 1st
significant incident
of these UFO reports apparently occurred during a violent thunderstorm on Saturday, July 5th, 1947
( possibly earlier in June, as shared by other reports )
near
Roswell,
New Mexico, USA & was the crash of what appeared to be an actual UFO with dead aliens inside…
A rancher named W.W. "Mac" Brazel, the foreman of the Foster Ranch (near Corona, north of Roswell) had ridden out on a horse after the storms on Sunday, July 6th with his young neighbor Dee Proctor to check on his sheep; they discovered a wide swath of strange debris spread across the prairie as they rode, & collected several pieces of wood, metal, & some of the foil fragments.
He then drove into Roswell bringing his story & some of the debris to Sheriff George Wilcox in his office next to the jail at the back of the Chaves County Courthouse.
The sheriff was not particularly interested, but did telephone the Roswell Army Air Field ( RAAF ) in case this indicated a crashed airplane
The RAAF published a report in the Roswell Daily Record
newspaper
a few days later on Tuesday, July 8th, 1947 with additional comments by Dan Wilmot & his wife, who had also reported this sighting to the paper.
The article described the debris as "rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper, & sticks"
The RAAF base intelligence officer, Major Jesse Marcel had been sent out to investigate this, & he tried to reconstruct the object in Brazel's home before taking part of the wreckage back to the air base. The RAAF then announced that they had "come into the possession of a flying saucer."
Behind the scenes, the investigation was still underway.
All of the recovered debris were then gathered up by the RAAF military under the direction of Major Marcel & on July 8th 1947, the public information officer Lt. Walter Haut issued a press release under orders from base commander Col. William Blanchard, which basically said "we have in our possession a flying saucer"
The next day another press release was issued, this time from Brigadier General Roger Ramey, Commander of the 8th Air Force at Fort Worth, stating that "the wreckage was from a weather balloon."
Despite the retraction, the seeds of suspicion were planted. In the following decades, articles, books, & TV shows explored the possibility of a UFO crash.
That event was also later ascertained by the Dallas Field Office of the FBI to be "nothing but a high-altitude weather balloon"
and as "a hexagonal disc suspended by cable from a balloon;"
they sent in a
teletype
regarding the crash of a "flying disc," possibly as a redirect away from the actual device…
many other reports are listed
here
That was the start of the best-known & well-documented UFO coverup—the crash of an alleged flying saucer, the recovery of debris & bodies & the ensuing cover up by the military…
Once it became public, "The Roswell Incident" was of such magnitude & so shrouded in mystery that, over 70 years later, there are still more questions than answers.
Books have been written & TV documentaries have been filmed.
Witnesses have come forward.
Skeptics have issued rebuttals to the Incident, & the debate continues.
The alleged crash site is located on private land & is not accessible to the public…
That event does have dozens of reports
( each of which are fake, IMHO )
but the answer to the event was "it's nothing" for many years until a leading UFO researcher Stanton Friedman came across the story in the early 1980s & began the search for information & witnesses.
That research brought him to Roswell looking for the public information officer who had been at Roswell Army Air Field in 1947. That officer was Lt. Walter Haut. He still lived in Roswell & remembered the press release & the orders from his commanding officer.
Friedman's investigation also led to many others, both military & private, who had information to add to the Roswell Incident story. Stepping into the picture very strongly in the late 1980s were Don Schmitt, Kevin Randle & Tom Carey. Since then, Schmitt & Carey have dedicated their research to Roswell
The International UFO Museum & Research Center, located at 114 N. Main Street, is a nonprofit corporation founded in the fall of 1991 by Walter Haut, Glenn Dennis & Max Littell that opened to visitors in the fall of 1992.
The UFO museum was organized to inform the public about what has come to be known as "The Roswell Incident" as well as all other aspects of the UFO phenomena.
The corporation's mission statement includes the goal to educate, not convince, the general public about the Roswell Incident & all aspects of the UFO phenomena
People from all around the world travel to Roswell to what the UFO Museum has to offer.
Some of the exhibits include information on the Roswell Incident, crop circles, UFO sightings, ancient astronauts & extraterrestrial abductions.
The exhibits are designed to encourage visitors to ask questions & to think outside the box.
The UFO Museum's Research Center Library houses more than 7,000 books & over 30,000 magazines, periodicals, pamphlets & more than 1,500 DVDs related to the UFO phenomena. The library's friendly staff is available to help students of all ages with school projects & reports, as well as authors, researchers & visitors seeking information
Some pending thoughts that I may expand at some future time:
a) Describe how that Roswell event hit shortly after the atomic blasts that ended WWII, as well as the recent governmental discussions
b) Mention those ancient events, especially the carvings of them & the discussions about Ancient Aliens;
add Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods book & others
c) Discuss the probabilities of how they could exist
d) Mention that interstellar travel requires thousands of years to go anywhere at all-unless-there's some as-yet unknown way to move through the vast distance of space
to come visit us… many movies do surround the idea, albeit crap in reality
As part of my research into space & the UFO's, I created these two PDF reports
( auto-generated with some edits )
from the
ChatGPT
and
Gemini
apps… read?
The probabilities of actual alien visits simply aren't that possible
( as of this writing )
yet the entire planet would be stunned if one arrived!
As ever, your comments & thoughts are welcome…
Regards, Don
