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David Delgado Shorter, Professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California, Los Angeles

First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history

SETI has been listening for markers that may indicate alien life -- but is doing so ethical? Donald Giannati via Unsplash

We’re only halfway through 2023, and it feels already like the year of alien contact.

In February, President Joe Biden gave orders to shoot down three unidentified aerial phenomena – NASA’s title for UFOs. Then, the alleged leaked footage from a Navy pilot of a UFO, and then news of a whistleblower’s report on a possible U.S. government cover-up about UFO research. Most recently, an independent analysis published in June suggests that UFOs might have been collected by a clandestine agency of the U.S. government.

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