US government uses UFOs as cover to hide a lot of things: ex-NASA official

In an era captivated by unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and government conspiracies, one former NASA official is cutting through the noise and casting doubt on aliens coming to Earth.Joseph Gutheinz, a retired senior special agent with NASA’s Office of Inspector General and current criminal defense attorney, said it’s time to apply science, not speculation, to the debate.“Prove it.Honestly, prove it,” he said to those who believe in the presence of UFOs on Earth.“They’ve been claiming that there have been UFOs since the 1940s.

And, you know, Area 51 supposedly houses UFOs,” he told Fox News Digital.“Have someone go in, look at Area 51.”Gutheinz said that during his work with the NASA Office of Inspector General, he would regularly get calls from individuals who believed they were abducted, or had a chip in their brain from aliens.“What I used to tell my students was the possibility of anybody coming from another world to visit us was beyond unlikely,” he said.

“And what I would tell the people that would call me up with these tales about being visited by aliens, see a psychiatrist.”Citing astronomical distances and scientific understanding of the solar system, Gutheinz explained the improbability of any extraterrestrial visitors reaching Earth. “There are up to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way.There are maybe one to two trillion galaxies in the universe.

But the reality is this, the closest solar system is Alpha Centauri.Alpha Centauri A, B, and Proxima Centauri are the closest stars,” he said.“The bottom line is that it’s 4.4 light years away, or 25 trillion miles away.

And if somebody started flying to Proxima and Satori, or the other way around, it would take them over 70,000 years to get there,” he said.“Nobody is visiting us from another world, likely.”He pointed to moons like Europa, Ganymede, Titan, and Triton as the only plausible places for primitive life in our solar system. “If there is life on any...