The Fermi paradox is the noticeable contradiction between the high statistical odds that alien life exists and the total lack of evidence or contact from them. Named after physicist Enrico Fermi, who famously asked "Where is everybody?" in 1950, it highlights how quiet the universe is despite billions of potential planets.
In fact, Fermi asked that after listening to a couple other scientists discussing the local "flying saucer" reports over lunch. I call it the "ass head of science". If Fermi and the other scientists were aware of local UFO reports and that what was described was well beyond anything the United States or Soviet Union had....the answer is "surveying (or whatever) Earth" -the reports you were all talking about.
Astronomers and scientists have been doing this since 1947: "there are all these UFO reports but nonsense because we've never detected them after years of SETI". This is very likely FAR (Fear of Alien Reality) since these people would lose their places as the exclusiove elite intelligences in science (what would they do for free meals and jobs for life??)
It is nonsensical. Remember that even esteemed US President Thomas Jefferson (one of the most learned men of his time -we are told) stated that he would sooner believe Yankee scientists were lying than that rocks fell from the sky. Despite thousands of detailed reports of ball lightning -some by scientists- we still have no idea what creates it and there are many scientists who still do not believe that it exists.
You might expect that the "open mind of science" would be looking into UFO reports. Back in 1980s it took a day after compiling many hundreds of reports to see that there were three classes of reports:
1. Insufficient could be anything and this was the category with the largest number of reports (hoaxes were totally ignored)
2. A form of natural phenomenon (NOT ball lightning, "Earth Lights" etc) that could leave phsical traces, change form and be pf various sizes/colours. The reports for this category would fill a couple chunky volumes. It could be classed as the most common phenomenon reported as UFOs.
3. Where witness credibility is good and the object is seen in the right conditions and is quite clearly construced but far beyond anything we had -then (1940s -/+) and today -UFOBs. We have to -have to- if we are looking at the data with an open mind and attempting to piece a picture togetrher of these UFOBs look at the landing cases, traces left and so on. In reality this has not been done by Ufology. We have to look at the physiological and psychological effects on people -what do the physiological effectys tell us -is a form of radiation involved, etc., etc.. Then we have to look at the alleged entities involved in these incidents and ask what the various physiological features reported tell us -something looked at on this blog in the past and in my books on the subject.
There are many cases that are clearly sleep paralysis or Ruth Syndrome (as explained in UFO Contact?) which suddenly become major abduction cases...after the persons involved read books by Hopkins, Jacobs and Streiber -what I term "absduction scenario primers". Only once we can seperate these cases can we get to the core data we need. Ufology refuses to do that as media attention and money is drawn in by whateever is popular at the time -"ghost lights", "Rods", "Abductions" etc etc.
Categories 1,2 and 3 get dumped into one huge pile and we end up with zero credible evidence to analyse. It took weeks to gather all of the reports from books, magazines, original reports and news items but a day to see a very clear pattern (The UFO Report -unpublished- went into all of this in 1980) but Ufologists were not interested and no comparable work has appeared since then.
I am quite sure that there is, somewhere on this planet, credible scientists who do look at the data but privately (Avi Loeb destroyed the chance for any scientist to come out and declare what they have found). I know that a few have expressed interest in reports but I recall a big conference of astronomers in the United States in the late 1960s(?) where no one got up to go and check when astronomers rushed in to reports UFOs flying around outside and they had no idea what they were. Real scientists would rush out if only to look and say "Idiots. That is----" But the true reaction of the jobs for life boys? They sat on their backsides and uttered the odd "ridiculous".
Fermi stands in his back yard staring up into the night sky while friends all around him star in awe at a flying saucer some 20 yardfs away. Fermi says "Where are they?" (a dozen fingers pointing does not constitute evidence)
That is what the Fermi Paradox means. General George Armstroing Custer stands atop a hillock during the battle of the greasy grass(Little Big Horn) and asks "Where are they?"
