Is there life, Elon, but not as we know it? This is the question on Twitter‘s lips in the wake of a post by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk about the existence of alien spacecraft.
‘I’m not saying there are UFOs … but there are UFOs,’ the entrepreneur tweeted yesterday, provoking a frenzy of responses and memes from his followers.
‘Elon, phone home — Mars!’ one commenter wrote, while others welcomed Mr Musk to #ufotwitter and shared pictures of clouds with allegedly extraterrestrial origins.
Some social media users wanted to know if the SpaceX program had captured its own evidence of alien intelligences — and if they would release ‘the secrets’.
Mr Musk’s comments come in the wake of plans by the US Congress to establish a dedicated governmental office to investigate sightings of UFOs by the military.
Back in March this year, the Pentagon released a report investigating 144 sightings of ‘unidentified aerial phenomenon’ between 2004 and 2021.
While investigators said that they were convinced that the sightings were indeed of physical objects, they were unable to prove or rule out extraterrestrial origins.
Is there life, Elon, but not as we know it? This is the question on Twitter’s lips in the wake of a post by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (pictured) about the existence of alien spacecraft
‘I’m not saying there are UFOs … but there are UFOs,’ the entrepreneur tweeted yesterday — as pictured — provoking a frenzy of responses and memes from his followers
Some social media users wanted to know if the SpaceX program had captured its own evidence of alien intelligences — and if they would release ‘the secrets’
‘Elon, phone home — Mars!’ one commenter wrote, while others welcomed Mr Musk to #ufotwitter and shared pictures of clouds with allegedly extraterrestrial origins
Mr Musk’s comment came in response to a thread about the recently-released version ten of Tesla’s full self-driving (FSD) system and its capacity to handle an existing problem — recognising the concrete struts of the Seattle monorail line.
‘FSD 10 predicts height from video pixels directly, without needing to classify groups of pixels into objects,’ Mr Musk wrote, explaining the software upgrade’s success.
‘In principle, even if a UFO crashed on the road right in front of you, it would still avoid the debris,’ he continued — going on to quip that they did exist.
‘I know you are an alien Elon!!’ responded thread creator ‘Gali’ (@Gfilche), who had posted a video of himself driving through the monorail pylons while testing the latest version of the FSD system.
‘Aliens exist, they are hidden in plain sight,’ posted Twitter user Optimus (@TeslaAIBot) in response to Mr Musk’s comment.
‘Don’t take this lightly, humans,’ they added.
‘Yet another person involved in the highest levels of military confirming UFOs,’ tweeted Ethan Orlander.
He added: ‘Why can’t Pentagon confirm @elonmusk? Genuinely asking.’
‘I have amassed quite a few photos of ETs and UFOs over the past few years, if anyone’s interested,’ proffered @michelecoralynx.
‘At first, everyone was like: iT’s JuSt ThE cLoUdS, but they’re coming in clearer lately!’ she added.
Pictured: Twitter users asked the SpaceX CEO if he had seen evidence of UFOs
Mr Musk’s comments come in the wake of plans by the US Congress to establish a dedicated governmental office to investigate sightings of UFOs by the military. Pictured: a meme posted in response to Mr Musk’s tweet
Back in March this year, the Pentagon released a report investigating 144 sightings of ‘unidentified aerial phenomenon’ between 2004 and 2021. Pictured: Twitter user @michelecoralynx offered her own pictures of UFOs and aliens
While US government investigators said that they were convinced that the sightings were indeed of physical objects, they were unable to prove or rule out extraterrestrial origins. Pictured: one of the meme’s posted to Twitter in response to Mr Musk’s comments
Yesterday’s tweet was not Mr Musk’s first comment on the potential for the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Pictured: Twitter users posted weird pictures of clouds
Yesterday’s tweet was not Mr Musk’s first comment on the potential for the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
In March this year, he posted a pair of graphs which he labelled the ‘strongest argument against aliens’.
These illustrated that while cameras have enjoyed an almost exponential increase in resolution since the 19th century, pictures of UFOs remain just as fuzzy as ever.
And earlier this year, Mr Musk said that while had not personally seen any evidence for the existence of aliens, there could be ‘dead civilisations’ out in space.
In March this year, Mr Musk posted a pair of graphs which he labelled the ‘strongest argument against aliens’. These illustrated that while cameras have enjoyed an almost exponential increase in resolution since the 19th century, pictures of UFOs remain just as fuzzy as ever
Earlier this year, Mr Musk said that while had not personally seen any evidence for the existence of aliens, there could be ‘dead civilisations’ out in space
‘Aliens exist, they are hidden in plain sight,’ posted Twitter user Optimus (@TeslaAIBot) in response to Mr Musk’s comment. ‘Don’t take this lightly, humans,’ they added
The US Congress’ plans for a dedicated office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense to investigate UFO sightings comes in the form of a bill to authorize Department of Defense appropriations for the 2022 fiscal year. Pictured: a meme posted after Mr Musk’s tweet
The US Congress’ plans for a dedicated office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense to investigate UFO sightings comes in the form of a bill to authorize appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 2022 fiscal year.
The duties of the new office — which will take over from the Unidentified Aerial — Phenomenon Task Force will include developing standardised procedures to collect and analyse reported of UFOs across the Department of Defense.
Staff will also evaluate ‘links between unidentified aerial phenomena and adversarial foreign governments, other foreign governments, or nonstate actors.’ along with ‘evaluating the threat that such incidents present to the United States.’
