Disaster The US is officially unable to defend itself against an alien invasion - The US Department of Defense (DoD) has released a statement regarding a previously classified report examining the effectiveness of the nation to respond to the threat of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), formerly UFOs.

Earth is unprepared for an alien invasion (Picture: Getty)

You know how it goes in Hollywood. Aliens invade, everyone panics, the US saves the world.

Well, you can forget Independence Day-style heroics – the US would not be able to defend itself (or anyone else) against aliens, according to a damning official government report.

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has released a statement regarding a previously classified report examining the effectiveness of the nation to respond to the threat of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), formerly UFOs.

Interest in UAP is at an all-time high among the lawmakers, the media and the public following US whistleblower Charles Grusch’s claims that the US has recovered both spacecraft and alien bodies.

His comments helped prompt an official congressional hearing into the issue, during which Mr Grusch and two other former military personnel shared their experiences of UAP.

In July 2022, the Pentagon also set up the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), to handle reports of UAP.

However, the Office of Inspector General (OIG), has questioned the abilities of the nation to organise and defend itself in a summary of the classified report, ‘Evaluation of the DoD’s Actions Regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena’, first issued in August.

The statement says the OIG ‘found that the DoD’s lack of a comprehensive, coordinated approach to address UAP may pose a threat to military forces and national security’.

It added: ‘The DoD OIG found that the DoD does not have a comprehensive, coordinated approach to address UAP.


The US has released a number of videos revealing UAP (Picture: AARO/SWNS)

For instance, the DoD OIG determined that the DoD has no overarching UAP policy and, as a result, it lacks assurance that national security and flight safety threats to the United States from UAP have been identified and mitigated.’

Inspector General Robert P Storch said: ‘Given the significant public interest in how the DoD is addressing UAPs, we are releasing this unclassified summary to be as transparent as possible with the American people about our oversight work on this important issue.’

To address the issues identified in the report, the DoD OIG say they have made 11 recommendations to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, in coordination with the Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

They said: ‘For example, the DoD OIG recommended that the DoD issue a policy to integrate roles, responsibilities, requirements, and coordination procedures regarding UAP into existing intelligence, counterintelligence, and force protection policies and procedures.’

That sounds a lot more complicated, and frankly less comforting, than ‘Don’t worry, Will Smith is on the case’.

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[TowinKarz]

simple. since aliens are fake, any government employee or yahoo can just say we are capable, or incapable, of fighting them as the case may be

since it is a fictional idea, the DoD can just say "they have a ship that is hyper-mega speed-of-light fast with a gun equal to a gorillion nuclear bombs"

My point exactly, whatever "analysis" they did was no better (or worse) than just watching Star Trek.

 

[Grub]

The concept of alien invasions is dumb and exists only because humans as a whole are incapable of grasping the the scale of the distances involved.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

How would you even defend yourself against a Vogon constructer fleet? It's over anyway.

 

[Tony Vivaldi]

An easy statement to make when there's is literally NO THREAT.

There. Are. No. Little. Green. Men.

There's no Cthulus, no Old Ones lurking out there, no Alien Nation waiting to land on Earth to give rise to the notion that men can give birth like a troon's wet dream....

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Ok for the sake of argument, does China have a chance? And what if the aliens are humans that are Ancient Roman like from a portal from another dimension?

 

[Tony Vivaldi]

Ok for the sake of argument, does China have a chance? And what if the aliens are humans that are Ancient Roman like from a portal from another dimension?

Astronauts vs. Cavemen: Who Wins?

Of course they can't deal with aliens . Have you  seen the situation at the border lately?

Instead of a Big, Beautiful Wall, we should make a Giant Dome and make the Martians pay for it.

Double Post but fuck it, this subject is too good to be left alone with all the stupid content to throw at it.

 

[Londo]

They're out they're somewhere. But they ain't visiting us, and if they were, they wouldn't be conspicuously interested in probing our assholes.

There are probably millions of different types of life spread throughout the Galaxy - and everyone of them agreed this planet kinda sucks.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

LOOK! UFOS! STOP PAYING ATTENTION TO THE REAL WORLD!

Quick pay no attention to the Illegal immigration problem, called an invasion, hitting multiple countries.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

I unironically thought this was about the Mexican border when I saw the headline...

Yeah no shit Sherlock.

No fucking shit retards.
I wonder when are the US officials gonna waste their time to make a report on how ill prepared we are against Galactus.

Probably in 2029 when Marvel gets around to ruining that storyline.

 

[The Lawgiver]

The change of "unidentified flying object to"unidentified anomalous phenomena" is such a fucking weasely way of broadening the scope to be literally anything . I guess that's why after the third chinese weather balloon they started trying to frame it as aliens when everyone who was in the areas that happened in knew the truth. It's like some fucked up inverted version of the UFO situation that's been around for years where now there's blatant proof of the government faking it instead of covering it up. "Anomalous phenomena" could literally just contain shit like geese migrating in an inconvenient manner or some shit not even in the air. Lame, it's fucking LAME!

The concept of alien invasions is dumb and exists only because humans as a whole are incapable of grasping the the scale of the distances involved.

The concept is more than just invading, it's that DESPITE the distance, something inexplicably managed to show up and possibly attempt invading. It's usually why alien tech in movies is shown as weird incomprehensible shit humans sometimes eventually end up partially reverse-engineering. This shit though? Saying they're unable to defend themselves for demoralizing purposes? Feels like a setup to some new government ploy like the satanic panic stuff was tied to the finders shit.

 

[WonderWino]

Fuck off, space niggers. We're full.
You can land on the moon if you want.

Fuck that, give them that much leeway and we'll end up with this

How on Earth (or not as it may be, ba-zing!) can you legitimately grade the threat posed by a hypothetical race wielding hypothetical weapons and using hypothetical tactics, (since none of what they talk about has ever been proven to exist) and then furthermore say you can't defend against it?

In this case you absolutely can grade the threat because fundamentally any alien species that was able to create spacecraft capable of getting here in the first place would require technology so much more advanced than ours with a very different understanding of the laws of physics that the very act of getting here means they must have technology capable of wiping us out if they wanted to. We don't really need to work out specific technology they might have, as the situation itself implies a certain level of technology must exist on the aliens side of things for any of it to happen in the first place

That said, we couldn't beat them but we could fuck up any reason to want to conquer us rather than wipe us out, simply by going the doomsday device route and fucking up the planet enough to ruin it. Though that fucks us over to so its more of a no other option situation. Funny thing is they had an outer limits episode where they did just that and had a bunch of people manning a dead mans switch in different parts of the world to stop such a device from going off, as it was set to do so automatically, in case the aliens turned out to be hostile (spoiler: they were and tricked the last survivor anyway

Now if some aliens do somehow show up one day, heres to hoping the first thing they do when they land is issue a public world wide statement about being disgusted with troons, pointing out they are not real women and black people are all criminals. Just to fuck with everybody, and promising to cure cancer and make the world a utopia if we purge them all from the planet. I can just imagine vice or some similar media group demanding war against the alien terfs and running with 'killer klansmen from outer space' memes

 

[JosephStalin]

Agree any alien race with interstellar capability will be far advanced technologically. Should aliens actually arrive, we'd be lucky if they just consider us very small children, to be dealt with as such, instead of slaves. food, or soldiers.

There are X number of planets in the universe. Of that number, Y are able to support intelligent life. Of the planets supporting intelligent life, Z will have advanced societies. And of that number of advanced societies, A will have advanced societies who actively conduct interstellar operations.

Just a matter of when, not if. Keep in mind that Earth TV/radio broadcasting has been largely line-of-sight, waves going out into space. Could be that probes have been collecting such transmissions and shooting them home through various means.

Some say faster-than-light travel isn't possible. Funny, people once said nobody would ever be able to fly a heavier-than-air craft, and similar things, and look where we are today.

Your mileage may vary, but we really don't want any aliens from space here.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

The concept of alien invasions is dumb and exists only because humans as a whole are incapable of grasping the the scale of the distances involved.

I've thought for a long, long time that TPTB would stage a fake alien invasion to clamp down on the populace harder and permanently. Seeing there are apparently "official" reports which say we wouldn't be able to fight back makes me think this is another piece of the puzzle.

 

[Snekposter]

Never mind that, how prepared are we for when the fey come from the barrows to claim the land for the Unseelie Court?

Priorities, people!

Iron fucks up the fey good and hard and we've got a ton of it. Lead-free buckshot for hunting is frequently made out of solid steel, and a lot of modern rifle ammo has steel in it for increased penetration. The Wild Hunt would just wind up as trophies on walls if they fucked with the USA. Imagine being the Erdking, this immortal hunting demigod in charge of the greatest hunters in all the fey, and then Cletus blasts with his grandpappy's boomstick and claims your fancy helmet for his own.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

However, the Office of Inspector General (OIG), has questioned the abilities of the nation to organise and defend itself in a summary of the classified report, ‘Evaluation of the DoD’s Actions Regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena’, first issued in August.

The statement says the OIG ‘found that the DoD’s lack of a comprehensive, coordinated approach to address UAP may pose a threat to military forces and national security’.

What action plan do they expect them to take, exactly? You have unknown entities with unknown and unpredictable capabilities, that evidently cannot be tracked, classified, or effectively corralled or maneuvered against in any particular fashion. You can't even identify many of their capabilities until they're already using them, making any attempt to reliably intercept or defend against them infeasible to predict.

As for the straight up alien invasion talk, don't automatically presume that FTL inherently has to be some ultratech stuff just because we haven't discovered it yet, there's no guarantee the paths of discovery we've walked are the only ones that exist, reality doesn't have a conveniently documented tech tree or a wiki. Harry Turtledoves short story on this is a fun little exploration of such an idea. Don't let that get you overly optimistic though, orbit is the ultimate high ground, and gravity alone means there's no such thing as an unarmed starship. Dropping really big shit from orbit doesn't take a genius to figure out, and there's no real counter to that, too much mass and too much energy involved.

 

[CarlosDanger]

No shit, we could have an impregnable energy shield and Obiden would demand we power that shit down immediately.

OBiden would tell us we could totally power up our energy shield but only after we allow a bunch of aliens in and we give billions to Israel and Ukraine.

 

[Snekposter]

Dropping really big shit from orbit doesn't take a genius to figure out, and there's no real counter to that, too much mass and too much energy involved.

To quote from Advent Rising:
"What kind of weapons will they be using?"
"They... throw... rocks."
"Rocks? They throw rocks?"
"Asteroids..."

 

[Night Crawler]

It's also really presumptuous of human thinking that alien life is intelligent enough to create technology and find us in the first place.

Think about how many species there are out there on Earth. Consider how vast the differences in intelligence there are, ranging from anywhere from functionally retarded (koala) or hyper intelligent (octopus). With how many species there are out there, what exactly are the odds of alien life having human-level intelligence and ability to create technology?

If alien life exists, I believe we're not going to find advanced technological utopias that you see in sci-fi, but rather the sort of thing you'd find by going out into the wilderness. Wild animals that are intelligent enough to get by in their evolutionary niche, but aren't sapient enough to build so much as a campfire.

I don't think any intelligent life with have utopias. They have technology that is so advanced we can't understand and would consider it magic. We probably won't understand their societies either.

 

[Otoya Yamaguchi]

I've thought for a long, long time that TPTB would stage a fake alien invasion to clamp down on the populace harder and permanently. Seeing there are apparently "official" reports which say we wouldn't be able to fight back makes me think this is another piece of the puzzle.

the plan is to make up "aliens" who will solve world problems and cause people to worship them

it'll just be demons, like always.

 

[SIMIΔN]

Fuck off, space niggers. We're full.
You can land on the moon if you want.

You know there is a non-zero chance that was our first response to genuine alienss

Iron fucks up the fey good and hard and we've got a ton of it.

That's just a government lie to stop people from panicking and hoarding the moonlight forged silver the military need to push back against the faefolk scum