UFO/UAPs: THE ETERNAL MACGUFFIN OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS BETWEEN MASS HYSTERIA AND "FORMER" MILITARY PERSONNEL In recent months, there's been a surge in talk about "inexplicable" sightings of drones and orbs in New Jersey, along with leaks from whistleblowers like Jacob Barber (a name too common to seem real). Anyone familiar with basic science knows that, while it's statistically likely that aliens have existed, exist, or will exist somewhere in the vast 2 trillion galaxies of the Universe—and not necessarily in humanoid form—it's completely impossible for them to have arrived on Earth. Even if we hypothesized the existence of John von Neumann's self-replicating probes, the most logical hypothesis that doesn't involve interstellar travel by biological crews, cosmic radiation, and micrometeorites could render them useless long before they could gather resources to repair themselves. Additionally, over the millions of years these probes wander th...