There is a reason why humanity fights wars

I don’t know if it’s such a good idea to write this here. By doing so, I’m actually breaking every confidentiality agreement I signed back in 1974. Lifetime confidentiality. No exceptions. No “truths revealed later.” So please forgive me if I can’t go into as much detail as I’d like to. But maybe it’s better this way. It’s been a long time. I’m old now, and I’ve forgotten some things, but the things I saw never stopped living in my dreams. And maybe it’s good for me to finally let it all go. If I stay silent, I’ll die with them.

I wasn’t an astronaut. Not a hero or anything to brag about to your kids. I was just a data analyst at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. One of those who analyze images taken by others. Invisible, replaceable. Perfect for making things disappear. My job was nothing special. But it paid quite well. Well enough to provide for my family.

It began in 1971 with the first signal and the first anomaly we couldn’t explain. As far as I know, we still can’t. The Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 sent us images from the constellation Sagittarius. The images were all relatively unspectacular. Purely routine shots. Calibration and tests for the space telescope. The images were always taken from the same location. So you can imagine the confusion when the images began to differ from one another. To be precise, it was the first image that showed something different. As you know, the constellation Sagittarius actually has 12 main stars that form its distinctive figure. But our first image showed 14 stars, which disappeared after the first image.

Stars can’t just vanish from the picture. Even when their lifetimes end, they explode in a supernova, which we would have seen if that had been the case. But they were simply gone. From one second to the next. At first, we dismissed it as a simple trick of the light. But that theory was quickly ruled out when we received similar images from an observatory in Germany. From then on, it was an unsolved mystery. Until, a year later, a flying object emerged from the constellation Sagittarius. It was a supposed interstellar comet. At least, that is the classification the object received before it was finally classified as top secret. And NASA now rests on the claim that ‘Oumuamua was supposedly the first interstellar comet to cross our solar system. But that is a lie. There is no public information about the comet in question from back then. And there is a reason for that.

The object was unlike anything we had ever seen before. Any measurement of radiation levels was beyond good and evil. But that wasn’t the strange part. It was the matter surrounding the object. Within a radius of about 15,200 miles around the object, a previously unknown matter altered reality. For comparison: the Earth’s diameter is about 7,917 miles. Not like a black hole, around which space and time curve, but the matter seemed to overwrite space and time and fundamentally alter them. But that wasn’t the only thing. The “comet” itself had a peculiar physical composition—one we had seen only once before: in the asteroid responsible for the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

But to understand that, we need to take a detour to that asteroid, because there are many things here as well that have never been told to the public. For one thing, the impact itself was not at all responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. The asteroid was actually significantly smaller than people are led to believe today. In fact, it was only about 1,214 feet in size, which isn’t even remotely enough to be a planet-killer. That doesn’t mean the asteroid wasn’t responsible for the mass-extinction but the impact itself wasn’t the reason. The question therefore arose: how could such a small asteroid cause a mass extinction? Don’t get me wrong. The impact certainly had some minor effects, and some dinosaurs undoubtedly died as a direct result, but that doesn’t explain a mass extinction. Instead, we had dinosaur bones and Fossils analyzed and found signs of combat. Not necessarily from dinosaurs simply acting on instinct and hunting others, but in some cases very unnatural. Signs of combat that show that even herbivores suddenly displayed increased aggression and began attacking each other indiscriminately. A total massacre with no evolutionary advantage. This raised even more questions for us.

So with the help of geologists, who provided some unreleased data, we investigated the Chicxulub crater in Mexico for answers, where we discovered that the asteroid had completely peculiar physical properties at the time. Combining this with the flying object, we conducted studies and reconstructions and found that the unclassified matter observed in the flying object is also present here on Earth. And not exactly in small quantities. However, our research has shown that the sphere of influence of the matter is not constant, but varies in strength. And this is true even over longer periods of time. The strongest period likely occurred shortly after the impact on Earth, during which the matter was released and expanded its sphere of influence across the entire planet. We linked the sphere of influence of the matter to the increased aggression of the dinosaurs and attempted to analyze the periods of peak intensity of the matter over the last 100 years. Our calculations showed that there was only one period in which the matter had the strongest influence on Earth since the impact. Specifically, between 1905 and 1967, before it weakened again. This is precisely the period during which not only were the two greatest wars in human history fought, but the Cold War also began.

I think you understand what I’m getting at. I wish I could tell you that we had solved the entire mystery by the time I left NASA, but I can’t. And I can’t help but imagine that these “comets” had their origins in something else. Something we were only able to record once, in 1971, before it vanished from the night sky. Something so evil that it sows discord with malicious intent. Something that is out there. Something that we don’t know. And something that probably knows we are here because it watched us.