I commented here earlier about how the ocean might serve as a smokescreen against detection of where hypothetical aliens might have underground base entrances. With that I realized something I think is really interesting: a potential explanation for why UFOs seem to fly erratically.
It’s already been theorized that Levy walks, a type of random walk which animals use to forage for food in unknown environments, are the patterns UFOs use in flight. This partly explains why they erratically zip around: they choose a random direction and a random distance to go next for some purpose. This is again a good strategy in an unknown environment, perhaps one you’re surveying for the first time. But the question is, if aliens are so smart, why do they need to fly erratically reportedly so often? Why are they randomly walking around our planet when they could have mapped out whatever they’re interested in millennia ago and been more pointed in their exploration? We aren’t even random when we explore new spaces; we often resort to comprehensive grid searches, like how our satellites map out the Earth picture by picture.
I just realized that this could be a strategy for deceiving observers about their intended destinations. To first understand their destinations, UFOs appear to have a link to the oceans, which some theorize to be due to sub-ocean bases. I personally think they’re deeper than sub-ocean, and are actually subterranean, for which the ocean is the smartest place to put such underground bases: it makes it really difficult for anyone to figure out if you have a base there and where, let alone where the specific entrances and exits are.
So why do UFOs fly erratically? Simply put, you don’t want someone guessing where you’re going based on observations of your current trajectory. And so you randomize it, beginning when you suspect that someone can theoretically detect your presence, and stopping only when you’re at your destination and you know you’re out of range of any adversarial observers (e.g. humans). If all anyone on the ground sees is random flight, there’s no way to divine a possible destination no matter how much time you track it for, because it’s truly random at least until you can’t see it anymore. You couldn’t even statistically model these things with thousands or millions of observations of craft to suss out a general bias in location; it’d be truly random. You could even fake pickup/dropoff destinations by staying hidden at a certain location for some random time if you want to prevent someone from noticing when and where your craft is never detected again (which implies the craft is at some target destination). If I had infinite energy and an oversupply craft that could operate continuously for thousands of hours, I’d do the same and take my sweet time to prevent discovery of where I live, instead employing random shuttles.
In the same vein, UFOs departing Earth could employ these random walks to obscure their interstellar destinations. I think this explains why people see these things zipping around in the air before shooting off into space. That dance is probably just the beginning, and they’re doing this in outer space to confound attempts at radar/optical tracking. Once they get out of range of any known technology that can detect them, then they can start intentionally moving towards their destinations.
The main prediction then is that UFOs don’t just fly erratically in the atmosphere, but they also swim erratically in the ocean and travel erratically in the solar system. This could quite clearly complicate our attempts to locate entrances to supposed underground bases or interstellar destinations. And you have to wonder, why would they go to such lengths to remain hidden? All hypothetically-speaking, of course.
EDIT: unfortunately right after making the post I realized this could also obscure their surface intentions too. If they’re studying something on Earth’s surface, they can easily obscure it with Levy flights too.
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