Aliens

Aliens is the old public word for beings from somewhere else. In English it first meant a foreigner, a person from another country. Through the twentieth century, fiction and then the newspapers moved it. After the 1947 flying-saucer reports, “aliens” became the word people used for whoever was supposed to be inside the objects.

Governments did not adopt it. The Air Force studied unidentified flying objects. The files said UFO. From the 2010s the official word became UAP, unidentified anomalous phenomena. The point of both changes was the same. The report could be written down without saying where the object came from, or that anyone was in it.

The term you will hear now is non-human intelligence, often shortened to NHI. Witnesses, members of Congress, and people in the hearings use it instead of aliens. It is wider than the old word. It does not say the intelligence came from another planet. It only says, as a claim, that it is not human. Non-human biologics, the phrase from the 2023 testimony, is the same move applied to a body.

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