NOW YOU SEE ME, NOW YOU DON’T

In 2014 a Chilean Military helicopter was out testing a new infrared device and they picked up a UFO. This case was unusual because according to the information supplied the helicopter crew could not visually see the UFO, it did not show up on an HD visual camera, and it was not on the helicopter or ground control RADAR. Specifically, if not for the fact that this military helicopter crew was trying out a new infrared device this UFO would have never been seen. This got me to thinking, how many UFOs may actually be visiting us every day that we cannot see?

The first thing necessary to answer the above questions is to figure out how hard is it to hide from our sight and our radar? Physically, it is not that difficult. Technologically, for us here on earth this is where the problem lies.

Around the year 1672 Sir Isaac Newton was doing experiments with light and prisms. He discovered that white light, the light we use to see, is actually made up of 6 individual colors. These colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Newton went on to theorize that objects we see do not actually have color; instead every object absorbs some of the colors and reflects the others. It is the reflected color that we see thus giving any object the color of the light reflected. In other words, if white light and all of its associated colors are absorbed creating a situation of no reflected light by an object we will never see the object.

For clarity, this needs to be explored a bit more. Visible light and RADAR are considered to be part of the Electromagnetic Spectrum, EM for short, which is the figure below.

RADAR waves are included in the microwave portion of the spectrum. We also have to note that the above figure shows us that energy of the EM spectrum increases as you move to the left of the spectrum, the shorter wave lengths. The above figure shows us that the Visible Light that we are able to see is a very small part of the EM spectrum. Our own daily experience and the physics discovered by Newton clearly shows us that absorption of visible light is not that difficult. Physically, the Chilean UFO simply has to absorb the visible light portion of the EM spectrum and we will never see it. Another way to look at this, the UFO can simply not reflect the visible light. This has to be stated because absorption and non-reflection is not necessarily the same thing.

The absorption/non-reflection of visible light discussed above also applies to microwaves. Microwave absorption is very familiar in that microwave ovens are used in almost every kitchen around to assist with cooking. Here is the other thing about microwaves; their absorption is generally associated with heat. Our food absorbs the microwaves, it gets hot and cooks. And, as our food cooks it gives off heat. Therefore, it is a reasonable presumption that anything else that is absorbing microwaves, RADAR waves in this case, is also going to tend to heat up to some extent. I need to note here that on average RADAR waves are generally at the low end of the microwave portion of the EM spectrum which in turns means they are the lower energy microwaves.  

One other thing that the energy from our sun does, it heats up our atmosphere. And, on bright sunny days we can also get hot. In simplest terms, this heating is associated with absorption of the light-wave energy. We can see from the figure that the EM spectrum is directly related to energy. So, if the Chilean UFO is absorbing visible light waves and radar waves there is a reasonable expectation that the UFO is going to heat up. Well, guess what part of the EM spectrum a heated object gives off….. Infrared.

Putting this all together, absorption of EM spectrum waves, specifically visible light and RADAR, is straight forward physics and to some extent it is something that occurs in our everyday lives. So, a UFO that absorbs or does not reflect these two types of waves is not radical physics. And by absorbing and not reflecting this particular wave energy, the UFO becomes invisible to us. However, there is a cost to this absorption of energy, heat that has to be radiated resulting in an infrared signature. But, we do not see or look in the infrared part of the EM spectrum so unless we were close enough to feel the heat being radiated; a UFO could be flying around us and our world without ever being noticed. In this case the Chilean helicopter just happened to be in the right place at the right time using the right equipment to see the UFO.

In other words, the UFOs that we actually see could easily be just a small portion of the UFOs that are actually visiting our planet. There is no way of knowing how many craft are flying around our world every day because their technology is better than ours and it allows them to absorb and/or non-reflect the EM spectrum waves that we use to see them.