Did Someone Say Aliens?

by Donna Thompson author and staffer at  The Glitch Factory 

Did Someone Say Aliens?

When a Boeing 777 vanishes with 239 people aboard in 2014, the full force of our advanced technology bears down on the problem. The backyard pool of expertise and resources rapidly expands into oceanic proportions and nations cast aside their differences to form  global teams. The fact finders  in the shape of P-3, P-8s surveillance aircraft,  ships,   satellites,  computer consoles, drones, scouts,  rovers and, of course, the funds behind this, are gradually organized into an orchestra of pitch perfect precision. Decisions are made to remain agile in the process of investigation for best practices over remaining in stasis with a fixed premise. Eg. The U.S. realized that surveillance planes were more effective than ships and sent  home the "boats", -sometimes more means less and strategy wins out over sheer quantity.

The details began to spill out over social platforms, blogs, newscasts and other means allowing the public to formulate their own theories, engage in the mystery. We continue to imagine and speculate beyond our kitchen tables plunging deep into Arthurian rounds located in the multi-leveled castle of cyberspace. The stories build on each other or repeat.  The responses are immediate as the sheer number of people involved reaches into the millions and crosses over continents.  We are greedy for the fire hose flow of information, logistics and conclusions without letting this eclipse the empathy we feel for the individuals on the plane and their families.

 This rapid synthesis of data by the masses and the pros is no longer a domino or snowball effect that denotes a single starting point. The notes are splayed out into a series of events not sequestered within a single point. These hypothesis scatter and then builds into a solution, like 1000s and 1000s of pixels in the perfect complex image.The more pixels you have the greater the clarity and resolution of the views. We see multi-sequential means that surround  the vanished plane as opposed to just the disappearance itself.  Information and delivery are that fast. This is what I would call the spray effect.   Together we accumulate the facts and emotions based on our own storehouse of suppositions and an initial share from a myriad of resources. We continue to pass this data around, digest, regurgitate and or formulate new until more ground is covered in a shorter time. Yet, this time our communications discussions and opinion acquisitions  have not yet brought results.  The largest piece is missing, the physical evidence of a plane or wreckage of any kind.    The image has an enormous             hole, not a tiny   tear.       We also now know  the flight navigational system that is used to  set the course for the Boeing was overridden or reprogrammed. This task is nothing like tying our shoelaces and therefore points towards a certain skill set.   Have we evolved the system enough to have a series of checks and balances that allows for codes or keys which prevent the manipulation of an aircraft or change in flight plan without the added input or keys from the ground, or air traffic control?  Is there, too much left to the control of the two in the cockpit and whoever else may want to commandeer  a ride , isolated as they are in their airspace. Is this the next evolution for flight safety?-Too early to know. 

In 2014, we are savvy enough to ask the question how much of the information, during the distribution process, is first hand, or third.  Did anyone along the way skimp on a few details in order to steer, lead and or protect us from a knowing that would ultimately rock our world or place us on a far greater tilt than the current natural one?  The conspiracy theory is always part of the package during the examination as it has become the standard go to  expression in modern times.  The topic has been the subject of film, art, music, books and journalism for as long as have known the meaning of the word. Did they also know of this word or one like it as part of regular communication when using the Rosetta Stone for translations of ancient languages? Aww I digress and yes divert from my set course to prove how easily this could happen not  only in aviation but as a metaphor for life and possibly the very thing that happened to the 2 person crew. 

Were the 2 pilots  threatened on the ground, ahead of time or during the flight, to comply with a plot? Did they refuse and ditch the plane?  Was one or the other  psychotic or depressed, no, not according the facts.  We know the skill set and parameters required for a communication/radar shut down on a large high tech aircraft.  The transponder and ACAR are also subject to any number of mechanical errors despite the number of built in compensations but it is the human component that seems to be the focus.   Premeditated, deeply rooted plot, diverted thinking,  or mechanical failure we continue to wait it out for the solution beyond theory, speculation and in the absence of complete proofs. 

  There are a few that may still doubt that we will ever find the answer. I would say that the globe is much small than it ever has been and in time we will come to know a truth and hopefully it is the correct one.  We will continue to hope that the people on board are alive because we cannot digest the other idea when there are still so many questions, so many gaps, rents and tears in the re-creation of the series of events that led to MH370 exiting the skies. “All right, Goodnight”  is becoming a film, books and exhibits in the near future. The phrase is, in fact, a  title for chaos on March 8, 2014 and  haunts the radio signals and recesses of our minds  as a reminder that  perceived regularity can so easily transition into  the bizarre.  

The disappearance and the inability to solve the mystery faster is frustrating but not daunting.  More time is needed but should no answer be found, then we may begin to explore new regions of thought more purposefully or in parallel. This would mean delving into the ethereal of the speculative with difficult suppositions into subterfuge, Bermuda Triangles now Indian Ocean Quadrilaterals, wormhole, and or dare we look up, way way up into space.  Did someone say aliens?  

May the answers come to us soon in this our informational, high tech age that is also graced with a real caring for the people on flight MH370.   This is the view from a plane at sun set, the beauty, wonder and energy evoked by the image  is unsurpassed in my experiences. I send this out as a beacon of light and hope for the safe recovery or at least the solution to the crisis of  the missing plane.

The compilations of resources that allowed for this summation of facts are CBC , BBC, and the many interested parties that commented with facts across the net. The analysis is my own.

 I believe it was a commenter with a profile pic of an avitar that suggested the idea of the alien- part joke part serious. I did not have their name but I liked the sense of fun and the spark of  something more.