Star Trek legend William Shatner has weighed in on last week’s US hearing where witnesses claimed that aliens do exist.
At a public Congress hearing, former intelligence officer David Charles Grusch made the claims that the US government was hiding evidence of ‘non-human intelligence’.
The latest one to rubbish the claims is Captain Kirk himself.
‘You mean, some highly intelligent being goes 10,000 light-years with advanced technology, arrives here and hides?’ the actor told NewsNation.
‘It doesn’t make any sense.’
‘If they’re going to make that journey all the way here, it just beggars the imagination that they would hide and make it, like, “Peekaboo, I’m here, no I’m not”,’ he added.
Mr Grusch said the US was likely aware of ‘non-human’ activity since the 1930s.
The former Department of Defence analyst said that in the course of his official duties he was informed of a ‘multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering programme’.
The hearing included testimony from other witnesses, including a former navy commander David Fravor who claimed seeing a strange object in the sky while on a training mission in 2004.
Additionally, Ryan Graves, a retired navy pilot and the founder of Americans for Safe Aerospace, a UAP non-profit, claimed he saw a UAP off the Atlantic coast ‘every day for at least a couple years’.
The US Pentagon reiterated their denial of Mr Grusch’s claims of a cover-up involving UFOs.
While the hearing reignited the conversation around UFOs, there was no conclusive proof to support the claims.
Mr Shatner for one has dismissed the potential existence of UFOs as ‘filled with imagination and people’s desire’.
Instead, he called for answers to some far deeper questions about the universe.
‘What’s the universe about? What’s after death? I mean, the monumental questions would abound, and they would be asking the same questions, but they’re not here,’ he told NewsNation.
‘If they were, they would make their presence known,’ he added.
In 2021, the actor became the oldest person ever to travel into space. He had previously said that the voyage left him filled with grief, an ‘overwhelming sadness’ and a newfound appreciation for the beauty of Earth.
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