In June 2021, the director of the US secret services admits, amid huge media interest, that unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), better known as UFOs, really do exist. Shortly afterwards, the US Congress passes a law that provides for the establishment of a special Pentagon agency to investigate them. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office should now finally clarify where the unknown objects come from and what their intentions are. After decades of secrecy, a political and scientific sensation is on the horizon. But how did this come about?
The Cosmic Crisis tells the story of unknown aerial phenomena and explores the question of whether we are alone in the universe. Gerritzen shows that the euphoria over the possible visit of extraterrestrial intelligences has a dramatic flip side: we are not socially prepared in the slightest for an imminent first contact. If it turns out that UAPs are extraterrestrial technologies that are observing us, humanity would face a truly cosmic crisis in the face of age-old fears of everything alien and unknown.
Daniel Gerritzen, born in 1973, is an author and co-founder of the “Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research Network” for research into the effects of first contact with alien intelligence, which includes scientists from a wide range of disciplines.
