Scientists to install nuclear-powered UFO detectors in space to lure aliens to Earth, claims expert

A scientist has claimed that researchers are trying to build small “handheld” nuclear reactors to help lure aliens to our home planet. The idea is based on the long-held notion that aliens find it easier to detect nuclear reactors, radiation or weapons. Some media reports in the past have even linked UFO sightings to nuclear sites across the world.

Kevin Knuth, Professor of Physics at the University at Albany, said earlier this year that it’s an idea that couldn’t go wrong and that mini handheld nuclear reactors are already being patented.

“We were trying to figure out how we can lure UFOs and work out how to make contact,” he was quoted as saying by Daily Star.

“We settled on the fact that UFOs have an interest in, and an ability to detect nuclear weapons – some of them underground, some of them in bunkers or in storage depots,” he said.

The scientist added that the aliens seemingly have a special ability to detect nuclear weapons.

“How do they do this? Are they using neutrinos, which are really hard to detect, or gamma rays? We don’t know. But my colleague has developed a new technology which is basically a handheld lithium-powered nuclear-fission reactor, which he is now patenting,” he told an audience.

He said that the plan is to design nuclear-powered UFO-observing equipment and then install it in the space.

“Maybe these guys will detect it and come down and find out what ‘those crazy monkeys’ are up to this time. And we can get some imagery or some data . . . that’s our plan,” he said.

He said while delivering a speech at the Sol Foundation in California earlier this year. However, the researcher failed to provide any more details about the plan.

However radical this idea may sound, but it’s not new. 

Infamous researcher Avi Loeb last year used the same trick to try to find UFOs during his Galileo Project but to no avail.

(With inputs from agencies)