United States Space Force

On June 18, 2018, the 45th President of the United States, President Donald John Trump, announced a directive to create the United States Space Force, which would be the sixth branch of the US Armed Services.

In 2007, I myself personally witnessed one of the two successful firings of hydrogen fluoride laser canons from 'in space-mounted' positions which destroyed two satellites - one initially by the Chinese government of a Chinese satellite, and within months followed by the successful obliteration of a US-owned satellite, by the US.

Superficially it would seem clear that the creation of the new US Space Force is a 'balance' response to the quite obvious stance the Chinese leadership is taking that China must have a presence in near-Earth space that is a military presence.

Atacama ALMA facility (around 16,000 feet above sea-level),
actually has an hotel open to the public - where you can stay,
and look at the stars without the 'light pollution' of cities.

For me it's become virtually impossible to say anything in detail, really, either about 'ET aliens,' or things like the new US Space Force, because not only is there so much already out there covering both subjects, but these are areas filled with tendentiousness - people have strongly-held views and opinions, and even 'facts' are themselves occasionally subjected to the interference of various governments via state-sponsored propaganda, or simply due to natural bias and prejudice that some governments and organisations and people are incapable of being sufficiently self-aware about to rectify in terms of intelligent analysis.

There most certainly are 'ET aliens,' and there are very active government programs to maintain as much leading-edge knowledge about them as would be prudent for national and global human security purposes. Yet at the same time there has been a consistent 'shadowing' as it were of military technology causes, for anything that stands out in the press as otherwise some kind of 'UFO' incident: the Roswell instance is always pitched to relate to some sort of pre-Cold War narrative, rather than any genuine, authentic 'extraterrestrial' affair - and now we have very recently seen the US Naval pilot's (new) authenticated film of some mysterious 'craft' not generally presumed to be part of any current human technical capability... Yet, once again within weeks more or less, the announcement of a 'Space Force;' and thereby creating a hint that this is all about Chinese technological threats rather than anything at all to do with literal 'space aliens' as such flying around incredible 'craft' in front of US Navy planes.

This pic is still Atacama, but Green Bank Virginia also
has a facility for SETI 

Two things are crystal clear and even have effect at official government and academic levels: 1. that the known Universe is very fast, and contains a massively huge number of stars and planets including a large number that could provide conditions that would be able to sustain life as we know it, and 2. there is absolutely zero case history of formal, authentic, two-way acknowledged between 'alien' and any obtaining 'Earth' government body - communication. 

These two things are genuine facts which cannot be disputed.

But these indisputable facts leave wide avenues for intelligent conversations about why these two things have gone together at all - namely, that aliens do not interact either openly to very large numbers of the public, nor directly and openly with human governments; and yet that it is also a mathematical certainty that 'we are not alone.' 

In fact we are certainly not alone.