Ziggy Marley: ‘Can We Talk About The UFOs’
Ziggy Marley’s Instagram page has been awash with drama since Thursday afternoon, after the Rastafarian singer posted an image and a series of statements, acknowledging the existence of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects), which he referred to as ‘Extraterrestrial Flying Vehicles’.
According to Ziggy’s statements, the “governments afraid to open the eyes of the people’ and “we need to get the whole truth” as “the mass acceptance of this knowledge/truth will reset and expand the mindset of people”.
While he got a large number of supportive messages and even testimonies of sightings of extra-terrestrial beings, there was a lot of jeering, particularly from Americans, who felt the Love is My Religion singer had gone bonkers.
Ziggy’s graphic contained a grainy, grayscale photograph with a black dot resembling a bug in the center of it, with the words “Can we talk about the UFOs, Extraterrestrial Flying Objects now?’ “So much was happening in 2020 we could have missed it. #EFO not #UFO,” the Tomorrow People artiste who has more than 1.2 million followers captioned the post.
Gramps Morgan of Reggae band Morgan Heritage was among the scores of followers who supported Ziggy’s comments, noting: “It’s real bredda.”
Ziggy, who most recently teamed up with Natiruts and Oscar Nominated Mexican Actress Yalitza Aparicio for a new song titled América Vibra, seemed to be extremely engrossed with the UFO topic as he posted several other comments, and kept himself very engaged with his followers’ comments.
“Already know life exists beyond this planet. It’s just something I know it is inborn. It is good to see it revealed through credible channels so the minds that are closed can be open,” he noted at one point, in response to a comment from a fan that: “We are not alone, for sure”.
The multiple Grammy Award singer then went on to state that: “humanity needs to wake up and work together for this planet. We definitely haven’t been alone yet we are so lonely in this universe”.
When one fan lakandonmusic stated that there were “Humans throughout the galaxy”, Ziggy endorsed the comment replying: “yea I feel that. One humanity we are all different but share something common that connects us”.
There were some followers who found Ziggy’s pronouncements absurd and made it known via sarcastic responses and by mocking the 51-year-old.
“Legend has it that they only come too earth to listen to Reggae music then fly back to their universe singing don’t worry about a thing,” ozay_cypriot jeered, while a sarcastic thephotonative wrote: “Kinda looks like bigfoot to me gotta love the B&W FLIR images, really helps make out the details you know?”
As the lampooning of Bob Marley’s eldest son continued, zylux posted: “If it Hasn’t been confirmed by THE SIMPSONS then it isn’t”.
There was also jeering from Africa with danieljebba posting: “Ziggy, when will you visit us in Ghana, Africa with your identifiable flying object? We miss you.”
Other persons rubbished Ziggy’s claims, noting that what he thought were “flying objects” were actually specially designed US military aircraft to which regular people were unaccustomed.
“US have been making airplanes that look like disk and other shapes since the 1900’s. Come on now. They have pictures and show us to our faces ain’t no EFO or ETs,” 8jay_all_day6 said, before adding: “No brothers it’s our own government flying those don’t let them fool yall.”
“My money is on UFOs being our own government. They have technology beyond our imagination that they don’t tell us about,” kingdomdad also posited.
However Ziggy stood his ground, and after treaxvour told him that the sightings were actually “government top secret technology and “not extraterrestrial”, he responded: @treaxvour ok if you say so that’s’ a cool then I must ask what are the extraterrestrials using for transportation these days? 🙂”
There were also some persons, including ex-military personnel who insisted that they had seen extraterrestrial beings with their own eyes.
“@ziggymarley @grampsmorgan I got a video of one pulsating in Illinois. I wish could share it here, I saw them another time in Phillipsberg Montana, the altitude was way up there,” zioniyahbinghimusic said.
“I saw one in Colorado in the mountains when I was in the military, scared the crap out of me and a squadmate who was guard with me. We hid in a bush and just watched for about two hours,” another commenter mrgino390 said.
One sceptic thundernlightning009, sought to admonish Marley, implying that his claims run contrary to the Rastafarian faith and the bible.
“@ziggymarley, I think it’s an intriguing subject, but even with today’s technology we don’t have a detail pic or vid of this objects… always blurry ,also I don’t think the Bible mentions any other races that JAH created,” he stated.
The comments got more bizarre as followers started relaying what they had read in science-fiction movies and books as truth, saying that the world should take heed of the publications. Some even claimed that the extraterrestrials could be “from the future” and the “government” was hiding it.
“@ziggymarley what if they are just humans from the future in their time machine?”
leopury said, while ras_cali4 wrote: “There is definitely Babylon government secrets hiding the alien vehicles.”
Also commenting was rawrevolutionary who came with his own time-machine theory.
“I always thought they might be us but from the future. Time traveling craft. Perhaps coming back to earth from another planet we inhabited thousands of years from now. Our present is their past,” he wrote, while aleslie_keys blamed the US elections for the matter not being addressed.
“Yeah Ziggy, we were so caught up with Trump people weren’t talking or paying attention to these guys flying around everywhere,” she said.
As the debate raged, couleurbois told Ziggy that she hoped the UFOs are “more benevolent than human beings”.
Ziggy replied: “@couleurbois if the only source of their meaningful contact is governments and military and the knowledge is held in secret then we will have issues all humanity should be made aware of the truth of these connections”.
Last July the New York Times published an article titled No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public in which it noted that “despite Pentagon statements that it disbanded a once-covert programme to investigate unidentified flying objects, the effort remains underway — renamed and tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence”.
According to the article, under the programme, officials continue to “study mystifying encounters between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles.
The article also quoted Senator Marco Rubio, as expressing concern about reports of unidentified aircraft over American military bases and stating that it was in the government’s interest to find out who was responsible.
“He expressed concerns that China or Russia or some other adversary had made “some technological leap” that ‘allows them to conduct this sort of activity’, the article said adding that Rubio had “said some of the unidentified aerial vehicles over U.S. bases possibly exhibited technologies not in the American arsenal” and that “maybe there is a completely, sort of, boring explanation for it. But we need to find out”.