2026-09-11 13:02:14

The founder of a space technology company has claimed the invention of AI could be linked to an increase in UFO sightings.

Peter Diamandis – the cofounder of the XPRIZE Foundation and spacecraft company Planetary Resources – is convinced extraterrestrial lifeforms may be monitoring advances in human technology and could be keen to observe both AI and nuclear weapons.

In an essay posted online via X, he wrote: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence – such is the case on Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs).

“I have had no personal firsthand experience with either, but there is evidence mounting, and it has been significant enough that it has captured my attention. I want to share the way I think about this – not as a believer, not as a skeptic, but as someone who takes data seriously enough to know when too much is happening not to pay attention.”

He went on to add: “UAP sightings surged dramatically beginning in 1947, coinciding with the dawn of the atomic age. A 2023 statistical study found that countries that detonated nuclear weapons had an average of 1,588 more reported UFO sightings per country …

“We are now seeing a reported increase in UAP activity that correlates with the emergence of advancing artificial superintelligence capabilities. If the nuclear era was humanity’s first civilization-scale technology, ASI may be the second.”

Peter then concluded: “One hypothesis: both nuclear weapons and ASI (artificial superintelligence) represent technologies capable of fundamentally altering the trajectory of civilization, either through destruction or transcendence,” Mr. Diamandis writes.

“If NHI (non-human intelligence) are observing humanity, the two moments most worth monitoring are the moments when we develop technologies that could end or transform our civilization.

“The correlation does not prove causation. But the correlation is real, it has been statistically documented, and it spans both the nuclear era (79 years of data) and what may be the beginning of the ASI era.”

He ended his essay by declaring: “I am not asking you to believe. I am asking you to look. The evidence is there. The people coming forward are credible.

“The correlations are statistically significant. The government is preparing. The question is not whether this is real. The question is whether we are ready to take it seriously.”

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