The Observers

De: Gregorio Planchuelo

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

On June 25, 2021, the Pentagon informed the U.S. Congress for the first time that 21 objects detected by its military had flight capabilities that cannot be attributed to Earth's known technology. In the second report to Congress on May 17, 2022, Ronald Moultrie, the Under Secretary of Defense, acknowledged frequent and ongoing sightings of hundreds of UFOs each year.

The idea that beings from a distant star are capable of reaching our planet challenges a deep taboo and causes us immense fear to think that we might be at the mercy of aliens whose technology surpasses all of our capabilities. We prefer to ignore this information. However, thousands of sightings occur every year.

They are observing us, not minding being seen, but they don't attempt to interact with us. This novel explores a hypothesis about why this is happening and how we can confront this situation.

The plot includes an extraterrestrial being struggling to comprehend how humans perceive reality. We are limited to perceiving only three of the ten dimensions and restricted to what we call visible light, which is one-thousandth of 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum. This means we miss almost all the information about the physical phenomena surrounding us. Meanwhile, Earth is in danger of being invaded by "The Plague," whose ships are approaching the outer reaches of the solar system.

Gregorio Planchuelo (former advisor to senior officials in the Spanish government on science and research) combines science, sociology, literature, and philosophy in an outstanding work of hard science fiction. It draws from current scientific knowledge and projects into the near future where social, political, and psychological changes occur as the unexpected unfolds.

In addition to The Observers, Gregorio Planchuelo is the author of Dark Matter—a science-fiction novel grounded in current scientific and technological knowledge that envisions a future in which our best possibilities are fully realized—and Faces of the Extraordinary, a collection of narratives about five types of individuals whose stories illuminate essential aspects of power, history, and society, challenging many of the conventions and clichés that shape our beliefs.