Quantum Computing May Enable UFO-Level Technology
By Tom Kagy | 13 Feb, 2025

The next decade's quantum leap in computing power could put the capabilities demonstrated by UFOs within human reach.

Yes, there are still crazies who deny the existence of UFOs. 

The entire world has gaped at the videos of tic-tac and other UFOs recorded by US Navy F-15 pilots using forward-looking infra-red (FLIR) cameras, as well as thousands of other videos and images captured by countless people around the world.   Former government officials with top-secret security clearances, including Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer, have come forward with accounts of secret hangars housing UFOs being reverse-engineered.

The capability of UFOs to move at extremely high — and near zero — velocities, and to turn on a dime — all without aerodynamic surfaces or visible means of propulsion — suggest at a minimum the capability to deflect gravitons and to block out inertial forces, as well as a form of exotic thrustless propulsion (which may or may not use the same technology as gravity-deflection).  

Replicating such capabilities would presuppose the ability to create materials and exotic subatomic particles that simply don't exist for us humans today.  Research and development into new materials and particles require prohibitive levels of computing power to consider the nearly infinite permutations of molecular configurations in what are called "bottom-up" searches for candidate materials and particles.  Even today's fastest supercomputers would take dozens or hundreds of years to come up with candidates to examine, not to mention the hurdle of devising practical pathways to engineering such exotic molecules or subatomic particles.

The advent of practical quantum computing, opined by experts to be likely within a decade or two, changes the ballgame.  Even Google's experimental Willow quantum computing chip released in December 2024 with only 105 quantum processing gates (qubits), is about 30 orders of magnitude (that's 10 followed by 29 zeroes) faster than today's fastest supercomputer.  In other words, searches for candidate structures totally out of reach of conventional processors will become the task of minutes or hours for a quantum computer.

Google is by no means the sole entrant in what may be the ultimate tech race of this century.  The quest is drawing sweat and treasure from today's US tech powers like Microsoft, Amazon and Nvidia, and legacy names like IBM, Intel and Toshiba, as well as Chinese giants like Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent. 

The approaches being developed to allow reliable manipulation of single quantum particles include superconducting layers, laser- or cryogenic-cooled photons, neutral atoms suspended by lasers in near-perfect vaccuums, manipulation of trapped ions and paired quantum dots.  At this point no one knows which of these approaches will yield the most stable qubits, or if two or more approaches end up being used for quantum processors.

Achieving UFO-level technology holds out the promise of tantalizing rewards.  Imagine zipping to Istanbul or Mumbai for brunch, or making a weekend jaunt to one of many self-sustaining Mars colonies, or even visiting a planet on a neighboring star system — all without dumping billions of tons of pollutants into our atmosphere.  Or a world without power lines because individual buildings would be equipped with small clean energy generators fueled only by atmospheric gases or, even, empty space.  

Quantum computing promises to open the door to these and other perhaps even more fantastic leaps for humanity.  One day it will let us pilot the UFOs that astound distant primitive civilizations as they laborious crawl around the surface of their planets.