A retired professor who has studied UFOs for decades says extraterrestrials have the power to do whatever they want and humans cannot stop them

Published on May 31, 2026 at 11:52 AM (UTC-4)
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Last updated on May 31, 2026 at 11:52 AM (UTC-4) · Edited by Emma Matthews
A retired professor who has studied UFOs for decades says extraterrestrials have the power to do whatever they want and humans cannot stop them
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A retired professor who has spent decades researching aliens and UFOs believes intelligent life is out there and that they have technology powerful enough to ‘overcome’ what we have here on Earth. 

Not ideal news to hear, is it?

The debate surrounding the existence of intelligent life and whether it’ll ever come to Earth is ongoing. 

But one professor is so convinced he’s even taken on a wager that aliens will be found or revealed on Earth by the end of 2030. 

An expert on UFOs thinks alien technology is far more powerful than what humans have accomplished

And he’s not the only professor who believes that aliens are out there. 

Dr Don Donderi, a retired associate professor from Canada’s McGill University, has spent most of his life researching UFOs and aliens and says that we humans are no match for intelligent life forms when it comes to technology. 

In a recent interview with The New York Post, he said that the public knows that UFOs exist and that UFOs are ‘advanced machines that we [humans] don’t know how to make’. 

And, as you might have guessed, that isn’t great news if these aliens decided not to come in peace, with the professor saying alien technology could be so powerful it could wipe us all out in a microsecond. 

“No human institution of any size or shape, from local council to the United Nations, has any kind of technical response that would prevent extraterrestrials from doing what they like on Earth or with us,” he told the publication. 

“We’re potentially at their mercy.” 

Donderi’s comments come after former President Obama was forced to clarify his views on aliens after saying that he believed them to be ‘real’, sparking speculation that he had been privy to some top secret information while working as the POTUS. 

However, following his initial comments, Obama released a longer statement explaining what he had actually meant. 

“Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there,” he said.  

“But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!”

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He says he is 100 percent sure of life beyond our planet

The professor has been interested in aliens since he was just 10 years old, and as an adult taught a class called UFOs: History and Reality.

With a lifetime of research under his belt, Dr Don is about as sure as sure can be that aliens are out there. 

In a 2017 interview with the Montreal Gazette, he said he was ‘100 percent sure’ of ‘life beyond our planet’. 

He also claimed to have met some people who have been abducted by aliens. 

“I know many people – I’d say 10, at least, who have claimed to be abducted,” he said. 

“And in many cases, I respect their claims because I think they’re based on sound evidence.”