Vice reports that some technologists are fascinated by UFOs and what they could mean for technology on Earth. These technology executives may also get their chance given that pilots in the US Navy have reported seeing enigmatic, spherical objects moving at high speeds.

For the piece, Vice conducted interviews with three tech executives who were willing to admit their interest in UFOs. According to the article, expressing an interest in speculative alien spacecraft is “still a pretty taboo subject” in the technology industry, and numerous investors are unwilling to support related endeavors due to “no guarantee of payoff.”

Vice spoke with Deep Prasad, CEO of the Canadian startup for quantum computing ReactiveQ, who stated that his ultimate objective is to locate and decipher a UFO for the benefit of humanity.

“Before our eyes are advancements hidden these UFOs that are a long ways past our understanding” Prasad said, however “in the event that we give close consideration and converse these advances to bring to the majority, we will see a world with interstellar travel readily available.”

According to Rizwan Virk, executive director of Play Labs @ MIT, UFOs may have technology that is beyond what modern science considers feasible.

Virk stated to Vice that “this phenomenon seems to be about advanced technology that doesn’t always fit into our current model of “what is technology” and what isn’t.”

In an extract from the book distributed by Bad habit, Pasulka features Jacques Vallée – a PC researcher who dealt with ARPANET, the premise of the cutting edge Web – as both a technologist and ufologist, considering him as a part of “the people who forgo mythologizing the UFO, who rather draw in with it, to figure out its reality.” “You can find these people in Silicon Valley,” Walsh writes.