NHI in the Legal Context: The Earth as a Condominium—Grounds for Distant Contact Without Relevant Exchange of Information

UAPs are presumed to be associated with an intelligence that may be classified as non-human intelligence. The elusive and intangible nature of the UAP/UFO phenomenon raises the question of why the underlying intelligence remains beyond our reach, rendering it so difficult for us to comprehend. According to the hypothesis proposed here, the reason for this elusiveness and difficulty of comprehension is that, in relation to the NHI entity, Earth constitutes a condominium under international law. A defining feature of a condominium is its lack of full legal capacity under international law. A condominium denotes the joint exercise of authority over Earth by multiple subjects of international law, without Earth itself being the bearer of sovereign rights with regard to that other world or those other worlds. This status, almost devoid of rights under international law, is grounded in principles of natural law, according to which the NHI subject or subjects of international law would share responsibility for the consequences of any contact involving a substantive exchange of information—that is, for the chaos and damage triggered by such contact. This means that NHI subjects of international law avoid open contact in order not to trigger a catastrophe, either for themselves or for Earth, for which they would be liable. The consequence is that, until humanity legally, institutionally, and economically anticipates contact with NHI, the condominium remains in place. Our objective observations of UAPs and our subjectively informed assumptions regarding the intelligence behind them amount to no more than a perception of a state of immaturity: the international legal status of a condominium.