Question

Hi Rabbi, recently the Pentagon published that it is known of aliens who visited the atmosphere, and they even found biological remains of theirs and craft.
It’s hard for me not to raise the question: if this happened recently, what rules out the possibility—which in my opinion isn’t all that speculative in light of this—that the revelation at Mount Sinai was influenced by aliens? What would that mean for us? Would serving the deistic God have value if He did not actually command it? Would an act of foolishness—since there would seemingly be no reason to do it if in the end it was all part of a mistaken interpretation of aliens—yield reward and value?
That was the question, and now I’ll say a few things on the topic, and I’d like to ask Your Honor to give your opinion on them if you can.
Seemingly, values exist and do not depend on the facts on the ground, since if I do an act that I perceive as a supreme value, and we assume that the source of our values is God, just like morality… then seemingly even doing something mistaken, like commandments that have no source in a real revelation but rather in an interpretive error, would still have value relative to the information available to the person. And it seems that God would “appreciate” this, since He established morality, so it seems that He does care about human actions. And in any case, He knew that people would be influenced in their practical ethical choices according to the facts on the ground.
Would such a God plausibly grant reward for that? If we assume His goodness, which stems from the framework of His perfection (and His goodness can be assumed from the morality He established).
 
Thank you very, very much. I hope I wrote clearly. It’s a difficult hour.