I’ve been going through a rough time lately, I just put my mom in hospice. I’m taking a break from work and visiting her every day. She seems to be rallying so may have another year in her, I’m trying not to think about having to go back to work.
Anyhow, I have a lot of downtime sitting by her bedside in the nursing home as she drifts in and out of sleep. I’ve been chain reading Terry Pratchett on my Nook. It’s weirdly comforting how Death keeps popping up. But I also have a lot of time for pondering, and I’ve been preoccupied with this recent news on UFOs—I suppose because it is so silly and so NOT having to do with nursing homes and Alzheimer’s and pending work and because everyone’s so blase about it. Are we all Scully now? I suppose we are.
Some backstory for those just catching up—yes, UFO’s have been verified by the Pentagon, including video and recovered alloys. These are not weather balloons or swamp gas. Reported by the nytimes, with Leslie Kean as co-author. I won’t rehash other diaries here, but for those unaware, here are links:
I was a huge Colbert Report fan (was a moderator on the old ColbertNation site) and read Leslie Kean’s UFO book after watching this interview:
www.dailykos.com/…
I just reread the five star amazon review I posted on her book in the fall of 2010. With one book I went from a complete skeptic to true believer. By the way, foreword written by John Podesta.
Then in October the weirdest press conference ever—with Blink 182 member, ultra spy dude Christopher Mellon, and someone who just left the Pentagon (in good standing) Luis Elizondo. It got very little serious mainstream press coverage:
www.newsweek.com/…
Basically one news anchor in Vegas whose thing is UFO’s.
But now, nytimes is reporting on it (with Leslie Kean as co-author).
www.dailykos.com/…
Senator Harry Reid made sure the program got funded originally, and it’s continuing now even though its funding has been cut.
So, seeing that there are both videos of these advanced spaceships and actual metal alloys retrieved from them, what the heck does this mean? I was listening to a radio interview and the guy said it would be like handing Leonardo da Vinci a garage door opener. They’ve got some top minds trying to figure this stuff out, and more importantly they’ve BEEN trying for over a decade. So old news.
From what I can see there are only three possibilities, and the DARPA one seems most unlikely, as these ships seem to be buzzing around our nuclear facilities—why would we bother to check ourselves out? Especially since we can already see pretty much everything already from satellite? Please vote in the poll below and discuss in comments. I’m open to a fourth option but I’d like to hear logical argument supporting it.
And yes, I know that in earlier decades the Pentagon encouraged stories of little green men to hide the very real U2 spy plane program.
www.space.com/…
But these new aircraft seem to break the laws of physics. And if it was us, why was Lockheed Skunk Works getting paid to reverse engineer it?
