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Wednesday, August 5, 2020

UFOS making a comeback in 2020


A purported UFO in Passaic, New Jersey in 1952 (via Wikipedia)

One of the oddest things about 2020, an odd year, is the way that UFOs and speculation about contact from aliens has made a comeback. "Flying saucers" have seemed old-fashioned in recent years. Yet here is a New York Times story (published on July 23), "No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public," which includes those Navy videos you've probably heard about. And here is Vox, with "It’s time to take UFOs seriously. Seriously." 

Slate introduces a note of caution with "It’s Still Not Aliens." And as Slate notes, the New York Times issued a long correction which didn't get as much publicity as the original story (part of the correction: "An earlier version of this article inaccurately rendered remarks attributed to Harry Reid, the retired Senate majority leader from Nevada. Mr. Reid said he believed that crashes of objects of unknown origin may have occurred and that retrieved materials should be studied; he did not say that crashes had occurred and that retrieved materials had been studied secretly for decades.") Still, it remarkable how the subject is suddenly being taken seriously. 


1 comment:

Rasa said...

I've been wondering about that as well. The Navy admitting that their now-famous encounter video is authentic seems like a major departure from the norm. Of course, Jack Sarfatti has videos out where he explains how the craft's propulsion engine works (If Jack could explain how his hero Trump works, that would probably be more useful). Netflix has the video "Unacknowledged," which soberly draws conclusions from interviews and leaked documents about a huge "deep state" coverup that even presidents were afraid to speak openly about. Yes, 2020, certain would not be any weirder with an alien invasion. Of course, the Netflix doc suggests the aliens are benign, and that it is our military/industrial complex that is the real threat – fully able to fake an alien invasion. Yes, 2020, would not be any weirder.