UFOs and In The Time of Trump
So come to find out, there was a sleeper in the 5,500 page appropriations bill under the last year of Donald Trump. One small stipulation slipped past prying eyes.
The stipulation mandates that the director of national intelligence work with the secretary of defense on a report detailing everything the government knows about unidentified flying objects — known in agency lingo as “unidentified aerial phenomena” or “anomalous aerial vehicles.”
I would expect some paragraph or two saying “what UFOs?” but anything else seems unlikely.
I would be wrong.
It must be made public, and when it is, it will be big, former intelligence director John Ratcliffe said in a recent interview.
“Frankly, there are a lot more sightings than have been made public,” Ratcliffe told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Friday.
Oh great, something else for Fox hysteria.
Marco Rubio seems pretty exited about it, too.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, said the prospect that something otherworldly is behind the flying objects does not concern him as much as the idea that a U.S. adversary could be making secret technological advances.
“Increase defense spending immediately,” said the little voice in Mario’s head.
I have never seen a UFO but I know a few intelligent sane people who have.
I just thought you might miss this tidbit of news on the sad, sad day.
Just because something is “unidentified” doesn’t make it “alien” or any type of threat. The report will be a disappointment.
1Wait for Maria Bartiromo to report Trump’s 757 isn’t grounded because of needed repairs, but due to an abundance of caution. Trump knows what’s up there, there’s just too many UFO’s circling the skies. (Her viewers with short attention spans have already forgotten about rallies and golf trips)
2If you are as old as I am, you may know of instances where the US government forgot to tell us that it was, eg, sending armed insurrectionists into Ukraine to start a revolution. The Russians knew — to them they were identified flying objects (parachutists), thanks to Kim Philby; and shot them all.
To me and the rest of the American public, they were unidentified. (I learned about them 22 years after the fact, from William Sloane Coffin’s autobiography; he oversaw the training of these terrorists.)
3Hmm, perhaps the gung-ho creation of Space Force really has an alternate root.
I’m still betting on Trump just wanted a historic claim…but let’s just be grateful he did not name it “Trump Force.” I also would not be surprised that he saw it as last real estate territory market (cha-ching$).
It really does sound like someone put a bee in his bonnet about aliens and space concerns. Of course, just because it is in a bill, does not mean the what-a-waste former president had anything to do with it.
4No. Not only no, but hell no, Donnie. You will not be buried in Nevada at Area 51 or anywhere else in this state. Think Yucca Mountain. We refused the nuclear waste, so don’t even think we would accept your toxic carcass.
As for UFOs, saw a few when I was in the USAF. The “unidentified” meant destroy the evidence because we’d been tracking one of DoDs new toys. We didn’t “see” what we saw, and neither did our fancy recording devices.
5In my experience, those doing drugs with or without alcohol had more UFO encounters than did others of us.
6Maybe the aliens aren’t bringing drugs but just trying to score?
chester says:
“…aliens aren’t bringing drugs but just trying to score…”
I guess that makes Earth the back alley of the galaxy!?
7Can we have a similar project to discover all that is known about the unidentified un-flying objects, like the F-35? Or the aircraft carrier that can’t launch aircraft? Or the Freedom-class littoral ships that have a class-wide drivetrain flaw, and test deployments have found “High fuel, food and maintenance demands keep the ships from heading to sea for long periods of time.”
8I have to agree with some of the other posters about the DoD’s new toys. I’m old enough to remember when the SR71 Blackbird was still classified, but I was able to walk right up to it as it was parked behind a hangar at Eglin AFB. Ditto when reports of strange, triangular shaped silent craft were seen in the skies above Wytheville, VA. I instantly recognized the Flying Wedge (aka Stealth fighter) from the newspaper description. I’d seen it before because I would swipe my dad’s Popular Science magazines before he took them to work at the fire station. That was at least 30+ years before the public found out about them. Lots of shiny toys out there…
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