For several years now, Paul Jacob had applied his demand for government transparency to the UFO topic. While for decades there has been a big cultural divide on the subject, between the Sophisticated Scoffers (who think there is absolutely nothing to the UFO issue) and the UFO Nuts (who express a range of opinion, from the suspicion that “there’s something to this” to the belief that “the aliens are here and running the Bilderberg Group”), in the last few years a number of government officials, military leaders, whistleblowers and pencil pushers have affirmed that some Unidentified Flying (and Submersible) Objects are puzzling and disturbing and somehow real, no matter how odd. To protect themselves they’ve re-dubbed the issue as one of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP, previously “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”) and have set up official inquiries and congressional investigations.
Some disclosure is ongoing.
And the House Committee run by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R‑Fla.) has made some progress, even in this past week of tumultuous socio-political turmoil. Consider a recent installment of Clayton Morris’s Redacted show:
The new UFO telemetry video is interesting, if not exactly knock-down. Historian Richard Dolan covered the mid-week hearing live:
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I first encountered “UAP” almost three decades ago, in The Fortean Times, which had no felt need to deny the presence of unidentified flying objects, but was simply quite sure of the presence of unknown aerial phenomena, while far less sure that these could be said typically to be flying and to be what most people would mean by “object”. Of course, the wisdom of such agnosticism had already occurred to me, and I was glad for the term.
At that time, I was generally unaware that the study of such things was entangled with that of thungs that moved through water. I can see the need for a more general term. But “Unknown Anomolous Phenomena” or “Unidentified Anomolous Phenomena” is entirely too broad as a description and thus perverse as a name.
My belief about what were called “UFOs” settled some time ago on a theory that they are mostly products of a disinformation campaign, originally targetting the USSR but increasingly targetting America. I expect ostensible revelations to be more disinformation.
No one needs to agree with me that little is here beyond a psyop to see, never-the-less, that the government that now claims that it use to lie to us about this matter is very likely to be lying to us now, and will continue to lie to us indefinitely, even with its admissions.