Physics at least restricts what’s going on in our atmosphere. Not many things with significant mass are drifting around tens of thousands of feet up. An unidentified object may be the size of a “small car,” as one pilot report passed along by the Pentagon claims, but it’s not a car. It may look “cylindrical,” as another states, but steel drums aren’t floating in the thin air at 20,000 feet. If it doesn’t have an engine and wings, it’s a balloon, thousands of which have no military purpose.
The White House, so far, has been sure only that the objects weren’t alien spacecraft. A CNN “national security” reporter, notorious for her false “collusion” scoops, hyped third-hand reports of divergences in what one pilot or another thinks he saw to suggest, well, nothing intelligible.
The irritating delay in making sense of these events is a longer story than it might seem. From a febrile debate about the U.S. military and UFOs that started five years ago, we now find ourselves shooting unidentified objects out of the sky over the U.S. and Canada. From a U.S. Air Force general kibitzing about a war with China maybe as soon as 2025, in early 2023 we’re using a Sidewinder missile to blast a Chinese military spy probe out of the stratosphere off the coast of South Carolina.
The intervening variable? Apparently a decade-long campaign by intelligence officials to keep reality bottled up. They didn’t think we could handle the truth about Chinese balloons and drones over America.
has fairly owned the story since it was a government-sponsored distraction about little green men. Then the tone changed markedly last fall. Sources began leaking that a pending declassified UFO report would emphasize not unexplained technology but ordinary balloons, drones and airborne clutter. The classified version of the same report, we were told, alluded plainly to Chinese spying.
Did this column play a role in the changed messaging? I doubt it but in an off-the-record meeting with NASA bigwigs in October I did suggest the feds were “two ticks away” from spawning hysteria with their backhanded support for UFO speculation. I had in mind a 1948 incident in which a military pilot crashed while chasing a UFO that, the public was never told, was actually a U.S. military balloon.
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