Critical Update: Let’s Talk About UFOs Artem Peretiatko/iStock
email March 9, 2021
What’s behind unidentified aerial phenomena observed by military officials? Are we alone in the universe? Nextgov asks some experts.
It can be difficult to discuss unidentified flying objects, especially for a government. While some may dismiss reports as fantasy, others argue that whatever is going on could be a threat to national security.
“In the past, pilots were afraid to report these strange things happening for fear it would affect their advancement in the officer corps,” former Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., told
Nextgov in this episode of Critical Update. While he was in Congress, Reid helped secure funding for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a quiet, UFO-studying effort that became public in late 2017. That group is now considered a precursor to the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.
In Search of Alien Life
In a review of current debates about whether extraterrestrials have visited Earth, Elizabeth Kolbert discusses the Fermi paradox, which asks, in reference to aliens, “Where are they?” (Books, January 25th). Some useful context is the Rare Earth hypothesis, which argues that advanced life is an extremely unlikely outcome of Darwinian evolution; after all, life required nearly four billion years almost one-third of the age of our universe to develop on Earth. There is growing consensus that intelligent life here may well have depended on improbable contingencies such as the Chicxulub asteroid impact, sixty-six million years ago, which obliterated the dinosaurs. Fermi’s question, seen in the light of the Rare Earth hypothesis, could yield the answer “They are not there.”
That brings us up to date, I think. Well, except for the latest thing. Is a leaked UFO photo from the United States Department of Defense proof that aliens really do exist or is the Government messing with us?
Let me catch you up real quick, the Pentagon s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force is a real thing that functioning. Allegedly a Navy Pilot photographed a UFO and it got sent to the UAPT to be analyzed. Those photos and the classified UAPT report leaked online. The Debrief did a report on the leak and classified report. Their sources confirmed that the photos are legit and were taken in 2018. Several people, both on and off the record, speculate on what could be seen in the photo. When the photo leaked online, the internet went WILD. Many believe this is an alien aircraft and proof that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth. Others.not so much. In fact, some internet detectives believe they have found EXACTLY what the item is. The theory from internet detectives is that t
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That brings us up to date, I think. Well, except for the latest thing. Is a leaked UFO photo from the United States Department of Defense proof that aliens really do exist or is the Government messing with us?
Let me catch you up real quick, the Pentagon s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force is a real thing that functioning. Allegedly a Navy Pilot photographed a UFO and it got sent to the UAPT to be analyzed. Those photos and the classified UAPT report leaked online. The Debrief did a report on the leak and classified report. Their sources confirmed that the photos are legit and were taken in 2018. Several people, both on and off the record, speculate on what could be seen in the photo. When the photo leaked online, the internet went WILD. Many believe this is an alien aircraft and proof that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth. Others.not so much. In fact, some internet detectives believe they have found EXACTLY what the item is.