Perhaps the government’s new UFOs/UAP efforts are already paying collateral dividends. Such is ABC News Senior Pentagon Reporter Luis Martinez’ takeaway from comments made by USAF General Glen VanHerck. Input from “additional means of collection” helped close a previous “domain awareness gap” in strategic intelligence about “the threat posed by the [Chinese] surveillance balloons” during the Biden and Trump presidential administrations. About time. Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. continues seeing UFOs behind Pentagon informational shenanigans: A Balloon Pops D.C.’s Myth Bubble continues Jenkins’ attempt to convince that “whether from serendipity or design, national security agencies were using UFOs to hide something they didn’t want us to see.” (Hat tip to Rob Swiatek for this Wall Street Journal reference.) George Knapp reports that a Former Intelligence Official Breaks Silence on Gov’t UFO Investigations. That’s Jay Stratton, who came to head the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), and evidently gave us “UAP” as the preferred federal term for the aerial “whatsits.” One public byproduct of the present interest is The 60 Minutes UFO Segment That Blew People’s Minds. Charles Switzer tells why the May 2021 CBS program “may go down as one of the most chilling segments ever to air” on that TV series. (WM)
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