France and Britain continue to investigate UFO sightings. The United States does not, having shut down Project Blue Book quite some time ago. And if you believe that then (insert phrase eluding to gullibility here).So since we don't investigate UFO sightings, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, we get someone with a non-space alien reason we should be investigating UFOs.
To Defend Our Airspace, We Should Investigate U.F.O.s - NYTimes.comHere is something that it makes sense to not investigate. Ignore Google image searches for the Jetsons. That shit is weird. Some strange people out there. It also happens to be one of the few old cartoons that hasn't been made into a live action movie. Someone could investigate what about the Jetsons has kept Hollywood from defiling it the way so many fans have.
ON the afternoon of Nov. 7, 2006, pilots and airport employees at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago saw a disc-like object hovering over the tarmac for several minutes. Because nothing was tracked on radar, the Federal Aviation Administration did not investigate. Yet radar is not a reliable detector of all aircraft. Stealth planes are designed to be invisible to radar, and many radar systems filter out signals not matching the normal characteristics of aircraft. Did it really make sense to entirely ignore the observations of several witnesses?
A healthy skepticism about extraterrestrial space travelers leads people to disregard U.F.O. sightings without a moment’s thought. But in the United States, this translates into overdependence on radar data and indifference to all kinds of unidentified aircraft — a weakness that could be exploited by terrorists or anyone seeking to engage in espionage against the United States.
But UFO investigations make sense with or without aliens.
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The guy's got a great point. By writing UFOs off as not worth investigating, we're leaving the door open for drug smugglers, foreign spy planes, or the oft-mentioned terrorists.
Of course, the current administration has never been genuinely concerned with foreign terrorists. They just want to subjugate and control Americans.
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