"Obfuscation is a handy word for so many occasions. Like, take this
Chinese balloon business. Does anybody believe these incidents will foster more government
openness about UFO encounters which remain unidentified?"
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Obfuscation is a handy word for so many occasions.
Like, take this Chinese balloon business. Does anybody believe these
incidents will foster more government openness about UFO encounters
which remain unidentified? Just as
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
said science is not always what scientists do, those who impart public
information don't always peddle the essentials to their worthy audience.
Tapping the fountain of confusion to satisfy or negate public interest
often seems the rule (hello "Twitter files"), and now that China's
and/or whomever's flying bats from hell are an issue, transparency about
extraordinarily
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By Robert Barrow
The UFO Chronicles
2-20-2023
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strange things that fly or cruise underwater in ways that defy known logical
principles may be further jeopardized.
While some researchers who routinely follow the story of the UFO now find
themselves wrapped up in questions of what's Chinese, what's not Chinese and
what are truly unknown objects above, I've been delighted by the media's
clownish attempts not to call a UFO a UFO. While great care has been taken by
most to reference The Sky Object Of The Day as an "unidentified object" sans
the word "flying" for some reason, others such as Fox News have indeed
stumbled into the forbidden semantic gruesome threesome territory and called
at least one of the things an (1) unidentified (2) flying (3) object with no
word holds barred. Other enterprising news sources have been bold enough to
substitute two different words while keeping one, thereby coming up with a
"high altitude object."
The word "flying" too closely designates performance under intelligent
control, and excluding a word that removes the very concept of animation by
intent keeps the entire topic in safer realms to keep media, military and
especially the White House satisfied, depending upon the occasion. Besides,
nobody in the newsroom or at the Pentagon press desk wants to be inundated
with phone calls and e-mails simply because somebody reported shooting down
what they call a UFO.
Ongoing spy balloon/object escapades have captivated a drooling mainstream
media which usually can't give a rat's for more than a day about incredibly
bizarre things soaring through our air space, outwitting both humans and our
silly instrumentation. UFO stories for the most part involve a wink, a nod and
a sentence or two, and then it's on to the latest outrageous comment uttered
by the celebrity of the day.
In the middle of all this comes a little radar blip over Montana, thought to
be nothing of interest. A "false" reading, they mutter. We suppose. Then we
are informed of a cylinder shape and an octagon shape, topped off with an
intriguing comment about a jet fighter describing instrument problems during a
close approach to, as the late commentator Paul Harvey might have said, a
"what'sit."
One is indeed reminded of the "Twitter files," and among the, what do they call
them. . .oh, yeah. . .among conspiracy theorists you might almost believe that
some White House or Pentagon contact was urging the media NOT to use those three
little words in unison. (1) I (2) love (3) you is fine, but none of this (1)
unidentified (2) flying (3) object blather. Why three words when just two will
do the job? Pentagon personnel do not need the additional abuse while dealing
(away) with the balloon stuff -- particularly when President Biden has already
annoyed Congress by letting damned object number one traverse the nation in an
apparently aeronautical spy's paradise without swift consequence.
The more attention placed upon the air above us, the more people will pay
attention to what shouldn't be there, and what shouldn't be there often comes
down to the three-word phrase that isn't "I love you." When, with or without a
crowbar, the mainstream media can be forced to look up, up and way up, the
curious among us tend to re-focus upon the naked fact that, despite all the
recent UFO attention and congressional action, we American serfs, oops, I mean
we Americans are still waiting for answers about things other than Chinese
balloons and mysterious floaters likely manufactured on Earth by humans. The
trick is in force-feeding the subject, making it impervious to disappearing
from public view. But as they say on the street, hackneyed phrase though it
is, good luck with that.
(Update: Days later, a growing number of media sources have suddenly become
comfy using all three words together (Say it! Say it!), and so far nobody's
laptop has burst into flames as a consequence.)
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