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With American infrastructure crumbling, poverty at its highest level since 1993, and unemployment lodged at a stubborn 9.1 percent, any unconventional new science initiative — especially one involving UFOs, no matter how modest — would be laughed off as a joke. But when it comes to reality checks, it’s getting increasingly difficult to distinguish one category of joke from another.The Obama administration is now reeling from accusations of pressing for a $535M loan to an upstart solar energy company in 2009 before the Office of Management and Budget had completed its risk assessment. We learned this week that loan recipient Solyndra went bankrupt, leaving taxpayers in a lurch for half a billion bucks.
Half a billion dollars — gone in the blink of an eye.
Rough transition: There’s a fascinating controversy underway now concerning the so-called Petite Rechain UFO photo. This was the triangle-shaped enigma allegedly taken during the 1989-90 wave over Belgium. It was featured prominently, as best evidence, in Leslie Kean’s UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record.
