Now the Washington Examiner’s Tom Rogan has gone full-blown UFO conspiracy batshit. Selected excerpts, with my comments:
The United States government makes it very hard to figure out what and where UFO-related stuff is going on.
Is that because the government is behind some great conspiracy to cover up the proof of alien visitation to Earth? Is it because the government is in cahoots with alien species to create human-alien hybrids?
Perhaps, but I suspect not.
Perhaps? Perhaps? How about “hell no?” This isn’t even up to the standards of the X-files.
What I believe is really going on here is that the few individuals in the U.S. government who know about this issue believe the phenomena might be a threat. And that they don’t know how to deal with it.
Tom, you’re an idiot. There isn’t anyone in the U.S. government with three brain cells to rub together (note: this exempts most of Congress) that believes UFOs are a threat. Why? Because they don’t exist.
This isn’t to say that these UFOs are hostile (although it must be noted that the diverging shapes, behaviors, and capability patterns of UFOs suggest more than one originating source). On the contrary, UFOs appear to be quite friendly, except when rather ill-advised Russian aircrews attempt to engage them.
Oh, for the luvva Pete. The “UFOs” aren’t hostile, or friendly, or anything. Attributing intent to an optical illusion is just plain stupid.
But pretend you’re a senior military or intelligence officer.
You see the nuclear connection point, and you’re struck by something odd going on. Now, add to the nuclear issue that some UFOs are intelligently operated machines capable of instantaneously reaching hypersonic speeds. Oh, and that they’re also anti-gravity and invisibility capable, and they have been tracked moving in and out of Earth orbit, the atmosphere, and underwater. Suddenly, you have something that is making the U.S. military’s most advanced capabilities, and those of every other military on Earth, look like an absurd joke in comparison.
You’re left with an unpleasant conclusion: If whatever is controlling these things intends harm, we don’t have a chance.
Anti-gravity and invisibility capable? What the hell have you been smoking, Tom? You’re attributing all of these science-fiction capabilities to fuzzy, half-glimpsed lights and objects that may or may not have been lens flares or some other optical artifacts.
Again, put yourself in the military officer’s shoes. Something has repeatedly shown it can easily find carrier strike groups, which are designed and operated to be hidden in the far oceans, and to find nuclear ballistic missile submarines running near totally silent deep under the water. Something can penetrate the most securely guarded areas of the most important areas in the U.S. military and render our most critical deterrent platforms improbable. For Pentagon planners, this is Armageddon-level stuff.
But the truth is clear: If it wanted to, something strange could defeat America without raising a sweat.
Not something strange, Tom; just something stupid. As in, burning up bandwidth speculating about this kind of stupidity.
The Washington Examiner isn’t exactly the most credible news source out there, but honestly, this sort of hooraw is just beyond the pale. This kind of crap would be more at home in the Weekly World News than in the Examiner.
Tom Rogan should be dismissed, and so should the editor that allowed this nonsensical woo to be published.
