How Washington Got Hooked on Flying Saucers - The New Republic

Jason Colavito's in rare form as he lambastes the current serious attitude toward UFOs by the media and more importantly, the U.S. Government. But he draws too stark distinctions within the piece and one wonders whether thoughtful readers will tire of his hyperbolic verbiage. Colavito fails to address the core matter, which two former CIA chiefs, a prior DNI head, and now ex-President Barack Obama have all affirmed, that "somethings" possessing far-beyond-next-generation capabilities have been coursing through our airspace and dazzling our best aircrews. And in spite of Jason's best efforts, it's still difficult to comprehend how a rag-tag group of crazies "with bizarre ideas about science" could exert such a deleterious effect upon Washington as described without there being some reason for studying what minds more data-connected on this subject have been contending with. Perhaps the central figure in the drama describes his personal journey in Harry Reid: What We Believe About U.F.O.s. Reid provides some balance, extending the "cabal" Colavito so derides into two more respected late Senators and the quandary of military pilots who had anomalous encounters. Reid also disappoints in drawing a too-sharp and slightly off-point contrast between "a sincere belief in science versus a sincere belief in extraterrestrials." There's rather more "meat" in the exchange between Andrew Follett and Jazz Shaw in the National Review. Follett's Calm Down, Everyone: The 'UFOs' Aren't Aliens is replete with "likely explanations" for Naval footage, while Shaw's riposte The UFOs Might Be Aliens -- or Something Else We Can't Explain pokes holes "In the spirit of friendly debate." (WM)

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