'They Want People to Take Them Seriously': Space Force Wary of Taking Over UFO Mission - Politico

Synchronicity? These articles feature three of the four journalists who shocked the UFO (and indeed wider) world in December 2017 with stories surrounding a secret Pentagon UFO program. And add a newsmaker embodying perhaps the "next step" in the changed circumstances they helped create. We begin with Politico's Bryan Bender describing apprehensions in one of the governmental organizations likely to participate in UFO studies following the "Preliminary Assessment," which itself owes to Bender's pieces and those of the New York Times writers. Ralph Blumenthal: Portals to UFOs features that Times author discussing coincidences and his biography of Dr. John Mack with Dr. Bernard Beitman, Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. Head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Mack was excoriated by Harvard colleagues for his UFO abduction research. Beitman recognizes Mack as trying to establish that "there's something weird going on" in that academically unacceptable area, while cosmologists can say "Hmm...there's something weird happening," which in that case leads to a permissible investigation. Beitman himself is striving to move coincidence from controversy to productive examination, similarly to Blumenthal's Times colleague Leslie Kean with UFOs: Shifting the Narrative from Threat to Science. Sensing "change is coming," Kean urges scientists to get involved. She notes one "has just opened the door to a potentially revolutionary shift." Heir to the work of Bender, Blumenthal, Kean (and Helene Cooper, who partnered with Blumenthal and Kean in the 2017 Times piece), A Top Harvard Astronomer is Studying UFOs, Thanks in Part to the Pentagon Report. The longest serving chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy, Avi Loeb was impelled partially by "the government's UFO report" to "hunt for something 'weird'" with his UAP-study, The Galileo Project. While recording that Loeb also was denigrated by some colleagues, NBC News reporter Alex Seitz-Wald adds "Notably, Harvard is allowing Loeb to use its imprimatur" for his initiative. Serendipity? (WM)

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