“Gen. Glen VanHerck said: ‘I’ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out.’
“‘I haven’t ruled out anything,’ added VanHerck, head of US North American Aerospace Defense Command and Northern Command.
“‘At this point we continue to assess every threat or potential threat, unknown, that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it.’”
Why the “intel community” would be particularly good at figuring this out I will leave to readers. That’s the same crew that wanted us to believe the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
Also, I lean toward the skeptical that this really is space aliens. And yet ...
If what we shot out of the sky was the work of or even contained (that’s always a possibility) creatures from somewhere in some universe or other, shooting them out of the sky was about as dumb as it gets.
Think of the capabilities of such entities able to send representatives from who knows how many light years away to revolve around our planet for whatever purposes.
They well could have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years, since long before there were homo sapiens on the planet.
To them, we would be less than ants or perhaps, at best, waddling armadillos.
Has the Northern Command or our air force in general done much serious thinking about how potentially, or in actuality if that’s the case, to deal with this?
We know there have been secret files on various UFO sightings for years. It’s high time they let these out because, speaking of skepticism, I’m highly skeptical our military and “intel” people are more qualified than many members of the public to understand what’s happening.
And if they’re trying to hide the truth from us, shame on them ... and worse. This isn’t remotely the kind of civilizational information so-called elites should be secreting from the rest of us.
It’s pathetic, really, when you consider the minor differences between humans when you compare our species to those with the aforementioned capabilities.
The approach to aliens was better dealt with by Steven Spielberg in “Close Encounters of a Third Kind” back in 1977.
Perhaps we should send Richard Dreyfuss out to meet them rather than shoot them or their probes down willy-nilly, if that’s what we did. Dreyfuss, it will be remembered, was playing just an average guy, not some elite.
Generally benign as the aliens were in “Close Encounters,” they still could have incinerated our planet on a whim.
The good news in such encounters, as many have said before, is that they render absurd the petty quarrels between humans and their countries.
The bad news is that the United States of America would be represented in such an encounter, if it were to happen in the near future, by a leader, who isn’t, to put it mildly, the best of us.
