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UFO—Unidentified Flying Object

IDHAIWIWBIDTIWAUFO—I don’t have any idea what it was but I don’t think it was a UFO.

Disclaimer—I suppose correct grammar is “an UFO”. But that sounds funny.  I’m going to say “a UFO”.  Just so you know.

This week I read an article about an American Airlines  pilot and  a Lear jet pilot who both reported to the tower that a bright object flew over their aircraft.  Both pilots reported the same bright light and the same rapidly moving object.  These were near simultaneous events. There’s nothing particularly unusual about a report of a UFO.  What was unusual was the number of people who said it wasn’t a UFO.  I think I get where they’re coming from. Their comments must be along the lines of “When I think of a UFO, I think of a space ship inhabited by aliens from deep space.  Whatever this was, it wasn’t a UFO.”  But I beg to differ.  It was in fact an unidentified flying object, or UFO.  If it was flying in the sky and nobody had any idea what it was, it was a UFO regardless of whether or not it was an alien spacecraft. Why argue that it wasn’t a UFO?

Why do we so easily dismiss obvious things? I find it difficult to believe that people still argue against “climate change.”  No matter what you think about “global warming”, you can’t deny that the climate is in fact changing.  Dramatic and deadly weather events are becoming more and more frequent and more and more severe. I don’t think there is a good argument against “global warming.”  You can argue whether or not the warming of the earth is natural or man-made, but you really can’t argue if the earth is getting warmer. Scientists believe he “greenhouse effect” created by CO2 emissions is driving this phenomenon.  Others argue that these emissions have no effect on the environment. So argue that the "greenhouse effect" doesn't exist, but don’t argue against “global warming” There is much visual and scientific evidence that year by year the earth is getting warmer. The earth is getting warmer= global warming.

This week, flat earth conspiracy theorist Mike Hughes launched himself several hundred feet in the air in a self-made, steam-powered rocket  and he returned to the ground relatively unhurt.  The stunt was to prove that the earth is flat.  Strapping himself into and blasting off in a man-made rocket either proved he was very brave or very stupid.  I’ll let you decide which  But in my humble opinion his flight to 1875 feet didn't  prove that the earth is flat. Hughes plans to build a bigger rocket that will launch him into space. I suppose if he successfully lands back on the earth's surface, he will prove once and for all that the earth is flat. Meanwhile, if you’re interested, you can attend the 2018 Flat Earth International Conference November 15-16 in Denver, Colorado.  One of the break out sessions will be ‘The Earth Must Be Flat Because My Plate Doesn’t Fall Off the Table When I Eat”.  And another will  be, “Do UFOs Really Exist”? 

As you know, there are a multitude of Holocaust deniers.  These misguided and delusional people honestly believe (or for reasons other than honesty) that the Holocaust didn’t happen.  It doesn’t matter that tens of millions of records exist regarding the over six million people who were put to death.  It doesn’t matter that you can travel to Germany and surrounding countries, and  visit these concentration camps where these millions were killed. For them, for reasons that are entirely unreasonable, they say that none of it happened. Do any of them believe in UFOs?

If a large disc-shaped object lands in your backyard. A staircase comes down and a little green man with large eyes  descends to the ground amidst smoke and steam.   And this little green man says in a computer-generated voice, "Take me to your leader."  Are you going to take him to Washington? Or just introduce him to his wife?