Isn’t it funny how the roles have switched? Back in the old days #UFO skeptics like James “the Amazing” Randi or Philip Klass used to parrot the conclusions of Blue Book and the Condon Committee like they were the Ten Commandments, and now it is the #UAP bros who are the biggest government cheerleaders—as long as those Congressmen and ‘whistleblowers’ keep saying what they want to hear, that is.
Of course, a caricature is a gross oversimplification of an issue for comedic purposes. As a UFO student I know fully well that both Blue Book and the Condon Report did include in their conclusions that a small percentage of reported cases remained ‘Unidentified’. That statement is still maintained by AARO and the current official investigations on the so-called UAPs; so perhaps the biggest difference between the government posture then, and what they are claiming now, is that the ‘unidentified’ cases do represent a ‘potential threat’ to national security—at the very least, because they leave a vulnerability gap that American adversaries could exploit, knowing how sightings of anomalous phenomena were often left unreported for fear of ridicule or career hindering.
But the bottomline is that one shouldn’t use the “’cause the government said so!” as a conclusive argument to endorse or refute anything. The same US government that is now open to admit the possibility of UAPs is the same government that is now claiming vaccines are a cause of Autism, or that climate change is a myth!
Governments shouldn’t have the last word in issues that involve complex problems where scientific experts should intervene.
