UAP Report
That Pesky “Catchall ‘Other’ Bin” for UFOs
The new Intelligence Assessment on UAP is more than we’ve gotten in the past but not so much as we may deserve in the present. Still, it’s not the end of the UFO story. It may be the end of the beginning.
The 180-day countdown is over. The surprise isn’t what’s in the UAP report. It’s that it was written at all and turned in on time. Even with expectations tempered mightily, it was still a rush felt by many to see a UAP report pop up on a website run by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, then download the PDF, and read the damn thing. Not quite the same feeling as where you were for JFK, the Moon landing, or 9/11, but important in its own way.
The report was written by the intelligence community and the Pentagon, working with a specially created Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF). They were ordered to do it by the U.S. Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence in a bill that was signed by the President. Besides flat-out saying that many of these are physical objects, here are three other quick highlights:
“UAP clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to U.S. national security.”
