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The UFO Report: Shrug

3 years ago571 words

I've written about UFOs a few times now, so I thought I should make a note of this thing that just happened after months of waiting: the US Pentagon UFO report is now out.

If you're unaware, as part of some COVID relief bill 180 days or so ago, the Pentagon was ordered to deliver a report to Congress detailing all it knew about the UFO phenomenon... or something; I forget all the American politics/military/whatever stuff. Just know that it was highly anticipated in the UFO community because it could have been the disclosure they'd been waiting years or decades for.

It was just released today (well, Friday in the US; I saw it on Saturday morning). It's only 9 pages long (or like 6 if you discount the cover page, intro, etc), and you can find the official pdf ∞ here ∞ (the filename has a typo, which shows how careful they were with it).

Disappointingly to those deep in the UFO community, it's not a bio of Gorbulox - the Zeta Reticulan shadow ruler of Earth - complete with all the specs of his alien warship and a few tasteful 4k shots of his impressive genitalia. It doesn't say much other than what you learn on day 1 of getting your Ufology degree.

Still, it officially confirms (kind of) that there are frequent sightings by multiple forms of detection of real, physical objects whose apparent capabilities far surpass the technical abilities of any Earth militaries. And they're not just weather balloons or sensor artifacts. It also sows seeds of action regarding their serious study (which they're not already doing in secret, no no no, how dare you even think that).

So that's a big change from very recently where just whispering the word 'ufo' (pronounced 'uffo', of course) into your armpit would cause everyone in a 10km radius to drop what they're doing to point and uproariously guffaw at your ludicrous clownery.

There's also ∞ this obnoxiously-militarily-worded statement by a guy called "Dod" (I hear he's a big deal) regarding the report ∞, which some people on Reddit are saying is more important than the report itself, so that could be true for all I know. From what I gather, it seems to be a formal demand for the various fragments of the US military to take their fingers out of their arses and wrap them together in a beautiful finger braid to point both towards the path to discovery and at their colleagues who are keeping their sightings to themselves for fear of being embarrassingly fingered as fools. I think that's the wording they used, verbatim.

I've been down the rabbit hole re UFOs for a few weeks now (honestly it's exhausting), and the chatter there suggests this is all part of some slow, gradual disclosure... maybe. That would be a less stupid way to inform the world of this if They really did know anything. But you could also say they're just in denial and want to keep hold of the beliefs they've held dear for a long time, if you were so inclined. That is how minds work, after all.

There's still the guy on Reddit claiming the aliens will reveal themselves on the 18th of July though, so we've still got that to look forward to and be disappointed about!!