Don Thy Preferred Tin Foil Hat, Thar Be So Freaking Many UFOs
Good morning, y’all! Off the top, let me acknowledge the delicious Friday irony of me including an autocorrect mistake in a Missive subject line joke about using an AI to write my subject line. Apologies for the oversight, the writer who penned that joke has been flogged.
But enough of that, let’s all yell about aliens for a bit!
I may be losing my mind over the number of UFOs shot down over American and Canadian air space over the weekend. 2023, can you just chill for one month, please? From Saturday: ‘New unidentified ‘cylindrical’ object shot down over Canada’ (Washington Post)
Because here’s a headline I never thought I’d see: A Timeline of the U.F.O.s That Were Shot Down This Weekend (NYT) So many of these articles focus on how nothing has been officially confirmed as UFOs, and despite national security folks dispelling notions this craziness is of extraterrestrial origin, lines like this—"At this point, it is unclear what the objects were, their purpose or who sent them”—from the story above don’t do much to assuage the major Mars Attacks vibes we got going on right now.
Meanwhile, a Reuters article about yet another unidentified object shot down this morning serves up an absolute mindfuck of a line that makes me want to go back and binge allllll of the Last Podcast On The Left alien content: “The object appeared to be octagonal in structure, with strings hanging off but no discernible payload.” LIKE, WHAT?!?! WHAAAAAAT?!
I swear, if Trump was right about the need to create a Space Force, I’m going to be eternally grumpy, because now I’m stuck in a Wikipedia hole on the Space Force, and all of its military trappings. Y’all, they have insignia and badges and uniforms and a “Space Warfighting Analysis Center” and, of course, that Star Trek-looking LOL of a logo. But am I glad they’re there after a UFO-tastic weekend? I sure am, weeeee!
Meanwhile, back in January, Smithsonian Magazine reported that ‘More Than 350 New UFO Sightings Added to U.S. Government Records’. This is SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE reporting on how many UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena, which is the preferred term) have been reported.
And for the love of all things good, can someone please create a new website for the Space Force? It’s giving “early aughts fan site” vibes: United States Space Force.
Goodness, if you told me five years ago that the Monday after a UFO-laden weekend I’d be more worried about meetings, I’d have laughed in your face. 2023 is bonkers.
Drink some water, get outside, be kind to each other and WATCH THE SKIES!!!
xoxo Amy
