Sunday, February 12, 2023

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While few answers are being given as to what these objects are, people seem to be taking up one of two possible conclusions based on what we've been told: spy surveillance, or little green men from Mars.
There is a third alternative: But rather than consider that, let‘s worry some more. That’s a bit more of a blanket statement than is allowable. Sometimes news is weird because…it is. That article immediately above is about an incident in 2018 on the West Coast involving a UFO definitely not of the “X-Files” type. It was seen, but not close enough to read any markings. A pilot described it as a large plane moving at high speed and at high altitude. It was off radar more than it was on, and “disappeared” into the air traffic.

We think only stealth planes can evade radar, but nothing in the account indicates the plane not being on radar was impossible or even incredible. When the first reports of Trump’s classified documents broke, there was a lot of surprise that such documents were not better controlled. We all imagined each such document came with an armed Marine and a tracking system that geolocates each piece of paper anywhere in the world. Likewise we assume, from the movies mostly, that radar sees all and knows all that is in the air. The common thread is that we imagine somebody somewhere is in control.

And maybe that’s the really weird part.

The unstated conclusion of the article is not that “the truth is (way) out there.” It is that, had jets just been scrambled a few minutes earlier, the UFO might have been intercepted. But only with hindsight do we know when “too late” was, and it was just a few minutes after “Is this trip really necessary?” Which is more often than not how reality works. 

We imagine “they” are in control, and “weird” is that they are but won’t let us in on it. “Weird” is better described as our assumptions about reality, and what can be known, and what we often mean by mystery is just ignorance or happenstance. If the jets had scrambled earlier we might know what that plane was doing (spying? Running drugs? A flying saucer in sheep’s clothing?). But rather like the documents Trump may still have or may have given to God-only-knows-who, it’s a mystery even the government may not be able to solve.

I’m just saying we don’t know as much about that these situations as we imagine we do. “Weird” is often just filling in the gaps in our ignorance with wild conjecture and lessons from bad fiction.
So, until he is briefed, it could be aliens 👾?
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