I Want to Believe

BY KIM BELLARD I know, I should be writing about hot topics like monkeypox or the baby formula shortage, but, c’mon, Congress held hearings last week about UFOs – the first in 50 years!  I mean, I followed Project Blue Book in the 1970’s, watched “The X-Files” in the 1990’s, and have seen UFO videos on YouTube.  If Congress is starting to take UFO’s seriously, how could I not?   And for those of you who don’t see any possible connection to healthcare (except for those unpleasant alien probes…), let me put it to you this way: by 2050, is it more likely that: We’ll know what UFOs actually are;We’ll have fundamentally reformed the U.S. healthcare system. I thought so. The Congressional hearings featured Ronald Moultrie, Pentagon Undersecretary for Defense and Intelligence, and Scott Bray, Deputy Director Naval Intelligence.  Mr. Moultrie insisted, “we want to know what’s out there just like you want to know what’s out there,” and Mr. Bray concurred: “I’m impatient. I want immediate understanding as much as anyone else.” They testified and answered questions in both open and closed, classified sessions.  As it turns out, there were no huge revelations.  The Pentagon has compiled some 400 reports of encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs, the term the Pentagon prefers because the objects may not be physical).  “We know that our service members have encountered unidentified aerial phenomena,”...
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