UFOs rightly make the debate stage
Tom Rogan
Echoing her former colleague Tucker Carlson’s interest in the subject, Fox News’s Martha MacCallum rightly raised unidentified flying objects/UFOs at the first GOP presidential primary debate in Milwaukee on Wednesday.
Yes, most of the media is predictably and unprofessionally disdaining MacCallum for her question. Yes, Chris Christie was understandably bemused that this was the question he was asked as the first respondent. But I’d bet good money that MacCallum’s choice to ask this question will earn her history’s positive judgment.
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Within the next five to fifteen years, I suspect we’ll find an informed public consensus broadly agrees on at least three things about UFOs (or what the government refers to as “unidentified aerial phenomena”/UAPs). First, that the vast majority of UFOs are either weather phenomena, or flares, or classified spy aircraft, or balloons, or misidentified aircraft or the products of overactive imagination. Second, that some UFOs are the products of unusually advanced balloon and drone-based capabilities operated by China. Third, that a small but significant and historically vested number of UFOs are intelligently controlled machines almost certainly operated by one or more non-human intelligences. I stand by that comment.
I stand by it, because a data coalescence derived from an array of exceptionally capable ground, air, underwater and space-based sensor systems suggest that machines with beyond-next-generation capabilities are and have been operating in U.S. airspace. These UFOs evince flight capabilities that I am highly confident, based on exceptional sources, are not of U.S., Chinese or Russian origin. Thousands of credible witnesses have testified to seeing UFOs they cannot explain while sensor systems also tracked UFOs in the same locale (see some of their testimonies here). This concern deserves scrutiny. Any prospective commander-in-chief might want to know, after all , how U.S. nuclear ballistic missile submarines can be tracked and intercepted with impunity while running silent.
If nothing else, it matters that the stigma surrounding UFOs is being broken down. In contrast to this 2024 debate, contemplate what happened at a Democratic presidential primary debate in 2008, when candidate Dennis Kucinich was asked about his own reported UFO sighting. Kucinich felt obliged to make a joke about moving his campaign headquarters to the location of a purported 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. The crowd laughed and the discussion moved on.
The substantive issue did not.
Yes, it’s unclear whether anything unusual crashed near Roswell back in 1947. That said, circumstantial evidence, compelling witnesses, the proximity of the purported crash site to U.S. military nuclear operations, and subsequent reporting on the UFO-nuclear connection means it cannot be ruled out. (A scientific study released just this week adds to Robert Hastings’s original scholarship on the UFO-nuclear connection.)
Top line: considering what some of the most highly trained and trusted pilots (you don’t give a mentalist control of a $100 million jet armed with lots of weapons) and sensor systems keep seeing, MacCallum deserves credit for having the journalistic courage to ask questions that too many other journalists are too scared to ask. I suspect that political history will record that courage well.