UFOs: The Silly Season comes early

Why is it Silly Season in June this year? Because of the U.S. Department of Defence's report on ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ (UAPs), which is what people who want to sound grown-up say instead of ‘Unidentified Flying Objects’ (UFOs).

What I find completely incredible is the notion that such a ruthless, universal, billions-of-years-old civilization would be monitoring us with devices that we can actually see. That does not compute. Photograph Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 9, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—The Silly Season has come early this year. Normally it happens in August, when wicked people all over the northern hemisphere temporarily stop doing evil things to take their children to the beach and enjoy the last of the summer. With no bad news to report, desperate journalists wil...

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