UFOs, UAPs and Other Odd Things (OOTs)

Yesterday there was a congressional hearing that you may or may not have heard about. Sad to say it was not about the record hot temperatures occurring in the U.S. and around the world. It was also not about the forest fires raging out of control from Canada to Greece, spewing out suffocating amounts of smoke. Nor was it about massive flooding events or deadly droughts happening in various spots around the world. Could it have been about other serious issues such as gun control, medical coverage for everybody, housing for the poor, or even military spending? No, I am very sorry to say that it wasn’t really about anything remotely having to do with anything important, (or even real). It was about UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects), or, if you prefer the more modern term, UAPs, (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena). (Or even my latest term for mysterious objects, OOTs, Other Odd Things).

I am also very much surprised that the hearing did not spill over into other related subjects such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Hollow Earth or even the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus. At least the last two have national holidays which we willingly celebrate. Perhaps if we were to roll UFOs into a national holiday such as the Fourth of July? It could work, there are lots of lights in the sky, explosions, picnics, drinking and such. It’s about time we monetized UFOs, why let only Roswell, New Mexico make money off of this stuff? So far only the military has had control over all this nonsense. And it’s truly amazing to me that a 100 million dollar jet fighter doesn’t have a good enough video camera to get some really decent shots of these things. I mean, my cheap, $150 dollar doorbell camera gets crystal clear images of the UPS guy dropping off packages on my doorstep.

So at the congressional hearing, these 3 ex-military guys testified that the government has bodily remains of aliens and crashed UFOs, and they aren’t sharing with the rest of us civilians. Okay, maybe, but consider. The nearest star system, Alpha Centuri is 5 trillion miles away. That’s 5 with 12 zeros behind it. So after driving 5 trillion miles, they crash into Earth as soon as they get here? Of course, that’s actually a pretty long drive so they probably had too much to drink and misjudged the landing. Has anyone actually bothered to check the alcohol levels of those recovered alien bodies? The witnesses also claimed that the military was reverse engineering those crashed vehicles. What? Those are not some foreign sports cars, (well, maybe) that can be easily striped down for parts and put together for our own warp drive. I mean even Scotty had problems with the Enterprise from time to time for goodness sake. Anyway, at least this is one issue that even the Democrats and Republicans can agree on, and that has to count for something, I guess.

(In this old painting of mine, even the Federation had trouble getting the right spare parts for their ships. Perhaps if they spent less time looking for alien life and concentrated on their supply chain, things like this wouldn’t happen.)