The DOD Looks Spaceward

An offbeat but noteworthy story has come to your favorite

Peasant's attention, and I shall share it with you. 

for the first time in about 50 years, the Pentagon has 

publicly briefed a House committee re: sightings of 

UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena; the term of 

many years, UFO, Unidentified Flying Object, 

has been retired by the pertinent departments of our

government). The hearings were for the purpose of 

explaining the operations of a new sub-department 

of sorts within the Department of Defense created 

to find out what's out there; to see what there is to 

see. No harm in that. We should see what is out on

the frontiers of space, especially if something is 

coming our way, i.e. an asteroid, a comet, a space-

ship, etc. It is simply smart security measures for 

our safety. Although there were no admissions that 

anything of the sort is suspected, some questions 

regarding same should, and likely would, be reserved 

for a closed session. Given the government's longtime

unwillingness to even casually discuss this phenomena,

and its threatening to severely punish people, especially

our military personnel, for continuing to press on with such 

questions, this is certainly a major step forward in

delving into the matter and giving it the attention it

so greatly deserves and to bring any and all relevant 

information before the public, thereby respecting 

and serving our right to know. 

After all, our government works for us --- even though 

it often thinks and behaves as if it doesn't. 

MEM