The subject of UFOs, or “UAP” as they say now, has now become the subject of media and popular debate in the United States. Unidentified flying objects seem to have come out of the limbo of modern folklore and fairy tales. The latest to talk about it on TV is former President Barack Obama who last Monday participated in The Late Show, the CBS program hosted by James Corden, an appointment for millions of viewers in the US and beyond.
The topic was introduced in a joking way, but Obama then changed his tone, in the wake of what is happening almost everywhere in the American media (such as in the article in the New Yorker which invites, right from the title, to take the Uap question “seriously”). Obama said: “There are videos and images of flying objects that we don’t know exactly what they are. We can’t explain their behavior in flight, how they fly like that or follow those trajectories.” Obama then added that the phenomenon needs investigation and research.
Of course, UFO or UAP does not necessarily mean “aliens”. However, Obama clearly recognized the existence of a phenomenology, that of unknown flying objects which, net of numerous researches in progress for years at various levels and with varying degrees of reliability – until recently was considered little more than a ‘ heresy, or simply science fiction. The former president basically communicated that the phenomenon is real, exists and is documented. What it is, however, is not known for now. Even if the hypotheses in the field are many and different, and they range from more prosaic explanations (foreign technology) to the classic aliens. Passing through a declination of possibilities – or impossibility – halfway between cinema and quantum physics.
In any case, after the publication of the UFO videos “stamped” by the Pentagon as authentic, taken from military boats as already told by Republic, the bar of the debate on UAP in the US has risen considerably. And if on the one hand the authorities no longer deny or deny having collected material on the phenomenon, on the other the question becomes increasingly political, in the words of senators Marco Rubio (gop) who sees the UAP as a “threat to national security. “and the dem Martin Heinrich who speaks openly of UAPs as” technology too sophisticated to be human “. In this statement, also reinforced by Christopher Mellon, until recently a high head of US intelligence, and with a surname of weight (it is Mellon in Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, one of the most prestigious in the world) . Harry Reid, the Democratic senator behind the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP, or the secret UFO research program), had admitted that the video material seen so far is only a “fraction of what is actually available” in the archives of the United States. intelligence and the military. Reid went back to analyzing the phenomenon in a piece for the New York Times on May 21. With a clear message: “The truth is that we have not understood much about UAP. But we must continue the research, following science”.
The reason for this new attention to the Uap phenomenon is not known. The possible conjectures instead are innumerable. Surely, at the media level, the flow of information is significantly wider than in recent decades, characterized by what fans of the subject (and of the X Files) call “cover up”. The Pentagon’s ratification of the videos shot by the cruisers has actually taken the debate to another level, the subject of which is now the nature of this phenomenon and no longer the discussion about its existence. By early June then, following the Covid Act signed by former President Donald Trump, government agencies, defense and intelligence will have to deliver a clear report on the UAP phenomenon to Congress, essentially putting information and data on paper. .
All this while Louis Elizondo, former CIA agent and head of AATIP, publicly declares that the American government is in possession of “artifacts” recovered from the places of alleged UFO crashes, from the wrecks of flying objects. In short, the US would have parts and components of the UAP, kept in unknown places. On the Net there are the most disparate hypotheses, from the classic army bases in the desert to the laboratories of industries such as Bigelow Aerospace, but obviously there is no confirmation or certainty. These would be “metamaterials” with peculiar characteristics, the study of which could give answers in the context of research on a phenomenon that now appears for what it is: real, and now this is official. But that remains of enormous and profound complexity.
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