Department of Defense unveils new UFO research wing

[thomdunn]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/11/29/department-of-defense-unveils-new-ufo-research-wing.html

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[AnthonyI]

My guess it’s really all about the hypersonic weapons and drones.

[PsiPhiGrrrl]

I suspect you are correct. When taxpayers want to reduce their budget (and the conflicts used to justify excessive spending), they scramble to find new threats.

[liquidus]

Did Firaxis not allow them to use X-COM?

[ikeOnABike]

I thought that acronym already stood for Always Over-Include MonoSodium Glutamate

[BakaNeko]

Project U.F.O. (1978) - Season 1 OPENING

[Akimbo_NOT]

Isn’t the US Space Force available?

Seems like up their alley.

[liquidus]

Space Force is more concerned with, well, objects in space whereas the UAP have typically been in the air around Navy and Air Force aircraft.

[WoolyBugger]

I love it. We are about to have a glut of news stories of government waste paying the cranks to consult for them.

[TinFoilHatReview]

My greatest fear is that E.T.s are , like us, making it up as they
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[WoolyBugger]

It’s a great comic, but indeed that could be devastating to our collective psyche. There’s a great human desire to know a higher order and meaning to the universe, and it manifests in a variety of ways.

[FGD135]

[NukeML]

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