It’s time to start taking UFOs seriously in Daydreaming on the Porch

It’s time to start taking UFOs, or as they’re called now, UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) seriously.

I’ve been interested in this subject since I was a teenager growing up in New Orleans in the Sixties. I remember I got a paperback book on “Project Blue Book,” that was about the government’s secret investigation of these phenomena. Back then the subject was off limits for “sane” discussion, meaning that if you told people you believed in UFOs they started backing away fearfully from the nut-job talking to them.

In the Eighties Whitley Strieber’s best seller “Communion” about alien contact and abduction was really far out, but hugely popular. Now he’s giving more talks and interviews than ever, I surmise, including two fascinating interviews I listened to late last year. It all still seems bizarre, but the source is so rational-sounding and credible. The interviewer was the parapsychologist Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, whom I greatly admre for his vast knowledge and open-mindedness.

I was enthralled by the movie ET in 1982. It’s hard to believe that was almost 40 years ago.

Interest in the subject of aliens or extraterrestrial beings contacting us or appearing in the skies above, and witnessed by so many thousands of people, is reaching up into the stratosphere of late. Naturally, the skeptics and debunkers will try to logically and scientifically explain it all away to their satisfaction. Good for them. We need the debate.

But the lid has blown off the topic recently with the federal government finally admitting to the prsence of UAPs. The famous videos taken with heat-seeing cameras, of the triangular-shaped flying objects and released recently, led to this admission.

Harvard’s eminent astophysicist Avi Loeb is on board. He has extensively studied the cigar shaped object that barreled theough solar system in 2017 and believes with certainty that it is of extraterrestrial origin. That could mean a lot of things and has huge implications.

The mainsteeam media is fully engaged in the discussion now. Take a look at the mind-boggling links in this article.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/everything-we-re-reading-about-ufo

Angela Thompson Smith has directly communicated with extraterrestrials and has written about it in “Voices from the Cosmos.”

Will the secrets of Area 51 and Roswell finally be revealed conclusively? Is the world ready for the truth about these strange and formerly unexplainable phenomena? We’ll see.

Orson Welles, where are you? Are you listening to all this? Times have changed since “War of the Worlds.”

Last updated May 23, 2021