But Hot Air has pointed out something from said story that I hadn’t caught:
Under Mr. Bigelow’s direction, the company modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena.
My only excuse is that I was rolling my eyes at that ESP guy who was making a bad analogy using Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo would have had the back off of that hypothetical garage door opener within thirty seconds just to see what the heck was making the blinking red light, and he’d probably assume that the plastic was some kind of resin. Not that Da Vinci would be able to work out electromagnetic theory from a door opener, sure — but he’d concentrate on the important stuff first.
But I digress.
Back to the issue at hand: aliens leaving around trash? The NYT says that they found some contracts that say that buildings were used to store stuff like that. Which means that there are either things in those buildings that we should be having other people take a look at, or else somebody’s committed fraud with federal money. Either scenario would be, I think, at least mildly worth following up on.
Moe Lane
PS: I’m still not saying aliens. But if there’s actually something that’s supposed to be physical evidence, by all means: let’s see it. Physical evidence has been the biggest obstacle for UFOlogists since the beginning. Which is as it should be.
It’s just business as usual as Harry Reid steers classified money towards Bigelow Aerospace Industry, own by a friend of his.
“if there’s actually something that’s supposed to be physical evidence, by all means: let’s see it.”
If there’s anything I’ve learned from bad science fiction, it’s that the world will descend into chaos and panic (and I guess destroy all the cities, forcing the tiny remnant of survivors into the caves, living off a starvation diet of ants and grasshoppers) if we get a hint of extraterrestrial life.