Here comes the alien invasion? We’ve been down this road before. In 1947, a high-altitude balloon crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, and it led to conspiracy theories about the mundane metallic and rubber debris really being a flying saucer and that the United States was trying to cover it up.
The matter wasn’t helped by the fact that on July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that it had recovered a “flying disc.” Though the release was quickly retracted, the conspiracy was born.
Even after the United States Air Force published a report in 1994 that confirmed the crashed object was a then-classified nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul, rumors have persisted about what exactly was found in the desert.
The truth is out there, and it is rather mundane.
During the Cold War, there was also a wave of alien invasion films featuring flying saucers that told viewers to watch the skies.
However, the saucers were meant to be an allegory of the Soviet Union.
And just as then, we’re seeing things we shouldn’t while the greater threat is actually very much in front of us.
Not Aliens, Sorry
There is now no shortage of posts on social media that suggest the recent objects shot down over North America in the past week are extraterrestrial in nature (or worse) rather than Chinese.
It has reported too that past Chinese incursions involving balloons – which occurred at least three times during the Trump administration – were classified as “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP), the new 21st-century term for UFOs.
However, the Biden administration may have made things worse, namely by telling Americans that they shouldn’t be worried about an extraterrestrial origin of the objects.
“I don’t think the American people need to be worried about aliens. Period,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday.
The direct response seemed in contradiction to NORAD chief General Glen VanHerk, who said over the weekend that nothing was off the table as far as the origins of the objects.
For the record, NORAD also tracks Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, so clearly, it has believers of one sort or another within its ranks.
“I’ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. I haven’t ruled out anything,” VanHerck told reporters Sunday when asked about the possibility of the objects being extra-terrestrial. “At this point, we continue to assess every threat or potential threat, unknown, that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it.”
Countering What Officials Said
Then there is the fact that if any government official from the Biden administration says something, there is no doubt those will be forced to question it.
We should also expect Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson to devote a segment around the pending alien invasion that Biden is covering up and perhaps even how the warning signs were likely on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
In all seriousness, what isn’t being reported is that this could be what Beijing or another adversary may want. They have Americans looking to the skies just as China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is conducting joint naval exercises with Pakistan, and the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) now carries out sorties in the Taiwan Strait with disturbing regularity.
The objects are a distraction, but from what should be the far bigger concern.
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A Senior Editor for 19FortyFive, Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer. He has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers, and websites with over 3,200 published pieces over a twenty-year career in journalism. He regularly writes about military hardware, firearms history, cybersecurity, politics, and international affairs. Peter is also a Contributing Writer for Forbes and Clearance Jobs. You can follow him on Twitter: @PeterSuciu.
