Governments' UFO Investigations

Finally, the New York Times has published an opinion piece relating to a topic near and dear to any X-Files fan's heart: UFOs. I don't know if they were being tongue-in-cheek by putting it in or whether the author actually convinced them that UFO investigations is a topic that is part of "all the news that's fit to print". I do not personally believe that aliens are visiting earth regularly (in their ethereal forms) just to study us, but I do find the evidence collected on the topic to be really interesting (a really interesting book that I read a long time ago on the topic of UFOs was Chariots of the Gods, by Erich von Däniken; generally ignored by most, it was actually a really good argument in favor of historical visits made by aliens shaping the cultural beliefs of human society). The one disappointing part of the article was the sad attempt to make UFO studies more important by tying them to terrorists; if guerilla fighters/terrorists/rebels/etcetera really have access to technology that developed nations cannot detect, we would be in far more trouble right now than we can imagine. In general, a strong effort to engage the public on the topic of UFOs (aside from the cheap attempt at a terrorism tie-in).

[via NYT]