More Absurdities by the Washington Post

 

 
Richard Dolan Press

I finally got around to writing a reply to a piece by the Washington Post on “The Fear that Drives Our Alien Belief."

This article is another shameful and absurd attempt by the Washington Post to debunk something that the publication has never, ever bothered to do the slightest bit of real investigation about. The Post, in fact, probably has the worst track record of dealing with UFOs in responsible manner of any of the major publications in the U.S. By turns taking the tone of dismissal and ridicule, it has demonstrated this. Belief in UFOs, this piece suggests, is suggestive of a psychological problem.

 

Never mind the documentary record left behind in the declassified documents that anyone can easily find on the Web. Documents that show a long history of concern by senior U.S. officials about airspace violations by objects that appeared — strongly — to defy conventional explanations, and which exhibited characteristics (disk-shape, silence, extreme maneuverability) that are simply not supposed to exist. Except that, within the military reports we have available to us, they do, or strongly appear to.Never mind the fact that a few senior officials have indeed gone on the record to discuss this reality. Never mind the fact that any researcher who has looked into this long enough finds even more senior officials who are willing to talk, but only off the record. They know full well this is a matter of national security and concern.What does one make of this discrepancy? When you have a phenomenon that, decade after decade, baffles national security professionals, and yet is dismissed by that paragon of Official Culture, the Post? Well, you can make of it what you will, but it surely points to a failure of true investigation.

 There are many topics on which such mainstream, plugged-in, national security/corporate publications like the Post fail to deliver the goods. But the UFO topic is a bell-weather. While this discrepancy exists, while the Post wastes everyone’s time with infantile explanations, it destroys its credibility among serious individuals who know better.

Richard Dolan