NY Times and UFOs

[ChthonicTonic]

On today's op-ed page of the New Yorks Times, there was an article from ufologist Nick Pope making a claim that government investigations into UFOs would be a positive move for national security. However, rather than sighting actual UFO (by the technical definition) threats like Japan's fusen bakudan campaign of the 40s (where thousands of bombs were floated across the Pacific attached to balloons), Pope goes straight for the ridiculous: the 2006 sighting of a craft hovering over O'Hare's tarmac; a craft landing outside a military installation and shining lights into the base; and various eye-witness accounts of what is made to sound like actual piloted aircraft of unknown origin.

The terrorism threat has been used to invade personal privacy and ignore constitutional rights. To use it to drum up support for UFO 'research', however, is a fairly creative application. Is the Times really hurting for contributors this badly?

 

[ksbluesfan]

I'd be willing to bet the Times will get a lot of letters in response, and that's what they want.

 

[moon1969]

It would only give people like him a chance to get more money and publicity.

 

[GoodGuysEatPie]

I read it, rolled my eyes, and wrote some sense in the comments section. It was a pathetic editorial. More akin to the New York Post than the New York Times.

~Good Guy~