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It’s time to take UFOs seriously. Seriously.

Earlier this year, the Pentagon released three videos of UFOs recorded by the Navy — one taken in 2004 and the other two in 2015. The videos, which first leaked a couple of years ago, show … well, it’s not exactly clear.

There are various objects — two of which look like aircraft — spinning through the sky and moving in ways that defy easy explanation. As the images bop across the screen, you can hear the pilots’ excitement and confusion in real time as they track whatever it is they’re seeing.

I’m not what you would call a UFO enthusiast, but the videos are the most compelling I’ve ever seen. They seem to confirm, at the very least, that UFOs are real — not that aliens exist, but that there are unidentified objects buzzing around the sky.

Now, do I think aliens are real? Yeah, probably. Are they flying spaceships into our atmosphere? Who the hell knows?

The best anyone can say is that there’s a non-zero chance that some of these UFOs were made by non-human hands, and that, I’d argue, is reason enough to talk about them. But it’s barely cracked the news cycle. Even in a pandemic, you’d think we’d have a little time for UFO talk.

So in an attempt to force a UFO conversation into the public discourse, I contacted Alexander Wendt, a professor of international relations at Ohio State University. Wendt is a giant in his field of IR theory, but in the past 15 years or so, he’s become an amateur ufologist. He wrote an academic article about the political implications of UFOs in 2008, and, more recently, he gave a TEDx talk calling out the “taboo” against studying UFOs.

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Pentagon Has ‘Off-World Vehicles Not Made on This Earth’

For years, the U.S. government has repeatedly changed its tune regarding its official involvement with UFO research.

As recently as February, a Pentagon spokesperson told Popular Mechanics that, while a government program did investigate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and other unexplained aerial phenomena for some time last decade, funding dried up in 2012. But when Popular Mechanics thoroughly investigated the covert program, multiple sources said it’s still ongoing to this day.

Now, a new report in the New York Times confirms those accounts. The government’s UFO unit currently resides in the Office of Naval Intelligence, where it “deals with classified matters,” per the report, even though the unit itself isn’t classified. The Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force is meant to “standardize collection and reporting” on sightings of UAVs and publicly divulge “at least some of its findings” twice a year, according to the Times.

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Marco Rubio Doubles Down on UFOs

What the hell? Doesn’t Senator Marco Rubio know that talking about UFOs will destroy his political career?

Or maybe he knows enough about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena to bet his chance for higher office on its reality.

Calling for investigations, based on a potential national security threat, and defending the policy concisely in a public interview, Rubio has set himself center-stage in the large drama that is playing out these days.

Rubio has set himself center-stage in the large drama that is playing out these days.

He wants to be seen as someone trying to lead us to the truth and keep us safe. He seems sincere when he talks about it.

Remember that Rubio wanted to be President in 2016 and still does. That means he’s thinking about a 2024 run right now.

He’s a smart man. He knows he has to think strategically and that boldness is a virtue. He has almost certainly received a classified briefing by the Office of Naval Intelligence on this issue. He may not know everything but he knows something.

He has bet his political fortune on UAP being the real deal. He’s all in and that just changed the game again.

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