This commentary was sparked by the following linked article.
Here's What I Learned as the U.S. Government's UFO Hunter | Scientific American
My comments follow.
By now, I have become a UFO skeptic, but that has not changed my skepticism about government agencies. I do not necessarily believe anything they claim, nor anything they deny. They lie.
While I guard against being overly cynical, there is ample reason to guard against being gullible when it comes to government agencies. Rarely, if ever, has any agency head admitted that the need for his agency has diminished to the point that it should be abolished. Almost all of them request more money than they received the year before, not less.
When it comes to UFOs, however, there may actually be some justification for the practice of deception. If hostile foreign nations believe that we are on the cusp of retro-engineering some vastly advanced technology, they may fear us. At the least, they may waste time and effort attempting to discover what we have.
On the other hand, it may be our own Congress that is wasting our tax dollars rummaging around looking for planetary aliens, instead of solving the real problem with earthly illegal aliens.
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