Read My "New Republic" UFO Story
My new piece on the current UFO flap is now live on "The New Republic" website.
How Washington Got Hooked on Flying Saucers
Jason Colavito / The New Republic / May 21, 2021
On April 30, the online UFO community lit up with excitement. The New Yorker, the most luxe of news magazines, published a major UFO article by Gideon Lewis-Kraus alleging there was good reason for the U.S. government to get back into the business of hunting flying saucers. On May 16, CBS’s Sunday Morning and 60 Minutes broadcast stories about UFOs, with Florida Senator Marco Rubio sternly intoning about the importance of treating them as a potential national security concern. All month, major media have jumped on the bandwagon. Magazines published think pieces. Ezra Klein gushed about the “spaciousness of mystery” in The New York Times. Morning Joe invited Lewis-Kraus on to chat about UFOs, and Gadi Schwartz did multiple spots across NBC’s broadcast, cable, and streaming platforms breathlessly hyping new videos from the Navy showing fuzzy shapes in the sky.
For UFO believers, this was the moment they had been waiting for. ...
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Great article! I've been scratching my head trying to figure out what in the world was behind this ridiculous UFO bruhaha. Thank you for connecting the dots.
Any chance of posting the full article here? The New Republic is asking for a subscription fee.