Read My New UFO Article in "The New Republic"

The long lobbying campaign of a handful of UFO obsessives and crank pseudoscientists is finally paying off.

I have a new piece out in The New Republic about the National Defense Authorization Act and its new UFO office. 

Six months after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, delivered a report to Congress that failed to explain more than 140 reports of unidentified flying objects—mostly because no one in government tried all that hard to explain them—Congress is set to approve legislation to create a new office within the Pentagon tasked with investigating military UFO sightings. The new office will gather reports of sightings, analyze them, and deliver reports to Congress on the subject at intervals. At least that’s the aspect of this decision on which the legislators who pushed for the new office want the public to focus. Underneath the surface, Congress is about to require the Pentagon to get weird. Very weird. Like, imaginary crashed-saucer wreckage weird.

Read the full story in The New Republic​.