NYT OP-ED: Terrorists might use UFOs to attack. Wait...what?

[agentS]

Would you believe the NY Times published an op-ed today ...calling for closer monitoring of UFOs? I think it's intended seriously. It begins by suggesting that it -- our neglect of will-o'-the-wisps and reflections of Venus -- is a security loophole that terrorists might exploit, and then it gives several anecdotal accounts of unlikely events, such as this one:

On Dec. 26, 1980, for instance, several witnesses at two American Air Force bases in England reported seeing a U.F.O. land.

An examination of the site turned up indentations in the ground and a level of radiation in the area that was significantly higher than ordinary. More witnesses at the same base reported the U.F.O. again on subsequent nights. The deputy base commander reported that the aircraft aimed light beams into the most highly sensitive area of the base -- a clear security breach.

Apparently, we should be concerned that Al-Qaeda is piloting nuclear-powered flying saucers to fly through our defenses and peek into hangars.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/93459/the_new_york_times_says_terrorists_are_coming_..._in_ufos/#more


Uh...I know that we haven't beaten Al Qaeda yet, so...Bin Ladin's building the Independence Day attack saucer in the hills of western Pakistan!


{snark alert} Y'know, those little green men, they have no street smartz. They'll leave their 'key' in the 'ignition', step into a Dunkin Donuts in Oakland and that spaceship'll be gone before they pick their first donut.

[agentS]

1. The best defense against terrorists attacking in UFOs is

a good Gundam

[Renew Deal]

2. So wait... Are we afraid of aliens or terrorist aliens?

We should fight them on Sedna so we don't have to fight them here.

[Ian David]

3. You know what you do! Move every Zig! n/t

[Sanity Claws]

4. They're seeding us for the next frontier of war

This is just part of military-industrial complex finding another way to expand what they're doing.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Wow - the 'Silly Season' is in full swing at the NYT

Nick Pope was some low-grade civil servant who got the job of checking through UFO reports in Britain, became convinced they were real extra-terrestrial stuff, couldn't convince anyone else, so resigned and started writing books about it. I'm amazed to see him get op-ed space - maybe it was the mention of terrorists that persuaded a neo-con somewhere in the editorial team.