![]() ![]() Suddenly a whole bunch of countries that couldn’t hope to afford a spy satellite or a hypersonic missile could build low-altitude military drones as good as any in the world. ![]() Cheap control technology turned electric drones into ubiquitous retail items. Computers got so small and inexpensive that everyone started carrying one around in their pockets. Meanwhile, consumer tech was moving in another direction. Long after the Cold War ended, Russia and the United States have continued on this path, pouring billions into things like hypersonic weapons and nuclear-powered cruise missiles - and matching defensive technologies. To detect enemy threats, both sides built vast radar networks that could detect and track large, fast-moving objects traveling long distances at high altitudes. In air defense, this meant building bombers that could strike fast and deep and fighters that were even faster to intercept them. military dominance.ĭuring the Cold War, both the Americans and the Soviets were focused on nuclear strategy. But based on interviews with defense officials and military experts, that mysterious phenomenon has less to do with alien life-forms than with potential adversaries here on Earth and how they might take advantage of changing technology to erode long-standing U.S. The military is clearly grappling with a phenomenon it doesn’t fully understand. This week’s aerial events are a continuation of a story that has been unfolding since 2017, when the New York Times published a blockbuster article revealing the existence of a previously secret Air Force program to study seemingly inexplicable interactions between military pilots and “unidentified aerial phenomena.” In the years that followed, the military released reports describing hundreds of other sightings, many of them apparently impossible to explain in terms of known human technology. But as much as we want to believe “the truth is out there,” what’s actually going on behind the military’s new campaign against unidentified flying objects is something quite different, though mysterious and scary in its own way. To a public long habituated to the idea that the military has for decades hidden and lied about its knowledge of alien visitors, the statement sounded close to an outright acknowledgement that the big ET cover-up is real and finally coming undone. When asked “Have you ruled out aliens or extraterrestrials?,” VanHerck replied, “I’ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. fighters had just shot down - the third in three days - had come from outer space. North American Aerospace Defense Command and Northern Command, told reporters on a briefing call that he could not rule out the possibility that the object U.S. EST, as 100 million Americans were watching the Philadelphia Eagles pull ahead of the Kansas City Chiefs in the second quarter of Super Bowl LVII, Air Force general Glen VanHerck, head of U.S. ![]() Balloons are no match for America’s multitrillion-dollar air defenses. ![]()
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