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UFOs: Close Encounters of the National Security Kind
March 27, 2024
Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are real. And the truth about them is often hidden from the public, for reasons related to national security. That secrecy has fed conspiracy theories about the possibility of alien life on Earth, creating a stigma around the legitimate scientific search for life on other planets. Why are UFOs considered a defense concern? And does a defense framing of UFOs inhibit scientific research?
Show Notes
Even though unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) are often conflated with the search for extraterrestrial life, they often have more to do with national security than with scientific advancement. And while extraterrestrial life may indeed be real in the form of microbes on far-away planets, the shroud of secrecy surrounding UAPs—which exists for national security reasons—has fed decades of conspiracy theories and spurred hundreds of movies and television shows about little green men arriving on Earth. Recent Congressional hearings on UAP sightings, and the release of an unclassified NASA investigation into them, have once again brought UAPs back to the fore.
The truth about alien life is out there—is the United States’ defense-led focus on UAPs getting in the way of finding it?
https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/ufos-close-encounters-national-security-kind
UFOs spotted flying near nuclear power plant 10 times in one month, official claims
16:19, 27 MAR 2024
A series of UFOs have been spotted flying around one of the world's largest nuclear plants a whopping 10 times in one month, an expert has claimed.
Kudankulam (or Koodankulam) Nuclear Plant is located in the town of Tirunelveli, India, and has seemingly become a UFO /UAP hotspot. According to UFO researcher Sabir Hussain, who works at the Indian Society for Extraterrestrial Studies, an local official spotted the strange occurrence.
The first sighting came just 10 days after someone else reported seeing a UFO in a nearby village around the coast of Chennai, and saw the strange object flying in a “zigzag” fashion while appearing to shine a very bright light across the night sky.
Hussain, who claims to have spoken to a man called Syed Abdul Kader, said: “Syed, an engineering graduate (now a sub-inspector), has seen UFOs more than 10 times in the Koodankulam area in August 2023.”
And when tracked down by news outlet DT Next, Syed said: “After meeting UFO tracker Sabir and discussing with him, I am more than 100% sure what I saw were UFOs. The way it stood still, the way it made zigzag movements and the speed in which it disappeared – all were different.”
A photo taken by Syden shows a bright white light in the night sky, in the shape of a circle – but no distinguishable features can be made out from the image he shared. The first part of the nuclear plant in question opened in 2013, with more units coming online at various points of the next 10 years.
Building work is currently taking place to open Unit Six, and has been done in collaboration with Russian-state owned Atomstroyexport.
No other reports of UFOs/UAPs have been made over the sight since first spotted in August, however, and no official comments by India's government or nuclear plant management has been made either.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/ufos-spotted-flying-near-nuclear-32455471