An easy read, except for the excessive use of abbreviations. A page-turner. Credible. Thank Trump for the transparency that made this publication possible.
Add non-human intelligent life to the list of threats to human civilization alongside Artificial Intelligence, the Chi-Coms, the No-Kos, the Russkis. the Islamists, the internally disruptive Islamo-commie fusionists of the DSA-driven Dems . . . . Or are you worried about Al Bore’s boiling oceans?
Given my recent Tryptich deep dive into demonology, certain further questions arise. One is whether these Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena are demon-driven, as Rod Dreher suggests. Another is whether the widespread belief in demons, angels, and gods originated because of alien visits to Earth long ago in the pre-critical infancy of humanity. I take no position on either question.
UAP is best used an an abbreviation for ‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon,’ and not for ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon’ for the simple reason that an anomalous phenomenon needn’t be airborne to be anomalous.
Even if some of the non-human aliens are demon-driven, as Dreher suggests, it is important not to confuse demons and angels, which are pure spirits, with space aliens which are parts of nature. Both of the following are epistemic possibilities. (EP 1): We humans are alone in the universe, metaphysical naturalism is true, and there are no purely spiritual entities whether angelic, demonic, or divine. (EP 2): We humans are not alone in the universe, and there are purely spiritual entities some of them benevolent to us, others malevolent. And there are other EPs as well.
A preliminary classification of the threats we face: Technological (AI mainly); Geopolitical (bad actors named above); Internal-political (Islamo-commie fusionists and their takeover of the once respectable Democrat Party); Demonic; Extraterrestrial. Five categories of threat, and to add spice to the blend the members of each category are dangerously entangled with the their own members and with members of each of the other categories.
An example of nefarious entanglement: the reverse engineering of alien spacecraft could unlock secrets which could then be stolen by the Chi-Coms and used against us. This would justify keeping the whole thing under wraps to the extent that POTUS and Congress would be kept in the dark. Total transparency might prove toxic.
We’re in for it muchachos! But who could be bored?