UFO Whistleblowers
Mick West’s sobering assessment (“UFO Whistleblowers Go to Washington,” SI, November/December 2023) of the latest UFO controversies, brings to mind Yogi Berra’s fitting declaration: “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” As I wrote in my article (Skeptical Inquirer, July/August 2015), “Do even rational people suspend disbelief when applied to improbable notions like UFOs if they really want to believe?” The answer is clearly yes. The first conspiracy theory I recall as a teen during the height of the flying saucer craze in the 1950s was that the “Government” was concealing the “truth” from us. Obviously not much has changed in that regard.