You Know I’m Right: Government should release all information about UFOs

If you are like me, and most assuredly you are probably not, you nonetheless have heard of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) now renamed UAPs or unexplained aerial phenomena. You probably put them in the same category as Big Foot, Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, Mothman, vampires, the Jersey Devil, as well as assorted ghosts, witches, goblins, and werewolves; the product of an overactive imagination and/or the result of overindulgence of adult beverages. Au contraire! (A little French lingo there as Rush ((RIP)) would say.) From a recent article in the Wall Street Journal by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., your United States government is finally taking UAPs seriously.

The article reports that NASA has assigned 16 scientists to investigate the sightings of stuff that is seen in the sky that no one can explain, including the observer. There is also an investigation being conducted by a group called The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. (No, I’ve never heard of it either. I Googled it and found they seem to be a trade group for aerospace companies. I would join if they held their conventions in Hawaii but the best location I could find was Las Vegas. Been there.)

Anyway, this effort was sparked by a leaked report from the military of UAP sightings by a couple of Naval Aviators backed up by gun camera videos. Then Congress got involved and issued a nine page “national intelligence unclassified finding” whatever that is. But the key phase here is “unclassified.” That implies that there is classified information that the government is keeping from the public. I spent much of my original career working with Naval Aviators and their machines and always found pilots to be a professional and sober minded group. I know, you saw “Top Gun” parts one and two, which portrayed these heroes as party animals and reckless barnstormers. This is just wrong. OK sometimes they do let their buzz haircuts down after working hours but that is another story for another day.

In any case, the two declassified instances of UAP activity took place over Virginia Beach, Virginia, home to many military organizations including Oceana, a major jet fighter base. My loving wife of some 40 years (MLWOS40yrs) and I lived for many years in Virginia Beach with our two children not far from Oceana whilst we both served our nation. During this period of my life I assumed that the airspace over our home was protected by the U.S. military. Not so fast. Now I learn that I may have been subjected to unwanted surveillance or even ray gun misfires. How do I know that the UAP pilots were not planning to snatch my children out of the yard and subject them to scientific experiments?

So there is more and more evidence that aliens have been visiting our planet on a regular basis. If so, it explains a lot. There has always been speculation from the “lunatic fringe” that the Hopewell People’s Earthworks, especially the Octagon and Great Circle, could only have been designed and engineered by extraterrestrials, a theory that has been mocked and derided by The Ohio History Connection (of which I am a proud member) for years. We now have to consider that the lunatic fringe may have a point.

I hereby demand that the U.S. government provide all the information on UAPs, classified and unclassified, to the editor of the Granville Sentinel immediately. And oh by the way, I want all the info on the Kennedy assassination as well. You know I’m right.

Don R. Haven is a retired Naval Officer, retired high school teacher, part-time South Carolina resident, and full time American. He can be reached at donrichardhaven@gmail.com.