Some more UFO stuff

[Ninurta]

I'm enjoying reading the old "flying saucers" works of the 1950s.  I'm on my third book by Keyhoe.

Yet another "prequel" has become evident.  He mentions a 1952-53 event in West Virginia.  A bright light rapidly drops onto a hilltop.  A woman and her son think there may be a fire and go to the site, where they encounter a bizarre entity that terrifies them with its appearance.  A later air force investigation claims they saw an owl in the night   . . .

Ah yes, the Flatwoods Monster. Let me assure all listening that no one, absolutely no one, who has lived in West Virginia for any length of time at all will mistake anything for an owl. They know exactly what owls look like, and how big the various sorts are.

I also like that they don't use the term "UFO". That term was foisted on us by an establishment desperate to normalize this phenomena so that authority's, well, authority, wasn't eventually challenged because people realized there was something out there much more powerful than anything here on earth.

The term currently in vogue, "UAP", is rapidly growing on me. I say that because I am convinced that many, if not most, of the items in question truly are "phenomena" rather than "objects". Not objects in the traditional sense of the term, as in something solid you can punch with a fist or hold under water or accidentally bump into as you are walking along. Too many these days are amorphous, shape-changing, insubstantial areas, akin to mist, rather than solid somethings.

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