My Take | Is the US about to blame UFO phenomena on China?
- A former top Nasa official thinks UFOs may not be the work of little green men but nasty people from China. Some top US senators now want an independent commission to investigate
Americans like to blame China for everything. But UFOs? Seriously, this is no joke.
China may be behind at least some UFO sightings, Dr Thomas Zurbuchen claimed, according to a report in The Telegraph newspaper.
The retired Nasa chief, who was responsible for some of the agency’s biggest space projects in the past decade, said “unidentified flying objects are real and may be ‘unfriendly’ advanced technology”.
Zurbuchen said it was important to question whether Chinese spy balloons might be to blame, after one was shot down by a US fighter jet in February as it crossed the Atlantic.
“The whole balloon phenomena we cannot ignore because if we ignore what we see then we will suddenly get surprised,” he said.
So, rather than little green men, it was nasty people from China who were behind the space-age mystery. Well, at least that’s a more natural rather than extraterritorial explanation.
As Nasa’s longest-serving associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Zurbuchen was asked to head the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) panel last year. To distinguish themselves from cranks and conspiracy theorists, respectable experts investigating such phenomena call them UAP, rather than UFOs.
