In WWII, unidentified aerial vehicles were frequently encountered by pilots in the European theater. They became known as Foo Fighters, and yes, the band by that name derives its name from those anomalous aerial phenomena. The father in law of one of my close friends was one such American pilot. When all this **** started hitting the fan beginning with the New York Times report in December, 2017, he got such a kick out of it, saying "this is old hat. We were seeing them on our bombing missions all the time."
I also had the pleasure of getting to know a guy who was an enlisted man at the Roswell Army Air Base in 1947, when the now famous Roswell event allegedly occurred. Some of the guys in his barracks took part in the cleanup of the debris field, and one of them smuggled into the barracks some of the "foil material" that puzzled those who saw it. It resembled metal foil, but the guys could not cut it, burn it, and when it was rolled into a ball, it always unfurled to its original shape with no visible creases.
Of course, this is as anecdotal as it gets, evidence of nothing conclusive at all. But, as someone who had been interested in the phenomenon for my entire life, it was a honor to be able to say I knew this man, and had heard a first hand account from an iconic mythic event of the space age. He also told me that shortly thereafter, the enlisted men at Roswell were assembled and told they should not speak of the incident at all. We put him in touch with the late Stanton Friedman, so his testimony could become a part of the public record.
Instead of saying that what I know about astronomy, and physics, and the improbability of visitors from another world paying any attention to Earth, makes all this quite highly, highly improbable, I say, well, these experiences and sightings of truly anomalous things do happen. Deal with it. It may be impossible, but if it happens, freely speculate about possible explanations. It won't hurt at all. You'll never prove a thing, and never convince a skeptic that the subject has any value at all, but you only have to please yourself. It has truly been as entertaining and mind stretching a subject that I have ever tackled.
And tackle it I have at times. Long before sleep paralysis became a leading theory for what so-called alien abductions actually represented, my own life long experience with sleep paralysis had led me to conclude there simply had to be a relationship between the two phenomenon. The hallucinations attendent to sleep paralysis are culturally based. In Scandinavia, the monster associated with sleep paralysis is described as "the old hag phenomenon", a witch of sorts. It seems quite possible that in our space age, the old hag has become the slant eyed "greys" of abduction lore.
George Knapp of KLAS, Las Vegas, interviews Luis Elizondo, and also discusses the confidential Pentagon report(I posted a link to the complete report earlier in this thread)he obtained from a source in Washington D.C.:
And Tucker Carlson, of Fox News, interviews Commander David Fravor, who went on the record in all the interviews that followed publication of the Nimitz incident as being of the opinion that what he saw was "not of this world". The characteristics described in the Pentagon report of the Nimitz incident, and discussed in the previous video, makes it understandable why he might feel that way:
Edit: I posted the incorrect video. Below is Carlson's interview of Fravor. I left the other video below that, since Nick Pope is interesting in his own right.
