{"id":9823,"date":"2017-12-15T00:10:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T00:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=9823"},"modified":"2017-12-20T23:25:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T23:25:59","slug":"eclipse-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/eclipse-weirdness\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ, The Virgin — And Flying Saucers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The news last weekend on the front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post,<\/em> and Politico<\/em>\u00a0about a secret Pentagon group that studies “UFOs” was, to say the least, mystifying. This is usually more the terrain of tabloids.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012,”\u00a0The Times<\/em> reported<\/a><\/span> on Saturday. “But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence. For the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties.” [See story]<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Officials with the program have also studied videos of encounters between unknown objects and American military aircraft \u2014 including one released in August of a whitish oval object, about the size of a commercial plane, chased by two Navy F\/A-18F fighter jets from the aircraft carrier Nimitz off the coast of San Diego in 2004,” the article said.\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em> likewise carried a piece<\/a><\/span>. U.F.O.s have been repeatedly investigated over the decades in the United States, including by the American military. In 1947, the Air Force began a series of studies that investigated more than 12,000 claimed U.F.O. sightings before it was officially ended in 1969. There is now even, across the mainstream media, a video clip of the Navy encounter with\u00a0something<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n