Magical Realist:
Navy pilot Ryan Graves discusses government progress in destigmatizing UAPS:
https://thehill.com/opinion/nationa...must-reveal-the-truth-to-the-american-people/
"As a former U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter pilot who witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) on a regular basis, let me be clear.
The U.S. government, former presidents, members of Congress of both political parties and directors of national intelligence are trying to tell the American public the same uncomfortable truth I shared: Objects demonstrating extreme capabilities routinely fly over our military facilities and training ranges. We don’t know what they are, and we are unable to mitigate their presence...."
Graves is jumping the gun here.
It remains to be determined whether there are
any "objects demonstrating extreme capabilities". The existence of not a single one has been verified, as far, to my knowledge, at least if we're to understand "extreme capabilities" to mean capabilities that go beyond the limits of known human technology or well-understood natural phenomena.
"....Why don’t we have more data? Stigma. I know the fear of stigma is a major problem because I was the
first active-duty fighter pilot to come forward publicly about regular sightings of UAP, and it was not easy. There has been little support or incentive for aircrew to speak publicly on this topic. There was no upside to reporting hard-to-explain sightings within the chain of command, let alone doing so publicly. For pilots to feel comfortable, it will require a culture shift inside organizations and in society at large.
This is unproblematic.
Unfortunately, the blame for the stigma that Graves is complaining about most likely lies with the UFO enthusiast community, which routinely makes wild and unsupported claims about UAPs (such as they are alien spaceships, time travellers, or advanced aquatic species who live at the bottom of the Atlantic).
If 90% of the people who seem most interested in UFOs exhibit nutty tin-foil-hat tendencies (not to mention the outright fraudsters, of whom there are more than a few), unfortunately it becomes easy to assume that the 10% who do not might be tarred with a similar brush.
I have seen for myself on radar and talked with the pilots who have experienced near misses with mysterious objects off the Eastern Seaboard that have triggered unsafe evasive actions and mandatory safety reports. There were 50 or 60 people who flew with me in 2014-2015 and could tell you they saw UAP every day. Yet only one other pilot has confirmed this publicly.
I spoke out publicly in 2019, at great risk personally and professionally, because nothing was being done.
If this claim is literally true (one or more pilots seeing UAPs every single day), I find it astounding that we don't have any good photographs, video footage or physical evidence of anything verifiably extraordinary, so far. You'd think that, at some stage, a pilot would be able to snap a decent, clear photograph of one of the things with his cell phone or something, wouldn't you?
The ODNI
report itself notes that concentrated efforts to reduce stigma have been a major reason for the increase in reports this year. To get the data and analyze it scientifically, we must uproot the lingering cultural stigma of tin foil hats and “UFOs” from the 1950s that stops pilots from reporting the phenomena and scientists from studying it....."
There's nothing especially problematic in any of that.
Like Iowa?
