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I never flew for the Air Force-I was a nuclear and space guy. Jack Weinstein: I have no expertise in UFOs except for watching Men in Black.
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Q &A With Thomas Bania and Jack Weinstein BU Today: Any doubts about the government’s reported conclusion that the recent sightings aren’t extraterrestrials? (“Carl Sagan…owes me money,” he says, a debt he knows he won’t collect, as his celebrity colleague died in 1996.)īania and Jack Weinstein, a Pardee School of Global Studies professor of the practice of international security and a retired Air Force lieutenant general, offered their takes on the government’s conclusions for BU Today. He researches the possibility of life elsewhere, along with many in his field. UFOs aren’t just the playpen of conspiracy theorists and sci-fi fans: NASA awards grants to reputable scientists seeking real-life ETs, and we’ve been scanning the heavens for signs of artificial signals for decades, says Thomas Bania, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of astronomy. The investigation followed sightings and videos recorded in recent years, by fighter aircraft instruments and pilots’ naked eyes, of objects flying at seemingly impossible speed and doing seemingly impossible maneuvers. So concludes a forthcoming US government report, whose broad findings leaked earlier this month, on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), the current, less X-Files–sounding term for UFOs. It could, however, be a foreign power’s technology. The truth is out there, but for now, it doesn’t involve extraterrestrial visitors.