{"id":577095,"date":"2021-06-30T09:05:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T13:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=577095"},"modified":"2021-06-30T09:05:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T13:05:46","slug":"washington-goes-crazy-with-talk-of-ufos-alien-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-goes-crazy-with-talk-of-ufos-alien-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Goes Crazy With Talk Of UFOs, Alien Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwashington-goes-crazy-with-talk-of-ufos-alien-life%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=577095&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ufo-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Every summer in Washington, D.C., the dog days arrive. Temperatures soar into the 100s in the nation\u2019s capital, part of which was literally built in a swamp.<\/p>\n<p>A little history: Constitution Avenue was once a canal, but by the 1850s, it was abandoned. Residents quickly turned it into an open sewer, filled with feces and garbage.<\/p>\n<p>But the mess drew other disgusting things. Back then, the city \u201cwas known for various mosquitoes and all kinds of infectious diseases,\u201d J.D. Dickey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/article\/62744\/giant-malaria-screen-never-was\">said<\/a> in his book \u201cEmpire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The city soon became known as a hotspot for malaria, and in the late 1800s, a prominent doctor petitioned for a wire mosquito net as tall as the Washington Monument to be erected over the entire city.<\/p>\n<p>So there have always been wacky ideas in Washington \u2014 and the dog days of summer seem to bring them out.<\/p>\n<p>Right on schedule, Washington has gone wild with talk of space aliens and UFOs.<\/p>\n<p>NASA administrator Bill Nelson, a former astronaut and U.S. senator, said Monday that he doesn\u2019t think we \u201care alone\u201d here on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson said he read the intelligence community\u2019s recently released report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), an unclassified version of which was released Friday. The report says there have been more than 140 UAP sightings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I\u2019ve seen the classified report. It says basically what we thought. We don\u2019t know the answer to what those Navy pilots saw, they know that they saw something, they tracked it, they locked their radar onto it, they followed it, it would suddenly move quickly from one location to another,\u201d Nelson said on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the report does tell us that is public, is that there have been over 140 of these sightings. So naturally, what I ask our scientists to do is to see if there\u2019s any kind of explanation, from a scientific point of view, and I\u2019m awaiting their report,\u201d he said, adding that he spoke with Navy pilots following a briefing on the matter while he was still serving in the upper chamber of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI talked to the Navy pilots when we were briefed in the Senate Armed Services Committee, and my feeling is that there is clearly something there. It may not necessarily be an extraterrestrial, but if it is a technology that some of our adversaries have, then we better be concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre we alone? Personally, I don\u2019t think we are,\u201d Nelson said.<\/p>\n<p>The intelligence community \u201ccan\u2019t explain 143 of the 144 cases of unidentified flying objects reported by military planes,\u201d NBC News reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a limited number of incidents, UAP reportedly appeared to exhibit unusual flight characteristics. These observations could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing, or observer misperception and require additional rigorous analysis,\u201d said the report, released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and meant to shed light on the mystery of those dozens of flying objects, spotted from 2004 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson said \u201cwe don\u2019t think\u201d the UAPs are from foreign adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when it comes to the universe, remember the universe is so large, we have a program in NASA called the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. But thus far, we don\u2019t have any receipt communication from something that\u2019s intelligent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are hungry to know. And of course, ever since \u2018Star Trek,\u2019 you know people are yearning to find out what\u2019s out there in the cosmos. Are we alone? Personally, I don\u2019t think we are. The universe is so big, it\u2019s 13 1\/2 billion years [since] the universe started. That\u2019s pretty big. But people are hungry for this kind of information and we\u2019re going to keep searching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, former President Bill Clinton said he thinks aliens could well exist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is, we\u2019ve never proved one, but there are things flying around up there that we haven\u2019t fully identified yet,\u201d Clinton, 74, claimed on \u201cLive with Kelly and Ryan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep in mind there are billions of galaxies in an ever-expanding universe,\u201d he told hosts Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest. \u201cI mean, you can\u2019t even get your mind around the sheer number of things that are out there. No one knows, but I think the probability is that there is something you would call life somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And a few weeks ago, another former president, Barack Obama, said on \u201cThe Late Late Show\u201d that the U.S. is monitoring UFO sightings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, when it comes to aliens, there are some things I just can\u2019t tell you on air,\u201d he told host James Corden. \u201cWhat is true, and I\u2019m actually being serious here, is that there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don\u2019t know exactly what they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sounds about right for the dog days of summer in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl covered the White House for a dozen years and ran the Drudge Report for four years. He can be reached at josephcurl@dailywire.com and on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josephcurl\">@JosephCurl<\/a>. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer in Washington, D.C., the dog days arrive. 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