THE latest hot news in the US and Western media is the possibility of aliens or extraterrestrial beings (ETs) probing the invasion of the US. This possibility was the subject of intense public speculation after US fighter jets shot down three unidentified “objects” in the past weeks.
According to commander of the northern region of Norad (North American Aerospace Defence Command) responsible for aerospace warning, air sovereignty and defence of Canada and the continental US General Van Herk, the Pentagon has yet to confirm what these objects are.
“I will let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. I have not ruled out anything,” he told reporters when asked about the possibility of the objects being extraterrestrial.
Fighter pilots who shot down one of the objects over Alaska revealed that it interfered with their sensors and had no identifiable propulsion system, hence, the concern that the objects were from another world and of a superior unknown technology.
China balloon aftermath
This development follows the earlier news that China “successfully” penetrated the US soft underbelly with a three bus-sized balloon that drifted over the US for several days without the military being aware. The Chinese weather balloon was finally brought down by the latest US fighter plane, the F22, which cost the US taxpayer US$200 million (RM887 million) per plane. This brings the China balloon into US military history by being the first kill of the F22.
Following the downing of the China balloon, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman hosted a briefing in Washington with 150 foreign diplomats from 40 nations to tout and justify US action in dealing with the intruder. It is not known if Malaysia is among the list of nations regarded by the US as “susceptible” to China’s spying.
“We want to make sure that we are sharing as much as we can with countries around the world, who may also be susceptible to these types of operations,” said the senior US official.
After claiming that the China balloon is not a weather monitoring one but a spy balloon, Washington is now pitching the line that the flight over the US is part of a long-standing Chinese surveillance system that spies over five continents and countries such as India, Vietnam, Japan, the Philippines and Australia.
Together with this escalating allegation, forensic analysis of the balloon’s debris is being undertaken by intelligence experts to conclusively “verify” the spying credentials of the balloon and the spying prowess of China. At the same time, reverse engineering of the guts of the downed balloon, including its sensors, electronics and payload structure is being contemplated.
Members of the QUAD (the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) and five Eyes – i.e. Australia, India, Japan, New Zealand, Canada, the UK – can expect to be beneficiaries of the reverse engineering, and should be able to retaliate against China by flying their balloons over Beijing. This will augment the US attack ring in the South China Sea and Pacific, with several hundred US military bases already encircling China with missiles, warships, bomber planes and nuclear weaponry. They form an arc from Australia through the Pacific to Japan, Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India, and are seen by US leaders as “the perfect noose” around China.
Briefing the world
Now that the three possibly alien objects have been successfully shot down, the same generosity in information sharing should take place with regard to the intruding three objects, and extended to more than 40 embassies. This is because of the possibility that aliens or ETs may be aiming to take down the US, the world’s strongest military power, before trying to invade the other countries of the world.
Worldwide internet access can enable the US to brief Malaysia and the 193 member states of the United Nations. The rest of the world’s population should also be alerted, Hollywood style, to a possible War of the Worlds arising from alien invasion. All available information, which the US – the “foremost defender of modern civilisation and freedom” – has on ETs, aliens and their flying objects, should be shared.
In fact, this briefing should have taken place earlier as the Pentagon released a report in 2022 that identified over 500 sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena over the US, with some of them listed as national security threats and potential enemies.
The Pentagon report appears to be an underestimate as individual Americans have reported more than 26,000 UFOs (unidentified flying object) in five years and vice chairman of the US Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence Senator Marco Rubio has long pushed for a “destigmatisation” on UFO reporting. According to Rubio, UFOs have been operating over the US for many years now.
Cancer of fearmongering
The US public who are not crackpots or members of cults believing in the existence of aliens or ETs should be provided with another possible explanation for what is happening with this particular news story. This is that Presiden Joe Biden and his military generals, together with assistance from the US media, are trying to terrify and panic Americans and the Western world by playing on their insecurities, to maintain hold on power and reinforce US hegemony.
There has been no occasion when US leaders have attempted to calm the American public over what is propagandised as existential threats to the American way of life by “aliens” from inner or outer space. Be it Cuba, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Nicaragua, China, Russia, UFOs or ETs, fearmongering by Washington is the prelude to increasing war budgets and invading countries or destroying their resistance so that the dissident nations become client states.
Postscript
According to the latest World Meteorological report, entirely or largely missing from the Western media, “around 1,000 weather balloons are released every day from 900 locations worldwide to provide crucial real-time data”.
“Free-rising latex balloons” are a key component of a vast global climate observation system, with their “valuable input” aiding the formulation of computer models to forecast weather and research climate processes.
Lim Teck Ghee’s Another Take is aimed at demystifying social orthodoxy. Comments: letters@thesundaily.com
