{"id":10862,"date":"2020-07-31T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10862"},"modified":"2020-08-03T14:49:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T21:49:19","slug":"there-are-no-wrong-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/31\/there-are-no-wrong-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are No Wrong Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do We Believe in U.F.O.s? That\u2019s the Wrong Question<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Reporting on the Pentagon program that\u2019s investigating unidentified flying objects is not about belief. It\u2019s about a vigilant search for facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0<\/strong>Ralph Blumenthal<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Leslie Kean<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Pentagon\u2019s U.F.O. Program has been using unclassified slides like this to brief government officials on threats from Advanced Aerospace Vehicles \u2014 \u201cincluding off-world\u201d \u2014 and materials retrieved from crashes of unidentified phenomena. Credit… Leslie Kean<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We were part of The New York Times\u2019s team (with the Washington correspondent Helene Cooper) that broke the story of the Pentagon\u2019s long-secret unit investigating unidentified flying objects, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, in December 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, we have reported on\u00a0Navy pilots\u2019 close encounters with U.F.O.s<\/a>, and last week, on the current revamped program, the\u00a0Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force<\/a>\u00a0and its official briefings \u2014 ongoing for more than a decade \u2014 for\u00a0<\/strong>intelligence officials, aerospace executives and Congressional staff on reported U.F.O. crashes and retrieved materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re often asked by well-meaning associates and readers, \u201cDo you believe in U.F.O.s?\u201d The question sets us aback as being inappropriately personal. Times reporters are particularly averse to revealing opinions that could imply possible reporting bias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in this case we have no problem responding, \u201cNo, we don\u2019tbelieve in U.F.O.s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we see it, their existence, or nonexistence, is not a matter of belief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The New York Times Do We Believe in U.F.O.s? That\u2019s the Wrong Question Reporting on the Pentagon program that\u2019s investigating unidentified flying objects is not about belief. It\u2019s about a vigilant search for facts. By\u00a0Ralph Blumenthal\u00a0and\u00a0Leslie Kean We were part of The New York Times\u2019s team (with the Washington correspondent Helene Cooper) that broke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}