Forget Al-Qaeda; Apparently It's the Aliens We Need to Worry About

Is the U.S. military's overdependence on radar and indifference to UFOs a weakness that could be exploited by terrorists? That's what the New York Times is claiming in an op-ed by Nick Pope, author of Open Skies, Closed Minds and the former head of UFO investigations for the British Ministry of Defense. Pope argues that NASA and the Air Force are ignoring potential national security threats by not investigating "UFO phenomena" such as a cigar-shaped craft that was reportedly sighted near the Channel Islands in 2007. While he doesn't explicitly say that these unexplained aircraft are of the invaders-from-another-planet variety, Pope claims that our skepticism towards anything "below the radar" makes us vulnerable to attack from human-made flying objects with which we're unfamiliar (like oh, say, the secret invisible bombers that Al-Qaeda could be building in the Tora Bora caves?) That the Times is suddenly handing the microphone to an ...