Nick Pope, who headed the the British Ministry of Defense's UFO investigations in the early 1990s, writes in an op-ed piece in today's New York Times that "A healthy skepticism about extraterrestrial space travelers leads people to disregard U.F.O. sightings without a moment’s thought. But in the United States, this translates into overdependence on radar data and indifference to all kinds of unidentified aircraft — a weakness that could be exploited by terrorists or anyone seeking to engage in espionage against the United States."
I assume that he means that the U.S. government is skeptical, and not that Americans in general are skeptical, about U.F.O.s. In any case, he's assuming that the U.S. government actually doesn't investigate. I wouldn't assume that just because we don't hear about an investigation, there isn't an investigation. A government at war isn't necessarily going to tell us that it has opened such an investigation, particularly if it could easily make itself the target of ridicule.
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