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The folks in the US Pentagon seem to be a paranoid bunch, but one can hardly blame them when they’re constantly defending their freedom from ‘the bad guys’. Mostly these ‘bad guys’ are halfway across the globe and can be dealt with over there, but lately, there has been a lot of probing into the US as well.  The Pentagon has now ‘suggested’ that China might not be the only one probing their territory, by which they mean Earth. We’re talking interstellar espionage.

A draft document released last week suggested that aliens could very well be visiting our solar system and releasing probes similar to what NASA uses to search for parking spots for Elon’s Tesla. Authored by Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the report says that aliens might use interstellar objects zooming through the solar system to drop off probes on earth.

“…An artificial interstellar object could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to Earth, an operational construct not too dissimilar from NASA missions,” the report read. “These ‘dandelion seeds’ could be separated from the parent craft by the tidal gravitational force of the Sun or by a maneuvering capability.”

Because the Pentagon loves their abbreviations, NASA was tasked by AARO to investigate all NEOs larger than 140 meters in 2005, which led to the creation of the Pan-STARRS telescopes. LOL.

Armed with these abbreviated capital letters and the knowledge that the ‘truth is out there’, Pan-STARRS did actually manage to find something in October 2017. The unusual interstellar object named Oumuamua, or scout in Hawaiian, was observed cruising out of our solar system without the telltale signs of a comet tale, which led scientists to suspect it of being an artificial object. Oumuamua turned out to be just a ‘space rock’.

The report said six months before ‘Oumuamua made its closest approach to Earth, a meter-sized interstellar meteor, IM2, crashed on earth and exhibited an identical speed relative to the Sun at large distances and an identical shape to ‘Oumuamua.

The Pentagon believes that tiny probes could reach the Earth as the parent craft passes by just like ‘Oumuamua’ did.”

“Astronomers would not be able to notice the spray of mini probes because they do not reflect enough sunlight for existing survey telescopes to notice them.”

Despite their very impressive-sounding title, AARO uses a lot of maybe’s and could be’s, so nothing in the report should be of great concern to anybody, and we doubt there will be any need to bomb the moon on suspicion of harbouring interstellar probes, but then again we all know what happened in Iraq when agencies with only letters in their names start saying maybe and could be.

The paper comes in the aftermath of several ‘official videos’ that were released by the US government that shows US air forces tracking Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP). The name UFO sounds too wacky coming from the government, so they just changed the letters to make it legit.

What does all this mean? Practically nothing. Oumuamua came and went, the moon is still there and thus far the only hint of alien influence has been Sam Smith’s outfit at the Grammys. The Pentagon is sure to find more capital letters to manufacture problems for in the future, so for now, let’s all just relax with the alien fear-mongering.

Anyway, they always attack America first, so let Mulder and Scully deal with it.

[source:nypost]