Not impressed.
The latest "revelations" about past UFOs are completely unimpressive, and most likely have a secondary agenda yet to be seen.

Speaking at Monday's press briefing, retired USAF Col. Charles Halt said that in December 1980, when he was deputy base commander at RAF Bentwaters, strange lights in the forest were investigated by three patrolmen.

Halt said they reported approaching a triangular craft, "approximately three meters on a side, dark metallic in appearance with strange markings. They were observing it for a period of time, and then it very quickly and silently vanished at high speed."

Two nights later, Halt investigated another sighting near the base when he was told by the base commander, "It's back."

Halt found indentations in the ground, broken branches, and low-level background radiation. He and his team also witnessed various lights moving silently in the sky, of one which was "shedding something like molten metal." Another shined a beam of light down towards them.

The obvious intention is to slot these observations into the usual paradigm in which Klaatu warns all of humanity about our Uniquely Horrible Nuclear Weapons, Which Violate The Sacred Laws Of The Intergalactic UN Security Council.

Nonsense from all sides.

First, who was really interested in American nuclear weapons at that time? Russia.

Second, who was busily subverting the American soul, developing guilt and fear about America's nuclear superiority at that time? Russia. And who was working especially hard since Reagan had been elected THE PREVIOUS GODDAMN MONTH? Russia.

Third, who had plenty of mysterious spacecraft besides America? Russia.

Fourth, why in the hell would aliens focus on nuclear weapons? Even if Klaatu is a pacifist guardian trying to keep Earth under control, nuclear weapons are nothing special. Earthlings had already demonstrated several other ways to kill huge numbers of people at once: fire, disease, chemicals. Nukes could probably do the job faster and with less trouble, but that doesn't justify the supposed Sacred Concern shown by Klaatu.

Fifth, why assume that the aliens saw any of our weapons as harmful? Maybe they saw nuclear power as a wonderful food source instead of a potential harm. Maybe the mushroom cloud struck them as a splendid work of art and they wanted to know how to build such a pretty sculpture. All assumptions are equally idiotic, since we have no way of knowing the first microsmidgen about the alien anatomy and physiology, let alone their thought processes if any.

Sixth, even if they could be harmed by nukes, an advanced civilization would already have ways to shield themselves from our puny little primitive weapons. Whoops! In fact that's not so futuristic after all! What was Reagan's real contribution? SDI, which should have made the all-knowing Klaatu less afraid of our weaponry for the first time since 1945. But SDI scared Russia shitless. They were winning the endless escalation game and didn't know if they could play Reagan's new game.
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